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Sonic Mania |OT| Dreams Come True
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Overall though it's a blast, but i defeinitely want to go back to Sonic 3 & Knuckles after this, that's perfection.
Hydrocity now, been going back and forth between a Sonic/Tails save and Knuckles save to mix things up. Gotta say I really love this game, though Press garden and starlight highway leave me a bit to be desired, the aesthetic of those levels just feels like somethings missing, I don't feel like I'm exploring, I feel like I'm stuck in a series of tubes.
Overall though it's a blast, but i defeinitely want to go back to Sonic 3 & Knuckles after this, that's perfection.
Aaron Strife
Banned
I don't think they ever officially showed off Act 2.
Really pleased this game is getting a good reception here on GAF too. Nice antidote for the years of "was Sonic ever really good?" hand-wringing.100 pages of Mania goodness.
theaffection
Member
Are there any unlockable characters in this? I want to play as Mighty and shit
BassForever
Member
Can we all agree that Knuckles is forever good at his job?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoGraa0-Rks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoGraa0-Rks
Knuckles obliterates all layers and nearly falls forever thanks to trying to climb on a conveyor belt. This place is really made like Ice Cap when it comes to structure.
GenericUser
Member
Finally reached
dat music tho
Finding this game quite hard at times. Not only the bosses (which can be quite easy if you figure them out) but also the regular level hazards.
oil ocean
Finding this game quite hard at times. Not only the bosses (which can be quite easy if you figure them out) but also the regular level hazards.
Now now. Let's not do that level a diservice. Those aren't
conveyor belts
FeenixRising
Banned
Same thing happened to me when I was playing as Knuckles in Chemical Plant Act 2.
RecRoulette
Member
For Eggman, dodge his hands and fly into him.
For Emperor Heavy, get hit by his energy blast and use the invincibility frames from you getting hurt to fly into him.
Yes, that's how I beat every boss. It still works!
For Emperor Heavy, get hit by his energy blast and use the invincibility frames from you getting hurt to fly into him.
Yes, that's how I beat every boss. It still works!
FF Seraphim
Member
Drew a thing!!
Inspired by the awesome smear frames in the opening
Dude this is awesome. Somehow need the vSonic twitter to post it.
the anime man
Banned
I never wanna play Blue Sphere ever again.
SparksterMeta0
Member
I think the only time I ever Time Over'd in this game was
.
Took a little too long and, by the time I reached the boss and quickly figured out how to beat it, it was already 10 minutes.
Flying Battery Act 2
Took a little too long and, by the time I reached the boss and quickly figured out how to beat it, it was already 10 minutes.
Titanic Monarch A2 was close but, luckily, the timer reset when I reached that boss.
Elfforkusu
Member
Day 2: rediscovered the part of my brain that was molded by Blue Spheres as a child.
Day 3: I am become death, destroyer of spheres
I know the feeling, though I'm doing a bit better. Magically manged to get the 4th emerald on my first try, but the 5th has been dogging me for... Three or four entire zones now. I'm really hating how you get into certain sections where you hit one set of bombs, which ricochets you into another set of bombs that immediately set off (ala Sonic 1 spikes), repeat until the 60+ rings you collected become 10 and you're left in a blue sphere section just waiting for the timer to inevitably run out.
Taking a lot of getting used to.
Up to Oil Ocean now. I'm having tons of fun, but if I had one complaint, it's that the level design at times feels more like a jumble of disconnected platforms and mini-sections ala CD and Megamix than a cohesive design with specific paths like in S3&K. It might be partially to my unfamiliarity with the zones though.
Yep, that's the one that got me. Feels like it goes on and on, though to be fair I didn't even realize I was running up against the time limit when I died, wondering if I'd hit some bugged spike under the ground. Guess that says something about how engrossed I was with the level, heh.
Do Sonic games really even need time limits? Especially with zones as massive as these, sheesh.
Press Garden definitely reminded me of an even numbered Sonic 1 zone, at least Act 1 did. Slower paced with constricted movement and seemingly fairly linear progression. Not that I minded too much, though I can see it being a low point for some folks. At least Act 2 & the respective boss is really fun.
RecRoulette
Member
OrbitalBeard
Member
Hot DAMN these bonus stages. Stages 5 and 6 were insanely tough, but I got 'em!
I'll save the final one for tonight.
I'll save the final one for tonight.
The Xtortionist
Member
To some extent, yeah. Though TMZ's music and visual design are more appropriate for a final level imo.
