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 ...

Sonic Mania: Retro vs Modern - The Complete Analysis DF Retro ... enabling smooth gradients and shading throughout. On top of this, sprite work is dramatically more complex with many frames ...

Check out how we test and review games here Sonic ... with the more modern-feeling Sonic Forces, and the game that would’ve launched on the Mega Drive 5 in 2002, Sonic Mania.

If you've played Sonic the Hedgehog on your phone, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 in the last half-dozen years, you have Christian Whitehead to thank. In 2009, he created an unofficial proof of concept ...

Last year we got Sonic x Shadow Generations alongside the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie, so it's safe to say Sega's speedster is bigger than ever. Sonic Mania was ... Sonic and Modern Sonic form ...

It also improves some sprites and other visual assets. Advertisement All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sonic Mania: Colorful Encore Colorful Encore is an enhancement project for Sonic ...

Sonic X Shadow Generations offers gameplay for classic and modern Sonic fans with familiar locations. Sonic Mania is a return ... This 3D Platformer has 2D sprites for Beebz as she runs through ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sonic Mania is heralded by many of the blue blur's fans as one of the best Sonic games ever made. A sequel was a dream for many — more classic stages revamped, more brand new levels created ...

There was a Sonic the Hedgehog ... the outstanding Sonic Mania. And within the next few weeks, hot on the heels of a critical highpoint for Sega's mascot in the modern era, there's another Sonic ...

Takashi Iizuka and Austin Keys from the Sega of America team sit down with IGN to tell us all about Sonic Superstars and how it's inspired by classic 2D Sonic games like Mania and Generations ...