Sonic Forces is the most recent mainline Sonic game, and i gotta be honest, this game.. isn't good at all, the story attempts to bring back the dark and edgy tone of past Sonic games, but it just fails really badly, i barely felt like anything even happened, Eggman has finally conquered the world along with his new invention or buddy named Infinite who is just one of the most generic villains in Sonic history, not having any interesting motivation or backstory, besides throwing a tantrum after Shadow obviously destroys him in the Episode Shadow prequel DLC, you also have some villains from the past Sonic games being Shadow, Zavok, Metal Sonic and Chaos showing up as fake illusions by Infinite, but for some reason, you don't fight Chaos or Shadow, showing me that they had no respect for the dreamcast fans, truly disappointing.
Now this game has 23 stages and 7 bosses, now while that sounds like a lot of content, all these stages are insanely short with most of them taking 1-3 minutes to complete, making you beat the entire game in under 4 hours, and this is an anniversary title (well, i mean, it kinda is!), it should be big!
Speaking of the stages, let's talk about the gameplay styles, this game has 3 gameplay styles being Modern Sonic, the avatar you can create and Classic Sonic, Modern Sonic has the best gameplay style most people would say, but that doesn't mean it's good, every single level in this game is mostly a linear bore-fest, Modern Sonic's physics have been completely destroyed, he has no run formation, he feels very slippery to control, his boost is way too OP and his double jump feels so weak and doesn't do anything at all unless you abuse the game's crazy momentum system.
So what about the avatar, the avatar is definitely the best part of this game in my opinion, not his gameplay as it is literally just Modern Sonic's gameplay except you don't have the boost, it's the fact you can make your own OC be canon to the storyline which is a really cool idea, there's also a bunch of accessories you can customize your avatar with.
And now we have Classic Sonic, yep, they ruined his physics COMPLETELY, he was obviously just a last-minute thought, so of course, his physics were gonna be bad considering Generations already didn't have the perfect physics for him, but yeah, here, he is just complete trash, his normal speed is incredibly slow, his jump feels too floaty, everything sucks about him, he's also not even relevant to the plot, only being here because of when Mania ended, he forms an emotional bond with Tails, when he really doesn't, because he has done nothing, then there's also the part where the game states he's from another dimension INSTEAD OF ANOTHER TIMELINE LIKE WE WERE TOLD BEFORE!!
I'm so done with this game, so much missed potential especially when you look at the visuals in the stages which just look gorgeous, but obviously, it was doomed to fail from the start as they used a new engine for this game, there's some other things here, like the soundtrack which is just ok compared to other Sonic OST's and the tag-team mechanic between Modern Sonic and the avatar which was kinda clunky, and the final boss which was once again, a copy of the Nega-Wisp armor from Colors, but yeah, that's about it!
