SXSW 2018: Sonic Mania+ Announced, Definitive Edition Of Game With Physical Release, Playable Mighty & Ray

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1. Now they come out with a physical release… Is it limited? Do I have to worry about preordering it now?

2. Still no Amy tho…oh well, hopefully this means that a Mania 2 is in the works, and hopefully Amy will be playable in that.

   1. Fingers crossed, but this is cool as well.

   2. Problem is Amy didn’t really get a personality until Sonic Adventure so Classic Amy would either have to be ripped from Fighters or completely fresh

3. Not really excited about Mighty or Ray as DLC characters. With Mighty, if he’s going to be like in Knuckles Chaotix, then they’re just adding a Sonic clone with wall jump. Ray… I’m not exactly the most fond person about flying characters given how in this franchise, flight seems to be the most overused ability, and one that IMO has no place as a permanent skill within platformers for how it trivializes the genre’s main challenge.

   Would had been much better to have Amy (who was in CD, and has a non-clone gameplay in Advance and is one of the most popular characters in the franchise) and the Chaotix (at least Vector and Espio), as these characters are more important to the franchise than Mighty or Ray, who I think were only placeholders for Knuckles and Tails and who are only remembered for “being classic” despite how Mighty only appears in two games (SegaSonic for arcades and KC) while Ray shows only in one (SegaSonic arcade) before they were retired.

   1. Flight in performers is just Easy Mode, that’s how Kirby and Mario Super Guide uses it. If you don’t like it you don’t really have to use it, also like Kirby’s float and the Super Guide.

4. Ideal voices
   Sonic: Jaleel White
   Tails: Colleen Villard
   Knuckles: Travis Willingham
   Mighty: Vic Mignogna
   Ray: Cindy Robinson
   Metal Sonic: Jaleel White
   Eggman: Mike Pollock

5. I’m glad someone other than Archie Comics is acknowledging Mighty and Ray. Maybe they’ll re-introduce them in the Modern Sonic universe, like they did with Vector, Espio and Charmy in Sonic Heroes.

6. I’d rather have whoever was Sonic in the OVA. He felt much more fitting as a Classic Sonic voice than Jaleel’s imo.

7. Wow Sega still remebers Mighty and Ray, that in itself is amazing.

   By the way SSF1991 what systems will this be out on. I know you said physical release but for what systems, all three or just Playstation and XBOX with no switch.

   1. All 3

8. can we expect a definitive version for forces too?
   guess this just adds another blow to 3d sonic, as forces kind of split everyone on 3d sonic working ever again, although mania was ok, it shouldn’t be the only way sonic should play as I am sure a lot of people still prefer him in 3d and know it can work, if done right.

   1. Sonic Team thinks Forces is already definitive like all their other broken games and that’s their problem, they don’t see anything they’ve done as having problems and even when they get something right like Generations they toss it out for Lost World before making a very half assed attempt at a sorta sequel that doesn’t actually appeal to anyone who loved Generations . 3D Sonic has been a mess for nearly 20 years while 2D Sonic was perfected in a few years, “if done right” is the tile of 3D Sonic/Modern Sonic’s upcoming biography and either Sega keeps wasting millions on writing future pages for it or they focus on what obviously works.

      1. although I agree with the 3d games being a hit and miss at times,saying they perfected 2d games seems a bit much considering they just putting out what has already been done by sega/sonic and other people through fan games/hacks, included the people who worked on mania, not to discredit those who worked on mania

9. Any word on a physical PC release?

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