Sonic Mania Plus Reviews

So I previously downloaded this game on my old phone and it worked near perfectly with only a few very minor issues. This changed however when I got a new phone and transferred all the data from my old phone to the new one. Whenever I open SonicManiaPlus now, the sound is peaking and blasting at insane volume, even while at the minimum volume. Additionally all UI elements (Text, buttons, etc) just do not work, they are jumbled around all over the screen and just show random text sprites. A J on the right, a cut of Y near the bottom, It’s a complete mess. I really enjoy the game and have already played through it on console which had none of the issues listed and was for sure a 10/10 experience. It just really pains me to write such a critical review for a game that I love so much. I really hope that this is changed and when it is I will change my review accordingly.

TL;DR: Games awesome, but this port isn’t. Mania is amazing game with or without the DLC. With remind classic zones and a few new ones, it’s no wonder that Mania was loved back at launch. This mobile port however doesn’t seem both polished or well to play. The Screen is stuck at old IPhone mode, so you’ll get black bars on the sides, the menus have to load and load again for no reason, and many hud or ui graphics don’t look well or fell well though out. The life hub is under your score and the mobile Sonic 1+2 ports had them on the right side to compromise for mobile play. It looks wonky and gives less room for gameplay. At the end of the day, it’s ok but your better getting more for your satisfaction by playing on Steam or Console.

The photos showing off the game would have you believe it’s running at the native resolution of your iPhone. It doesn’t. It’ll run in a 16:9 window no matter the device you’re on. Giving 2 stars because it’s still sonic mania at the end of the day

First of all there’s nothing more I have been asking for than for this game to finally get a mobile release. I’m happy for that but the execution is kinda lame. The game is super buggy and it does not support widescreen like the pics indicate in the description. There also needs to be an option to adjust the controls. I’m sure these issues will be addressed, but after all this time you would think that these things would have been sorted out especially the lack off Widescreen support. All other older sonic games made for mobile have it and why it was missed on this game is beyond me.

At the time of this review, Sonic Mania Plus on mobile is available for free with an active Netflix subscription, and I’m not one to complain about a free product. Most people would say that Sonic Mania IS, in fact, one of the best Sonic games, after all.

The reason I say this needs a patch is because the audio has a couple of severe issues (delays, audible glitches, etc.) that make it difficult to enjoy the game on mobile. If this can be fixed in an upcoming patch, this would absolutely be a 5-Star game, without a doubt.

As for the game itself, it remains a refreshing return to the classics, and is definitely worth checking out if you have a Netflix subscription. It’s a port, so if you want to know more about the game itself, you can check out other reviews online.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game (I've played it more times than I can count on my Switch) and I was excited to play it again on mobile. However, this port has a few issues which make it a lot less fun.
Probably the worst issue is the audio. The songs seem to play a bit slower than they're supposed to, and stutters and crackling are very common. It's a big deal in this game because it has such a great soundtrack, so it being mangled detracts from the experience.
In addition, there's some minor but noticeable slowdown throughout the entire game, and it gets worse when getting hit and losing a lot of rings. I'm playing the game on an iPhone 14 Pro, which absolutely should not be struggling. The game works just fine on the Switch, so a phone that is substantially more powerful shouldn't perform worse than a tablet with specs from 2015.
The game is still fun, which is what really matters, but to see such a great game released in a state like this is disappointing, to say the least. Here's hoping a patch will come by and fix these issues.

So sonic mania, everybody knows it and everybody loves it but this just doesn’t hit the same as the Nintendo switch. I have it on switch and it is a phenomenal game. Probably my favorite sonic game right next to sonic three and knuckles and overall the Nintendo switch version is a amazing game that you should definitely give a play. It’s not just on attend a switch so if you have another consul available definitely play it… but this version just doesn’t hit the same. First of all the menu is just so sad. Not like the way that it makes you sad. It’s just super disappointing. the switch version was so much cleaner. And Nintendo switch HAD TOUCH CONTROL THEY COULD HAVE HAD KEPT IT THE SAME!!! and that’s not all the buttons to move around. It just looks so awesome. They could’ve just used the ones from the sonic one and two heck, even Sonic CD touch controls looked better than this! They just don’t mix well at all with the high detailed graphics of mania. And I’m not done yet for some reason. My game lags really really badly one second you’ll be going to the normal frames per second and the next second it will CHUG TILL LIKE THREE FRAMES PER SECOND. IT’S SO ANNOYING. Oh, and this is probably a problem on my end, but I’m still gonna take points away because of it. And overall just play the Nintendo switch version or any other port of sonic mania just not this one!

