Sonic Frontiers Final Horizon Review – A Hard-Fought Battle Against The End
Sonic Frontiers: Final Horizon is a free update that no one expected. At least, not before the announcement quite shortly after Frontiers’ release. Within the wake of Frontiers’ success came a rise of new hope, a resurgence of the Sonic formula that would take fans for a victory lap around well-trodden grounds in the Starfall Islands.
For the first time in many years, we received Tails, Knuckles, and Amy as playable characters in a mainline Sonic game. This update serves to bring more than just well-desired characters back, acting as the true ending for the game that emphasizes Sage and the Ancients’ roles in the story. With a revamped version of Supreme’s boss fight, the final touches bundled with Final Horizon made The End a much cooler and more formidable foe to tango with as Super Sonic.
While there are plenty of things to enjoy about Final Horizon, the crux is the unfortunate control scheme for all three new characters. While Amy is relatively free of problems, Tails and Knuckles both suffer from stripped abilities, having only limited ways to move in comparison to their more capable forms in other games.
Concerning Sonic’s challenges and cyberspace stages, Final Horizon is a genuinely difficult update that some superfans might not have expected. While the fact that many Sonic fans met this challenge with hilarious complaining is amusing, the truth is that this update is not accessible to everyone and borderline excludes some community members, even on Easy mode. Very few fans have beaten the game on Extreme difficulty, a feat that is only possible through multiple exploits of the game’s pause function.
Key Details
- Developer: Sonic Team, SEGA
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox and PlayStation
- Price: Free
