Today has been a busy day for Sonic Mania news, although a lot of it was, unfortunately, due to leaks. However, there has been one official announcement from SEGA. The company has decided to release the opening animation for Sonic Mania four days early. Originally, SEGA confirmed at their SDCC Mania panel that the animation would be uploaded on the 14th. However, it seems today’s leaks have resulted in SEGA changing their plans. We’ve included the video down below, so feel free to check it out.
Here’s The Opening Animation For Sonic Mania
Reminds me a lot of the Sonic OVA.
Maybe if Sonic manages to stay on track for at least a handful of games in a row, we could see something like that again in the future…
I was thinking the same thing. I love that movie, used to watch it all the time on VHS as a kid.
Here’s hoping he 2018 sonic movie doesn’t bomb
Isn’t that going to be done by the same people who made the Smurfs? Not a good sign.
If what you are saying is true ShinyGold, I hope that they learned their lesson with that movie, and don’t try to make Eggman in the slightest similar to that horrible Gargamal adaptation.
I amm getting flashbacks to Sonic 06 and it’s not a pretty sight…
GOTY.
The trailer is far better than the game. ^^
Sorry I never liked Sonic, I don’t really understand the fun with that mechanics, its cooler to see in videos… Actual 3D runners have nailed the gameplay far better in my opinion. Anyway happy for those who will have fun with it.
I have sympathies for the characters, if so solely because of how terrible they have been handled by SEGA…
My personal problem with the 2D-games are that although speed is incentivized, the faster you go the more impossible the game becomes to play if you have not memorized it already.
A memory game? Now I understand why it’s appreciated even with that shallow gameplay.
Remind me when people memorized moves on fighting games.
In my opinion, the Sonic games are good and I really loved the Sonic X anime, the fact is SEGA used Sonic as an experiment. To experiment I mean they created the Sonic game only for let people know their console was so much faster than the Nintendo SNES, but doing they made a cool videogame but the problem of 2D Sonic is if you go too much fast you probably don’t have the chance to see an enemy and that is the main problem.
The Sonic 3D game is different because you can see the enemy in front of you.
In the end, Sonic is a really good character and it deserve his privilege to be the best rival of Mario in the past.
I like the 3D games as well, but admittedly it’s partly nostalgia. They have not aged perfectly, and there are glaring problems with some of them…
But I have always been curious about how Sonic would be handled if he was turned over to Nintendo.
I don’t know what Nintendo will do to Sonic if Sonic was created by Nintendo, I really don’t know.
By the way, some Sonic 3D are bad, yes for example Sonic 06 is bad to me, many fans think it’s the perfect Sonic 3D game, but for me is one of the worst.
I really enjoyed Sonic Colours, Sonic Heroes and Sonic & the Black Knight.
Never played Sonic Adventure but if it is true the VC is coming to the Switch then I will play Sonic Adventure.
Cool videogame? Not at all. They masw a mascotte for their console but the game wasn’t really there.
Sonic 3D was actually different, but I did not played it, so I can’t really have an opinion on it.
cool videogame not at all indeed. Sonic games have always something that doesn’t fit well, but hey, the perfect game doesn’t exist.
I notice the elevator scene show 1, 2, 3, K and in the end M, which means Mania.
Why there isn’t the 4?
Because even SEGA wants to forget 4…
A better question is “Where is CD?”, it even used the same animation style as his trailer, in its opening.
I think they didn’t put CD because that game isn’t a sequel or a prequel of Sonic games.
I think it’s a sort of spin-off where Sonic can travel through time, which means before the first game and after the third.