>Metallic Madness just before the final level, which has essentially

>>388671316
Because Titanic Monarch is clearly a Castle/Fortress not a factory.

>Metallic Madness
>Inside factory

>Titanic Monarch
>Outside the factory viewing the industrial complex that powered it

Death Egg (3&K)>Titanic Monarch>Metropolis>Metallic Madness>Scrap Brain

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>those fucking circular purple energy fields
how the FUCK do you figure out how to work those things?

>>388671316
Metallic madness is my favorite mania zone

>>388671997
By not being stupid

>>388671997

Did you not play Sonic 3?

>Mania hits PC
>suddenly thread after thread of whinging

hmm

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>>388672017
>The Act 2 bossfight
>The miniature versions of Eggman's past creations and the Amy doll
Cute

>hardest part of the level is finishing in time

fug, Titanic Monarch is kinda killing my motivation to finish the game

>>388672397
>The miniature versions of Eggman's past creations and the Amy doll
I loved this but metallic madness has always been one of the most tedious levels in the old games and that's a fact. I just don't feel the level placement was right.

>>388672017
It is shockingly good.

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>can't use my dualshock 4
I can't be the only one with this issue right?

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>>388671997
by having prior knowledge thanks to the bonus stage in 3&K.

for the mania, by the mania

>>388672567
Even if you time out you just lose a life and go back to a checkpoint. So what.

You'll never even come close to timing out on replays anyway.

>>388673041
I'm playing fine with my DS3. Did you just plug it in?

>>388672567
I got to the end in 8 minutes the first time through, it's not that bad

I unlocked peel out and the sonic 3 invincibility move, but can't figure out how to use them. Do I have to start a new game?

The best thing about Metallic Madness is the fact that before the final zone, you have a surprisingly upbeat zone in a base with uplifting music, which prepares you for more serious shit later. Its pretty awesome and probably the main reason I ended up fully enjoying the Mania experience.

>>388673041
I can use the DS4 when streaming from my XBONE. It works really fucking well.

>>388672202
>>388673061
>prior knowledge thanks to the bonus stage in 3&K
oh that makes some sense then. I always used to die instantly whenever I got that bonus stage and I never found out what I was supposed to do.

>>388671316
>>388671401
I thought Titanic Monarch was a giant Egg-Robo/Heavy King (hence the name). The first act has you on the scaffolding, the second act you're traversing the giant robots innards

>beat Titanic Monarch
>nice, now to the final boss
>wait what

>>388673223
Only available in no save mode

Hover over no save in the save menu and the secrets menu promt will pop up

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>tfw finally figured out how to properly do the special stages
Felt like a retard during my first playthrough. Couldn't get more than two emeralds.

>Go to stardust on little planet
> end up in hydrawcity somehow after
>go back to little planet for some reason instead of just continuing after stardust
Someone explain this my autism is flairing

>>388671997
left or right until you found in orbit that lines with the vector you wanna travel and press jump when sonic is moving towards your destination

>>388672017
I hated Metallic Madness and Stardust Speedway. Sonic CD really is a weak point in the series.

Stardust is just a clusterfuck of springs and chutes, with no real level design to hold any of that shit together. It's just floating.

Compare and contrast things like Flying Battery, Lava Reef and Hydrocity. The lower areas have distinct feel to the higher areas. Level design done right!

Metalic Madness was just technoshit everywhere, without reason or rhyme. Like metropolis. Like Scrap Brain. Death Egg had at least some more open spacey-type areas.

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>Metallic Madness Act 1's BGM is Sonic rapping against Eggman
>Metallic Madness Act 2's BGM is Eggman rapping against Sonic

Someone post the lyrics for both

>>388673535
For any zone transition that isn't in there, you can pretty much just explain it away with "the Phantom Ruby did it". It's not great and it's annoying that there are missing transitions but it's the cleanest explanation you're gonna get.

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>>388672567
I hear denuvo can cause problems with the game but I've honestly had no problems so far.

>>388673368
use the dev menu to access them, that way you can play them over and over again.

In settings.ini, add the following line:

devMenu=1

in the [Game] section. Then when the game starts, press esc. Have fun, and git gud

>>388673627
Thank fuck someone feels the same way.

Fuck metallic madness, seriously. They didn't that level in this game.

>>388673730
meant for >>388672332

>>388673824
*need that

>>388673730
I can't play the fucking game in offline. That's the only reason I got it for my laptop.

