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7th December 2020
The Sonic Fans Making the Games That Sega Won't
Sonic the Hedgehog’s last set of major releases, Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces, garnered polarizing responses. The former, a retro-throwback game developed by a group of fans, presently holds a critic score in the high 80s on Metacritic. Its sister release, created by industry veterans at Sonic Team, is sitting at around a 55 on the same site. Sonic Mania’s existence alone is an anomaly, a project led by prominent Sonic fan-community member, Christian “Taxman” Whitehead, and almost entirely devel