The gauntlet has been thrown down, Sonic Forces. We'll see this Tuesday if a year's extra development time has made it the ultimate Sonic the Hedgehog game, but going by the Sonic Mania animated intro alone the hedgehog's in very safe hands. The album includes most of the game’s songs, with the exception of those originally composed by Masato Nakamura (Green Hill Zone, Chemical Plant. The album released worldwide on 17 January 2018 in digital format on iTunes, Amazon and the Google Play Store. with excellent music and perfect controls. Sonic Mania Original Soundtrack (Selected Edition) is the official soundtrack of Sonic Mania, composed by Naofumi Hataya and Tee Lopes. We played a couple of levels of Sonic Mania last year, Green Hill and Studiopolis, and it really did play like a well-polished classic Sonic game.
SONIC MANIA INTRO SERIES
Series villain Dr Robotnik/Dr Eggman makes a brief appearance at the end.
It's also possibly the first Mania showing of co-op, with Tails lifting Sonic up and flying while holding him in the same manner as was possible in Sonic 3. It shows them smacking Badnik robots, warping between levels by the use of giant rings, and even the new Studiopolis level (which we've played and is excellent). They really are quite good.Īpart from being wonderful, the opening (which continues on from the ending of the pre-order trailer) shows Sonic, Tails and Knuckles riding an elevator to their next adventure, Mania. The music is a song called Friends by Hyper Potions, two talented remix musicians who have done a number of songs for the game and its advertising so far, including the unique song for May's teaser pre-order version of the intro. The Sonic Mania intro is designed, animated and directed by Tyson Hesse, a really talented artist/animator who has worked on the long-running Sonic the Hedgehog Archie comic and is currently working on his own comic, Diesel. And it is even more wonderful than we could have hoped.
SONIC MANIA INTRO FULL
Now that Sonic Mania's nearly out, this coming Tuesday August 15 in fact, SEGA have released the full intro. The animation was cute, bubbly, hand-drawn, and clearly designed to evoke the opening of Sonic CD. Now excuse me, I just need to get a tissue while I watch that video again.īack in May SEGA gave us a glimpse of the animated intro for Sonic Mania, the upcoming retro-throwback Sonic the Hedgehog title.
SONIC MANIA INTRO PC
As an apology, anyone who pre-ordered the PC version will get Sonic 1 on PC. This is because they wanted to further optimize the game, and not because they wanted to rip my heart out and bury it in the back yard. P.UPDATE: We're sad to report that SEGA have announced that the PC version of Sonic Mania will be delayed two weeks to August 29. I've zipped the animation as pngs and linked it below to allow people with better optimisation skills to tweak frames
I'll await feedback of the best subTick delay value so I can set it as the default in ROM. Want more inspiration Browse our search results. A button displays the current delay value and Start resets the FMV. Inspirational designs, illustrations, and graphic elements from the worlds best designers. You can still alter the delay using up and down.
You'll notice the subTick delay is set at 9800 from the get go. We now work with subticks which are a much finer grain of delay at a hardware level. I've changed the measure used to tweak the frame rate. I've also recieved a heavily tweaked VGM file from Alianger that plays better with Stef's XGM driver. This stabilises the frame rate further and means there should be no VGM slowdown at all. This means transfer is at maximum 150 tiles per vblank. I rewrote the way frames are loaded into VRAM. Sorry for the massive delay! Mrs and I went out for tea