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Sonic Mania |OT| Dreams Come True

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Cody_D165

Banned
Finally home from work and six zones deep into the game.

I'm legit emotional that this game turned out this damn good

Everything I love from my many years of playing the classic Genesis Sonics I grew up with is here and turned up to fucking 11.

Level design is fucking masterful as expected from this group of devs.

This might be my GOTY
 
K

Kinsei

Banned
Guess Who said:
You're fighting at least two of these a harder way than needed:

Flying Battery Act 1 is full of lightning shields - if you're Sonic, a lightning shield double-jump will hit the boss easily right from the start. Tails and I presume Knuckles can just fly and climb.

When the Lava Reef act 1 boss drops down, it not only shows you where the boss is targeting, but where you are relative to the "middle" of the boss. You can hit the boss's middle right away when it drops, and if you stay ducked, you can just stay in the middle until it goes back up.
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That doesn't matter if you don't have a lightning shield when you fight the boss. I purposefully avoided the elemental shields since they disabled the drop dash.

I tried that but it didn't work. I guess I jumped at the wrong time.
 
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NeonBlack

Member
Level question

Is Hydrocity bugged? I distinctly remember Sonic would start sliding in places where water is pouring over ramps in Sonic 3. He just kept running when I went past it.
 
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RiderKairuu

Member
I can't stop thinking about Chemical Plant Act 2 boss. Such a cool moment and playing a lot of
Puyo Puyo Tetris
this year really came in handy.
 
A

Alpha_eX

Member
The last zone takes forever so imagine my rage when I died on the boss (3 cups bs) and got plopped back on zone 1. That's me done for the evening.
 
N

Nocturnowl

Member
Can we talk about how the GOAT classic Sonic stage theme got such a killer overhaul in this game?
Obviously I'm talking about
Lava Reef Zone Act 1
.
 
phant0m

phant0m

Member
RiderKairuu said:
I can't stop thinking about Chemical Plant Act 2 boss. Such a cool moment and playing a lot of
Puyo Puyo Tetris
this year really came in handy.
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Agree, this was dope as fuck. But man, I suck at this game in general. Is there really no way to retry a stage once you finished it? You have to completely restart from Act I?
 
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sonto340

Member
Kinsei said:
That doesn't matter if you don't have a lightning shield when you fight the boss. I purposefully avoided the elemental shields since they disabled the drop dash.

I tried that but it didn't work. I guess I jumped at the wrong time.
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if you hold down the jump button after jumping you’ll bounce off of the enemies the boss creates and hit them.
 
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remz

Member
Kinsei said:
Studiopolis act 1:
A boring auto scroller that takes too long
Flying Battery act 1:
You have to wait an obnoxious amount of time doing nothing but killing the same enemy repeatedly until the trash is high enough to let you start hitting the boss
Flying Battery act 2:
You have to keep waiting for the spikes.
Lava Reef act 1
Breaking the armor on the robot takes for-fucking-ever.

Those are just a few examples.
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Flying battery act 1
you can bounce off the adds into the boss, you don't have to wait for the trash.
 
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Tetsujin_MK

Member
I'm not even finished yet but I really, really hope the same people get to work on another game like this with 100% new zones and content. A true Sonic 4.
 
L

LordKano

Member
It's funny because I thought that bosses are by far the best part of the game.
Like, the Studiopolis one is basically a sidescroller but man does it look fantastic.
 
E

E_Darkness

Member
I soft locked the game during the final zone!
Basically I hit spikes above the portals in TMZ act 2, and apparently Sonic's dead body going through it softlocked the game. That feels like a weird should've been tested thing

I did get all the chaos emeralds but the game is preventing me from finishing it with bugs!

Also still bad at special stages, I'll never be able to play Knuckles & Knuckles.
 
R

RecRoulette

Member
Cool, I unlocked the
D.A Garden (Sound Test)
from clearing bonus stages.

Top 3 tracks
1. Metal Sonic Boss ("Stardust Speedway B Mix" remix)
2. Mean Bean Machine (Puyo Puyo "Final" /Mean Bean Machine "Vs." remix)
3. Metallic Madness Zone, Act 2

The zone selection is amazing for this game as far as the soundtrack goes. I'm sort of interested if some zones were selected solely for their music (looking at you
Oil Ocean Zone
). If I was to rank my favorite Sonic music from 1-CD, I think most of my list would be in this game.
 