>>388673903
is that a denuvo feature though?

>>388673710
Don't know the Act 1 rap, but the Act 2 rap goes something like this:
>Mad and evil doctor with a rad genius and bad minions;
>To help enslave the planet, don't you wanna be 'em?;
>I'm batting with them like you, like you've never seen;
>I'm the greatest fighters' villain that has ever been on your screen;
>I'm iconic, with my bionic and electronic style;
>I'll dynamically smash the hedgehog they call Sonic;
>I'm fluid and metallic, my moustache of fire;
>Welcome to the new world of nightmares and wire

>>388673903
Fuck me I can't read.

>>388673535
There's actually a transition from Lava Reef zone to Metallic Mandess zone that only Knuckles has for some reason. He jumps onto one of those red orb transporters from Sky Sanctuary Zone that beams him onto the Little Planet. No idea why they couldn't program this same scene for Sonic and Tails.

>>388671997
By being over 5 years old

>>388673535
You can see Little Planet in the background of lava reef 2

It can be assumed you just ran up the chain

>>388673627
Stardust Speedway act 1 has the best vibe though. that music

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>Angel Island is only a little cutscene
>instead have Green Hill again

>>388674312
In Lava Reef Act 2, you see a sort of rocket being constructed in the background. If you use debug mode in the Hidden Palace area, you can find all sorts of oddities, including a duplicate Emerald Shrine, the Doomsday mural (albeit with garbled tiles) but interestingly enough if you use debug to go above the Heavy Rider boss arena, there are tiles for the top part of a rocket (this time in the foreground, not the background like in Lava Reef Act 2).

Almost certainly something got cut here. Sonic and Tails were probably going to take a rocket to Little Planet, I don't know. Maybe it was even going to be a stage at some point.

>>388674046
Tee Lopes hinted in his stream last night that the last line is "Welcome to the new world of Eggman Empire"

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>>388674557
>tfw we could have got Angel Island and a Sonic MegaMix zone instead of Green Hill and Chemical Plant again

>>388674430
Sure, I'll agree there.

There may also just in general be a point to include some of the bizzare floating maze nonsense levels to cover all the bases.

If everything in Mania was what I liked then we'd have fans of floating nonsense complaining that they just copy-pasted S3&K.

As a first time player, whats the best way of Finding Special Stage Rings? I want my extra level!

>>388673824
Actually I suppose in a way it's to cover the level types.

Metallic Madness has level elements from Scrap Brain, Metropolis - presumably anyway. I think cogs from Metropolis are in Titanic Monarch.

Did the original Metallic Madness have the background and shrinking? I don't remember that stuff.

>>388675063
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYeKqCAsZc0

>>388675063
Exploring as Tails. Otherwise just grind GHZ when you complete your first playthrough

>>388675163
It had shrinking but not the background hopping.

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Hold it, I'll post the best theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuJfhEeCe8

Replaying it on Steam. Did they make the UFOs slower? I didn't even need mach 3 for some of them. I like that they put the super transformation on a different button now though.

>no wacky workbench

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>>388675219
>first playthrough
>finish Green Hill with 3 emeralds
>finish the game with 4 emeralds

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>was disappointed before release because more old levels than new levels
>turns out remixed levels are more fun than new levels

>>388675063
Exploration and debug mode

>>388675409
>sonic playthough
>get all 7 by OOZ 2
>knock knock it's knuckles
>get all 7 by the end of press garden

p r a c t i c e

>>388675454
>turns out remixed levels are more fun than new levels
It's kind of hard to judge when we only got 4 new ones, so most of the creativity went to the old ones anyway

>>388673627
>Metalic Madness was just technoshit everywhere, without reason or rhyme
But at least it has one of the best level themes in the history of the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMlKRL0_lA8

>>388672567
i had no problem the first runthrough but going back as super sonic i lost 9 lives total, 3 game overs. 3 seperate instances designed to crush you when running at top speed

Classic Eggman is the best in this. It's really endearing how mischievous, egocentric and plain fun-loving he is.

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>>388675535
>tfw finally got good enough to get them all by the end of act 2 of Chemical Plant

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>>388675454
The remixed levels mix so much tropes they're basically best-ofs, shit's great

>always found lava reef boring
>mania mixes it with fucking quartz quadrant

>>388675219
The quickest special ring for postgame emerald collection, in my experience, is in Oil Ocean.

