0:58 Fun fact: SEGA can't use the Sonic 1 and 2 songs if they don't pay royalties to Masato Nakamura (the guy from Dreams Come True that composed the songs), which is most likely the reason there aren't any songs from those games.

In the codes section in the HedgeModManager there are 2 codes which fix the air boost and stomp not resetting. Located in the fixes/gameplay category on the codes tree. You can also find plenty of physics based codes that gives Sonic more momentum when using things like the drop or spin dash.

24:55 the distorted and twisted music is so goddamn funny here

these DLCs were definitely just sonic team going "fuck it" and trying out all the weird shit they could come up with and I am honestly all for it. there's definitely a lot of jank and numerous issues (not to mention SOMEONE at sonic team definitely had a grudge against us with this difficulty spike lmao), but overall it definitely leaves me hopeful for the next game and I'm definitely looking forward to see how they build off of all this going forward

I really hope the next sonic game builds off what frontiers started as far as gameplay goes, specifically Sonics control scheme. It felt really fun to run around the islands with him

Completely agree with Amy being incredibly fun to play as. My playtime since the update has completely ballooned with a vast majority of my playtime being spent as her. I constantly tested my own knowledge of her moveset just for the fun of it. Words really can’t justify how I feel about her gameplay.

Radical, you actually can turn the birthday hud off. Just go to Extras (or wherever you go to switch Sonic's cosmetics like his shoes) and you can turn it off from there.

ROB @ 4:00 If you use the hedgehog manager it's actually a patch file in the settings in there for the boost and stomp reset. It's actually been there for a long time It doesn't prove the game by a lot along if fixing rotations jumps there's a lot of neat stuff in that would recommend!

It wouldn't be a radical soda frontiers review if sega didn't put out a patch a couple days later making the video somewhat irrelevant

The music for Sonic 1 and 2 are copyright owned by the one who composed them who has since left Sega.

1:12 We *kinda* can. Modders found a way to extended the jukebox to 127 songs, meaning you can have around 50 completely custom entrees.

They're indeed listening to feedback. The game director Morio Kishimoto has been constantly listening to opinions and ideas on twitter and other social media accounts.

Tbh I love these new kind of videos. Not harsh with the games, but still strict about things that need improvement. Let alone your tone sounds more relaxed, it makes these videos way better, at least for me

One interesting thing about the birthday update for me is that the birthday holographics extend out into the space of a 21:9 aspect ratio if you decide to use a code in the hedgemod manager to allow the gave to use wider aspect ratios.

21:55 But I did! and oh my god, it took me. FORTY. HOURS. TO BEAT MASTER KING COCO'S TRIAL ON EXTREME. and I still don't believe it has a 3 frame window cause it is so fast sonic doesn't even do the parry animation so you can't tell if he even did it. AND THE BLOODY, BLOODY, BLOODY SNAKE SECOND BOSS can toss right off with them missiles and delayed attacks.

This video revealed to me that Amy's wheel has Sonic-riders style drift boost chaining, where you go faster the more drift boosts you do back to back. How I missed this I'll never know, but God, PLEASE Sega, a new Sonic Riders, I must have it.

One thing I'll say is that spindashing through the DLC 3 levels was very fun. I really enjoyed the honeycomb level and the chemical plant one with all the floating platforms!

Somebody's probably mentioned it by now, but the lookout koco are required to unlock the towers for Sonic to climb, needing to collect a certain amount for each to open.

the lookout koco from the cyberspace levels is what unlocks the towers, but its pointless to get it from them because theyre just all over the map in the cyloop treasure chest things

A few things I need to say. 1: The perfect parry length isn’t changed in a major way in 30fps. 2: The perfect parry length is even lower in expert compared to hard. 3: The lookout kokos are used to open the trial towers. You just get so many when playing as Amy, Tails, and Knuckles that you don’t need to play Cyberspace.

They actually dropped a patch earlier that fixes some of the issues in Final Horizons, such as knuckles' gliding being more like it was in Adventure and he doesn't do that little animation before he glides

I know 19:30 is facetious but I *did* love Rhea. The longer platforming challenges like towers and new koko were my favorite part of this game, so I was legit stoked to have more towers lol

17:10 Knuckles had a Homing Attack in Rivals 1&2, Advance 3 and Sonic Dash. So it isn't out of left field. Same for Tails, except Rivals 1, since he was only added in 2.

You can tell by the lyrics of “I’m Here” that the “other story” DLC was the intended story of the game but they had to cut it for time

While the difficulty is too high tuned for the final trial. I kinda get what they were going for because it being so tight means it forces you to learn all the tricks that end up being needed to beat the end/supreme.

