Sonic Mania Plus (PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch – July 17)
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Sonic is one of those video game mascots who will forever be iconic, no matter how poor his games got in the last few years. Fortunately, last year’s Sonic Mania was a triumphant return to form for the blue ball, which also saw SEGA opt for the 2D visual style and super speedy platforming action that fans have been seemingly begging for for years on end at this point. Despite us falling in love with Sonic Mania last year, SEGA didn’t feel like it was quite enough, and so Sonic Mania Plus aims to offer up the definitive edition when it releases later this month.
On top of the base game, Sonic Mania Plus makes a few changes to the existing Competition and Time Attack modes, with four-players now being supported in the previously two-player mode, and ghosts now being made visible for when you’re taking on time attack challenges. In terms of brand-new content, Sonic Mania Plus adds in two rather unusual characters in the form of Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, each of which have their very own unique abilities. Finally, there’s a new Encore mode which will apparently “provide new challenges, layouts, and visual changes” to a number of classic zones.
If you’re a massive Sonic fan, you kind of owe it to yourself to check this out. And if you didn’t get a chance to see what all the fuss was about with Sonic Mania, well you clearly were just waiting for this definitive edition… right?
