Sonic Mania

Sonic Mania
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Franchise	Sonic the Hedgehog
Developed by	PagodaWest Games Headcannon
Published by	Sega
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch
Release date(s)	August 15, 2017 (2017-08-15)
Genre	Platform
Let's Play
Played by	Rick Desilets John Selig C/J Haley
Featuring	Felice Lopez Ben Mooney Lindsay Gibbons
Intro theme	"Green Hill Zone" by TOY
Outro theme	"Friends" by Hyper Potions
Original run	August 17 - October 15, 2017
No. of episodes	42
Episode length	11-30 minutes
Playlist	link
Playlist length	12:57:09
Megaseries
Part of	The Super Sonic Let's Play
Preceded by	Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure
Concurrent with	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Followed by	Sonic Forces

Sonic Mania is a 2017 platform game developed by Headcannon and PagodaWest Games and published by Sega. It is an entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, with a development team led by prominent members of the Sonic fan community Christian "Taxman" Whitehead and Simon "Stealth" Thomley. It was designed to be a successor to the classic 2D Sonic games for the Sega Genesis, and as such contains many elements from and references to those games. The D-Pad played Sonic Mania upon release as the forty-fifth game in The Super Sonic Let's Play - the playthrough commenced on August 17, 2017 and concluded on October 15, 2017, after 42 episodes. The first 30 episodes covered a complete playthrough of the game with Sonic and Tails, and the following 12 covered a Knuckles playthrough using the secret "& Knuckles" mode, released under the name Sonic Mania & Knuckles.

