And while we might never know all of the specifics about what happened between those at Sega and Evening Star, it's absolutely a bummer that the two entities seemingly won't be working together again on the highly-requested sequel. A new trailer dropped the release date along with some nifty animation and new gameplay footage that includes the two new playable.
Within the past month, Evening Star has gone on to reveal that it is now working on a wholly original "3D action platformer", which all but confirms that the studio likely isn't making Sonic Mania 2 at this point in time. Sonic Mania Plus is coming on July 17, Sega has announced. Sonic Mania was released digitally for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in North America and Europe on August 15, 2017, and in Japan the. This included new animations, stage transitions and changes to a boss fight for the main game, but did not include the DLC exclusive to Plus such as the two new playable characters or the games new 'Encore Mode'.
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Zippo claimed that Sega of America management was "extremely unreasonable", leading to a "break up" between the publisher and Evening Star. Sonic Mania is a 2D side-scrolling platformer developed by a group of indie studios (composed of project lead Christian Whitehead, programmer Headcannon, and some designers and composers of PagodaWest) and published digitally by Sega for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch on August 15, 2017. SEGA prematurely released an update for the PS4 version of Sonic Mania that was intended to launch with the summer release of Sonic Mania Plus four months away. The blog in question didn't get into too many specifics about what happened here, but it did state that Sega of America was the division of Sega that proved to be the problem. Zippo explained that the reason for this seems to have been due to a clash of some sort between Sega and Evening Star Studios. Available online Developer: Sega of America Release date: JGenre: Arcade. In a recent blog by a video game industry insider that goes by the name Zippo, it was said that Sega had scrapped plans for a Sonic Mania sequel internally in the years since the first game's release. Read Common Sense Medias Sonic Mania Plus review, age rating.