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Sonic Mania review thread
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That Dunkey review is going to do some work, considering his massive following.
It was fun to watch too. He seemed over the moon.
"The blue blur's stumbled a bit in recent years..."
It was fun to watch too. He seemed over the moon.
"The blue blur's stumbled a bit in recent years..."
Hot Coldman
Banned
Hot Coldman
Banned
He has but in terms of raw exposure he's still a massive thing. The only issue is SEGA being fools and keeping this digital, whereas they could probably have done a budget disc release and made Crash Trilogy money.
It'll convince a few thousand that the game is good, I guess.
You can understand why since they consistently took the wrong lessons from the last four games under-selling.
Some of those are decent but nothing remarkable. The Adventure games killed my interest in the franchise completely,they represent the downfall of Sonic more than anything else even if much worse Sonic games exist. I still stand by my comment that there has not been a great Sonic game since the Genesis/MegaDrive days. At best you have something just ok like Sonic Advance or Colors.
wild_fire987
Member
So does anyone know what time this game unlocks tonight?
Lmao I just got to this episode.
Scrolling down the thread made me incredibly happy. Can't fucking wait!
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Those Advance games were more than "ok". Those were some quality handheld 2D Sonic games during the time Sonic had no new 3D entry post-Adventure 2 until 2003.
perfectchaos007
Member
If the game doesn't come out at midnight, I'll riot
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
If anything can top Dragon's Trap craziness for Limited Run games, it'll be Sonic Mania.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
There is no physical release. The only physical release is the collectors edition which only comes with a digital code of the game.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I cant believe I accurately predicted the metascore. This never happens.
Some people simply can't accept that there were great sonic games that weren't the Genesis games. It's dissapointing, but I guess it could be a lot worse.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Taxman and Lizardcube should collaborate to make Sonic 5 in the handrawn art style of Dragon's Trap.
Lizardcube should continue to do their thing until I get a super pretty version of Monster World IV
GabeTheGrouch76
Member
I could give you the first Advance, but the level design for the sequels were really poor IMO. They both suffered from being streamlined for the sake of speed as in the 3D titles of the era, with Advance 2 being mostly comprised of super linear levels (hence the comments about Advance 2 being "holdright2win" and being "Straight Line Zone: The Game") and Advance 3 being a labyrinthine of mostly empty levels you run through. There is no coherence or balance to how the levels are structured compared to the Genesis games.
The Special Stages in all three titles (either the stages themselves, or accessing them in the game's levels) were rather crappy too.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Dunkey's review. My goodness. It's so good.
KZXcellent
Member
Setting the tone with old 90s commercials and news segments was fantastic.
patrickthehedgehog
Member
Does it have spoilers as in showing content that hasn't been officially revealed?
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah, it does. I was actually spoiled on a couple returning zones I didn't know about.
Well, unless they were revealed in the animated intro or the launch trailer, which I haven't watched.
ThaPhantom
Member
I am kind of baffled it took Sega this long and really it wasn't even them. All these years they just had to use an engine that played like the classics and add fresh ideas and it would be well received. Mania should have happened a long time ago and not that travesty that was Sonic 4.
patrickthehedgehog
Member
Ah, thanks. I'll save it until after I play. Thumbnails on Siliconera spoiled a particular stage for me.
KZXcellent
Member
A couple of them are spoiled in the animated intro though it isn't immediately obvious.
This is both a great review and hilarious.
Omega Kirby
Member
Sonic is back?!
SonicMegaDrive
Member
Realistically, even if Sega (or Sonic Team, whatever) had gone back and did a 'Genesis'-styled Sonic game, I don't think they would have given it the same amount of care and attention to detail as the developers have done with this game. Certainly, at the time I would have gladly accepted a half-assed retro cash-grab given the alternatives, but in a way I'm glad we're getting this game now instead of then, and by people who have the right amount of talent - and love - to be able to pull it off. It seems the stars have aligned themselves in just the right formation to allow something like this to happen.
I'm surprised no one mentioned classic music for this review thread.
Sonic 2 2-player results: https://youtu.be/d48hVMZQjmU
Starts out slow although spoils quite a lot of things from the footage.
Sonic 2 2-player results: https://youtu.be/d48hVMZQjmU
Starts out slow although spoils quite a lot of things from the footage.
KingHippo1967
Member
My review of the Switch version, including a video of gameplay:
https://tiredoldhack.com/2017/08/14/sonic-mania-switch-review/
https://tiredoldhack.com/2017/08/14/sonic-mania-switch-review/
That was a beautifully written review. You touched on your personal history with Classic Sonic surely, but made very valid points about why Mania is such an impressive game. While I personally grew up with the 3D titles in the series and THEN tried out the classic games (and loved them too), the classics are games I deeply respect for what they accomplished.
Your review, in addition to my own personal hype, has made me very excited to play Mania midnight tonight
.OfTheOverflow
Member
Played a bit last night when it unlocked (Australia), and as someone who didn't group up with the Genesis titles, it's a lot of fun. I never want to see Green Hill Zone again though.
Rapscallion
Member
Just like S3&K.
IronicSonic
Member
This is complete false. Sonic Advance 2 is as Straight Line Zone as Sonic 3K. If you want to get all medals for all the levels, you have your fair share of exploration. Advance 2 is a highly undarrated game.
Sonic Advance 3 is garbage though (
Even though there are some sick speedruns)
Reptars Revenge
Member
GabeTheGrouch76
Member
Don't really see how it's false? A lot of the general direction / routes for the levels can be described as largely moving in one direction only, even though the levels themselves are multilayered.
As for exploration elements/medals, that also relates to my comment about the Special Stages being handled poorly. You're supposed to search for and collect all 10 medals scattered in the acts to get to the Special Stages, but the levels constantly push the player forward and rarely allow for backtracking. So you end up fighting against the pace of the game's design if you're gunning for the medals/Special Stages.
I will give Advance 2 credit though for having better controls/physics than Advance 3, and even to an extent Advance 1.
Joey Jo-Jo Jr
Member
It comes out August 16th here
Japan is always last when it comes to Sonic releases for some weird reason.
Just be glad it's coming out at all in Japan. Have you tried playing the Taxman Sonic remasters on android in Japan? I have, they don't exist here. Don't know about IOS as I don't have an iphone.
Have you tried getting sonic racing transformed for vita? It was never released here.
Came out on wii u and ps3 in Japan a year after the west.
Steam Japan is missing Sonic Racing Transformed and Generations (probably more too).
I can only assume sonic isn't very important to Sega in terms of the Japanese market.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I think you underestimate just how much Mania will appeal to newer Sonic fans.