Episodes

Video	Episode	Title	Length	Player(s)	Commentators	Release date
294	*	"A Brief History of Sonic Mania"	10:47	N/A	Rick, John	August 16, 2017 (2017-08-16)
295	1	"Just Like the Old Games"	30:29	Rick	John, C/J, Lindsay	August 17, 2017 (2017-08-17)
296	2	"Cool Bonus"	16:38	C/J	Rick, John, Ben	August 18, 2017 (2017-08-18)
297	*	"The D-Pad Unboxes the Sonic Mania Collector's Edition"	9:21	N/A	Rick, John, C/J	August 20, 2017 (2017-08-20)
298	3	"Lock-On Technology"	13:44	C/J, John	Rick	August 21, 2017 (2017-08-21)
299	4	"The Fury of My Own Momentum"	20:11	John	Rick, C/J	August 22, 2017 (2017-08-22)
300	5	"Flagrant Story"	19:02	Rick	John, C/J	August 23, 2017 (2017-08-23)
301	6	"A Warm Pizza on My Penis"	18:59	Rick, C/J	John	August 24, 2017 (2017-08-24)
302	7	"Less Precious with the Rules"	11:48	C/J	Rick, John	August 25, 2017 (2017-08-25)
305	8	"Lando Is a Man"	21:41	John	Rick, C/J	August 28, 2017 (2017-08-28)
306	9	"Handle with Care"	16:22	Rick	John, C/J, Ben	August 29, 2017 (2017-08-29)
307	10	"The Blue Ball Whisperer"	21:04	Rick, C/J	John, Felice, Ben	August 30, 2017 (2017-08-30)
308	11	"'90's Kids Jizz Themselves"	12:15	C/J	Rick, John, Felice	August 31, 2017 (2017-08-31)
309	12	"Perilous Pipeline"	16:59	John, Rick	C/J, Felice	September 1, 2017 (2017-09-01)
310	13	"Miami Nights"	17:57	Rick	John, C/J, Felice	September 4, 2017 (2017-09-04)
311	14	"The Least Many There Is"	15:38	Rick, C/J	John, Felice	September 5, 2017 (2017-09-05)
312	15	"Huge Asshole"	14:42	C/J, John	Rick, Felice	September 6, 2017 (2017-09-06)
313	16	"Speed Limit the Porcupine"	18:40	John	Rick, C/J, Felice	September 7, 2017 (2017-09-07)
314	17	"Almost Dicker"	12:54	John	Rick, C/J, Felice	September 8, 2017 (2017-09-08)
315	18	"What Are We Aiming For?"	16:16	John, Rick	C/J	September 11, 2017 (2017-09-11)
316	19	"Bouncy Juice"	18:38	Rick, C/J	John	September 12, 2017 (2017-09-12)
317	20	"Less Clever Now"	20:08	C/J, John	Rick	September 13, 2017 (2017-09-13)
318	21	"Suckles for Days"	15:17	John, Rick	C/J	September 14, 2017 (2017-09-14)
319	22	"And by That I Mean Snow"	15:28	Rick	John, C/J	September 15, 2017 (2017-09-15)
322	23	"A Weird Oval with Teeth"	18:41	C/J	Rick, John	September 20, 2017 (2017-09-20)
323	24	"You're Not Right"	17:03	John	Rick, C/J	September 21, 2017 (2017-09-21)
324	25	"Nothing Wrong with Sucking Dick"	19:48	John, Rick	C/J	September 22, 2017 (2017-09-22)
325	26	"Basically Almost Kill Yourself"	20:27	C/J	Rick, John	September 23, 2017 (2017-09-23)
326	27	"Three Grown Men Screaming"	20:06	C/J, John	Rick	September 25, 2017 (2017-09-25)
327	28	"Carry Me, Tails!"	13:43	John, Rick	C/J	September 25, 2017 (2017-09-25)
328	29	"Human Bro Hormone"	15:09	C/J	Rick, John	September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
329	30	"It's Never the End"	16:33	Rick	John, C/J, Ben	September 27, 2017 (2017-09-27)
Sonic Mania & Knuckles
330	31	"Colon Parenthesis"	20:25	C/J	Rick, John	October 2, 2017 (2017-10-02)
331	32	"Addicted to Cloacas"	14:13	John	Rick, C/J	October 3, 2017 (2017-10-03)
332	33	"No Goddamn Trapeze"	18:50	Rick	John, C/J	October 4, 2017 (2017-10-04)
333	34	"Avionics the Hedgehog"	25:49	C/J	Rick, John, Felice	October 5, 2017 (2017-10-05)
334	35	"A Gentle Introduction to Dildos"	15:59	John	Rick, C/J, Felice	October 7, 2017 (2017-10-07)
335	36	"Be Irresponsible by Yourself"	22:09	Rick	John, C/J, Felice	October 9, 2017 (2017-10-09)
336	37	"The Biggest King Dorko"	20:00	C/J	Rick, John, Felice	October 10, 2017 (2017-10-10)
337	38	"Oh My Stars"	13:16	Rick	John, C/J, Felice	October 11, 2017 (2017-10-11)
338	39	"Drinking a Cabinet"	17:28	Rick	John, C/J, Felice	October 12, 2017 (2017-10-12)
339	40	"Never Even Seen a Japanese Person"	22:59	C/J	Rick, John, Felice	October 13, 2017 (2017-10-13)
340	41	"Baby Andrew Knuckles"	12:28	John	Rick, C/J, Felice	October 14, 2017 (2017-10-14)
341	42	"Yankee Zulu"	27:05	Rick, John	C/J, Felice	October 15, 2017 (2017-10-15)

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Trivia

• The channel's playthrough of Sonic Mania uses a modified version of the standard The Super Sonic Let's Play outro, featuring the more detailed Sonic Mania sprites of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, and using "Friends" by Hyper Potions (the game's main theme) instead of the usual "Sonic 3" by Rare Candy. The Sonic Mania & Knuckles further changes the formula, mashing up the intro theme with "Unknown from M.E.", Knuckles' theme from Sonic Adventure, and adding a second Knuckles to the outro. The finale takes this to its extreme; multiple words in the intro are replaced with "Knuckles", and the outro is also mashed up with "Unknown from M.E.".
  • The modified "Unknown from M.E." lyrics are as follows:

    Here I come, rougher than Knuckles

    The best of them, tougher than Knuckles

    You can call me Knuckles, unlike Knuckles I don't Knuckles

    I'd rather flex my Knuckles

  • The Sonic Mania & Knuckles finale outro includes a small edit to "Unknown from M.E." as well:

    I break 'em down whether they're Sonic or Tails