If 'Sonic Mania' is the first 'good' Sonic the Hedgehog game in ages, how did The Blue Blur survive 20 years of mediocre games?
This week marks the seventh anniversary of Sonic Mania and although there are no announcements to go with it, the game's developer Christian Whitehead has taken to social media - sharing some trivia you might not have known about.
of course not, are u crazy? devs giving us what we want and like ? pfff
like, its easy money right? but. you know.
My theory is that Sonic Team were kind of annoyed how well received Mania was despite all their efforts in the past of doing a good Sonic game…it took a fan team to do it. Even the soundtrack is glorious.
So instead of doing Mania 2 they thought “nah we can do it better, let’s do Superstars…but let’s add something unnecessary like try to make it a a co-op game like the 2D Mario games since we can’t help ourselves”.
yeh, segas Obsession making sonic 3d is abit odd.
i didnt like superstars nearly ad mhch tbh
The dev team wanted to make their own original game, and they created Penny's Big Breakaway, which seems to have garnered a fair amount of praise. I have yet to play it though.
Sonic the Hedgehog has a long and turbulent history in videogames, but which are the best games featuring the blue bur?
Generations over Mania? Please… Generations doesnt have any new ideas in the levels/bosses.
Also a top 7 of Sonic games shouldn’t have any 3D crap and contain at least one of the 8-bit titles.
Sonic CD getting snubbed is weird. Number 1 is definitely interchangable between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
Nothing wrong with putting Generations over Mania. Generations had a lot more to it. Mania was just a bit too short, despite how amazing it was. They're both top-tier Sonic games though.
I don't think mania was to short given 1,2,3, knuckles were between 1 and 3 hours long.
Mania was 5 hours roughly
However i say the originals feel more repayable because they are so short
The 8 bit games were pretty bad overall do you mean the 16 bit ones
Nope. Sonic 1 & 2 on the master system were great. Dont confuse these with the game gear versions either.
Top 7 for me
7 cd
6 mania
5 Frontiers
4 sonic 3
3 sonic 1
2 sonic and knuckles
1 sonic 2
Sometimes I feel like the Sonic Advanced games just didn’t exist with how much it’s always forgotten 😭
Even as a Sonic fan, I didn't really care for those games, and getting the Chaos Emeralds were freakin' horrible. Even with an emulator and save states, I didn't have the desire to try. I also didn't like most of the levels or bosses either. Unfortunately, DiMPs aren't good at making Sonic games.
RPCSX, the newly announced PS4 emulator made by the wonderful people behind RPCS3, was shown running Sonic Mania at a whopping 45 FPS.
Really cool, hopefully, they can advance with this emulator pretty quickly. Their work with the RPCS3 was amazing given how notoriously hard that console architecture is.
Correction: it runs the intro screen and then turns into a green mess. Still cool progress, but who approves this garbage with click-bait titles?
Interesting watching this advance it might take a few more years but the community will be very thankful in the end after all Sony may have given us full PS4 backwards compatibility in the ps5 but they still haven't given us 60 fps patches and modes for a number of popular games like bloodborne.
I can however see Sony taking a stance against this emulator unlike rpcs3 which was emulating the PS3 as the PS3 was off store shelves and many games had no legal purchase route given psn doesn't have then entire PS3 library available. PS4 is quite different
Own this from PS Plus. How ironic people spend their precious time, hours of their life they will never get back, trying to get games to run on hardware it’s not intended to when they could easily play it another way. For free no less. Every day things get more odd.
Cuz not every Sonic game released in the past 20 years was mediocre
More importantly how has Crash Bandicoot endured over 20 years?
Sonic the Hedgehog at least had great games coming out in the past decade, same can't be said for Crash before N-Sane Trilogy released
I know it's sacrilege, but I really liked Sonic Unleashed. The werehog segments left something to be desired, sure, but the amount of polish and attention to detail with the soundtrack, graphics, and worlds felt like an honest-to-god Sonic Adventure 3.
So we're really going to pretend Sonic unleashed wasn't good, Sonic colours wasn't good, Son8c Generations wasn't good. Sonic 4 ep 2(apart from it not having the right physics) was good... Smh okay. I've loved plenty of games with sonic. Both SA, man don't get me started lol
Sonic 06 and the loading screen of "see you when your 90" along with the werehog from unleashed, will always stand out for me. The problem is this -
Sonic is super fast, and as the cost and difficulties of game development continues to climb, it gets harder for devs to create a Sonic game that has enough length in each level to please fans. This is why we have added gimmicks, to slow down the pace and break up the formula.
Creating a Sonic game that entirely consists of HUGE (to make up for Sonic's fast speed) levels that dont feel linear, without a pace-breaking gimmick, would take an awful lot of time. Not all Sonic games are bad, but to say that Sonic Mania is the highest rated new Sonic game in 15 years, says something.