You want a level from the Master System version of Sonic 1? Done. It only made sense that, because the game stemmed from a modification of Sonic 1, that an explosion of mods for Sonic Mania has been ongoing since its release.
Nowadays it’s DLC, but the appeal is still there. It’s almost a reminder of ‘expansion packs’ from the mid-90’s, such as Star Wars: Mysteries Of The Sith and Tomb Raider 3: Lost Artefact, where additional levels and abilities were available for a price to extend the existing game. Mods have been a great way of extending a game past its limits. It came into high-acclaim, with some regarding the series as a ‘return to form’, and with its DLC pack, ‘Encore’ released the following year in 2018 with extra characters and modes, it was, and still is, the Sonic game to beat.īut when it saw release on Steam, it was discovered that the game could be ‘modded’, a way of adding or modifying certain attributes of the game, so characters, levels and even abilities could be added to the game.
After so many years of the Sonic series riding a wave of mediocrity, that speedy hedgehog came back with a boom in the form of Sonic Mania, a game made by fans of the series and approved by SEGA as an official entry.