Below the first fire shield is a hidden drop shaft to the oil, with there being fans just up ahead to float you up to the ring. Takes just 20 seconds to reach.

>>388674640
Why would they need a rocket
CDs intro shows sonic can just run up the chains to it

>>388672862
I wanted Quartz Quadrant.

>>388675535
>>388675761

I was getting my ass kicked by the 5th special stage, just now managed to beat it after grinding in Green Hill. I need to get gud

>>388675063
Whenever you get lunched by a ramp, spring or bridge somewhere - drop down and go left.

I know in Flying Battery if you go to the bottom of the stage after trash they have this. Also in Chemical Plant Act 2 after I think you get richochetted of bouncy ground.

There is actually lots of level design that gets skipped and only is seen if you purposefully fuck up every spring jump and shit and fall into every pit.

Act 1 Oil Ocean, only a minute into the level is a fire shield ontop of a hole that leads to a ring.

Other places for Rings, in act 2 of Press Garden has two or so rings at the top of the level in spires. Easy for Knuckles and Tails. Likewise act 2 of Stardust towards the top is a section where you get sprung through a tube at the very top of the level and have one second to jump off it into a Ring. Otherwise door locks behind you, but you can go back under and around.

>>388675764
this show was fucking shit Lol.

DOn't mind me, just posting the best track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWl7F5Osz4

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>>388673065
>mfw I had four lives and lost three in a row at the same check point that started me at 9:15

>>388675535
Yeah second Knux playthrough for me had me Super by Press Garden. But then the game is fuckin' annoying because knuckles HAS to fucking climb shit and you are always fuckin going super.

>>388675770
I don't know why they NEED a rocket, but it certainly seems odd that Sonic and Tails don't get a transition while Knuckles does, yet there's unused Rocket stuff in the Heavy Rider boss arena that you would never see in normal gameplay.

Then again, there's a lot of suspect stuff near the end of the game. Lava Reef and Hidden Palace hold most of this stuff, but there's also other oddities like Egg Reverie having unused slope tiles, the unusual amount of effort that went into the final boss heavies (as if they were supposed to be their own bosses), or of course the plethora of missing zone transitions.

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>>388671316
>2018
>want to play some Sonic Mania
>"Steam user must be logged in to play this game"
>I am logged in
>Find out that Sega and Denuvo are both bankrupt
>60$ well spent

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Just beat the game
On Easy Mode.

>>388675765
Did this myself. I wonder what possible part of the level exists above that Fire Shield, if you don't go down the hole - for I'll never know.

>>388671894
No.

Death Egg > Scrap Brain > Metropolis > Metallic Madness

>>388676104

Knuckles's jump is what hampers his playthrough. It is so shit.

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>>388675454
>Oil Ocean with Sandopolis mechanics
>it's actually really fucking good
taxman knows how to turn shit into gold.

>>388675723
>has Sonic trapped finally at the end of chemical plant
>can do whatever he wants to him
>challenges him to a game of Puyo which he himself sucks at and also strapped himself to a device that will explode if he loses.
thank fuck classic Eggman is so fun in this game. people tend to overlook him when discussing the eggman hierarchy

Just beat it.

How do you get the "Try for a 3 chain combo" achievement?

metallic madness act 2 music is fucking jamming

>>388675723
>eggocentric

>>388676601
3 chain combo on the Chemical Plant act 2 boss

>>388676505
Sandopolis > Oil Ocean

>>388676375
It's nessecary though for diverging paths and gameplay. Otherwise Sonic has nothing on the others.

This game would make more sense if Knux and Tails couldn't spindash.

Sonic speeds up and dashes up a ramp.
Tails flies up.
Knuckles climbs up.

How would you fix Hydropolis?

>>388676601
puyo puyo

The octopus boss is literally the worst thing ever.
>but the spider
THE OCTOPUS BOSS IS LITERALLY THE WORST THING EVER.

>>388676740
I'd rather go through Labyrinth than Sandopolis act 2 again

>>388676752
I'd make it different. Even the music is practically the same.

>>388676752
It doesn't need fixing.

>>388676761
Spider and octopus are both great.

>>388676834
Because you're a pleb. Sandopolis act 2 is one of the most creative parts of 3&K.

