A lot of them are taken directly from Sonic 3 & Knuckles, so at least 18 of the 32 stages should be new. It could be more, but I felt like I recognised loads of the older ones.
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Sonic Mania |OT| Dreams Come True
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A lot of them are taken directly from Sonic 3 & Knuckles, so at least 18 of the 32 stages should be new. It could be more, but I felt like I recognised loads of the older ones.
16 old, 16 new. S3 and S&K both had a secret eighth stage that reappears here.
I feel like SS7 being easy is deliberate, after the shit it puts you through with 5 and 6
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Finished typing up the rules for a tournament I'm running at one of our fighting game locals next month. 
Please do so and let me know if you also keep getting repeat patterns in Mania Blue Spheres. I keep asking about it in this thread to see if my game is just messed up or something but it seems like no one else is playing these.
Please do so and let me know if you also keep getting repeat patterns in Mania Blue Spheres. I keep asking about it in this thread to see if my game is just messed up or something but it seems like no one else is playing these.
Yeah feels more like a here have this one easy/free after 2 harder/annoying ones.
Interesting. Would you mind elaborating?
balladofwindfishes
Member
Finally beat all the blue spheres!
Glad that's over
Glad that's over
MegamanXZero
Member
Wow! That looks cool as hell!
Solid SOAP
Member
Are they new!?
With brand new mechanics to boot.
WonkyPanda
Member
Just picked up the game. Is there a recommended path regarding doing sonic first or sonic and tails?
PhantomThief
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PhilipDoesMatter
Member
So are the stages shaped differently for Knuckles?
Agreed. I was actually happy that I beat it in two tries after so many attempts to get 5 and especially 6.
There's no real difference to who you start with, but you can probably consider Tails as easy mode and Knuckles as hard mode.
He gets a couple unique routes in several acts, as well as one totally unique act for a specific zone.
PhantomThief
Banned
Can you classic Sonic fans stop playing this or stop listening to the soundtrack?
I can't stop!
I can't stop!
WonkyPanda
Member
Thanks. what about sonic with tails?
Blue Sphere stages unlocks some extra stuff.
Thanks!
What is the condition to get to those stages? For emerald stages, you just have to explore and find the big rings right?
Hit a check point with more than 30 rings and jump into the stars that appear.
NyMartin90
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That's awesome. I really wish that if it was possible they made a playable genesis version.
If you consider Sonic to be normal, Sonic & Tails would be slightly easier just because you can use Tails's buddy flight to get to secrets. But there's very little difference between the two options.
It absolutely does, until you beat TM2. After that it's kinda moot either way.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
It's the same on both games. They respawn once you beat the game.
Wow this game is as great everyone says...
Why did it take sega this long?
What filter do you guys prefer? DF semed to reccomend the NONE for 4k. The CRT sharp takes me back to being a kid again tho.
My 3 year old lovvves this game. He gets pumped when he gets sonic moving and somehow he even cheeses some of the bosses
Why did it take sega this long?
What filter do you guys prefer? DF semed to reccomend the NONE for 4k. The CRT sharp takes me back to being a kid again tho.
My 3 year old lovvves this game. He gets pumped when he gets sonic moving and somehow he even cheeses some of the bosses
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
CRT Sharp if you want a high-quality retro look.
None otherwise.
When streaming, I highly prefer None, as the filters either blur pixels or make the screen "noisier" with scanline overlays, which increases compression artifacts at the same bitrate.
Stay just under him, so when you jump at his big bumper you'll get back at where you were standing.
spindash into him or use those swing poles and swing into him
Should be a easy safe win that way.
Just fling yourself into his big belly off the poles(climb high enough so you are aligned properly!) and avoid the spikes and him during the sections between poles. Shouldn't be too tricky, just a bit of patience.
CRT-Soft all day.
I have a Genesis hooked up via RGB to my CRT monitor, and CRT-Soft is the closest approximation to what a 240p game should look like on a real CRT. Bonus points if you play it on the Switch's handheld screen - the graphics/filter scale perfectly to 720p and look very close to how the graphics really should look.
Here's a video of Sonic 2 running on a real CRT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KvrO19u4E
Now, bear in mind, this is off-camera and it will look very different in person - the contrast, brightness and colors will be far more vibrant. But the shape and softness of the sprites is fairly accurate in this video.
Ahh gotcha, after I beat Mania I just booted up 3&K for a quick check.
I guess the way to go would be to start a new file and just make sure I get em all in one playthrough then.
i thing I see a lot of people not mentioning is that you can control the direction you fly off the pole. You dont have to time it. That makes it a fairly simple boss. Hit it so he doesnt ever get high enough to do the electric balls then when the pole shows up swing away.
MaximumSpider
Banned
God damn it, I just lost progress because the game wouldn't boot up to the home menu on Switch and when it did the game froze and I had to reboot the entire system.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
You don't have to rely on anything except your own skill to get back above the water. The platforms will always give you enough time to get out so long as you don't mess up. It's also literally one section of the level. This whole I keep failing so it's bad game deaign thing is tiresome at this point.
Where did I say it was a bad game? I'm enjoying the game so far, Chemical Plant Act 1 is only one of the four levels I've played that I disliked. I've moved on to Act 2 and it's a big step up.
I just feel that the section is both tedious and way too punishing for something that practically all routes lead to. Relying or waiting, you're still reliant on those moving platforms. Shouting "git gud" at me won't make me feel any different.
CRT-soft looks very close to the real thing at 1080p on my bright IPS display, on the 720p Switch screen I prefer no filter both because it doesn't have enough pixels to properly emulate CRT subpixels and also because it doesn't have enough brightness to overcome the dimming of the scanlines
RecRoulette
Member
Holy shit at the
boss. Did not expect that at all.
Hidden Palace
Ah first time playin as knuckles through the game? Yeah that reference was pretty neat huh