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However, Forces’ presentation is undermined by a few key decisions. After all, the voice performances are pretty good, with the cast having clearly gained familiarity of the roles after all these years, and it’s cheesy but eclectic soundtrack has a ton of great tracks I’ve been listening to outside of the game.

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It’s comically self-serious, but the series has been able to pull off darker stories in the past like Sonic Adventure 2, and had Forces committed to it the game might have been fine. This means much of Forces plays out like a war story, with all of Sonic’s friends acting as generals in an uprising against Eggman and Infinite’s forces. Sonic Forces begins with a rather dark setup: Eggman and a new, enigmatic villain named Infinite have succeeded in a plan to take over the world, with Sonic and his group of friends acting as a resistance against Eggman’s totalitarian rule. The beginning of Forces’ problems stem from a strange, tonal indecisiveness that runs through not only the game’s questionable presentation but bleeds into its level design as well. Sonic Forces (PS4) – gameplay image via Sonic Team and Sega