The music files are poorly optimized, as there is a prevailing crackling noise that pursues across playing session, which is especially evident upon the occurrence of increased on screen action (I.E, Sonic’s ever so expanding speeds, and the encountering of one of enemies.) Second, I would to address the input lag. During regular gameplay (the acts) it can to be of notice but never one of bother. However, it can truly bring about loads of struggle when playing the special and bonus stages, as these require extremely precise and quick inputs. Upon the interaction of the much varieties of these aspects of the game, they can essentially be rendered unbeatable.

This is one of my favorite games of all time, but, unfortunately, the sound has issues. It crackles and pops and seems to have some stuttering. Other than that, the game plays very well and is an amazing time for anyone who gives a try.

This port needs lots of fixes such as the audio, graphics, UI, and especially the Thumbstick. Please change it to a D-PAD because it’s so hard to use especially when you wanna Spindash. But at the end of the day it is Sonic Mania so I had lots of fun. Its good to see y'all are actually interested in fixing the port to make it more like the other mobile ports by Christian Whitehead. I would love to see a Shredders Revenge Mobile Port Quality someday.

So I loved playing it on my other device, but now that it was on mobile I thought, “Oh, it would be great to play this over again!” And so, when I booted it up, the first thing I loved was that it came with the DLC for free! It also has a MUCH better debug menu, since you can access all the sounds at the same time and don’t have to swipe through them. My only problem is the joystick, which I find is too low and I often mess up because of that, so if that could be higher, that would be fantastic! Again, this is a great way to play it! Thank you so much for bringing it to mobile!

When I’m trying to play it I’m having trouble when using it i even had some trouble on the FIRST. SPECIAL. STAGE. Besides that’s it’s a fine port.

the game could’ve been better, but it’s OK. The controls are confusing.
I think if they got the guys who created the Sonic 1 and two and CD mobile ports, I think the mobile version of sonic mania would be that much would be 100 times betterthan the one we have right now so probably they might do an update where they fix the game and also there’s probably glitches there but yeah it’s just my review.

Hello there! Sonic Mania Plus Netflix Edition works great in Gameplay and Graphics(I would hope so considering it’s already a masterpiece on every other device)! However, there are missing sound effects that are supposed to play multiple time’s especially in Special Stages with the Blue Spheres. When you collect them, some sounds are missing that aren’t missing in the home console and PC versions of the game, as well as the audio being quite choppy when 2 things happen at once(music playing and a sound effect or 2 plays in quick succession) and at the Act Clear/Victory Screen. I hope these audio problems can be fixed and I’ll rate it 5/5 Stars, cause this game easily deserves it after the audio is fixed! Have a great day everyone that reads this and Netflix Games!

it feels a little weird not playing it on a console not gonna lie, only done the main mode and on studiopolis right now, it’s not buggy or anything but I feel like the dpad and jump button could be bigger

I have been waiting to play this game since the announcement was released and it came out today and the game is really good but the problem is the controls they are too tiny and they’re so low in the corners of the screen. It is hard to play especially during the special stages. and maybe you can make them more like the sonic 2 mobile controls and in the options you can let us move the controls where we would want them to be like in sonic 1 and 2 mobile otherwise so far it is one of the best sonic games I’ve played on mobile thank you and please read

I liked this game but when I did a glitch for dark sonic like putting mighty box S box and a flashing box and when it hits to sonic put it where he turns dark and it says DARK SONIC UNLOCKED! IN OPTIONS menu ypu can activate him. Pls add this or the stars might keep dropping because when I’d did this I turned DARK! But in a millisecond he flashed back into gold sonic with his hair down it isn’t rare to turn gold. I did this back in the 90s pls add this. Or the stars from me will be back to ⭐️⭐️

Great Game glad it’s here and all but I’ve had a major issue with it I’ve had to go through act 1 of flying battery 3 different times because the game shows it saving in the corner but in reality it ends not saving your game

Been enjoying this for a little while now and really my only complaint is the audio….I really hope a hot fix for the audio crackling comes along sooner than later. Other than that, I think it’s alright.

