The Games That Got Away

[Dirty Duck]

So a little while ago the development team behind Sonic Mania posted stills and a song from a proposed follow up they pitched to SEGA. That dev team ended up not working further on Sonic and instead Sega put out Sonic Superstars. This look at what could have been caused massive waves in the Sonic community and many were lamenting the fact they felt robbed since Superstars was widely regarded as worse than Mania. I felt the same as I loved Mania and the news that the devs wouldn't be making a followup was a big disappointment to me. I didn't even pick up Superstars as I was so against it on principle. I've bought it secondhand now as I'm playing through every Sonic game but haven't gotten around to it yet, but when I do, I know so much of my opinion will be affected by the game that doesn't exist because it does.

This got me thinking about how many great games might have existed had things gone slightly different and I wondered what examples like this make you wish you were in a slightly different timeline? Be it leaked concepts that were never picked up, games that were in development and were cancelled, or games that changed so heavily over the course of their development that you feel that something was lost along the way. Time to get sentimental.