In our Sonic Frontiers review, we gave the game 3.5 out of five stars. Reviewer Jake Green praised the game’s excellent controls and better-than-expected writing, but called out some persistent visual issues: “Play through the game, and you will find a smorgasbord that’s full to the brim with Sonic mechanics, both new and old — but also, sadly, with outright technical failings,” he wrote. “In trying to take Sonic in a much-needed new direction, the developers appear to have thrown just about every possible idea at the wall. Surprisingly, there are more hits than misses.” Interestingly, Sonic Frontiers has had mixed reviews, in the truest sense of the word. According to OpenCritic, some writers adored the game for its creative open-world mechanics. Others despised it for its technical issues and structural shortcomings. The only way to know whether you’ll like Sonic Frontiers seems to be to play it for yourself. We don’t know how long this particular deal will be in stock, or whether it will spread to the Xbox and Switch versions of the game. We can say that it’s relatively rare for such a new game to get such a big price cut, unless the game is terrible — which Sonic Frontiers is not. If there’s a Sonic fan in your life who’s on the fence about the new game, this would be a thoughtful, and relatively inexpensive, gift.