The game is definitely sonic mania, which is great, but the music is wrong. It sounds like its lagging. The actual game does not seem to lag but the music does, like its trying to emulate another system’s music player or it has some compression algorithm that isn’t meant for iphone. The music system probably needs to be reprogrammed for iphone.

I’m so hyped that I get to play mania while I’m out since it’s one of my favorite games, however I am disappointed that the audio has a lot of stuttering making it kind of hard to enjoy the music, the game isn’t in widescreen making it so that there are black bars on both sides of the screen, and a lack of customizing the controls.

Runs smoothly on my iPhone 14, looks great and performs just like its computer counterpart. However, the controls are a little funky sometimes, the analog stick on the screen is pretty snappy and looks a bit out of place. The aspect ratio doesn’t fit to my phones screen though and has black bars on the sides of my screen. If these were fixed then it would be more than amazing. Other than that, great game and feels nice playing on mobile!

As stated in the title, the game plays great for a port. The only problem is, the music gets annoying because of the subtle clips that happened in the background with the music. I don’t know what happened with the port job, but yeah… You might wanna fix that. oh, I also did some checking, and apparently, the gameplay audio was choppy too. Like I said, I don’t know if it was a Rushport job or what, but can you please fix it. Thanks.

So I always dislike when games have black borders around them. Any chance you guys could extend the borders in a future update? Other wise a fantastic port

I’ve had Sonic Mania for a while now ever since it first released come 2017. I dunno about if Sonic Forces was a banger. Anyways, I’m not here to talk about that. I’m here to talk about how great SEGA® did to port Sonic Mania Plus. (Also props to Netflix as well.) I didn’t know if Sonic Mania Plus was ever gonna get a mobile port on SonicManiaPlus Store, and here we are. A friend of mine liked Sonic Mania Plus, so there is many positives to this port. Thanks SEGA® for porting the game and hope to see more come uhh…
I guess 2025 or 2026.

Realistically I would give a 9 out of 10 if i could but 5 stars is best I could give sense this game as no ads and I’m wondering if when gta6 comes out can you make gta5 on SonicManiaPlus Store by then? I’m just curious is that’s possible because I only played gta m5 once in my life and I want to try it so if it’s possible please make it, back to sonic the game is great and everything else is amazing and I support any sega game is made especially this one, sonic mania brings me back by time and I loved watching sonic shows it was the best for me, thank you Netflix for bringing me back in time

Having a little experience with the console version, I found the controls to be perfectly serviceable. I had some trouble with Blue Spheres, but I found that tapping the edges of the “trackpad” rather than dragging the pointer from its center as in the main game was a good solution. However, I found a glitch in Flying Battery whereby I became trapped beneath one of the curved downward slopes (not sure how . While this only happened once, and it was far from game-breaking, I would still like you to fix it if it is in your power.

I loved how well this port was made but the things that make me distracted is that the screen doesn’t fill the whole thing and the touch pads go through was we can see and the level select is bland in my opinion because the original design was PERFECT!

Other than that I would still give it 5 stars because the special stages normally lag on fan ports on things like the Wii and Wii U but the mobile doesn’t have lag in them so it’s GREAT!!

This port is pretty much the same as the main game, but it’s actually optimized for mobile. One thing is that it can sound a little off, but I’m fine with it.

UPDATE: I did find another problem, debug mode doesn’t work with a cleared save file. I tried to get 99 lives on my save, but I couldn’t get it to work.

