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Sonic Mania |OT| Dreams Come True
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Umm what?
It's funny when people don't know "how to Sonic" the first thing they blame is poor game/level design. The concept for Sonic games are not that complex. Play them however you like. There's a sense of freedom in the gameplay, there's never any strict rules or guidelines. Difficult sections become way less difficult on repeated playthroughs. Speed is a reward for learning, exploring and understanding the levels. It's an old school style game, the more you play it, the better you get at it.
The Sum of Zero
Member
This is exactly right.
I've been on a binge of Sonic music since Mania came out, and good christ I forgot just how amazing the scores for these games were.
Sonic 3 Boss Music
Sonic 3 Boss Music
I think that might be my favorite thing about the game.
I refuse to play as Tails solo, and got the trophy today. Fuck Tails!
Only trophies I have left are the balls.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
No lies detected here. That criticism can rightfully carry weight with 3D Soinc stuff, but issues when playing Mania are usually gonna be user error.
Sorry, meant the Mania blue sphere levels. When you get a medal in all the blue sphere levels, you unlock the ability to play them from the Extras menu. In there, you can select to play the 32 original blue sphere levels, or a new, harder set of "Mania" levels.
FeenixRising
Banned
Titanic Monarch isn't bad when you know the layout. But I can understand your frustration, first time I wanted to smash my controller on the ground.
And I did it, I got all the Chaos Emeralds with Sonic, Tails and Knuckles.
This is the first ever Sonic game I've even collected all the emeralds, nonetheless getting them with all three characters.
RecRoulette
Member
You mean with Tails?
Edit: Oh you mean playing as tails. I did it with Knuckles somehow lol
Cause its such a pain in the ass otherwise. Even when i used tails i kept having to die cause i accidentally activated an amy doll.
You jump over the dolls.
Yep. I beat it with 15 lives left and no game overs on my first run, and I consider myself only decent at these games. I struggle to imagine how someone could get multiple game overs unless they are just not used to Sonic games or got really unlucky with glitches.
I somehow managed it has Super Knuckles, but yeah, it's basically impossible if you have Tails with you when playing as Sonic. That was the last trophy I got since you can only do it via Act 2 boss, & you have to restart and replay Act 2 if you fail.
Discovered something new while replaying the game as Knuckles last night.
Guess I'm probably the only dumbass who didn't know you can spin dash
during the Stardust Speedway Act 2 boss fight to send him flying instead of having to wait and predict his movement each time.
I thought the battle was stupidly slow the first time around lol.
Guess I'm probably the only dumbass who didn't know you can spin dash
Silver Sonic
I thought the battle was stupidly slow the first time around lol.
My first run ended with ~45 lives, but that's probably because I got all the Blue Sphere medals on that playthrough. Score lives add up.
Almost every person I've seen online who's played this game while being completely new to it has shown clear and incremental improvement in play even as they game over'd a bunch. People just gotta push through it.
Laieon
Member
Man, I am just not good at this game. I've been stuck on Battery Zone for like 3 days now, just can't get the mechanics of that last boss down. By the time I get to him I usually only have a life maybe 2 left. Still fun, but I never realized how difficult the 2D sonics were.
I'm abysmal with 2D platformers though, they've never really been my thing.
I'm abysmal with 2D platformers though, they've never really been my thing.
Yup, I didn't realize that until my second go 'round, too.
Narpas Sword0
Member
I did it accidentally on my first playthrough as S&T. I'm still not clear on what it actually is
Wonder Peter
Member
I have beat with Sonic and tails with all emeralds and knuckles as well. I'm doing my third run with tails I'm in love with this game, this is to me probably the best Sonic game I love how the quick dash that he does mid jump really fits the momentum of the game. It's just a masterpiece, I feel absolute joy playing this. I hope Sega works with these talents folks more, would love to see a game full with new levels.
Neo-Alec
Neo Member
What what?
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Eh, I'll admit I struggled quite a bit, and I've played all the 2D Genesis games. Granted, it's been probably 10-15 years since I last played a 2D Sonic, period, so I'm rusty as all hell, for sure.
But I mentioned earlier in this thread that overall I found the challenge juuuuust right - I definitely didn't want it to be too easy. But there were a couple spots that gave me trouble. I think CPZ is arguably more difficult than all the other early zones; the OOZ Act II boss gave me a lot of trouble, and Titanic Monarch definitely hit the timer limit a couple times.
I Game Over'd a total of probably ~7 or so times; but all of them were in three spots. I also only finished with 2 or 3 Chaos Emeralds.
PyroPaperPlanes
Member
Unfortunately so.
//ARCANUM
Member
How the hell has sega still not patched the Nintendo switch home/power button bug? I just had the game become completely unresponsive to the home button / power button. No amount of presses / holding would get it to respond. I had to hard reset the switch. Pretty ridiculous imo.
theaffection
Member
Anyone find anything cool in Debug mode?
