![]() This team created a very solid experience. So did these modders deserve the grace of the original company? Judging from my experience with the game, yes. It’s quite nice that Sega chose to embrace and employ these fans rather than squash them out, and shows at least a modicum of openness to new strategies on making games. They just now have the blessing of the parent company. This is worth noting because this Sonic game is explicitly not primarily built by the Sega and Sonic team these are fans in the most hardcore sense because they’ve been doing the same thing for free for years. Christian Whitehead (the man behind the previous remasters) and Pagoda West Games (a group of modders), alongside several other members of the modding and fan community, came together to build a game that hearkens back to classic games while adding the flourish of modern technology. Sonic Mania, released for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC, is a throwback to the classic 16-bit era of Sonic games. The perfect crossover here, for me, was the release of Sonic Mania. As I said, Zelda has come back into play and pixel based indie games are as popular as ever. ![]() ![]() Nostalgia trips haven’t been left out either. Quite honestly, many avid game players are overwhelmed with options in a good way. We’ve had new franchises crop up such as Horizon: Zero Dawn, older franchises getting rejuvenated such as Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and the continuous drip of indie games such as Night in the Woods and the upcoming Cuphead. One could argue it has been the best year in quite a while! We’ve seemingly had at least one Game of the Year contender every month, with no sign of that stopping as we approach the end of the year. 2017 has been a hell of a year for video games.
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