
In that respect, it's less like Mega Man 9, which strived to present itself as an authentic NES game made in 2008, and more like Shovel Knight, which Yacht Club Games made to look like an NES game if the system hadn't been replaced by the Super NES but had instead continued to see incremental increases to its capabilities in the form of mapper chips. As Kim alluded to in her review, the driving conceit of Mania during its development was to not only deliver yet another Sonic game as it would have arrived on the Genesis but to imagine how the classic formula might have been affected by the technological advances that immediately followed. I love pixel art and old games in general! Please send inquiries to Mania is finally out, and if you're a Sonic the Hedgehog fan who loved the old games-especially if you only enjoyed the old games-it absolutely is the continuation of that same spirit and quality you've been waiting for ever since 1994's Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Contributing author and lifelong Mega Driver.
