Fans (and even Sonic Mania’s sprite artist) quickly fell in love with Eggette, posting their own artwork, creative names and backstory for the character. Names for the character, theorized to be ...

But some nice touches make Sonic Mania feel modern even as it apes the 16-bit style. The character sprites have more expressive animations. Sonic won’t just strike a pose after beating a level ...

If you've played Sonic the Hedgehog on your ... history of the franchise's classic games. Mania overlays that excellent base gameplay with gorgeous sprite work that outstretches the limitations ...

The same principle applies to Sonic Mania, and while the running animations look absolutely stunning, the air walk sprites might come off a bit awkward and unnatural. If you think they look a bit ...

Because of all this I was ecstatic when Sonic Mania was announced ... It's clear that reusing sprite-sets, level gimmicks and the like saves time, but there's a lot here to make Green Hill ...

Sonic Mania is here in the now, continuing the sprite-based, retro-style play that represents the Sonic series at its best. Admittedly, Sonic Mania dances the line between rehash and loving homage ...

At first glance Sonic Mania looks just like the old Mega Drive games, but it doesn’t restrict itself purely to those limitations. There are a lot more sprite-scaling effects than a regular Mega ...

and Sonic Mania having three different characters makes it appear as though it may continue in that tradition (complete with remixed classic levels), even without the ability to stack cartridges ...

Sonic Mania (out now on PS4, Xbox One and Switch; Aug. 29 on PC) built up a ton of hype before release, and unlike many recent installments, actually brought the goods and snatched top scores from ...

A new fan game called Sonic And ... things like sprite work, but he added that it was largely the two of them during development. When asked if he’d do something similar to Mania and develop ...

Sonic Mania is here in the now, continuing the sprite-based, retro-style play that represents the Sonic series at its best. Admittedly, Sonic Mania dances the line between rehash and loving homage ...