Looking forward to watching this later, your vids never fail to be amazing. Very happy with what we got with the free updates (like the spindash even if it is overpowered) despite the flaws the final update has with how unfair some things and the out of nowhere difficulty spike, I had a fun time, nice being able to play as Amy, Knuckles and Tails after so long, and some of the challenges were pretty fun to eventually get through and figure out, actually taught me how to get better at the game like dealing more damage. I just hope from this point forward they do continue to improve and not repeat mistakes, I have big hopes as I know they are capable but still… please SEGA and sonic team. That final part with sonics new transformation and the music and battle was super good (apart from the fact the game didn’t teach you that you can switch targets to hit a certain part) also the cutscenes with Sages song and being alive with Eggman warmed my heart. Ty rad for your amazing reviews as always, I know I say it a lot but I mean it, they make my day. Looking forward to future vids like returning to unleashed. Stay well Rad. 💫

You've become one of my favorite reviewers here on KZfaq. Your Pokemon Sword and Shield review was recommended to me earlier this year and since watching it, I've gone back and watched all of your videos. I love your sense of humor.

7:30 Your point about Ratchet and Clank 3 is partially correct. In Challenge Mode (new game plus), you can purchase the Mega Weapons - powered up versions of weapons that you've fully upgraded. Vendors demand a pretty penny for them but considering you don't have to worry much about multpile armour upgrades, and the bolt rewards in Annihilation Nation, it doesn't take too long to get the money for them all. A fun challenge in that game is to get through it without armour upgrades, you should try it 👌

Lore wise, I think they actually can interact with the worlds, because they're stuck in-between Cyberspace and the Islands. If they were stuck in Cyberspace, they wouldn't have this strange appearance, they would just have been like when Eggman was stuck in Cyberspace.

I just want to say, I really like the (new?) drawn RadicalSoda bird, very cute!

I feel like I should share my opinion on each update. Update 1 was pretty cool. It has some very features like the jukebox and the photo mode but the main part was the cyberspace and battle mode. The cyberspace challenge is ight but the battle rush challenge is very noice! Update 2 improved the game a whole ton with it's physics and gameplay. The challenges for the new koco are fairly challenging and I wish the spindash challenges were more unique. It's moreso just keeping a chain score and then ur done....spindash is very nice...especially in 2D cyberpsace stages. Update 3....yea I loved it but there are more problems with this than the other 2 updates...which I assume Rob will mention. Some of the towers are such a slog to climb, some of the new guardians are like unbeatable or take SO much time to beat, the master king trial is complete horseshit on hard or extreme.....but man I can't deny that I loved being able to play as Amy, Knuckles and Tails again. And that ending and final boss man.....phenomenal spectacle.

Unrelated to the video but I wanted to say it, I honestly enjoy listening your video game commentaries despite I'm not a fan of any of this games nor have I play them. The birb sprite here is really cool too and love the expression you made on it ^^ 💖

you’re killing it mister radical soda another banger video

man, i love that lil bird thing. banger vid as always homie

I'm nearly in tears. I'm so happy they're doing better Thank you devs, for putting in the work to show you can Edit: A bit overemotional maybe but.... It's been so long since I've actually enjoyed a sonic game properly

OH HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO

Just got the CD soundtrack for this games 3rd update The Final Horizon the mail today at 2:34p.m. and it's the Sonic Frontiers Expansion Soundtrack: Paths Revisited CD and I'm listening to it while watching this! 5:40p.m. 12/19/2023

I wonder what inspired Rad to go "For this one, I shall a bird"

24:55 I like that background song

They gave knuckles the homing attack so his smash assist trophy makes sense

Yo Radical love your stuff!

They were just waiting for rad to upload this before putting out another patch.

big radical soda fan here! Awesome video! :3

9:15 this part made me laugh because I remember being very disappointed that the island themes weren't in the original jukebox so I was ecstatic that they added them. They're honestly the only tracks I play in the jukebox

I know it isn’t a traditional ‘Fan-Game’ per say, but I would really enjoy hearing Rad’s opinion on the Sonic Forces: Overclocked Mod.

great video, thoroughly enjoyed it! now when's the review on update 4 coming out

hey radicalsoda, I've noticed that you've been putting more effort in the channel. I really like it, keep it up man.

Love the cartoon segments!

