Sonic Frontiers' latest update comes wit𒈔h an unexpected difficulty spike.
The Final Horizon, the third and last free update for Sonic Frontiers, has arrived, bringing with it more story and challenges, a revised finaꦿle, a new Super Sonic form, and the ability to step into the shoes of Tails, Amy and Knuckles. It's a generous offering from Team Sonic, who've, rather surprisingly, also opted to up the challenge and then some for Frontiers last hurrah.
The ability to play as the other characters and the changes to the latter parts of the game seems to be going down well with players, but many aren't 🌄happy with jus꧟t how difficult the new content is - particularly the trail towers, which don't come with checkpoints.
"This s*** ain't even fun," writes YesHai on the . "There's fun/challenging difficulty and then there's spiteful/ch♔eap difficulty. This feels like the latter." Feeling much the same, shrimp-parm says, "The DLC's difficulty spike is actually insane. This s*** has me seething."
Over on Twitter, players are also sharing their reactions. User @AyliffeMakit summed up their experience🥂 of update three with a 💝video of their encounter with new boss Tank+. This souped-up version of the baddie fires projectiles at a relentless speed, and as you can see from the video below, dodging them is almost impossible.
the update 3 Experience (patent pending) #SonicFron𝓰tiers #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/oaSneCe6IL
Elsewhere, us🌼er @BurgerDum has likened the update to the infamous Eggmanland from Sonic Unleashed, considered by many to be the hardest level in the entire franchise. "Update 3 really feels like Kishimoto looked at the cr🧸iticisms of recent Sonic games being way too easy," they add.
Sonic 🎉Frontiers Update 3 in 👍a nutshell: pic.twitter.com/3MvSJ66l0H
Not everyone is finding the extra challenge a slog, though. "I'm here for it," . "I've been loving the difficulty and thought it was a nice surprise. Was not expecting this at all ☂lol. I've also been playing Sonic for 30 years, and it's nice to see that they clearly didn't make this update for little kids or casual players."
The blue blur is racing onto Sonic Superstars next month on October 17. As we found in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sonic Superstars preview, it could be the 2D Sonic revival that you've been waitin🥀g for.
Elsewhere, the Sonic Superstars team doesn't think pixel art will be a "viable" art style in 10 years.
Originally from Ireland, I moved to the UK in 2014 to pursue a Games Journalism and PR degree at Staffordshire University. Following that, I've freelanced for GamesMaster, Games TM, Official PlayStation Magazine and, more recently, Play and GamesRadar+. My love of gaming sprang from successfully defeating that first Goomba in Super Mario Bros on the NES. These days, PlayStation is my jam. When not gaming or writing, I can usually be found scouring the internet for anything Tomb Raider related𒈔 to add to my out of control memorabilia collection.
