I actually have 3 other reviews that I’m writing right now, taking my time on them. In the meantime, I started playing this thing and… well, this impressions post needs to take precedence.

I had no expectations for Sonic Frontiers because the marketing has been crap but some things looked okay. But I was worried when it looked like it was going for an open world angle. Because basically every open world game is shit. But I still wanted to give this a chance because, despite most post-Genesis Sonic games being bad games, I always give him a chance. I always hold hope that, one day, Sonic will be back to his former glory. Spoilers: he’s not.

After almost 6 hours of playing this game, I think I’m done. This is not a game I want to finish playing. But I still want to talk about it, so let’s do this!

This is NOT a review, since I’m not done with the game. But I won’t be done with it, so this is the most I’m putting out about this game.

Well. Monkey Island. It’s a series. A very enjoyable series, a truly pioneering one that revolutionized the adventure genre (Ahoy has an amazing video about it), and featured some truly amazing games that not only had interesting puzzles with weird but also weirdly logical logic, but comedy to go along with it. Namely, I find the first 3 games to be just about the best games in the genre.

The third game is also where the first 2 games’ main creator, Ron Gilbert, was out of the picture, with the rest of the series being juggled between different teams, including TellTale back when they actually made games that had gameplay. But Ron is back for this one. Ron did act like a fucking baby when us PLEBS told him that we didn’t like the graphics, and that’s USUALLY a sign that the game will suck when the creators start insulting the fanbase… But this is Monkey Island, and it’s actually the original creator of the series rather than some doofus that wants to just outright ruin it (as was, say, Saints Row), so I figured… it’s certainly worth giving a chance to anyways.

So let’s see if it’s one of the rare good revival of a classic, mostly-dead series!