The Problem With Sonic Mania Plus
Channel: Video Game Story Time
Date: 2018-03-18

Sonic Mania Plus sounds incredible, but there's one big problem with the enhanced game that means our family isn't going to love it as much as we should.

This video took a little longer to make than we'd hoped, which is why we mention things that happened "last night" that were two nights ago. Whoopsie.

Before we say anything else, we just want to draw your attention to our brand new, awesome theme tune, composed by Tee Lopes, who did the music for Sonic Mania, and who's also making the music for Sonic Mania Adventures.

Tee Lopes is a fantastic guy and we had a great time working with him on this. If you've got cash to spare, he's definitely worth commissioning! The version of the music in this video is trimmed a bit, but we're hoping to use the full thing in an upcoming video once we've got a cool new intro animation done.

The SXSW panel for Sonic this year was amazing. Kotor had so much fun with it, and all its ridiculous twists and turns. All credit to Aaron Webber, the publich face of Sonic the Hedgehog; he knows just how to get under the skin of this fandom.

With the announcement that Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Fox will be returning to the limelight in Sonic Mania Plus, Kotor was thrilled, but thinking about it afterwards, he started to realise just how sad it is that the game will have five playable characters, and none of them are female.

Amy Rose is our daughter's favourite video game character, save perhaps Princess Peach, and it would be wonderful to get to play as her. Thanks to the drop dash, Baby Gamer is actually pretty good at button mashing her way through Sonic Mania, so she'll definitely want to play the updated game.

Hopefully this video doesn't come across as a big complaint fest. We're merely hoping to add our voices to the discussion surrounding this game. If you share our opinion or have different thoughts, we're eager to talk about it in the comments.

Also, what do you think about princesses in games? Baby Gamer loves them, but they do seem a little few and far between when it comes to playable characters!

Anyway, have a great week guys, here's hoping you enjoy this quick bonus video. Next Friday, we're going oldschool and making a lengthy video on the "worst game ever made"! Any guesses as to what it might be?

Thanks so much,
BretonStripes (http://twitter.com/bretonstriped) and Kotor (http://twitter.com/kotorcomics)

Please point all hatemail towards Kotor, as this video is his dumb opinion.

Title music by Tee Lopes (twitter.com/teelopesmusic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Va-8NnzTuV-Yv-JlyuQsQ)
Incedental music: Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

PS Well done us for not making a dumb Knuckles VR Chat "I know da wae" meme reference in this video!