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sonto340

Member
Berserking Guts said:
Wtf am I doing wrong?? I beat the fucking tetris boss twice now and every time I end up dying instead. This boss is seriously souring me.
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I’ve seen people saying a fire shield can cause problems. After you win it’s supposed to automatically eject you to the capsule with no input from the player required
 
C

Crimsonclaw111

Member
I guess you can get stuck here? Had to reset my game
DHT66k-VwAAFMaw
 
J

JustenP88

I earned 100 Gamerscore™ for collecting 300 widgets and thereby created Trump's America
This game is so good on the Nintendo Switch I can play it in handheld mode while watching the news and I barely even cry
 
Xbudz

Xbudz

Member
Can't help but notice that the Xbox One version has frame drops and slowdown.. gets really bad when an achievement pops up.

Is there something wrong with my Xbox?
 
T

Triforce141

Member
If anyone has a problem with hitting a certain ring box in Special Stage 4.

You need to be a certain mach speed to get it, otherwise you barely miss it
 
T

TheAggroCraig

Member
NeonBlack said:
Level question

Is Hydrocity bugged? I distinctly remember Sonic would start sliding in places where water is pouring over ramps in Sonic 3. He just kept running when I went past it.
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Maybe? I was wondering that myself. You definitely do the panic slide in other stages though, so maybe they intentionally changed it.
 
S

Sixfortyfive

He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Random odds and ends regarding rings:

- You get a 1UP for 100, 200, and 300 rings, but not 400 onward it seems. (Old Sonic games stopped at 200 instead of 300.)
- If you get 100 rings, lose them, then get 100 again, you get a 1UP for the second set of 100 as well. (Wasn't possible in old Sonic barring specific exceptions.)

If you get hundreds of rings and have a blue ring item in tow, then intentionally taking damage and recollecting your rings can score you a few easy instant 1UPs.
 
S

SomewhatGroovy

Banned
Never been a Sonic 2D fan. Never beat a 2D Sonic game.

Replayed some Sonic 2 last night to prep for controls. Pop this in this morning and it is butter and game wants you to know it. Chemical Plant 1 , ripped from Sonic 2, is there to say "see, we got him to control better!"

This is so fucking good. During the third and fourth levels, I kept going wowowowowwowowow like a kid.
 
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Jaded Alyx

Member
This one boss feels a little unfair. Almost feels like he has guaranteed hits at times.

Then there's the fact I have no idea what I should be doing in the 4th sequence...
 
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Spinosaurus

Member
I don't know what is about this game that I'm really liking, because I tried getting into Sonic 2 and 3 in the past so many times but I never got into them. I'm reallllly digging Mania though.

Maybe playing as Knuckles is the secret, cuz the one time I beat a classic Sonic game before I also used him lmao.
 
R

rrs

Member
anyone got tips for the
act 2 oil ocean zone
boss?
I swear it somehow has instakill water or some shit
 
M

muteki

Member
I had to get a little help on the middle part of the stardust speedway boss, you can win by "doing it wrong" but it is extremely frustrating. Boss was pretty fun after figuring that out.

Also act 2 of flying battery has some really neat changes, and act 2 of zone 5 is just beautiful, good damn.

Crimsonclaw111 said:
Um, is there input lag on the blue sphere levels? They don't feel very responsive.
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There is a bit but this has been the most responsive blue sphere has felt to me in a long time. I use the sound of picking up the spheres to tune my inputs.
 
AnUnbiasedGamer

AnUnbiasedGamer

Member
Hey guys, there will be a give away for Sonic Mania and a 10 dollar gift card (separate recipients) for two of my subscribers at the end of my livestream on YouTube. My channel is GameStreamMachine. I will be streaming in about 10 minutes. I will be streaming Agents of Mayhem. I know its weird that I am streaming Agents of Mayhem but I don't really feel like sonic is a game that is good for streaming. I think you have to play it yourself to appreciate it.

Just come by, subscribe, and make at least one comment. I will pick two users near the end from the people who commented and subscribed.
 
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Spinluck

Member
the face buttons on the left side of the Switch are fairing well, but playing this really makes me miss a d-pad at times. Just feels weird.
 
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