Originally posted by Gamerberg:

First time playing and kinda enjoying the flow of 100% every map I unlock (except for when the game crashes on nearly every interaction - saving, entering and exiting cyberspace, even opening the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game). Now I've finally gotten to knight and bit him just for my game to crash during the cutscene. So now knight is permanently gone and now I can't get to rhea island. Genuinely the bugs and crashes in this game really don't justify all the good reviews. I don't know if the game has always been like this, but this is extremely disappointing.

No, this does not justify any "good reviews".

Not excusing the bug causing lost and now locked progress but...

If a game has manual saving then abuse it because stuff like this happens, always make a manual save if you can and personally I keep two and overwrite the older one. We all learn this lesson the hard way at some point and for a lot of people it was probably Skyrim.

On PC you can usually go a step further and make copies of the "physical" files on your storage drive but I rarely go that far.

Originally posted by Gamerberg:

First time playing and kinda enjoying the flow of 100% every map I unlock (except for when the game crashes on nearly every interaction - saving, entering and exiting cyberspace, even opening the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game). Now I've finally gotten to knight and beat him just for my game to crash during the cutscene. So now knight is permanently gone and now I can't get to rhea island. Genuinely the bugs and crashes in this game really don't justify all the good reviews. I don't know if the game has always been like this, but this is extremely disappointing.

Eh... I lost a 805560 S-Rank record on the 3-05 Action Chain Challenge on Chaos Island because of my own forgetfulness and the game not saving that record in time before I reloaded. Who do I blame? Mostly myself. Plus, I actually managed to conquer that record with 952968 at the same challenge, and this time I actually didn't forget to save before reloading any saves.

Follow my example, always use manual saves when you find something you value. Do not forget to make backups in time. The game is good otherwise, the reviews are fairly justified. Just don't forget to save every moment you value before you lose it, your forgetfulness might be the end of the run.

As for all the crashes, blame the dumb Denuvo. Join the #KillDenuvo petition.

Originally posted by Shadow_The_Worm | Titan.TF:

Originally posted by Gamerberg:

First time playing and kinda enjoying the flow of 100% every map I unlock (except for when the game crashes on nearly every interaction - saving, entering and exiting cyberspace, even opening the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game). Now I've finally gotten to knight and beat him just for my game to crash during the cutscene. So now knight is permanently gone and now I can't get to rhea island. Genuinely the bugs and crashes in this game really don't justify all the good reviews. I don't know if the game has always been like this, but this is extremely disappointing.

Eh... I lost a 805560 S-Rank record on the 3-05 Action Chain Challenge on Chaos Island because of my own forgetfulness and the game not saving that record in time before I reloaded. Who do I blame? Mostly myself. Plus, I actually managed to conquer that record with 952968 at the same challenge, and this time I actually didn't forget to save before reloading any saves.

Follow my example, always use manual saves when you find something you value. Do not forget to make backups in time. The game is good otherwise, the reviews are fairly justified. Just don't forget to save every moment you value before you lose it, your forgetfulness might be the end of the run.

As for all the crashes, blame the dumb Denuvo. Join the #KillDenuvo petition.

the crashes are not denuvo's fault. its because of the outright unstable nature of the game engine. denuvo also does not cause crashes, that's just not how it works

Originally posted by Shadow_The_Worm | Titan.TF:

As for all the crashes, blame the dumb Denuvo. Join the #KillDenuvo petition.

denuvo, irdeto and the likes of them must be eliminated for good as well, even as punishment for sega and sonic team for having allowed this ♥♥♥♥.

Originally posted by Chief:

Originally posted by Shadow_The_Worm | Titan.TF:

Eh... I lost a 805560 S-Rank record on the 3-05 Action Chain Challenge on Chaos Island because of my own forgetfulness and the game not saving that record in time before I reloaded. Who do I blame? Mostly myself. Plus, I actually managed to conquer that record with 952968 at the same challenge, and this time I actually didn't forget to save before reloading any saves.

Follow my example, always use manual saves when you find something you value. Do not forget to make backups in time. The game is good otherwise, the reviews are fairly justified. Just don't forget to save every moment you value before you lose it, your forgetfulness might be the end of the run.

As for all the crashes, blame the dumb Denuvo. Join the #KillDenuvo petition.

the crashes are not denuvo's fault. its because of the outright unstable nature of the game engine. denuvo also does not cause crashes, that's just not how it works

I'm afraid I'll have to burst your bubble here Chief, this topic exists elsewhere: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/1382330/discussions/0/3117025249766885846/
And from the experience of that topic's starter, Denuvo can be the reason why the games are crashing for players. It's either that phony DRM being poorly implemented (ending in the backfires for people who once played games with Denuvo turning into repackers and pirates) or poorly optimized hardware of this topic's starter. You can't just brush this phony DRM as something minor, it's not always a guaranteed truth that "Denuvo is innocent", plus this DRM is famous for causing players to get LOCKED OUT of games they bought with phony stuff inside (Denuvo being one of them), blocking harmless modding (not cheats and hacks, but rather something that is relatively harmless and is either just a visual mod for multiplayer or any fairgame mod for singleplayer). It's just ridiculous, this DRM ruined the anti-tamper definition, it dishonored it.

And honestly, you brushing it off as not the cause of problems for this game can come off as being ignorant to the issue or clueless about it. I'd encourage you to take some testing on various machines with various Denuvo-infested games before coming with the verdict, good sir.

Originally posted by Shadow_The_Worm | Titan.TF:

Originally posted by Chief:

the crashes are not denuvo's fault. its because of the outright unstable nature of the game engine. denuvo also does not cause crashes, that's just not how it works

I'm afraid I'll have to burst your bubble here Chief, this topic exists elsewhere: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/1382330/discussions/0/3117025249766885846/
And from the experience of that topic's starter, Denuvo can be the reason why the games are crashing for players. It's either that phony DRM being poorly implemented (ending in the backfires for people who once played games with Denuvo turning into repackers and pirates) or poorly optimized hardware of this topic's starter. You can't just brush this phony DRM as something minor, it's not always a guaranteed truth that "Denuvo is innocent", plus this DRM is famous for causing players to get LOCKED OUT of games they bought with phony stuff inside (Denuvo being one of them), blocking harmless modding (not cheats and hacks, but rather something that is relatively harmless and is either just a visual mod for multiplayer or any fairgame mod for singleplayer). It's just ridiculous, this DRM ruined the anti-tamper definition, it dishonored it.

And honestly, you brushing it off as not the cause of problems for this game can come off as being ignorant to the issue or clueless about it. I'd encourage you to take some testing on various machines with various Denuvo-infested games before coming with the verdict, good sir.

i just love how you wrote an entire paragraph as if i am defending denuvo in any way, despite me saying the objective truth that sonic frontier's crashes are caused from the unstable engine not handling the open world very well.
also one example of a denuvo integration does not represent all denuvo integrations. one game might have awful impacts, another might work totally fine with little to no difference. its subjective really

Yeah, sorry about that, just got that impression, sire.