"We instrumentality this earnestly arsenic a planetary playtest."

Sonic Frontiers' director, Morio Kishimoto, says the crippled is simply a "global playtest" and is "not rather determination yet".

In a tweet posted to Twitter and spotted by VGC, Kishimoto intimated that though the squad was "relieved" that the crippled was yet retired and successful the hands of players, it was "checking the opinions of the critics and everyone" and inactive had "a agelong mode to go".

"I'm atrocious I couldn't interaction you due to the fact that I've been engaged since the merchandise date," Kishimoto tweeted to their followers, arsenic translated by Google. "I'm relieved that the merchandise day has arrived and that it seems to person reached everyone safely.

"We are checking the opinions of the critics and everyone. As you pointed out, we inactive person a agelong mode to go, and we instrumentality this earnestly arsenic a planetary playtest," Kishimoto added.

Have you played it yet? In Eurogamer's Sonic Frontiers' review, we said that:

"[W]hether unfastened portion oregon Cyber Space, there's inactive nary getting astir the age-old headache that's plagued each 3D Sonic game: inconsistent physics, wherever you mightiness abruptly grind to a halt connected a boost path, oregon interruption retired of a outpouring leap animation and veer disconnected its trajectory.

"There whitethorn nary longer beryllium a lives system, and the unfastened zones' immense onshore masses mean astatine slightest you're not falling into bottomless pits, but it doesn't marque having to redo platforming sections immoderate little irritating."

Sonic Frontieers is retired present connected PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.