The reason why Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 tracks weren’t included in the jukebox is because SEGA would have to pay royalties to Nasato Nakamura. And they probably don’t want to do that because the jukebox update is free.

so about that fix you were looking for, the hedgemod manager for sonic forces, frontiers, and generations actually has a ton of community made codes that you can get that fix or change all sorts of things about the game, including the stomp and air boost reset you had gripes over, which i assume is the reason you didnt find a mod for it

24:00 probably only if the parry animation and the hitbox isn't multiplied by delta time, which would mean that if the fps is lower then it lasts longer. not sure though and i dont have the game to find out

Thank you for giving me an entertaining video to watch while I had a nosebleed for 20 minutes. :)

The Final Update was very promising, but MAN the execution kind of fell flat. General thoughts were: 1. Amy? Super fun to play as! Her down-stomp jump/glide combo made traversing really fun. She was programmed well. 2. Knuckles? Handles like dogshit. There’s this one section (y’all know which one) where there’s a bunch of panels intersecting each other in a box and trying to climb it was like punching myself in the face each time. His surface pull or landing tracking or whatever you would call it was a nightmare. He controlled better in SONIC 06. 3. Tails? BROKEN… but still fun! His boost is probably a teeeeeeensy bit too unbalanced but after the bullshit with Knuckles, I welcome that. His attack functions way better than in 06, lol. 4. Koco trials… Fuck the Snake Trial. I had such a rotten time trying to beat it and at one point, I beat it with 3 seconds to spare and the game automatically failed me for no reason. The timer didn’t even hit zero. 5. Master King Koco’s trial: HORSESHIT. ABSOLUTE HORSESHIT. No way to practice perfect parries, the Wyvern battle is glitchy as fuck and his third attack with his tail is absolutely impossible to track (I got lucky a few times but most of the time I failed it, and the Knight battle… I don‘t know what happened but several of the quick time events with the button mash failed me before I even had the chance to start it (or right in the middle despite me still being within the time limit). Fun concept but man those battles REALLY needed to be polished. 6. Final battle… mixed bag, VERY mixed bag. I had no way of knowing to attack the tube on Titan Supreme because the tracker never lines up for it unless you very specifically mash the dodge button around its head, and using your Cycloop isn’t specified either. The final battle music was amazing though, and I like Super Cyber Sonic’s two forms. Just wished the animation for the cutscenes wasn’t so cheap… All in all, it was… fine. Glad it was free but man they need to fine-tune some stuff.

Was genuinely waiting to hear your view on it, i wanted to watch the streams but ever since working watching streams is essentially impossible. Though you i will say this considering other "sonictubers" opinions your one as the whole free content actually really positive. Thanks radical!

Literally update 3 for patched RIGHT after you uploaded this. Time for another review video!

Oh yeah RadicalSoda, to answer your point about the Birthday decoration HUD at 9:08. There is a code in HedgeModManager for the PC version to turn off the Birthday HUD while still keeping the Party decorations around the islands. It's called "Hide Party Decorations" under the UI/Display category.

@21:06-.-It's not even just that it's 3 frames, it also has a startup time! I don't know how many frames it takes, but you can tell when the pairy is active by looking at Sonic's animation, the pairy is considered active about when Sonic crosses his arms about. It is unbelievably annoying To notice an attack like half-a-second to a second-and-a-half before it hits and then not be able to counter it because the pairy took too long. I don't even believe that that isn't enough time for Sonic to react, if I was able to knock missiles back at enemies I feel like the time at which I start the Perry is more than enough time to prepare without the enemy be able to do anything back.

thank you for that fart at the beginning. brought me back to life

Oh yeah... the Look Out Kokos are meant to unlock the Trail Towers in the story of Update Three. I hardly ever touched the new Cyberspace stages because of how easy it was to find the new Kokos.

This new version of your kiwi bird makes me scares the fuck outta me, I love him.

Cool new animated video thing, can’t wait to never see it appear again in another video after this one

29:45 I didn't either but they're for unlocking the towers. If you don't get them, can't climb the towers but they're very easy to get

for years i thought about an open world sonic game, a game that takes full advantage of sonics speed and the idea of clearing leavels in your own way a great idea with bad exicution... ^; ;^ damn!

I'd have make it like the emerald detector to find music pieces of them just being on the map.

Anybody notice at 5:38 there's two Sonics? Theres the one thats being carried up in the wind but theres also one left behind from the wild rush animation. I knew Sonic was fast but damn! Occupying two spaces at once is impressive.

18:35 My exact reaction XD I love flying that thing everywhere

Lovin the scribbly art style in the thumbnail!

After re-watching your Ultimate review, I just wanted to say that Sonic Project '06 is the best Sonic game available to date. I don't know if you ever intend to look at fangames or fan-remakes, but P-06 is truly peak blue-guy.

