Sonic The Hedgehog

[gunswordfist]

Lmbo at Loading for Sonic '06.

[Daikun]

Sonic and Eggman's voice actors are holding a Q&A on the Twitter account.

Send in your questions and you can get a special voice response!

EDIT: It's over.

[Spark Of Spirit]

The new Sonic game has been announced.

It's called Sonic Mania, and it looks absolutely perfect. Classic Sonic fans, you might want to see this.



Adventure 3 fans on suicide watch. Though I'm sure they're still going to announce a new 3D game soon.

[Nel_Annette]

This is literally all I've wanted for years. And Taxman's doing it. Fuck. Yes.

[gunswordfist]

Remember that Sonic fangame gif signature I made years ago? That was from Taxman's cancelled fangane. He's the man

Also, lol at the SA3 whiners. A new Adventure will never be as good as a good 2D Sonic game. They just wanted to see Sonic in 3D graphics..again.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Some gameplay. Yep, that plays like a 2D Classic Sonic game.

0:23 is a Streets of Rage reference.

[Nel_Annette]

The other new thing! GENERATIONS 2?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCh9--2xcKk

[Foggle]

The new Sonic game has been announced.

It's called Sonic Mania, and it looks absolutely perfect. Classic Sonic fans, you might want to see this.

Looks so much better than I expected. This is the true sequel to Sonic & Knuckles. Love the graphics too.

The other new thing! GENERATIONS 2?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCh9--2xcKk

Wow, Sega's really been on point since the end of last year. Not much to go by here, but I loved both Colors and Generations, so this should be fantastic too.

[Daikun]

In case anyone hasn't seen Sega's hilariously awful press conference, Jim Sterling pieced together a supercut of the "highlights."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NL50_W_mgU

[Nel_Annette]

That motherfucker in the audience for Crush 40... I laughed myself into a crying fit. That's too good.

[Peanutbutter]

Good to see Sega finally turning things around.

[gunswordfist]

Full Sonic Mania gameplay videos of both demo levels! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1nQxH3kugg

[Spark Of Spirit]

Taxman is the man. Sega should get him to form an official Retro Sonic team. He knows what he's doing.

Multi-tiered level design. Plenty of places to roll and build momentum. Platforming everywhere. Excellent soundtrack. Mini-bosses straight out of S3&K.

If we have confirmation that you can travel different routes depending on who you play as, then this will easily be up there with the best games in the series.

[gunswordfist]

Oh yes, I was geeking out at how Green Hill appeared to have MORE tiers. Plus elemental shields and breakable walls are back.

Taxman made a smartphone Sonic good. I know he's going to help make Mania incredible. I wonder if we'll get a Knuckles & Tails mode like he had in Sonic Retro.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Press release:

"Sonic Mania brings fans back into the 2D world of platform games with nostalgic pixel-style art and core classic gameplay by reimagining iconic Zones and Acts from Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Sonic CD and Sonic The Hedgehog 3 and Knuckles, and adding in completely new Zones with all-new Acts, and bosses into the mix. Developed by SEGA of America and in collaboration with PagodaWest Games along with Christian Whitehead and Simon Thomley, the game will be digitally available for PlayStation® 4, Xbox One and PC in Spring 2017.

"Sonic Mania was born out of our fans' love of the classic Sonic 2D platform games," said Takashi Iizuka, Head of Sonic Team. "This type of collaboration is a first for SEGA and we hope everyone will be both surprised and delighted by this title. Sonic Mania has been a passion project for the entire team and we look forward to sharing more details about it later this year.  Having the game actually playable at the event itself tonight was testament to the dedication of the team behind it."

So it looks like a full blown anniversary game like Generations.

This probably means 7 new zones with 2 acts each, pared with the same thing for the classic re-imaginings from the old games.

I'd guess they'd do it this way:

Sonic 1: Green Hill and Spring Yard
Sonic 2: Casino Night and Mystic Cave
Sonic CD: Quartz Quadrant and Stardust Speedway
Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Ice Cap and Lava Reef

I just know they'll cram Sonic 3 & Knuckles to represent Sonic 3. My only regret is that I just know that we'll miss out on Hydrocity again. Ice Cap is just far more popular. Green Hill aside, I also doubt they'll reuse zones that were in Generations.

But that would give the game 15 zones and 30 acts for levels. For a Sonic game, that's a ton of content. I hope Taxman and Stealth are using the budget Sega has given them to go wild here.

EDIT: Looks like my theory might be right.

Taxman says:

All the screens and footage of GHZ are from the playable demo, which was just the first act. GHZ Act 1 is probably the tamest classic level of the lot, but I can't say much more than that until Sega reveals more info on the story and stuff in the future.

Green Hill has more than one act.

You will see stuff from both Sonic 3 and S&K

In other words, probably a zone from each.

He also specifically designed this to be a Saturn-style 2D Sonic game. This is what would have come out back in the 32-bit generation if everyone wasn't "3D or die" about everything.