Good lord yes. Hearing these tunes revamped is incredible and the best part of the game. My favorite is Lava Reef Zone 1. What's even more interesting is that Michael Jackson may have had a role in creating the music for Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles.
https://youtu.be/J5-X_MY7n3c
Yeah. The biggest thing is in
Lava Reef Act 3 where you can find an unused recreation of Sonic & Knuckles' Hidden Palace including the area where Sonic fought Knuckles complete with glitched-out murals and the area where Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails fall after Eggman steals the master emerald and the teleporter they use to go to Sky Sactuary (pic). You can also see a lot more of the rocket ship Sonic fights Heavy Rider on top of (pic). Seems like they had a lot of ideas planned that they scrapped.
Munch Poke
Member
So I had the background music glitch again. No biggie, I'm just replaying through as Knuckles right now. But after another life up the music stopped playing.
The difference this time is when I reached the boss the game froze. So, that kinda sucked.
But the originals weren't without glitches either, and at least this will get patched I'm sure.
Still my favorite Sonic game to date.
The difference this time is when I reached the boss the game froze. So, that kinda sucked.
But the originals weren't without glitches either, and at least this will get patched I'm sure.
Still my favorite Sonic game to date.
I hated the first 2 times, but then I got how to play it and it was not so bad... major concern where the damn "black holes", I lost a lot of time when I didn't managed how to use them... :\
But after you master them, it's pretty quick and mostly easy. Played with S&K.
So don't give up, just calm down and try again when You are relaxed, try to take your time to understand better the layout...
Where is the middle pic from?
Act 2. It's the background.
SonicMegaDrive
Member
A-woo-ooo!
Can you do that as Sonic and Tails too? If so then ugh, wish I did that before, would make it a lot easier next time :/
The Xtortionist
Member
what
Tee Lopes WHATTTTT
the Knuckles & Knuckles ending music is a remix of of the Chaotix title/intro stage theme
So, on the Switch version, how do you (all endings spoilers):
trigger the special Knuckles ending image? From my understanding, on the PS4 version, you can get it by either enabling & Knuckles Mode and beating the game on the No Save file, or you can enable & Knuckles Mode and just use the level select on the No Save file. However,
the Switch version global level select is only available from the title screen. I've tried enabling & Knuckles Mode and heading back to the title screen and level selecting,
but that doesn't trigger the end. Is the only way to get that special ending image on the Switch version to play through the whole thing on the No Save file?
the Switch version global level select is only available from the title screen. I've tried enabling & Knuckles Mode and heading back to the title screen and level selecting,
but that doesn't trigger the end. Is the only way to get that special ending image on the Switch version to play through the whole thing on the No Save file?
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
It's actually way easier to abuse rings in this game for extra lives compared to the Genesis games.
- You get a 1-up at 100, 200, and 300 rings each. (This happened only at 100 and 200 before.)
- After getting hit, regaining 100 rings during the same stage gets you another extra life. (This wasn't the case before.)
- The blue ring item makes it easy to abuse the two previous facts.
If you ever manage to get 300+ rings with a blue ring on hand, just intentionally take damage in a room where it's easily to recollect your rings, and that's another 3 instant 1-ups right there.
Alternatively, you could intentionally take damage every single time you gain 100 rings, as you have the opportunity to regain up to 20 of them, which puts you at 20% progress for the next 1-up.
So I encountered a game changer.
If you're playing as Sonic & Tails you can press up and the jump button while on the air to get Tails to hover above you. Once you grab his hands you can mash the jump button to fly, and direct your flight.
Just have to be careful not to Drop Dash by holding jump as you land.
If you're playing as Sonic & Tails you can press up and the jump button while on the air to get Tails to hover above you. Once you grab his hands you can mash the jump button to fly, and direct your flight.
Just have to be careful not to Drop Dash by holding jump as you land.
Hitlersaurus Christ
Banned
Are you picking Sonic or Tails? It's Knuckles&Knuckles only
Sega know this game is doing them well. It's all over their social media.
Do the right thing and make more gems like this. I love this so much. It's tied up with Sonic 3K as my favourite Sonic - and it may take the edge the more I play the levels and see how expansive they are.
Do the right thing and make more gems like this. I love this so much. It's tied up with Sonic 3K as my favourite Sonic - and it may take the edge the more I play the levels and see how expansive they are.
Yeah, second that with Lava Reef Zone - been going through the entire mania playlist every day since it came out. I do love some Flying Battery Zone too though.
He had a role only with Sonic 3.
Finish the game, then the rings restart and respawn every time you select a stage. There's 2 in like 03 secs on Green Hil act 1
valinthyne
Member
It JUST dawned on me that the island on the title screen is Sonics head.
Neo-Alec
Neo Member
Love me some Chaotix, especially the music. That's a nice touch. Like the music in the options room in Sonic Generations.
Yeah, it's pretty much the intended way to fight him. Doing it the other way is far too unpredictable and makes it super tedious.