The very first game, Sonic the Hedgehog, featured a whimsical visual style with scenery wrought in flat geometry bent off in sharp angles, and Sonic 2 and Sonic CD served up more of the same. One significant aspect of this was the conscious decision to walk back some of the later revisions to the look of the characters and their world. This is just what Sonic Mania delivers, and while it takes no pains recreating the specific limitations of the Saturn (it features a higher display resolution and liberal use of transparencies, for one thing), it convincingly takes Sonic's original aesthetics and draws them one step into the future. At the time, Sega's flagship character bore the expectation of pushing the envelope in terms of technology, but in retrospect, it's easy to envision an alternate history where the series simply stuck to what worked and continued its initial streak of classic side-scrollers unabated into the 32-bit era, standing alongside such lush 2D games as Super Tempo and Princess Crown. In reality, Sonic rather lost his way following Sega's 16-bit heyday, going dark for years amidst the disfunctional development and eventual cancellation of Sonic X-treme before finally making the jump to 3D a generation later in 1998's Sonic Adventure.
devised Sonic Mania as a Sega Saturn game that never was. In that respect, it's less like Mega Man 9, which strived to present itself as an authentic NES game made in 2008, and more like Shovel Knight, which Yacht Club Games made to look like an NES game if the system hadn't been replaced by the Super NES but had instead continued to see incremental increases to its capabilities in the form of mapper chips. As Kim alluded to in her review, the driving conceit of Mania during its development was to not only deliver yet another Sonic game as it would have arrived on the Genesis but to imagine how the classic formula might have been affected by the technological advances that immediately followed. I love pixel art and old games in general! Please send inquiries to Mania is finally out, and if you're a Sonic the Hedgehog fan who loved the old games-especially if you only enjoyed the old games-it absolutely is the continuation of that same spirit and quality you've been waiting for ever since 1994's Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Contributing author and lifelong Mega Driver.
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