Sonic Mania is the sequel we've waited 23 years for

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This is it - the game many of us have been waiting for since 1994: a proper follow-up to classic Sonic the Hedgehog games, a sequel that strives to expand and improve upon everything that made the originals great. But how did a group of fans that never lost hope in the series manage to create one of the best Sonic game ever made?
The origins of Sonic Mania begin more than a decade back when enthusiast Christian Whitehead began a journey to recreate the gameplay mechanics of Sonic 3 using fresh code, built up entirely from scratch with zero access to the original source. This ultimately resulted in the release of Retro Sonic - a demo of sorts built using this new codebase - which was released on Windows and Dreamcast. It was incomplete and buggy, but it offered a glimpse of what was to come.
Christian joined forces with others over time and continued to work on enhanced Sonic projects, such as Sonic XG, before eventually pouring efforts into recreating Sonic CD. This caught the eye of Sega, who tasked Christian and his colleagues in bringing classic Sonic titles to mobile and consoles. The quality of these ports is second to none by the way, and we highly recommend checking them out.
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