{"id":3907,"date":"2017-08-15T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2017-08-17T04:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:14:50","slug":"sonic-mania-released-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/sonic-mania-released-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Mania Released Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3908\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-89.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-89.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-89-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-89-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sonic the Hedgehog has been one of our favorite games ever since the very beginning of our Sega Genesis days, so when we first heard about Sonic Mania, we were extremely excited for a Sonic game for the first time in a very long time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3909\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-92.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-92.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-92-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-92-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sonic Mania is a throwback to the original games (long before Sonic and friends went through the bajillion transformations) and it dwindles the main cast back down to simply Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. We feel that this game is going to do incredibly well since it\u2019s going back to its roots and recapturing the magic that made the games so popular to begin with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The news of the game even came with some incredibly well animated promotional pieces, such as this beautiful Pre-Order Trailer:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fve-video-wrapper fve-image-embed fve-thumbnail-image youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wvD8NZN9Zsg?wmode=transparent&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>    <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This trailer is actually what first blew our minds about the game in general and got us super excited. But then on top of that, they had also released the equally beautiful launch trailer:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fve-video-wrapper fve-image-embed fve-thumbnail-image youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B8Tka60EWWU?wmode=transparent&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>    <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which was more of a reminder to be stoked about this game. The beautiful animation in the launch trailer is also from the game\u2019s actual opening, which was also released to keep us drooling:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fve-video-wrapper fve-image-embed fve-thumbnail-image youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zA9zwpMj_8A?wmode=transparent&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>    <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are sold. We\u2019ve been sold a long time ago, but we are like super duper sold. We absolutely love the inspiration behind this game, as well as the creative direction taken (using amazing animation from the incredibly talented\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tyson_hesse\">Tyson Heese<\/a> and the absolutely perfect music from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OEboG4LnUBI\">Hyper Potions<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve been extremely excited about this for a long time, and we\u2019re happy to say that the game has officially been released TODAY! Available now on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch with the PC version being delayed, but coming around the end of the month. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic the Hedgehog has been one of our favorite games ever since the very beginning of our Sega Genesis days, so when we first heard about Sonic Mania, we were extremely excited for a Sonic game for the first time in a very long time.\u00a0 Sonic Mania is a throwback to the original games (long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cjcanimation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}