Blitz 'n Burst

The fact that they've bothered to "canonise" echo fighters as an actual thing would suggest to me that there are probably gonna be more than a couple of them. Like, I feel like they wouldn't bother making up an actual name for them if it was just those three (especially considering that clone characters have already been an established concept in fighting games for literally decades). In that regard Shadow is certainly one of the prime candidates if he really has been replaced by Knuckles as an AT. In the same vein Dark Samus is also notably absent from the AT list, and Samus even seems to have had her Dark Samus color scheme replaced.

Also wasn't it Iizuka's idea for Mania to have recycled stages in the first place?

Apparently when they said "it's not Generations 2" what they really meant was "it's actually just Generations 1 again"

he keeps losing the flame shield to the same octopus enemy every time. You've played through this zone ten times how hard is it to just learn from your mistakes.

And that makes game over #9. I'm in awe

holy shit at this rate the game is actually going to release while this guy is still stuck on oil ocean zone

tfw i always regret looking at spoilers but my horrible impulse control compels me to keep looking at them anyway

Reeaally hope this doesn't mean no Hydrocity

People are comparing the music to Sonic 4 but honestly the first thing that came to mind for me was the music from that Lego game

Why is all of his horizontal momentum cancelled whenever he hits a spring?He just stops moving and is moved to the center of the spring and it looks janky as all hell, and I swear it didn't do that in Generations. Christ they actually made the physics worse what are you doing SEGA

Hot damn that Studiopolis music is fuckin incredible God this game looks so good and we've only even seen two levells

I just can't bring myself to care about this game at all. All I want is a game that takes the things I like about the classic games and translate it into 3D, but instead of doing that they'd rather just throw in some 2d classic gameplay for people who like the classic formula and keep it completely separate from whatever the fuck they're doing with modern Sonic. And the thing is that doesn't appeal to me at all, because there are already plenty of other 2D classic-styled games I could be playing instead which are almost guaranteed to be miles better than whatever Sonic Team comes up with, between the original games, the various fangames out there, and the actual official classic-styled game they currently have in development. Meanwhile Modern Sonic gets his boost or his parkour or whatever dumb gimmick they're gonna give him this time around rather than just giving him a spindash and some ball physics and leaving it at that I mean I don't know, maybe I'm wrong and Sonic Team actually do have something great in store. But I basically have no trust in Sonic Team to make a good Sonic game at this point. At least Mania looks fun, and I can trust Taxman and Stealth to make a good game without having to worry that they'll find some innovative new way to fuck it all up. sry for overly negative post, that's basically all I have to say on the game until we get some actual gameplay

Holy shit it's Generations 2 but now it's edgy I mean fuck it I got Mania so I'm happy either way, but it would really be nice to have just one good 3D Sonic game at some point in my lifetime

No way this is the big Sonic game. Most likely it's just a side project helmed by Taxman/Stealth while Sonic Team works on their game. I'll probably still end up liking this one better anyway lmao