In 2016 SEGA announced they were doing something uncalled for: they trusted their flagship mascot to the hands of a dream team of romhackers and built together the ultimate 2D Sonic game.
Sonic Mania is an absolute marvel of pixel art craft, music arrangement, and utmost dedication to tribute Sonic's most famed years; and in the PLUS release, his oldest and more obscure friends return as well: Ray the Flying Squirrel and Mighty the Armadillo, and they both bring their unique gameplay quirks enrichening the experience altogether.
The aesthetic direction was designed to represent a hypothetical scenario showing "what if Sonic had a sequel of the original games on SEGA Saturn?" The way the sprites have been crafted with the music that would be fitting for a release circa 1995 makes the entire illusion come together, it is so good in fact that several people have deemed this to be the REAL Sonic the Hedgehog 4.
You cannot go wrong with this one whatsoever, give it a spindash and get marveled at the booming soundtrack.
Sonic Mania is an absolute marvel of pixel art craft, music arrangement, and utmost dedication to tribute Sonic's most famed years; and in the PLUS release, his oldest and more obscure friends return as well: Ray the Flying Squirrel and Mighty the Armadillo, and they both bring their unique gameplay quirks enrichening the experience altogether.
The aesthetic direction was designed to represent a hypothetical scenario showing "what if Sonic had a sequel of the original games on SEGA Saturn?" The way the sprites have been crafted with the music that would be fitting for a release circa 1995 makes the entire illusion come together, it is so good in fact that several people have deemed this to be the REAL Sonic the Hedgehog 4.
You cannot go wrong with this one whatsoever, give it a spindash and get marveled at the booming soundtrack.