>>388676874
>muh flawless sonic mania

>>388676539
Oh man, I forgot about that. I was wondering how he'd actually be defeated in that one. Surely the machine was rigged, or him losing would make the whole thing backfire in some unexpected way? Nope, he actually made a 100% legit Puyo machine.

>>388676761
Why is that?

I struggled with a lot of bosses on the first playthrough and hated them all, but knowing their gimmick and when they are or are not arbitrarily invulnerable helps ease the pain.

But both plays so far I've just jumped on his shit and killed in without issue.

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>>388676505
Is that Knuckles Wearing the OVA Hat(tm), MY original character?

Expect a lawsuit in your future, anon.

>>388676834
>>388676951

It's also really easy, just takes a little longer.

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>>388676761
Keep your fire shield next time and don't lose it to the pathetic non-projectile attacks.

>mfw I just had the emeralds already in all subsequent attempts

>>388677002
On my first playthrough he killed me regardless, after I beat him. I'm a mean bean veteran. Maybe this was the canon ending of Classic and everything following is the bad timeline that leads to Forces.

>>388676987
It has plenty of flaws. Reusing GHZ and Chemical Plant, awful Mirage Saloon act 1, dropping stage transitions halfway through, recycling blue sphere layouts, activating super form with jump, quite a few bugs and glitches. All flaws. What you mentioned? Not flaws.

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>mfw Fang and co.

>>388677223
>I'm a mean bean veteran
Sure you are.

>>388677040
its a fucking slog even after getting good at it.

>Knock knock it's knuckles unlocked

What the fuck did I just unlock?

>>388676761
Jump to the middle platform when it pops back up. Keep ducking until the gun arm shoots the ground or the tentacles emerge. Get in a hit or two on the closest tentacle and then jump to the safe platform. Repeat until it dies.

>>388677490
& Knuckles mode, even if you are playing Knuckles.

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>mfw they put a giant ring in Chemical Plant act 1 where the one-up was hidden behind the grating in Sonic 2

>>388671401
Titanic monarch was basically Chrome Gadget modded into a scafolding level and then inside the giant mech!

>>388676752
Replace it with Labyrinth Zone instead. We don't need 3 fucking S3&K levels

>>388676505
Probably because there was never REALLY anything fundamentally wrong with the light switch mechanic from Sandopolis act 2. That's what people associate it with, but the actual problem is just that the layout is boring as sin and there's easily 6+ minutes of "push block to open timed door", "slide down this sandslide and do nothing" and "stand around on rising sand" sections for the less hardcore player. The ghosts are just a minor nuisance, the piss-soaked cherry on the shit-cake.

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>>388673627
>I hated Metallic Madness and Stardust Speedway. Sonic CD really is a weak point in the series.

You are my new best friend. I seriously thought i was the only one.

>>388673710
All I heard on Act 1 is
"THIS IS ANIME!"
"THIS IS ANIME!"
"THIS IS ANIME!"

>>388677836
I thought the stage counts were supposed to be some kind of symbolic shit
>1 zone for Sonic 1
>2 zones for Sonic 2 and CD (since it almost was the 2nd Sonic)
>3 zones for Sonic 3(K)
>4 new zones
But, I probably just put way more thought into it than the devs ever did.

>>388677836
>replace one of the best classic levels with the second worst
You seem like you have what it takes to work for Sonic Team.

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what the fuck did they do to hydrocity zone? it was the only decent water level in the entire series because they didnt force puzzles and shit upon it. now its just another shitty labyrith zone.

>>388677836
You're right
We clearly also needed Death Egg Zone at the end

>>388677367
I was there in the first wave at Beanville Beach. They told us the henchbots would be taken by surprise, but intel was bad and Has Bean and I were pinned right up against Scratch. The sacrafices my bean brothers made so that all of us could be here today talking about it...

>>388677894

Make me the third. I never got what the big deal was with CD

Also the jump sound for that game made me want to take a pencil to my ears

>>388678083
>what the fuck did they do to hydrocity zone?
Nothing? Maybe you should quit being shit and ending up in the water like in the original.

>>388678083

At least we got some sick music out of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6hqMK4iXc

>>388677836
Pretty sure Hydrocity is Labyrinth-lite anyway. They put the Labyrinth blocks throughout it and some of the level design is inspired there.

Is there anyway to speed up the Weather boss as Knuckles besides praying for luck to be on your side and getting consistent Sunny weather attacks?

>>388671316
Some men just want to watch the world burn.

