Expi Feliton's Corner

  NOTE: This review is part of a retrospective of the Sonic franchise. Feel free to read the other Sonic reviews I’ve done here - https://expithecat.blogspot.com/search/label/sonic%20retrospective In addition, this review also contains spoilers for a recently released game Looks like my retrospective hasn’t quite ended yet. PART 1: Development, Background, Pre-Launch It’s safe to say that when Sonic Forces released in 2017, it… didn’t exactly have the brightest reception. While it didn’t get as scathing of a reception as Sonic 06 or Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, especially as I have seen some people come out and talk about enjoying it recently (including myself who did an 18 page review of it just a few months ago), it wasn’t exactly the success the franchise needed. Even while the game has its fans, it definitely has its share of vocal detractors as well, especially among the part of the fanbase who grew up with the darker, more serious storytelling of the 2000’s games who became di...

  NOTE: This post serves as a conclusion to my Sonic retrospective which I have been working on since 2020. All Sonic retrospective reviews can be found here - https://expithecat.blogspot.com/search/label/sonic%20retrospective Well, I’ve made it. I’ve reviewed all the mainline Sonic games and even a share of spin-offs that I wanted to talk about… but we’re here. I figured that after I finished writing my TSR review, I should do a little conclusion on my Sonic retrospective. Obviously I’m still waiting on Sonic Frontiers and will probably review that game when I have the chance, but for the time being… I’m done. I’ve completed my main goals with the Sonic retrospective and got a chance to relive the series as a whole. I got the idea for a Sonic retrospective in late 2019. I first mentioned my idea for a retrospective in December of that year in the r/SonictheHedgehog Discord server. The previous year or two I had been doing game reviews on my Tumblr page (which I’ve now archived), i...