Some of them can be tackled on the ground, but some will have you running up their sides to reach the top. I mentioned before that some of the enemies are quite dangerous and that is because they are usually massive and very dangerous. Each vault will have a set number of keys needed to unlock, which encourages you to venture back into Cyber Space to collect more or tackle more enemies in the hopes they drop keys. Vaults are scattered around maps and each contains a Chaos Emerald, something which Sonic needs to collect in order to face off against the island boss. If you get one objective complete, you can retry the stage to get more or all and while some of them are fairly easy, some will test the most devout Sonic fan. In Cyber Space you are given a more traditional Sonic experience, with objectives to complete in order to earn keys, to unlock vaults. That is the core loop of the game, you have to collect gears to unlock the portals into Cyber Space, each one requires a different amount to do so. While you don’t have to engage in combat with each enemy you come across, taking them down rewards you with skill shards, gears, keys and more. Some of them are basic, one or two good hits will take them down, some of them are very dangerous.
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When you are not filling in the map you are free to run around all the parts you can access but be warned there are enemies roaming the world. Filling in the map should be the priority in each location, because it not only helps you learn where things are, when it comes to tracking things down later.
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Some of these challenges will have you pressing a series of buttons in sequence, others will have you run to press a button before a timer runs out. These map markers are easy to spot but activating them will have you completely a different task each time.
Each time you land on a new island, you will have to assemble the map for it again, much like towers in most open world games. What each location has similar to each other are the ruins, both those that transport you to Cyber Space and those that help tell the story. The locations go with a theme, grassy hills, then a desert and so on and each has unique features that make them worth exploring as much as you can. The gameplay is perhaps one of the biggest departures for the series, as its neither a 2d sidescroller or a 3d levels, everything takes place in massive locations. Thankfully by the time I hit the second island, things did start to make more sense, you just have to stick with it. I am sure that long time Sonic fans may be able to overlook the weird story structure here, but as for myself, I found it weird. There are also conversations that don’t feel directly connected to the events that are happening around Sonic. The same issue popped up when Sage, the being that tells you to leave, tried explaining something and that explanation was missing things. There was a conversation with Amy that felt like the second part in a multi-part story and I had no idea what the first one was. The problem with it though, is that everything is so fragmented at the beginning, that there is nothing that connects one conversation to the next. From here the story is delivered when you start to interact with a version of Amy, or after you trigger enough boss enemies, but I won’t say any more as the story is something you will want to uncover for yourself. His escape from Cyber Space was not something that was thought possible, so the voice has advised that Sonic is the key. Breaking out, he finds himself on an unknown island, where large and seemingly ancient ruins and towers dot the landscape, but beyond that a voice calls out to him. On route they are sucked into a vortex and when Sonic comes too, he is in a place that is latter confirmed to be Cyber Space and as he does, he ran for the exit. Sadly something goes wrong and he is sucked into it, while Sonic, Tails and Amy are flying towards a source of Chaos energy. The story of Sonic Frontiers is as fragmented as the world Sonic visits, it starts out with Dr Eggman doing something to an ancient monolith. With Sonic Frontiers, I had hoped that this would be the game that made me understand Sonic and I can say now, that I have no idea what was going on. Over the years, each time a Sonic game has come out, be it Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic Mania or any other game, none seemed to click with me.
Growing up I was a Nintendo kid, my cousin had a Sega Mega Drive and it was when visiting there, that I got my first taste of Sonic.
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