Sonic Frontiers buries its great ideas under soul-crushing design flaws

Splash screen for Sonic Frontiers featuring Sonic the Hedgehog grinding on a rail with the words Sonic Frontiers in the upper right hand corner against a blurred background of brightly light ruins and a lush green landscape

Image: Sega

What the game does right is obscured under layer after layer of poor design, glitches, and an inscrutable story.