So playing breath of the wild for the first time. I was high on all this hype about it being truly open world. I could go anywhere do anything. The world was my oyster and I didn't need to follow the man's rules and guides.
And so like... That's all just straight up a lie. Breath of the wild is a game that overly cleverly obfusicats its systems and just hides the fact that it's a bunch of basic hubs that you can just choose what order to take them in.
Sonic frontiers, or more specifically the final frontiers dlc is hard as dick and turning a lot of people off. But also giving me the open world fuck it vibe I'd been promised with breath of the wild.
It just places a marker on your map and does not give an ounce of a shit how you get there. Figure it out, fuck you. It the marker 300m in the air off the island in the water? Sure. Does that series of floating platforms on the shore lead to it? No. Is it gonna tell you how to get there? Fuck you.
And like there is clearly an intended way for you to get to a lot of these positions but a bunch just... Don't? Figure it out yourself.
And if you find a super unintended way to bypass the challenges and just skip straight to the end. The game does not care, it doesn't even try and correct you. It is just like 'yeah I'm not your dad, do what you want' and it feels amazing.
Like is final frontiers a better game then breath of the wild? In a lot of ways no.
Is it the game I'm gonna come back to playing? Fuck yeah.