Sonic the Threadgehog

Moved to the 2nd map and it feels better designed than the first map.

Played about 6hrs and really enjoying it. Sonics leveled up to the point that most enemies only take a couple seconds to destroy.

Sure I read its a bug and the S version should have the 60fps option?

This game is all over the fucking place. It’s like they took every popular game of the last 5 years, threw them all at the wall and scraped off what’s left and haphazardly glistened out a Sonic shaped poo into the remains.

I’ve only been playing for about ten minutes and I’ve already lost track of what collectibles mean what. I’ve got spiky hearts and also pink hearts and cogs and keys and there’s sparks and also weird little bugs and red rings and purple coins and seeds and tokens and some other stuff.

I just got the little trail move where you hold Y and make a circle that unveils rings and hearts and things. I'll admit I don't know what everything does either.
I tried to S rank the first stage you're dropped into, but I was down by like 3 second even while boosting the whole way, so I gave up. Grinding and bouncing around the open zone feels nice though.

I was fine playing the first stage at the default 4K30 mode, but as soon as I got to the open island, flipped it to 60 and that feels how a Sonic game should be played.

That's a great back of the box quote

Just got past the tutorial to the opening up of map. They did a camera pan through and you could see the grass and leaves on a tree fill up as the camera passed, so I guess this is where the pop in begins.
Gonna make some coffee then continue later.

I'm on the second island and I think this could be my game of the year.
I think it's probably the closest thing to Breath of the Wild in the sense that it's just really fun to traverse the field and explore. Also some Mirror's Edge there, where it's satisfying to do a great run of just boosting, wall jumping, grinding, homing onto balloons and bumpers, all of that. It's a blast.
The comparisons seem to come up in every review, but this really is the best 3D Sonic has been since the first Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast.

I mean, Sonic games are always divisive, so I can't speak to another person's enjoyment or experience. Even the positive reviews seem to be in the 7-8 range.
But I don't know, it's really doing it for me, in a way that other 3D Sonics like Unleashed and Colors didn't.
It is a bit of a collect-a-thon, although the collectibles come in abundance so it doesn't seem that bad IMO.
The cyberspace zones are at least on par with Generations.
I don't know, I'm having fun.

I was having trouble with parrying the Kronos Island boss as well. He kept betting that big smack away on me, and it was pissing me off that the camera was facing against me with no ability to move it around to avoid the subsequent swats... until I noticed, when I had him down to about 25% life with only 100-ish or so rings left, that you don't need to time your parries. Just hold LB and RB when you see him telegraph the big swing, and Sonic will parry it and trigger his special move, which takes off a big chunk of the boss' life bar. Much more than just mashing X did.

Haven't faced the second boss yet so I'm not sure what its attack patterns are like, but I imagine the "just hold down the parry buttons" technique still applies.

Although to be clear, I'm playing on High Speed mode rather than Action mode, so I'm not sure if the combat is effected by that early choice.

On the 3rd island.

Got used to Super Sonic and destroyed the 2nd boss. Enjoyed the whole battle more than the first.

Couple of Cyberspace levels I'm going to come back to later but remember you don't need to complete them to finish the main story as you can get the keys for emeralds in the open world

I've tried both ways and I'm still not fast enough. Maybe I need to level up my speed stat more or something.

Damn, you made it look easy!

I'll try again later. Thanks.