Sonic Mania Heroes

“The Mania is just getting started!”
-Tagline
Sonic Mania Heroes is a side-scrolling platformer video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise which acts as a celebration of the Sonic series' 30th anniversary and a sequel to 2017 Sonic Mania. Set in the alternate Timeline set by Sonic Mania, it follows 4 Team of Characters: Team Mania (Sonic, Tails & Knuckles). Team Rascal, (Amy, Tiara & Honey). Team Chaotix, (Espio, Charmy and Vector). And Team Hooligan, (Fang, Bean & Bark), in a race against time to stop Dr Robotnik from ruling the world.
==Development==
===History===
Originally, Sonic Mania wasn’t going to get a follow-up. However Evening star/Christian Whitehead in 2019. contacted Sega with a mod developer who created a mod based on Sonic Classic Heroes and showed them a concept of this game. Sega were very pleased at the concept and green-lit the game for production. Originally the game was set for a early 2020 release but was delayed to summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Game also had the Sonic Advance and Rush Developers, Dimps, working on the game to speed development of the game up and to back-up the small team working on the Game. 
===Promotional===
The Game was first announced on the Sonic Central event on April 29, Including Sonic Recon and Sonic Riders: Velocity. The Trailer shown included Animated Footage of Team Mania and Team Chaotix with Gameplay of Ocean Hill, Grand Studioplis and Mirage Canyon. There was a release date of summer 2021
The Game, along with Sonic Recon, was shown on E3 2021. They announced Team Rascal would be in the game and announced 4 more Zones, Press Jungle, Circus Night, Blizzard Peak and Mirror Mansion. They also revealed the Release Date would be August 13.
Over the following Weeks, another Trailer was revealed and showed of Team Hooligan and teased Abandoned Monarch. 4 Weeks before the game released, The Official Sonic The Hedgehog YouTube Channel showed off Each Team weekly via a video showing their unique abilities.
==Story==
===Team Mania===
Set a Year after Sonic Mania Plus, Tails and Knuckles look for Sonic in Green Hill Zone Via the Tornado. They eventually find Sonic having his daily Run, Sonic sees them and slows down and greets them. Sonic asks what’s up? Tails says that Dr Robotnik has sent him a message. He give his a Tablet and presses The Play Button the Message states:
Dear Sonic the Hedgehog! I have a new line of Badniks and Base waiting to be used to rule the World into Robotnik Land! I’ll give you 72 Hours to stop me, which you definitely Won’t! From Dr Robotnik!
P.S This animated message will explode once done!'''''
Hearing this Sonic throws the Message away and sees a massive explosion in the water. Knuckles butts in and also says that He stole the Master Emerald, Sonic asks where the base is. Tails answers by saying it’s in the Westside Island. Sonic hops on the Tornado and blasts off to a new adventure.
After defeating Robotnik’s new Machine, they rush through Grand Studioplis and come across Amy and her team. Not wanting to deal with her they run away from them. After that, they explore the Island a bit more and see that Robotnik has Trains transporting Badniks in Mirage Canyon. They find Robotnik and fight him.
Team Mania seem confident that they’ll stop Robotnik once again and defeat the Robotnik Train. Robotnik Train however keeps on going. Sonic tells him stop, Robotnik tries to brake the train but fails and Blows Up. From the Explosion they find out that’s it’s a robotic fake and see a whole fleet of Robotnik ships riding through the Island and say that they have a short amount of time left. Sonic & Knuckles rush towards the fleet, while Tails inspects the fake and sees it’s acting strange, before Tails could do anything, he gets heckled by Sonic and he hurries with the others. The Eye of the Robotnik clone says, Scan complete, sending to Master.
They stop Robotnik plans on the Island a little more and run into Team Chaotix and Team Hooligan. They catch up to the Fleet via the Tornado. After exploring the fleet, They find Robotnik in a room with Scratch and Grounder. Robotnik sends the duo with a Robot to defeat them while Robotnik escapes.
The Team defeat Scratch and Grounder and find the whole Fleet is in a self-destruct mode. The Team Barely manages to escape, Tails carries Sonic & Knuckles with his hand, they then find Robotnik in his Egg Mobile, tired and battered, flying to a storm, he presses a button, revealing his Air Base.
The Trio fly to the base for one last battle.
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