If Sonic Frontiers' open-world experiment wasn't quite to your liking, then Sonic X Shadow Generations looks to be the modern Sonic game you need to play.
Before getting into things, I'll temper that argument ever so slightly by admitting that I don't have a truly exhaustive view of the Sonic franchise. That's not to say I have anything against the Blue Blur — I have sampled a solid amount of Sonic's strongest titles over the years, and as a streaming writer, I've seen all the movies & shows, to boot. It's just that I was first and foremost a Mario kid.
