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Sonic Mania
With Freedom Planet, indie fans made the dream Sonic the Hedgehog game Sega never could. It was <anchor>Sonic Mania</anchor> before Sonic Mania. Fast-paced platforming, colorful visuals, and looping level designs show how with the right execution, any game formula could be great, no matter how washed-up the original mascot is.
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# Sonic Mania (for PC) Review

3.5

Good

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3.5

Good

### The Bottom Line

Sonic Mania distills Sonic down to its basic elements, resulting in a wonderfully lean Hedgehog throwback. Unfortunately, DRM issues prevent Sonic Mania from blazing a truly excellent trail.

MSRP $19.99

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### Pros

- Classic Sonic gameplay.

- Delightful throwback visual design.

- Well-crafted levels.


### Cons

- Game takes a long time to boot in offline mode.

- Crap bonus stages.


I intended to begin this review with a retrospective of the wildly uneven Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, a series that's seen era-defining highs and highly embarrassing lows. But, really, there's no need to revisit the Blue Blur's history in such precise detail. Sonic Mania is here in the now, continuing the sprite-based, retro-style play that represents the Sonic series at its best. Admittedly, Sonic Mania dances the line between rehash and loving homage to the hedgehog's 16-bit adventures, but there's just enough new material in this excellent [PC game](/news/the-best-pc-games) to justify revisiting Sonic's war against Doctor Eggman and his mechanical henchmen.

## The Saga Continues

Sonic Mania is, for all intents and purposes, the true Sonic the Hedgehog 4, discounting the intensely mediocre, polygonal game that appeared last console generation. In fact, Sonic Mania's story picks up after 1994's Sonic & Knuckles, thus making the official Sonic 4 more irrelevant than it was prior to this game's release. And that's perfectly fine, as Sonic Mania is packed with all the elements that make a Sonic the Hedgehog game shine.

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Sonic Mania adheres to the classic Sonic gameplay of running really, really fast through loops and straightaways as you collect life-preserving gold rings, dispatch enemies, and free captured fuzzballs from hulking enemy machinery. On that level, Sonic Mania is very much like the sprite-based Sonic titles that came before it. The game even has remastered classic stages and the older titles' lame "3D" bonus levels in which you collect items in races against the clock. You unlock cool goodies upon successfully completing the bonus stages, but their clunky, unimaginative designs aren't nearly as entertaining as the traditional 2D stages. Still, Sonic diehards will find that unearthing the hidden gems is very much worth the time investments.

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![PCMag Logo](/images/pcmag.svg) Why You Should Game on a PC

If you're looking for a challenge, Sonic Mania isn't the game that keeps you grinding into the wee hours of the night. Bosses are easy to dispatch, due to their simple attack patterns. That isn't a con for me, as I like the idea of leisurely video games, but some may perceive the low difficulty as a negative. That said, one boss battle, in particular, is an absolute hoot and serves as a callback to a popular Sonic spin-off game.

**![Sonic Mania](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20810%20456'%3E%3Crect%20fill='%23f7f7f7'%20/%3E%3C/svg%3E)**

## The New Stuff

As you take Sonic, or his homies Tails and Knuckles, into action, you'll discover that new features accompany the old-school aesthetic. Sonic, for example, has a new Drop Dash move that lets you transition from a leap into a speedy ground burst. The move is designed to help newcomers keep Sonic's speedy fast-paced flow, but vets are sure to use it to maintain a near-continuous dash through new and remixed stages. It's a great addition.

Better still, Sonic Mania's stages are the best in the hedgehog's history. They're designed to keep Sonic moving at a high speed, as they feature less of the stop-and-go gameplay that came as the result of the older titles' platforming obsession. It's a much-appreciated change that improves the Sonic the Hedgehog experience. There are lots of hidden pathways to unearth, too. Some levels are larger than others, but they all have alternate paths that reward exploration.

Sonic Mania has a host of modes that include Competition and Time Attack. Competition pits you in a race against another local player; Time Attack sees you revisiting completed stages to blow through them as fast as possible using Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles. Time Attack's supplemented by a leaderboard, so you can compare your speed runs against others. Unfortunately, neither mode lets you play others online.

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## Playing With Power

As you probably surmised from the game's retro-style graphics, Sonic Mania isn't a demanding Steam game. To run it, your gaming PC needs the Windows 10, 8, or 7 operating system, 2GB of RAM, 400MB of disk space, and a Core 2 Duo CPU. In other words, you don't need a high-powered [gaming desktop](/news/the-best-pc-games) or [gaming laptop](/picks/the-best-gaming-laptops), which makes Sonic Mania accessible to a wide range of people.

As a Steam game, Sonic Mania has many expected Valve-related features, including Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud Saves, and Steam Leaderboards. There are only a few in-game options, but they are significant. You can play the game in fullscreen or windowed mode, apply triple buffering, and select one of a handful of filters. The included filters add to the retro style by letting you soften the default sharp pixels or apply CRT-style scanlines.

Sonic Mania blazes along at a crisp 60 frames per second, but the game's initial boot time is sluggish—when playing offline. You see, Sega initially released this PC version with Denuvo DRM, which, foolishly, prevented people from playing the game without an internet connection. After a consumer backlash, Sega swiftly updated Sonic Mania so that it's now playable offline, but now the game takes a long time to load without the internet connection. I typically wait close to a minute before I get to the home screen, which is ridiculous for such a small title. The boot time is much faster when you play with an internet connection, at least in my experience.

## Sonic Boom

Sonic Mania takes the Blue Blur back to his simpler days, which is a wise move by Sega. The game isn't laced with the BS that's plagued many Sonic titles since the series' move to polygonal graphics, such as a ridiculous cast of annoying, playable friends and questionable level design. Sonic Mania is Sonic reduced to its purest, fully realized form.

Sonic Mania (for PC)

3.5

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MSRP $19.99

Pros

- Classic Sonic gameplay.

- Delightful throwback visual design.

- Well-crafted levels.


Cons

- Game takes a long time to boot in offline mode.

- Crap bonus stages.


The Bottom Line

Sonic Mania distills Sonic down to its basic elements, resulting in a wonderfully lean Hedgehog throwback. Unfortunately, DRM issues prevent Sonic Mania from blazing a truly excellent trail.

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- [Table of Contents](#article)
- [The Saga Continues](#the-saga-continues)
- [The New Stuff](#the-new-stuff)
- [Playing With Power](#playing-with-power)
- [Sonic Boom](#sonic-boom)