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Sonic Mania. What can I say? Except this is ACTUALLY a good sonic game everyone wanted! Sonic Generation? Yeah no. Sonic Colors? More like Sonic Jokesters. This is truly Sonic at his finest. After everything that has happened Sonic related, clearly someone at Saga was actually paying attention to us the fans instead of the other employees being all, mEOw YES, but being faithful to a game series that everyone else clearly cared for? NO.(but that movie was pretty good) Growing up I always played more Mario games but I had more of a soft spot for Sonic. I don't why, but now I know after playing this game….it’s because he's cool.
Artstyle
Something I can now talk about is the art style. It’s good, There’s nothing more to it, for once this is something most people can agree on. Nowadays it’s always been 3D designs and while they've all been decently done well, sometimes, cough sonic 06 cough cough, it comes across as awkward. That's why this game with its 16bit style is great, this game fixed that. And you got the little animated cutscenes in between that also look great. Not to forget, New Areas, i'm happy that it was just 16 different remakes of Green Hills Zone. Studiopolis Zone, Press Garden Zone, Mirage Saloon Zone, and Titanic Monarch Zone are some of the best zones I have seen in a sonic game in a long time.
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But hey I hear one person at least asking, what's the story? And to that I say, yeah it's there. The story is not as big as I recall. It's another, "Robotnik has a new plan to finale rule the world and it’s up to Sonic Tails and Knuckles to stop him." Don’t get me wrong it was fine, and Robotnik had new robotic henchmen, the Hard-Boiled Heavies, I just don't remember anything more than that.
There was also the Encore DLC that had a new story but I didn’t get that so I don’t know the story behind it. But best characters number 1 and number 2 are introduced in this so I wish I could’ve when I had the chance. Best character Number 1 Ray the Flying Squirrel and number 2, Mighty the Armadillo. I love them and I wish they could be used more even though this was their first game. Then there are three long-forgotten Sonic that reappear in new the Mirage Saloon Zone. I'm just glad Saga at least remembers them to include them and isn’t that what matters in the end?
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Soundtrack
Going to be honest, I never once heard a sound from this game, I'll take the blame on that because I played this game on my Nintendo Switch, shame on me. I turned my switches sound down to silent. But I have never been a person who was that big on a game's soundtrack, to begin with. When it comes to shows, they have different soundtracks, I'm sometimes there for that, Don’t get me wrong, I love the song from Sonic Colors and Sonic Unleashed, and from the little I heard from the ending credits and the file select screen it's not the worst I have heard to Sonic-related.
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Gameplay
The gameplay was challenging at times. Going fast is one thing but when you have to stop and go back at a much slower pace, I don't like that. Man times after I complete a stage I got the feeling that it should not have taken me as long as it did. Then there was the Secret Rings, I sucked at that. I kept falling off the edge from going too fast, I hated it, I could not unlock Supersonic because of that. I also didn’t like but not entirely were the bosses. The main bosses were really clever, I loved the Metal Sonic one, the one in Flying Battery Zone Act 2 while it was annoying I loved it either way. But Metallic Madness Zone Act 1, Press Garden Zone Act 1, Hydrocity Zone Act 2, I hate you all with a burning passion of actual fire, I say no more.
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GAME RATING: 8/10
Sonic Mania lovingly paints over its inspirations' problems rather than fixing them. As a synthesis and expression of a specific era of Sonic, Sonic Mania is devout toward its origin, for devout fans of Sega's beleaguered mascot. If more of what Sonic is what you want, then this is very much that. But more, and bigger, and faster. This game truly feels like a classic Sonic title from the days of the Genesis. Sonic Mania is the result of passionate fans who understand what made Sonic so iconic and fun in the first place. The game controls amazingly, The music, while i never listened to it i’ll say it was great, the new stages fit seamlessly among the remastered ones, and the game's length and content is adequate. My complaints are some of the bosses,but also the overabundance of old zones like Green Hill and Chemical Plant. Overall,this is a game for people who love challenging platformers or those who love a good, classic, and REAL Sonic game.
PROS:
Controls well
Good music
Nice art
New stages fit in well with the old
CONS:
Bosses are not that great
Overabundance of old zones
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