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Today at SXSW Gaming, SEGA have announced what previous rumours have speculated - Sonic Mania Plus is coming this Summer 2018 as a physical release with an exclusive 32-page art book.

Sonic Mania Plus will feature 2 new playable characters - Mighty (last playable appearance in Knuckles' Chaotix (1995)) & Ray (last playable appearance in the arcade title SegaSonic the Hedgehog (1993)).

Features:

• Mighty the Armadillo & Ray the flying squirrel as playable characters
• Holographic slip cover
• Reversible Genesis/Mega-Drive style cover art
• New "Encore" game-mode
• 4-player competition mode
• Exclusive 32-page art book

Sonic Mania Plus will release this summer for $29.99.

Source: SXSW Livestream

 

[Gary Hamilton]

How about some sorta online competition mode. Screw the sprites of shitty characters. I bought this game twice (ps4 then pc) I have played the shit outta it but an online mode would be amazing

 

[Darksabre72]

Shadow isn't a classic character so that's that and Amy who cares the this only other time Ray the squirrel has been in a game playable since Segasonic The Hedgehog

I did see a person on youtube that isn't much excited about SM+ because amy and other female characters aren't playable

 

[FateForWindows]

I did see a person on youtube that isn't much excited about SM+ because amy and other female characters aren't playable

You should've seen Trueloveheart in the third-party TSSZ mirror. He was trying to tell Sega that they were sexist through the chat!

 

[Darksabre72]

You should've seen Trueloveheart in the third-party TSSZ mirror. He was trying to tell Sega that they were sexist through the chat!

NANI!!! wow... just wow

 

[Kallus]

so it's just the same game with extra characters...

Hate to break it to you, but it costs money to put in these characters and too add in new content. What you're paying for when you buy this is:

The art book, The new characters + the new mode, and the original game. 30$ is a steal for all that.

Now, I don't see why this is a problem. All they did was physically release a game never physically released before and added in new stuff for people that already played it before. If this game was already physically released, that would make it look bad, but you see it's the first physical release of this game. Most physical releases of games like this are just that, the same game on physical media. They added new content so it wouldn't just be the same old game.

Think of it as the first physical release of the game, with new stuff added in to celebrate that.

 

[FateForWindows]

Hate to break it to you, but it costs money to put in these characters and too add in new content. What you're paying for when you buy this is:

The art book, The new characters + the new mode, and the original game. 30$ is a steal for all that.

Now, I don't see why this is a problem. All they did was physically release a game never physically released before and added in new stuff for people that already played it before. If this game was already physically released, that would make it look bad, but you see it's the first physical release of this game. Most physical releases of games like this are just that, the same game on physical media. They added new content so it wouldn't just be the same old game.

Think of it as the first physical release of the game, with new stuff added in to celebrate that.

Also remember that you have to pay for the extra features for the digital release. TSSZ confirmed that and Aaron reaffirmed that yesterday during the official stream... along with stating that he will tell the higher ups at Sega that fans want a PC port of Unleashed.