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Games like sonic mania on switch2/4/2024 ![]() ![]() Many stages in Sonic Mania start of as a homage to the original 16-bit Sonic (2) game(s). Mania starts out as a classic Sonic game: with Green Hill Zone. “You can be Tails, there you go!” - we all know what that means… ![]() Well, one of the sisters was handed the second controller. I grew up with a MegaDrive, not a SNES, and my sisters and me played Sonic 2 and 3 over and over again. What makes sonic Mania so special for me is its resemblance with the older 16-bit era Sonic games. From Duke’s inspired Ion Fury to Castlevania-inspired Bloodstained spin-offs: they’re all lovely, but not without their shortcomings. Nostalgia can be very powerful (the whole Codex runs on it!), and the recent tendency to (re-)release many retro-inspired games is one of the few gaming trends that I applaud. However, if it did manage to touch something somewhere, read on. Now, if that video did nothing to you, then you can stop reading and go do something useful. Here's a link to the MP4-encoded video instead: /vid/sonicmania-intro.mp4. Your browser does not support HTML video. Wonder is the first truly new 2D Mario game since the release of the New Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Pipe Dreams Do Come True 2023 has been an amazing year for games, and Nintendo’s wonderful Wonder is no exception.
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