Sonic Mania/Sonic 2017 Reaction

Yesterday Sega announced two new Sonic games, a classic Sonic game in Sonic Mania, and a modern Sonic game in Sonic...Generations 2? Resistance? We don't know, it doesn't have a name yet. Anyways, it's a modern Sonic game in the style of Sonic Generations with both Classic and Modern Sonic. Only probably with original levels. 

And currently, they both look pretty fun. While I prefer 3D Sonic over 2D Sonic, I am still interested in Sonic Mania. The developers have all worked on Classic Sonic games in one way or another so, unlike Sonic 4, it is guaranteed to be something very similar to that style, only with probably more modern gimmicks, power, and graphics. Plus multiple playable characters as well, which means I can play as Tails once again. Yay. Honestly, a retro revival is something Sonic sort of needs, and I imagine this game is probably the safest between the two and will probably sell the best. Whether it will be the best is something to be determined later.

Then we have Sonic we-still-don't-have-a-name-for-this-thing. While we weren't given any gameplay, boost style will probably make a return based on what we saw at the cutscene and the fact that they're referencing the makers of Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations (I'd like to remind people that Sonic Unleashed also had the boost style, but that's neither here nor there). Which is good, as I feel the boost style is probably the most solid gameplay style they have so far. What they need to do is not constantly go to new gameplay styles, like with what they did with Lost World, but to expand and tweak the gameplay style they have already. Like giving it multiple playable characters (still waiting for my boost style Tails and Shadow).

As for the story, it kinda looks interesting...but I have absolutely no trust to Sonic's current writers, so unless they got new ones (or got back whoever wrote Unleashed and Black Knight), I'm not holding my breath for this story. At best, I hope it'll be downplayed. But who knows, maybe they'll pull something good out, story wise? I won't say the story is dead in the water, but I'm going into the story department with zero expectations. 

But beyond that, these two games look pretty good so far. We don't know too much about the second one yet, so there are a lot more unknowns when it comes to it, but it does go back to the boost style, so it should work pretty good. We'll just have to see what they manage to do with these games.