A Manic Blast To The Past..
Sonic Mania encapsulates the very idea of the classic trilogy and does pretty much everything perfectly that results in a satisfying short or lengthy experience depending on how much of the games content you want to dive into as there is alot of optional side content with the other characters routes and ending cutscene being pretty different and encore mode,multiplayer,special stages,time attacking the list goes on there is truely alot of love and care that went into this overall solid package.
Visuals: They took the classic's artstyle and just dialed it up by a thousand and beyond every sprite in this game is super details and has animations that brim with character and the stages that are reused look great and better than before and the new stages makes you question was reusing older stages the games only drawback as the new levels are so amazing in so many ways and there is so many cool references and nods that fan of the series can pick up from the stage envoirments and backgrounds.
Gameplay:
Again very akin to the classic trilogy the level design and character control feels closest to 3&K with elements of 2 and CD most of the time and speaking of characters each character feels unique and has pros and cons making none of the 5 downright terrible even sonic gets the dropdash to set himself apart from the other 4 if you enjoyed any of the original trilogy you will most definitely find something in this game to enjoy.
Replayability:
There is so much to chew on in this game from the great level design allowing the levels to feel fresh with each run of the levels each character have exclusive routes that even furthers the replayablity exploring parts of the level unknown to other characters while playing ___ for example and ontop of encore mode,multiplayer and the other plethora of things to do it'd be hard to get bored of this game if your a fan of the classics.
Soundtrack:
CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM
It just bops what can I say all the remixes of old tracks often sound better than the originals and the new tracks go astronomically hard and there is honestly too much to say in terms of how good this is honestly if you don't plan on playing the game atleast listen to a few tracks and it might convince you to give it a shot even if your a new fan.
Story:
While simple follows a similar structure to 3&K with a short sprite based cutscene playing after each level bringing the continuity together and being simple but sweet nothing too mindblowing but not terrible either its also got a nice forces tie in.
Overall:
A fantastic game that any sonic fan should play as it perserves older levels in a inoffensive way by changing it up while still preserving history and the title deserves all the praise it gets and if you haven't played it already I can't advise you enough go check out this game if you have 3-5 hours of spare time as you will not regret it.
Trivia:
This game is made by Christian Whitehead who also made the mobile ports of 1-2 and the modern ports of CD and origins but before that he made a game engine called "Retro Sonic" that was used as a basis for his future titles.
Sonic Mania encapsulates the very idea of the classic trilogy and does pretty much everything perfectly that results in a satisfying short or lengthy experience depending on how much of the games content you want to dive into as there is alot of optional side content with the other characters routes and ending cutscene being pretty different and encore mode,multiplayer,special stages,time attacking the list goes on there is truely alot of love and care that went into this overall solid package.
Visuals: They took the classic's artstyle and just dialed it up by a thousand and beyond every sprite in this game is super details and has animations that brim with character and the stages that are reused look great and better than before and the new stages makes you question was reusing older stages the games only drawback as the new levels are so amazing in so many ways and there is so many cool references and nods that fan of the series can pick up from the stage envoirments and backgrounds.
Gameplay:
Again very akin to the classic trilogy the level design and character control feels closest to 3&K with elements of 2 and CD most of the time and speaking of characters each character feels unique and has pros and cons making none of the 5 downright terrible even sonic gets the dropdash to set himself apart from the other 4 if you enjoyed any of the original trilogy you will most definitely find something in this game to enjoy.
Replayability:
There is so much to chew on in this game from the great level design allowing the levels to feel fresh with each run of the levels each character have exclusive routes that even furthers the replayablity exploring parts of the level unknown to other characters while playing ___ for example and ontop of encore mode,multiplayer and the other plethora of things to do it'd be hard to get bored of this game if your a fan of the classics.
Soundtrack:
CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM CatJAM
It just bops what can I say all the remixes of old tracks often sound better than the originals and the new tracks go astronomically hard and there is honestly too much to say in terms of how good this is honestly if you don't plan on playing the game atleast listen to a few tracks and it might convince you to give it a shot even if your a new fan.
Story:
While simple follows a similar structure to 3&K with a short sprite based cutscene playing after each level bringing the continuity together and being simple but sweet nothing too mindblowing but not terrible either its also got a nice forces tie in.
Overall:
A fantastic game that any sonic fan should play as it perserves older levels in a inoffensive way by changing it up while still preserving history and the title deserves all the praise it gets and if you haven't played it already I can't advise you enough go check out this game if you have 3-5 hours of spare time as you will not regret it.
Trivia:
This game is made by Christian Whitehead who also made the mobile ports of 1-2 and the modern ports of CD and origins but before that he made a game engine called "Retro Sonic" that was used as a basis for his future titles.