NoctisVsStar
Member
Worst enemy in all of sonic history
civilstrife
Member
Worst part of this game is easily it's icon on the Switch dashboard. It goes against Nintendo's stated best practices of making the icon look like complete box art rather than some simplistic mobile app icon.
It's going to make even less sense when there's more than one sonic game on the system.
It's going to make even less sense when there's more than one sonic game on the system.
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
I'm never getting out of this Oil city stage.
I'm done. It's been nice, Sonic Mania.
I'm done. It's been nice, Sonic Mania.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Just finished a second play-through with Tails. Got all the emeralds in one swoop to boot.
The Special Stages are A LOT easier on the second go-around. Same with the regular stages.
After my first play-through, I thought this game was good, but I wasn't about to say it was that good.
Turns out..Yep it is that damn good. This is everything I ever could have wanted in a classic Sonic game and more.
Gonna do a Knuckles play-through and then start writing a full review.
The Special Stages are A LOT easier on the second go-around. Same with the regular stages.
After my first play-through, I thought this game was good, but I wasn't about to say it was that good.
Turns out..Yep it is that damn good. This is everything I ever could have wanted in a classic Sonic game and more.
Gonna do a Knuckles play-through and then start writing a full review.
If you're quitting over a certain boss : enter the fight with the fire shield, get a good solid 3-4 hits before it sinks in the beginning of the fight, dodge the spike jumping out of the oil, go to the far opposite side of the laser and dodge, run back to the boss before it pops out and win. The small bullet/pellet things can't touch the fire shield (or the bubble shield).
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
The first act is pretty cool.
The second act is more or less directly lifted from Sonic 3 (aside from the boss, though it borrows elements from 3's mid-boss)
Those 8-bit Sonic bubble bits were a riot, and I liked that I felt like I knew what I was doing in Act 2... Though that's probably more down to it being very similar to the S3 version. Hydrocity kinda feels like a reverse of the returning zones, where Act 1 has the bigger twists on the classic level while Act 2 feels more like the original.
One of my favorite zones so far, alongside Mirage Saloon.
One of my favorite zones so far, alongside Mirage Saloon.
RecRoulette
Member
I was hoping that
MMZ
"You can't do anything, don't even try" bit again if you didn't have all of the chaos emeralds.
Glad they went with an original stage to end it though. And you're right about the design being more appropriate, because they added those
goddamn energy spheres from the worst bonus stage in the series.
KnightimeX_Legacy
Banned
I want to play this stupid bad but I got the PC version. *sad face*
Know how hard it is to avoid watching videos of any kind?
It's torture!
Know how hard it is to avoid watching videos of any kind?
It's torture!
The Xtortionist
Member
Since the new stuff in Hydrocity is pretty slow-paced, it would feel weird to put it in Act 2 behind the blazing fast classic layout imo.
Hydrocity has a great flow between the bubbles, the fans, the boats, the waterslides, the spiral slides, running on water, the breakable bricks, etc. Stage looks gorgeous too (great color scheme), and the music is so good.
Ironically, it feels easier to survive the underwater segments here than that one part in Chemical Plant Zone, lol.
Ironically, it feels easier to survive the underwater segments here than that one part in Chemical Plant Zone, lol.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah, I hate that part. It's even worse in Sonic 2 iirc.
The Xtortionist
Member
Neiteio, your day of reckoning has come
Do you pronounce it as "hydro city" or "high-drah-city"
This will determine this fate of the world, no pressure
You're driving the same machine Eggman used in the original Act 2, so it's a role
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yep, in Sonic 3, Sonic was fighting Eggman in that machine.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Yeah it's a pretty brilliant role-reversal.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I believe a similar thing happens in Launch Base Zone in Sonic 3, but it's just a cutscene.
edit: oh guess I forgot lol
Haha, I was just thinking of this. Hydro-city is probably the proper name, but high-drah-city is more fun to say.
But did
Sonic still pilot the machine?
Demoskinos
Member
So I know that the UFO stages for the Emralds have to all be done in one go but how about the blue orbs? Is progress shared across all files?
OrbitalBeard
Member
No, Eggman does. It's a role-reversal in Mania.
Shared across all files, thankfully.
The Xtortionist
Member
Hydro City would be correct, and don't let anyone tell you different *wink*
Eggman piloted the machine in Sonic 3, with Sonic in the water below.
Ah, OK.
Wetsuit Eggman swimming out to "Danger on the Dance Floor" is my new favorite thing.
The Sum of Zero
Member
I think the closest to time out Ive gotten was in
TMZ2
What are you people doing in these levels? lol