I love how the sonic fanbase loves the Sonic franchise to death, so I did something I didn't think I'd ever do: I played Sonic Mania and I gotta say - I'm pleasantly surprised. I totally see why those games are beloved by fans, they are filled to the rim with beautiful visuals and a soundtrack that forces a never-ending adrenaline rush. I enjoyed my time with the game up until a point, where the difficulty made progressing just a bit too tedious for me. It's not like I can't beat the stages or I won't ever beat them, but playing the levels over and over again to finally do it just takes too long for me - at least in a situation where I have 300+ games on my playlist and just not enough time. In a different time period I'd probably have played the shit out of this and who knows, maybe I will one day. Just at this point, I want to focus my time on games I want to play more immediately. I'm glad I took the dive tho, so I at least now know how it feels to control the popular hedgehog.