Sonic Frontiers: Sonic's Birthday Bash Is Out Now, Here's Everything In It

What songs have been added to the Juke Box?

24 minutes ago, The Tenth Doctor said:

What songs have been added to the Juke Box?

Unlocks for all the Island Movements as far as I can tell (basically, whenever you progress the Island’s story, the theme music evolves slightly in game - whether this was noticed or not is down to the player).

Might seem lame at first glance - but there’s quite a few here that I missed listening to once I surpassed a certain storypoint, and the ability to play some of Chaos Islands tracks anywhere (some of the best music in the game) is a very welcome addition to the juke box for me personally. 

Mild spoilers on how to unlock content in the update:

That’s good - at least there’s now a reward for doing EVERYTHING on each island (I presume now we can visually see all the collectible information on the map screen hubs (as a checklist finally) that it this will greatly help completionists.

I’m not sure locking the Spindash behind all the S-Grade action chain challenges was such a smart idea though (unless this is super easy).

Sure, Spindash is not a move set that’s really required or designed for this game - but I did think it would be a toggle like the rest of the new updates.

On the subject of toggles - there is more than one toggle in the options now that influences Sonic’s movement in cyberspace stages that Sonic Team would weirdly have you believe (was playing around with this last night) - very good.

I think my personal addendum/critique to this QOL feature would be that they have multiple presets added in next time rather than just “default” for each slider and whatever the player wants. Although I appreciate the accessibility, I also just want to get on with it and play than spend hours experimenting.

It couldn’t hurt to have something along the lines of “classic / modern / loose / tight” presets available in menu. Then I’d also get a better understanding of where I want to take the slider. The 0-100 setting and it’s influence on Sonic actually doesn’t translate to me as how this affects sonic in either direction until you mess around with it, and because bringing up the options menu isn’t something that is “snappy” to access quickly (like say, the jukebox) then I feel less inclined to want to go in and through the options to change stuff EVERY time, when actually it could be a fun feature if integrated smartly. Hopefully something they’ll think about for Frontiers 2.

The point is though, Sonic Team are learning and adapting and listening for feedback. Whilst It’s weird seeing this play out in real time via updates in this game and Twitter - and equally I can see how how the “global play test”comment has pissed some off - I think the comment was pretty bang on. The game is out and the game is great anyway, so what does it matter? Now that we have the ability to mess around with stuff and engage with the devs somewhat this is beneficial to all. 

going through the beginning of the game with all the birthday stuff turned on completely and utterly destroys the emotional impact it originally had and it's fantastic.

i haven't unlocked the spin dash yet, but all the new settings are pretty cool. i instantly turned off jumping deceleration, lmao. luckily for me, i already obsessively collected every memory token on every island, so 100%'ing each island should be at least slightly easier lollll