Sonic Mania (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC...Netflix?)

Cutscenes ala Sonic 3K confirmed. With opening animation ala Sonic CD!

hhnnnnnggg

 

Super Emeralds will not return in Mania

E: Debug mode is also heavily implied to return

 

Of course they wont.

 

An "introduction manual" containing first story info is being handed out to panel attendees. How long before we get a scan? :specialed:

 

There's also going to be an

Spoiler

opening like Sonic CD

edit:We're all posted at the same time lol.

 

My hype for the game is overflowing! I genuinely can't wait!

 

God damnit.

 

oh gawd I want this so bad

https://twitter.com/StevenThePage/status/888963085720887296

 

Already up on twitter lol, that really didn't take long.
Story at least (notascanbutyeah)

 

The blurred cathedral zone appears to be in here

Spoiler

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFY7tF1VYAAo66P.jpg

 

Yeah, you can see the red petals along the way. Wonder why Sonic would become an ice cube, the level doesn't appear to be ice-themed.

 

The "manual" really doesn't give away much, but it's absolutely gorgeous AND perfectly nostalgia-sized.

https://twitter.com/servbot_42/status/888964919684550656

 

Looks to be a snowy Japanese landscape. May prove Ice Cap is out of the question.

 

THAT SPECIAL STAGE.

I set my expectations waaaay too low expecting Blue Sphere. It looks phenomenal!!

 

If Sega wouldn't have jumped the gun this game would've easily gotten the Sonic 4 title.

 

No, it wouldn't have.

 

Why not? It definitely has more going on for it than the actual Sonic 4. You're honestly telling me that if the Dimps games were named Sonic mobile or Neo Sonic, they wouldn't have called Mania "Sonic 4"?

After all, back in 2010 they just did it for the marketing.

 

Welp:
https://twitter.com/servbot_42/status/888956608625000448

Also, 13 seconds of the Special Stage theme.

 

I'd like to say that a Sonic 4 wouldn't have remixed classic zones. Or classic zones at all. But then again, the Sonic 4 did...

 

So, the picture of the new castle-ish stage we saw another day are called " Sakura Synagogue".