{"id":149202,"date":"2025-08-16T00:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149202\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:49:11","slug":"sonic-mania-2-prototype-first-images-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149202\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Mania 2 prototype first images released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonic-Mania-2-prototype.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sonic-Mania-2-prototype-656x369.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sonic Mania 2 prototype\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sonic Mania 2 never came to be, but a first look at the prototype has now been revealed with new images.<\/p>\n<p>Director Christian Whitehead posted a few shots on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:nsvb4i47xdbsupc7deubmccq\/post\/3lwhbnncp6s2y?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a>. These images were shared in celebration of the game\u2019s eighth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big things we\u2019re seeing here is Kanga Clanga Badnik, as it appears in the 2.5D prototype. Evening Star went to work on this following Sonic Mania. Whitehead said of the character: \u201cIt is balancing on its tail and kicking forward with its springy roo feet! Sonic is knocked to the left with significant kinetic force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sonic-Mania-2-prototype-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-894494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sonic-Mania-2-prototype-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic Mania 2 prototype\" width=\"504\" height=\"314\"\/><\/a>Whitehead as well as Sonic Team\u2019s Takashi Iizuka both spoke about why we never got Sonic Mania 2 a couple of years ago. According to Iizuka, there were discussions about the two sides working together again, with them discussing making something brand new that wasn\u2019t just pixel art. Whitehead confirmed that it toyed around with 2.5D (which we now see in these images). However, Iizuka said \u201d everything came to a stop\u201d for unspecified reasons. SEGA then went on to make Sonic Superstars with Arzest. You can read the full comments from Iizuka and Whitehead <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/sonic-mania-2-why-it-didnt-happen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the Sonic Mania 2 prototype? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonic Mania 2 never came to be, but a first look at the prototype has now been revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6794,87826,158,1399,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-149202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-sega","9":"tag-sonic-mania","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-top","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115035699107035218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}