Sonic Mania - opening animation & GIVE-AWAY

WARNING the following video may contain spoilers. Although I haven't watched it myself I have heard zone information may be shown in the following video.



Due to an early leak of Sonic Mania in which a user was able to successfully redeem their collectors edition digital code on the Switch early and live stream the game; SEGA have responded by posting the intro animation to the game slightly ahead of schedule. Although the full launch trailer is still due to go live Monday 14th alongside the lifting of the review embargo, if you wish to you can watch the animation in the video above or on the official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel.

Sonic Mania is launching on Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC on August 15th and we will be livestreaming our first playthrough on the GBAtemp Twitch channel.

We will be giving away 2 copies of Sonic Mania on your platform of choice during the livestream. To be in with a chance to win please stay tuned for more information!

:arrow: Sonic Mania opening introduction (YouTube)
 
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Not sure why it being 2d and needing optimisation or whatever is so hard to believe. Doesn't mean it was running bad, could easily be something unique to pc, like high refresh support that needs fixing. Plenty of games have come out on pc, completely broken for high refresh users. Sonic at 144fps would be a glorious thing.

Being SEGA, it wouldn't suprise me if it's just incompetence or an intentional delay, but it's not a huge leap to see that the pc could use a little extra polish for unique issues.
 
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Man, why can't people wait? Why do they have to go around spoiling things for people? Leakers are terrible, too.

Like honestly even if they announced the PC version would be delayed sooner to bug fixes and such people would be fine but noooooope they wait until 4 days until the game is released the worst of all the Switch version was leaked and onto of that they delayed the game just so they could make a switch version.
 
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Man, why can't people wait? Why do they have to go around spoiling things for people? Leakers are terrible, too.
That is why the word impatient exist. :P

No, people sometimes CAN'T wait, just like the person who got nintendo switch early who did the same thing. these people suffer from a thing called. "FIRST!" I'm sure you seen it a lot all over the internet right? That's when you see "FIRST" on a post with no other comment other than to comment first. These are the kind of people who go around spoiling people. :ninja:

Actually these were drawn by Tyson Hesse, the one behind the Sonic Megadrive comics
Okay, that's nice. Still something about it bothers me.
 
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That is why the word impatient exist. :P

No, people sometimes CAN'T wait, just like the person who got nintendo switch early who did the same thing. these people suffer from a thing called. "FIRST!" I'm sure you seen it a lot all over the internet right? That's when you see "FIRST" on a post with no other comment other than to comment first. These are the kind of people who go around spoiling people. :ninja:


Okay, that's nice. Still something about it bothers me.
those ppl are just son of a bitches who will go to hell and.. nvm : )
 
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That doesn't make sense lol.
That was a joke from latest's E3. Maybe watch Dunkey's video to fully understand it, i dunno.

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That is why the word impatient exist. :P

No, people sometimes CAN'T wait, just like the person who got nintendo switch early who did the same thing. these people suffer from a thing called. "FIRST!" I'm sure you seen it a lot all over the internet right? That's when you see "FIRST" on a post with no other comment other than to comment first. These are the kind of people who go around spoiling people. :ninja:


This crap has been go on in the comments section for years and it CANNOT DIE! :angry:
 
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those ppl are just son of a bitches who will go to hell and.. nvm : )
This crap has been go on in the comments section for years and it CANNOT DIE! :angry:

Hey, be glad is not the Make predictions about future and the "I TOLD YOU SO" people, they are much worst than those who post "FIRST" and spoil stuff for us. :P

"Oh look, character ballot, I know, I'm gonna vote for bayonetta, she gonna be in the game." Update video "I TOLD YOU SO" :ninja:
 

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The delay I don't mind, but the PR is by far the worst thing. The delay announcement couldn't have come at a worse time. They're effectively screwing over their PC market. And the leaks don't make it easier either. I can't cancel out of my Steam preorder for the limited edition because it's not in stock for the other consoles. I might just have to bite the bullet and grab an Xbox or PS4 code of it.
 
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I'm not even a sonic fan and I hated the 2D games but I'm just so impressed. How did it take them so long to make anything good and then boom they release something that looks like its going to be really good. Where did it come from? How did they conjure it after all these years of making so many "ok" sonic games. What happened? What changed?
 

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The delay I don't mind, but the PR is by far the worst thing. The delay announcement couldn't have come at a worse time. They're effectively screwing over their PC market. And the leaks don't make it easier either. I can't cancel out of my Steam preorder for the limited edition because it's not in stock for the other consoles. I might just have to bite the bullet and grab an Xbox or PS4 code of it.

It's Sega, what do you expect, them to do something good? Sega just went full, well, you know. Idiots. I hope people pirate the PC version to high heaven.
 

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It's Sega, what do you expect, them to do something good? Sega just went full, well, you know. Idiots. I hope people pirate the PC version to high heaven.
Would you rather it come out a few weeks later or be buggy, laggy, and all around rushed? You know what happened the last time Sega rushed a sonic game out the door? Sonic 06. Sonic Boom.
 
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Would you rather it come out a few weeks later or be buggy, laggy, and all around rushed? You know what happened the last time Sega rushed a sonic game out the door? Sonic 06. Sonic Boom.

So why then, are the console versions not being delayed? They were made with the same engine, on the same engine Sega used, PS4 and PC both use Intel x86 architecture. Why the hell did they even do this FOUR DAYS before release? That's bad PR and good luck recovering from it.
 
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