Sonic Frontiers buries its great ideas under soul-crushing design flaws

Gif from Sonic Frontiers featuring the “cyloop” ability that has Sonic draw a circle of blue light on the ground

Sonic Frontiers broke me. This game frustrated me so thoroughly that when I, at last, put the controller down, I did not feel a sense of accomplishment but one of relief. I wanted to like […]

Sonic Frontiers buries its great ideas under soul-crushing design flaws

Gif from Sonic Frontiers featuring the “cyloop” ability that has Sonic draw a circle of blue light on the ground

Sonic Frontiers broke me. This game frustrated me so thoroughly that when I, at last, put the controller down, I did not feel a sense of accomplishment but one of relief. I wanted to like […]

Patti Smith: ‘I am who I am with all my flaws’ | Patti Smith

Photograph of a wooden table on which there are various objects: a display plate of the painting he Skating Minister by Henry Raeburn’ a framed photograph, a crucifix, a small painted icon and a hardback copy of Ariel by Sylvia Plath

It is mid-morning outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris and Patti Smith is talking to me on the phone – she is trying to puzzle out how best we are to find each other within […]