I'm glad u enjoyed the DLC & it improved stuff for u. Watchin the DLC streams was fun & ur welcome on a couple of those tips for the stupid final trial lol

I can say, ratchet and clank new game + (besides deadlock but for a different reason) doesn’t get harder, it basically makes you breeze through everything to get collectibles, bolts to upgrade stuff and that’s pretty much it. Deadlock unlocks a new difficulty

For a little perspective, Street Fighter: 3rd Strike has parries, parries that many people say are too hard to pull off if you're not already great at the game. 3rd Strike's parry window is at least 6 frames. That's double the amount of leniency that Sonic Frontiers is giving its players, and for a game that, at least in my experience, doesn't have the most stable framerate

While I definitely think the alternate Final Story is a bit of an improvement over the original one, there is something I'm just now realizing this after five months. The whole premise of the alternate Final Story is that Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and Eggman are trying to locate the seven Chaos Emeralds **while** Sonic is learning to control his cyber corruption (albeit Eggman is doing it off-screen). And during Sonic's little endeavor, he has to fight the three main titans, right? And that involves him going Super Sonic. My question is, how in the world is Sonic doing that if he doesn't have all the emeralds yet? Doesn't Eggman literally bring Sonic the purple emerald just before fighting The End? Is it the Coco putting him through some sort of advanced simulation? Is it time travel? What's the deal here?! (I'm exaggerating, of course, but it does raise those questions all the same) Another thing I feel was... unneeded was "Super Sonic 2". Much like what you said in the video, it seemed a bit pointless since that title technically belongs to Hyper Sonic, being a more powerful version of Super Sonic charged by the Super Emeralds. I feel like Sega should've just left it with Cyber Sonic, because honestly I found it kinda sad how that form went heavily underutilized, appearing for a mere half a minute. Honestly, I thought the transformation shown in the DLC trailer was a little tease for Cyber Sonic without showing off the full form, and... while I was half right, I was expecting that form to have a little more importance then what we got. In the end, the alternate Final Story was, as I said, a bit of an improvement overall. Was it perfect? No, not at all. But, it does show that Sega cares about Sonic, or is at least starting to care again. And, honestly, it's giving me hope for the future of Sonic games (sucks that Superstars was pretty underwhelming, but outside of that, I'm still optimistic)

So when will you start selling the fabled radical soda?

11:18 - Ah, the smell of Sonic Booms in the morning… oh wait

Love the little doodle guy

There is not a mod but there is a cheat code in the mod manager for this game that makes it so air dash is reset when you use a spring or homing attack an enemy.

Master King's trial is the only part of the whole game where I had to lower the difficulty.

Very glad ya like the dlc Rob

0:45 Dreams Comes True created the most of the soundtracks for Sonic 1 & 2, so it’s easier to go with songs Sega has exclusive copyright than go through them. Especially that it’s just some free DLC.

Not to be that guy, but Knuckles actually does the homing attack in Smash Ultimate for some reason, I always found it weird that the assist trophy does that but I guess its just canon now?

Was really looking forward to this!! Can’t wait to see what you thought!

Man, I would love some songs from hit sega game Flicky

Hyper Sonic was *right* there, Sega!

Time for a nice cold glass of RadicalSoda, ahhhh

Glad to see your silly birdsona in motion for this review. :3

22:35 Hey that soft lock could’ve been worse, it could’ve been right after beating the most painful Titan in this trial, AKA Wyvern, and right before you get to Knight…like what happened to me in my last playthrough… 🤬 this trial Edit:I say that and 5 days later, they patch the update to fix the trial (at least from what I’ve heard/seen), and make Tails, Knuckles, and Amy actually able to do crap in a fight instead of before where I avoided a fight at all costs with those three cause Sonic was the only one I had a chance with which isn’t great for the guy literally named after fists, but now it seems like they’re actually useful, plus Knuckles’ glide was fixed as well apparently (I haven’t been able to try these yet since I had to immediately head to my shift at work after school today which was 6 1/2 hours so I’m gonna try it tomorrow). Kishimoto, dude, you and your team already gained enough of my respect from this game, how much more do you need? Edit 2:Yep it’s definitely better

17:07 Actually, Knuckles has the Homing Attack in Sonic Rivals 1 and 2 And if ya REALLY wanna go for a reach, he and Tails can use the Homing Attack on enemies in Sonic Heroes if you're playing as Sonic

A new super Sonic form? Could it be...the legendary...super duper Sonic?!

Radical

Damn I might just have to try the DLC now, wasn't sure before tbh

It's called 'Super Sonic 2' in reference to Super Saiyan 2. See, it even has the little zappy zaps

They shadow dropped a patch with movement fixes to all additional characters knuckles glide steer was significantly improved

4:34 WRONG, it was in one of the sky sanctuary modern missions.

Hell yeah an animated review

I do think the final update needed a few more months in the oven.

I bought the game after the final DLC came out, and I somehow had the jump deceleration _completely maxed out_ from the beginning. I had no idea, but I managed to beat the entire game with it maxed, and only realized it after I dug in the settings again halfway through my NG+ run.

3:59 I think there's some kind of code on the hedgehog mod manager called "Fix air boost reset" in the codes section ofc.

4:26 Yes, Gens did have it. It’s in a mission for Sky Sanctuary.

I really like what you did with your studio, so much more spacious. Also did you get a haircut?

I like the bird png soda. It's nice