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Sonic Mania is the Highest-Rated New Sonic Game in 15 Years

Sonic Mania is the most critically acclaimed Sonic game since the days of the Game Boy Advance.

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FallenAngel19842443d ago

This puts Sonic Forces in a very awkward predicament if it too can't achieve a score in the mid 80s

_-EDMIX-_2441d ago

Not really.

Different game.

Aenea2441d ago

Still a Sonic game tho....

_-EDMIX-_2441d ago

@Aenea- by name.

One is in 3D, one is in 2D.
I don't see Sonic 2D doing well hurting Sonic 3D that is coming out.

Different team, different perspective, different concept.

FallenAngel19842441d ago

Yes really.

Forces is still a mainline Sonic game like Mania.

Different dimensions, same franchise.

Relientk772443d ago (Edited 2443d ago )

Ugh dumb phone double post

Excited for Sonic still :-)

Relientk772443d ago

I'll finally be buying another Sonic game again

Glad to see classic Genesis Sonic back

_-EDMIX-_2441d ago

I'M LOVING IT!

Playing it on PS4 right now, it feels right, music is amazing, gameplay is exactly like the old school sonic games and the bosses are just epic!

I'm hoping we get some other sonic games like this soon.

OtakuDJK1NG-Rory2443d ago (Edited 2443d ago )

only cause it's not 3D.
People hate 3D Sonic games for no reason even when we get amazing ones like Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Colors and Generation.

_-EDMIX-_2441d ago

"only cause it's not 3D"

???

Cause everyone LOVED Sonic 4? Has NOTHING to do with 3D vs 2D, has everything to do with GOOD GAME PLAY vs TRASH GAMEPLAY.

Thats it.

"People hate 3D Sonic games for no reason"

?? You know every single last person that hates the 3D Sonic games and they have zero reasons why they hate it? smh.

Please stop with the ignorant post.

Aenea2441d ago

Ehh, hate to burst your bubble but since I loved, loved the earlier 2D games and didn't like the 3D attempts at all I cringe when I hear that they are trying a 3D version again and automatically feel it's gonna be crap again anyways...

So yes, there are people like that I suppose......

_-EDMIX-_2441d ago (Edited 2441d ago )

@Aenea- but you hate it for no reason?

I'd assume a reason exist for hating it.

I didn't care for many of the Sonic games in 3D, but not simply based on being in 3D, simply based on being bad.

Sonic 1 and 2 didn't need all those irrelevant friends, just give me running levels and I'm good, didn't need Big The Cat fishing.

What I didn't like about those games, has nothing to simply do with 3D ALONE. I get you didn't like the 3D versions, but I'd assume again its based on more then simply being in 3D.

zb1ftw7772441d ago

I don't like Sonic 3D for the simple reason the gameplay is trash.

Not because it is 3D.

Also, Sonic looked stupid on the 3D games. I could have forgiven this if the gameplay was good, but, it wasn't.

OtakuDJK1NG-Rory2441d ago (Edited 2441d ago )

but why is the gameplay trash to you? It has to be because it's 3D otherwise you wouldn't feel that way or is it because it too fast, homing attack or other power ups.

Or is it just you want more of the same and nothing different?
I can understand people hate for 06, Secret Rings, Black Knight and Booms.
But we have amazing ones like Adventure 2 Battle Colors and Generation and some good and okay ones like Adventure, Heroes, Lost Worlds and Unleashed.

Sonic will have great and bad 3D games. People need to accept it.

zb1ftw7772441d ago

For the same reason i think the cartoons are stupid. Sonic with lanky legs looks stupid.

Plus the 3d gameplay isn't fun.

Sonic 2d is cooler, has better gameplay and is more fun.

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The 7 Best Sonic the Hedgehog Games: Racing through Time

Sonic the Hedgehog has a long and turbulent history in videogames, but which are the best games featuring the blue bur?

Rebel_Scum78d ago

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.

Snookies1278d ago

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.

Profchaos78d ago (Edited 78d ago )

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

Profchaos78d ago (Edited 78d ago )

The 8 bit games were pretty bad overall do you mean the 16 bit ones

Rebel_Scum78d ago

Nope. Sonic 1 & 2 on the master system were great. Dont confuse these with the game gear versions either.

Profchaos78d ago

Top 7 for me
7 cd
6 mania
5 Frontiers
4 sonic 3
3 sonic 1
2 sonic and knuckles
1 sonic 2

persona4chie78d ago

Sometimes I feel like the Sonic Advanced games just didn’t exist with how much it’s always forgotten 😭

Chocoburger77d ago

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.

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PlayStation 4 Emulator RPCSX Can Now Run Sonic Mania At 45 FPS

RPCSX, the newly announced PS4 emulator made by the wonderful people behind RPCS3, was shown running Sonic Mania at a whopping 45 FPS.

Vits257d ago

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.

walken7256d ago

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?

Profchaos256d ago (Edited 256d ago )

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

Abear21256d ago (Edited 256d ago )

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.

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Why the Separation Between Modern and Classic Sonic is a Double-Edged Sword

The divide between both iterations of Sonic is now reaching spin-off territory, and the way Sega is handling it is both a blessing and a curse.

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