![]() ![]() New gimmicks, jumpboards, background art, foreground tunnels, enemies, and so forth are introduced that blend perfectly with the classic first stage that has set the scene. Until you zip through it and progress to the next Plant Zone stage, where the music suddenly is a very catchy remix of the original, and the Chemicals in the Zone are multiplied. For instance, there’s the Chemical Plant Zone, of which the first act is almost an exact replica of Sonic 2’s Plant Zone, including loops, bridges to take before you run out of oxygen underwater, enemy placement, and even death traps. Many stages in Sonic Mania start of as a homage to the original 16-bit Sonic (2) game(s). Mania starts out as a classic Sonic game: with Green Hill Zone. “You can be Tails, there you go!” - we all know what that means… Well, one of the sisters was handed the second controller. I grew up with a MegaDrive, not a SNES, and my sisters and me played Sonic 2 and 3 over and over again. What makes sonic Mania so special for me is its resemblance with the older 16-bit era Sonic games. ![]() From Duke’s inspired Ion Fury to Castlevania-inspired Bloodstained spin-offs: they’re all lovely, but not without their shortcomings. Nostalgia can be very powerful (the whole Codex runs on it!), and the recent tendency to (re-)release many retro-inspired games is one of the few gaming trends that I applaud. However, if it did manage to touch something somewhere, read on. Now, if that video did nothing to you, then you can stop reading and go do something useful. Here's a link to the MP4-encoded video instead: /vid/sonicmania-intro.mp4. Your browser does not support HTML video. Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 After the events in Super Mario Land 2 (SML2) where Mario kicked out a fat intruder called Wario, the aggressor hatched a big plan for revenge: why not steal heaps of money to build a castle yourself?. ![]() Wario Land II Four years after Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Nintendo treats us with another Wario Land Game Boy game, this time flashed onto a neat black color-enhanced cartridge.Mario + Rabbids: XCOM Battle For Newbies? For both Mario and Rabbids fans, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle seems like an impossible combination that should never have happened.Dicey Dungeons: Roguelike Rolling In case you were wondering what a combination of dice rolling, deck building, and roguelikes would look like, you can stop wondering now.Triangle Strategy: Not Quite Final Fantasy Tactics 2 Why let a perfectly good 2D HD pixel art engine go to waste, they must have thought at Square Enix a few years after the release of the first Octopath Traveler.'Switch'-ing to the definitive nostalgic console The Nintendo Switch has been on active duty here for longer than I can remember myself playing on any of my previous home consoles.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge From the moment the publisher Dotemu released the first trailer a year ago, I’ve been excitedly and anxiously looking forward to the release of Shredder’s Revenge: beautiful 2D pixel art, a beat ’em up in the same grand scale as Turtles in Time, up to six player local co-op play support, a banger soundtrack-what else do you want from a game like this?.Jazz Jackrabbit Are you ready for this? POW! followed by a wonderful amalgamation of a Robert Allen’s tracker music mixed with a bright and colorful menu was more than enough to completely blow away nine year old Jefklak in 1994.Ion Fury: the Spiritual Successor of Duke3D? In search of 90’s shooters Do you remember the nineties? You know, big CRT screens, laptops of 10 kg and lots of floppy drives?.Super Mario 64 aged badly Super Mario 3D All Stars, the sneaky compilation release Nintendo bestowed upon us in the previous month, contains high definition remakes of three classic Mario 3D titles: Super Mario 64 (N64), Super Mario Sunshine (Gamecube), and Super Mario Galaxy (Wii). ![]()
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