16 Most Hotly-Anticipated Video Games Of 2017
7. Sonic Mania
See, SEGA, listening to your fans ended up being the best decision you've made for Sonic since, well, the release of Sonic 3 & Knuckles. As to why its taken this long for such a thing to happen, I honestly don't have foggiest idea.
Ultimately, the reasons aren't important, the end result will still be same, and that is Sonic Mania - probably the closest you're ever going to get to a love letter in video game form.
After so many agonisingly bad Sonic games, we're finally returning to Sonic's 2D roots in 2017 and, based purely on the footage we've seen so far, this could well be what Sonic The Hedgehog 4 was supposed to be.
With Christian Whitehead on board, there's little doubt in my mind that SEGA is going to knock this one out of the park.
Welcome back, Sonic.