Sonic Mania - High Praise For the Long Awaited Retro Caramel [Game Review]steemCreated with Sketch.

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Sonic The Hedgehog 4 was not exactly the sequel we expected - Sega has now fixed the mistakes with Sonic Mania

Sega's fast running hedgehog Sonic was once as synonymous with video games such as Nintendo's Super Mario. In fact, the two games have unique features that complement each other more than well. Where Super Mario offered precise platforming at a slow pace, Sonic was all about running through tracks in supersonic speed, experiencing fast-paced action while finding the most effective ways to reach the goal.

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Which series is best is, of course, a matter of taste, but one thing is certain - historically, the transition to three dimensions was definitely beneficial for Nintendo's plumber. Therefore it is not surprising that Sega chose to release a brand new Sonic game in two dimensions, it is, after all, where the series is best. And unlike the makeshift Sonic the Hedgehog 4-games that were released a few years ago, Sonic Mania delivers on everything that defined the series during its glory days.

New game, classic look

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Sonic Mania pulls of feeling nostalgic in its pixel-design - while at the same time offering a more colorful and bright gaming world.

What is guaranteed to attract the interest of many is, of course, that the game, purely visually, appears to be a direct continuation of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles to the Sega Mega Drive. Here there are only pixels as far as the eye reaches. Beautiful, colorful pixels that paint up varying environments consisting of various obstacles, loops and enemy robots in true 16 bit spirit.

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In Sonic Mania we run through new tracks as well as remixes of old acquaintances. What at first glance looks like the classic Green Hill Zone course from the very first game eventually turns into a whole new experience after a certain point. The fact is that all the earlier courses are full of new features that makes even the most hardened Sonic player stop for a while to think and learn about the new challenges before them. For example, I did crack open a smile when the antagonist Eggman challenged me to a match in the puzzle game Puyo Puyo instead of a normal boss battle.

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This turns out to be just a hint of what is to come. When new levels are lost, the developers will step up fully to their responsibility and introduce others, if possible, even more flipped-out concepts. Of course, this is mostly positive, however, some moments seem less thought-out than the most spectacular one's does. We who dreamed of steering Eggman's egg-shaped aircraft finally got the chance as one example. But we could have managed without cheap teleportation elements or hackneyed gravity mazes.

The rightful sequel?

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A most wonderful nostalgic gaming experience.

Overall, Sonic Mania feels like the Sonic the Hedgehog 4 we wished for, but never received. Yes, half of the courses are older escapades, but what does it make when they feel so fresh in comparison to the true classics? When I shoot through the game like Sonic, Tails or Knuckles, I was glad to be reminded that some things were better before. Sonic Mania is the final proof that all games does not need to be in three dimensions to evolve with grace.

Sources

  1. https://www.sonicstadium.org/2016/08/sonic-mania-hands-on-impressions/
  2. www.nintendo.com/games/detail/sonic-mania-switch

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      ·  7 years ago 

    great post im a big gamer myself and enjoyed the sonic series!
    followed you, cheers!

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        ·  7 years ago 

      Thanks for the follow mate, nothing beats the classics!

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            ·  7 years ago 

          Great post love the sonic series! have most of them on the newer compact sega you can get with the wireless controller.Thank you for posting!

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              ·  7 years ago 

            Awesome that you liked it dude! I love the series to, thank you for reading!

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                ·  7 years ago 

              Very good @conexus.. I have followed you. Thankyou for sharing.

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                  ·  7 years ago 

                Azume, thanks for the follow! Peace mate.

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                    ·  7 years ago 

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                      ·  7 years ago 

                    Thanks man, makes me happy that you think so! I do put a lot of time into my Steemit posts, both content-wise and with the design, so thanks for noticing.

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                      ·  7 years ago 

                    This game is good, can't stop playing it

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                        ·  7 years ago 

                      10 - 10 Here we go again!
                      9 - 9 Don't fall behind!
                      8 - 8 Say, don't be late!
                      7 - 7 Destination heaven!
                      6 - 5 Stay alive!
                      4 - 3 Now it's you and me!
                      2 - 1 We're gonna have fun
                      Say, blast off! Hey!

                      Haha love the sonic theme-song, nostalgia!!! And yeah, Sonic is great!

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                          ·  7 years ago 

                        Oh man I LOVED Sonic when it first came out on the mega drive.
                        Wow, the days of my life I lost to that game. Seriously!

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                            ·  7 years ago (edited)

                          How could someone not love sonic? :D The colors and the gameplay just sucked me in back in those days... I know the feeling of days disappearing bro, believe me your not alone! :D

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                              ·  7 years ago 

                            I am sure there must have been hundreds of thousands who lost time thanks to that blue spikey scoundrel !!

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                              ·  7 years ago 

                            I never played the old sonic games (expect Sonic R which I loved as a teen despite it being average in everything)... this article made me interested again in the franchise... do you think I should play the first ones first since you said this is a "sequel"?

                            Well, probably not since these days I have more games than I can play for a month and I don't want to add to my to-play list. unless I finish one~

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                                ·  7 years ago 

                              No man you can just play Sonic Mania without playing anything else before, it has some old levels from a mix of the games, and just to clarify what i meant with "the sequel sonic deserves" title, i meant that Sonic 4 came out so bad, that this one could almost be counted as the "true" sequel that the awesome series deserves :) But its not a direct sequel in the common sense of the word.

                              Thanks for reading bro!=)

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                                  ·  7 years ago 

                                Oh, Good!!

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