How much any of this will matter going forward is up for debate. Instead opting for a blend of pure breakneck speed and retro style Sonic gameplay akin to titles like Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic Mania. Presumably, these are two separate characters now, though they both lived through the classic games. Sonic Generations leaves behind the bumbling and awkward gameplay of titles like Sonic Heroes, Sonic Rivals and Sonic Unleased. Steam integration is mostly for achievement-tracking, leaderboards, etc.

Sonic Generations uses Steamworks, so it'll be through Steam whether you want it to be or not I'm pretty sure. Official Thor of the Shin Megami Tensei IV board. then went on to Adventure and whatnot.īut 'Classic Sonic' diverts after Sonic & Knuckles, after the time travel adventure in Generations, he goes on to all the Mania stuff and Forces. Getting either a Dualshock 3 or a wired 360 controller would be your best option. Modern Sonic did Sonic 1, CD, 2, 3, Knuckles. Basically, we got a Zelda-style timeline split. When Sonic Generations came out they positioned Classic Sonic as 'from the past', but in Forces he is 'from another dimension', being the one from Mania. Whitehead went on to found a new company and is working on his own IP, which is likely why we didn't get Mania 2.Īs for the alternate dimension vs the past thing, it's pretty inconsistent, yeah.

I don't think they would have tied Forces into it so strongly if they didn't like it and Iizuka was involved in some form on Mania too.

Click to shrink.There is no evidence of Sonic Team disliking Mania.

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