Was Sonic Mania The BEST In The Series?

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The Sonic Boom Era left fans feeling pretty empty, hoping for the next proper Sonic games to come out and bring us back to the days of Colors and Generations. At the 25th anniversary party, we finally got word on the next games: Sonic Mania and Project Sonic 2017, later known as Sonic Forces. The former of which (the subject of today's video) was a proper retro Sonic revival done by the team of fans who had worked on the remasters of Sonic 1, 2 and CD. To this day, Sonic Mania is the most well received Sonic games in a long time. Now that's been five years since it's release, how do I feel about this one? Well, let's find out.
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Chapters:
00:00 The 25th Anniversary
03:29 How Well Made Mania Is
07:56 Neo Classic Sonic
09:16 The Characters
15:06 The Levels
21:41 I Really Enjoy Sonic Mania...
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コメント (21)
  • Loved how J's said both "Hydrocity" and "Hydro-City" just making us go insane.
  • I love the fact that in the final boss fight, the timer is going completely bonkers
  • Sonic Mania did a lot to get fans to appreciate the franchise again. It's such a perfect game and after 5 years, it still holds up.
  • Six years later and I still have to ask: How is it that there isn't official sequel for this game? EDIT: Well look at that, Sonic Superstars is coming out in this year so it might as well be the anwser to my question right now. The question is if whenever Arzest is able to pull it of without screwing it up completely. At least Zones are somewhat new and physics seem to be on point so much so that they are even approved by Christian Whitehead himself in social media.
  • I owe alot to this game, it's the game that got me back into being a Sonic fan, The first game I ever pre-ordered because my faith was that high. (I still remember agonizingly waiting in school all day to get home to finally play it.) Although I do have some negative things I could say about Mania today I can never take this game for granted and how much fun of a series it launched me back into
  • About the classic Sonic "redesign" you seemed to have complained about, it seems more to me that it was inspired in style by the Junio Sonic iteration of him from the Sonic CD cutscenes, where he has that "Cutesy" style, and the light blue shade. This is especially visible when you compare the cutscenes of both Sonic CD and Sonic Mania.
  • If they make a Mania 2 and are forced to reuse old stages, then I hope they use stages from the 3d games. I think it would be cool to see modern stages reimagined in a retro 2d style.
  • Personally speaking I remember playing this game first at my Cousins house for Thanksgiving, I had this nice odd warm feeling of comfort similar to playing Sonic 1 and 2 on my parents old Mac with the lights out as a kid back in 2012. Even past that, it was just a fun game, I'd add things to it(new levels), but it's still solid Edit: sorry if I made you feel old while reading this, but if it helps I made myself feel younger than I was already.
  • I totally agree with the Lava Reef section. But I still gotta give props to the team for Knuckle’s campaign where he takes a different path and ends up at the Master Emerald alter, and has a goofy flashback to Eggman stealing it.
  • This is my favorite 2d Sonic game. It has the most rewarding exploration, best level design, and best mechanics in any of them. It's also the one I've replayed the most, it's just really easy to pick up and play through over and over.
  • It's insane how well this whole series has played out. It's been so long but now there's only one game left, and right before the next one's going to release. It's really cool.
  • As someone who's honestly not big on the Genesis Trilogy, Sonic Mania is easily on of the best designed Sonic games I've ever played. Everything just works so well - even if there are some zones that go on for far longer than they really should. Flying Battery. Titanic Monarch. Lookin' at you.
  • @ObaREX
    The gameplay and level design of Mania is amazing. I replay it often. But it still failed to recapture the epic adventure of 3&K. Whenever I play that game, I feel like I'm building up to an amazing climax. In Mania, I feel like I'm just playing around as Sonic.
  • Tee Lopes went so hard on Sonic Mania’s soundtrack🔥
  • I agree that there should've been more original levels than throwback ones. Seeing the same stuff over and over throughout multiple games can get really stale after a while.
  • While Sonic Mania may still be a truly great game after all these years, it unfortunately lead to SEGA using Classic Sonic as a "crutch" of sorts, which then gave us: Classic Sonic being shoehorned into Forces, the Mania Adventures cartoons where every other frame would become a meme, Classic Sonic and Tails being guest characters in Monkey Ball as opposed to their modern counterparts, etc etc.
  • About Ray’s flying mechanic… Johnny Ortiz said it best. It’s the Cape Feather from Mario World.
  • TBH I love this game. In my honest opinion this finally trumped the genesis Games and got the highest review scores. I enjoy every minute of this game and my favourite character btw is Mighty. He is pretty much unkillable from spikes and other stuff. All the extras add so much too. Why have we not been given a sequel to this? Sega loves to sit on money sometimes.
  • Sonic Mania is definitely a contender for best Sonic game. The amount of love and attention put into it is insane. The soundtrack is top tier, I still listen to it every now and then.
  • Whether or not it's the best, it's definitely my favorite.