This game is amazing, with the only noticeable difference being the title screen, but that doesn’t matter(at all, actually). Using Bluetooth controllers makes this the exact same exact thing as the console or PC version. This is one of the best sonic games, so having it on Mobile is amazing.🦔

I have been a sonic fan for years, we’ve had many amazing games through the years ( colors ultimate, origins, frontiers , dream team, superstars ). And a new mobile game called Sonic Rumble got announced today. So thanks to Netflix we now have Sonic mania on mobile! The game runs smooth and has good retro engine controls. I own the game on my Xbox and switch and it is good to play Sonic mania whenever and whenever I want to. Atleast SonicManiaPlus file size is only 200mb. 7 months until Sonic 3 so get hyped.

This is a pretty good port since I enjoy mania a lot, I like the inclusion of the Plus DLC as it is in the game and DOSEN’T require you to buy separately. But there should be an option to make the touch controls bigger since I can only get past the first two special stages in mania mode with those small controls, they’re very finicky too. Overall, it’s a good port, and is a bit overhated.

It’s a good game but the controller is huge. Because with the big controller you guys made sonic Mania kinda unplayable. Because in the sonic mania you will do a lot of movement on the touchpad. But with the touchpad it will make it hard to move a lot. So I think what would be better in you guys put in the sonic the hedgehog 2 controller in because it’s better and easier to use. Thank you for listening

I don’t know why this port gets so much hate, yes it’s audio is compressed and the game is a little clunky but it’s still great. Let’s start off with the negatives 1. I don’t understand why they put this behind a Netflix subscription and yes I had a subscription but what about for the people that don’t. 2.like I said before, this is freakin clunky. Now let’s start with the positives it’s everything

This is a very good game but there’s a problem, its extremely hard to move and jump and understand what you’re tryna do especially rolling, rolling its extremely difficult and the game isn’t full screen, other than that, this is a very good game i been wanting to play this game for 6 - 5 years, and now i finally could, thank you so much for making my childhood game come to mobile!

I love sonic and the community. But now that they added this game I love it. There’s 1 thing I will complain about though. It’s the joysticks, I recommend playing on a like controller thing that will go to your phone or connect a game controller to Ipad/phone. But the gameplay is good and it’s running smooth. Thx sonic community for putting this on Netflix. Also you have to have a subscription sadly to play but anyway I’m out, Peace.

It’s great port, and a plus for me is that it’s free! My mom already had a netflix account. As for the menus, i don’t see why they couldn’t just reuse the ones on console, and in my opinion, they butchered the sound test, lol, apart from that. Great port, would reccomend. Super fun, my only issue is that i think the debug mode is glitched because it keeps going away and i have to reactivate it, and sometimes it doesn’t even activate in the first place. I’m a massive sonic fan and i hope Sonic Frontiers can also come to mobile too, and also i’ve seen all the sonic films and am gonna see sonic 3 when it releases in theaters. Overall, a 9/10 port. Fun game, and great franchise.

I owned the game on switch and it it is just as amazing on my phone

Rather then the control stick this is very fun and I’m glad to see a mania port!

I have Mania on Nintendo Switch and am extremely excited that Plus is on Netflix. Thank you Netflix! Huge W

I played it on Steam and on my switch I was trying to find the phone version but it now came!

It’s just a mobile port of sonic mania plus not much to say but it’s not a bad thing that it’s just a mobile port if anything at all that’s a good thing. Sonic mania is good game 10/10.

It changed oops i’m an idiot.
So the way to unlock level select is different.
(The same as console version, but you have to press the s in the no save option.)

This game is way better than i expected it to be for it to be on mobile im so happy It finally came out on mobile kind of wish it was earlier but other than that its a good port now all we need is sonic 3 and knuckles so it can be complete

I don’t know if it’s just my device, but there’s a glitch in the green hill zone 2 eggbot boss fight. When I defeat eggman, the whole section that I’m supposed to free the case with the animals doesn’t have the bottom platform, and I keep falling into the hole where the platform is supposed to be in, so I can’t defeat the boss fight and I’m stuck on the stage. Again, I don’t know if it’s just a glitch on my tablet, but please fix it if it isn’t. 🥺