Sonic Mania - Sega's Last Chance

This is Sonic Mania, Sega's 25th Anniversary game for Sonic. Honestly, this trailer makes this game look wonderful. I cannot wait to see more! However... yes, however... This is Sega's last chance to win me over with this series.

I was born in the year 1990, so I grew up with this series. I watched my brother play it, I started playing it, my daddy and I started going back and forth to see who can get the most points in Sonic Spinball. I freaking loved Sonic back during the 90s.

Then once he entered the 3D era, things just started sucking. This series just isn't a 3D platformer, it doesn't work, especially since we're working with a character that moves as fast as light.

Generations kinda made things okay, but it still wasn't Sonic. I don't want to play as two different Sonics where one can do more 3D type stuff versus one who can only stay 2D, that's... That's not Sonic!

This series is definitely 2D only, because there's so much stuff it can do, but Sega fails to do it! Sonic 3 and Knuckles is, in my opinion, the best Sonic game out there. That first boss fight where we're running through a field and a giant ass ship is dropping bombs. Like I honestly have no clue what that thing was, but seriously, this build up to the first boss was... ERMERGHERD!!! Then we're running through the forest where we see RoBUTTnik himself.

There was just so much this game offered to impress, and then what did we get afterwards? Sonic 3D, a really, really horrible game. It's just... I don't even want to explain it. Because this is the game that started to make Sonic go downhill. Game after game, failure after failure, it was depressing to see that my favorite series started to just be one of the most laughable series out there. Nothing, and I mean nothing, could make the series awesome.

But this game... maybe this game can bring back Sonic to the respectable level it once had back in the 90s. There is absolutely nothing wrong in going back to the past, going back to it's old roots. I truly believe this is the way Sonic needs to be. Keep making Sonic games be more like this. I cannot begin to explain how many people are going gaga over this game, even though this is just the first trailer we've seen.

I want to believe... that Sonic can finally be good once again!