>>388675290

my nigga

Gotta agree on the Hydrocity sentiments. It's not terrible but it's probably the only remix stage in the game that I don't think surpasses the original, and it feels even worse due to the fact that it is sandwiched between two of my personal favorite zones in the game (Stardust and Mirage Saloon). It's a shame, because I hold the original Hydrocity in very high regard.

>>388678461
I never found out if you can damage him during the wind. Didn't want to risk it, y'know?

What's the problem with Denuvo? I've seen non-stop bitching in the reviews about it.

>>388677274
I thought Mirage Saloon act 1 was epic

>>388678574
You can but you can pretty much only get 1 hit in and you still fly up to the spikes and take damage anyway.

It just seems like the boss was designed for Sonic and Tails and not Knux.

>>388675548

fucking Chemical Plant Redux annihilates everyone, absolutely the best level...again

>>388675764

new lava reef is really gud. too bad it's cool bosses are gone.

>>388678538
It was pretty cool getting to have a role-reversal boss fight with you using Robotnik's machine against him.

Although the other fight in the U shaped room with a blender in the middle I never liked. Also the rings never disappear which makes it way easy

I had the opposite problem with Oil Ocean's boss, the rings disappeared into the oil and so it was impossible to get them back.
I probably died more on that boss than the final.

>>388678595
apparently you cant launch the game if you dont have internet connection. odds are they will remove it eventually but to launch a pc game like this with no drm would be suicide

>>388676117

Remember Games for windows? Yeah...i at least hope after a year or two they patch it so it can be played offline.

>>388678595
Makes pirates wait a week longer for their crack.

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>>388678839
I was super hoping for some reference to this sick cunt in Flying Battery

>>388673041
Only xinput controllers work right now

No you can't emulate an xbox 360 controller with xbox360ce

Thanks denuvo

>>388678595
It's an anti-piracy method (so it's already going to be unpopular off of that alone), but for paying customers it throws a wrench into the idea of enduring ownership since, if Denuvo goes defunct later down the line, your game will potentially be inaccessible.

In Mania's case there's also a lot of unhappiness that the game does not allow itself to be played offline, but that may be an issue seperate from Denuvo in this case.

>>388678643
It is and is a lot better than the original Sky Chase in Sonic 2. It does have some technical issues hampering it, though (falling off the plane, the color palette failing to change, the boss not triggering).

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>>388678595
>apology letter in the description about the drm
>still salty backlash in the comments

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>>388676117
well it was $18 if you preordered it. Still a two week delay for Denuvo is a dick move. Save that crap for Forces

>>388678901
The role reversal boss is cool on first attempt just because of the surprise factor, but in multiple playthroughs it suffers from the fact that it's hardly even a boss at all. You'd have to be pants-on-head retarded to actually suck up and get hit by any of the mines Eggman drops. It feels less like a boss and more like picking on a kid in a wheelchair, sure it's easy but are you supposed to feel good about afterwards? Cos i sure don't

>>388679194
>No you can't emulate an xbox 360 controller with xbox360ce
I'm literally doing that right now, so you're wrong.

>>388678643
It's easy and boring and has no way to be sped up. It sucks.

>>388679453
All of the act 1 bosses are easy though. The Oil Ocean one can be beaten in something like 5 seconds.

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>>388674046
I tried my hand at it as well, listening to it slowed down
>Evil doctor with a mad genius and bad minions /
>who'll help you save the planet ---------? /
>A deadly rhythm like you-like you never seen /
>I'm the biggest, -------est ----- ever been on your screen /
>I'm iconic, with my bionic animatronics /
>got ------ to nab the hedgehog they call SONIC /
>-------- -------, my moustache on fire /
>welcome to the new Eggman empire

>>388679668
Many of the mini-bosses are easy, yes, but the Hydrocity boss is possibly the only boss where you can pretty much only take damage if you actively TRY to take damage.

I got crushed by the OOZ Act 1 boss because I'm a fucking moron and I didn't kill him in time

>>388679453
Hmm? I don't think it's as braindead as you make it sound, at least relative to other minibosses. You can't just scoop eggman up with no regard- you have to position yourself so the whirl begins in a place that minimizes Eggman's opportunity to resist it and let a bomb get sent up before him.

>>388678839
I try to imagine what could have been done if they decided to remix and redo boss of LRZ2. It's one of my favorites, solely for that intro and sections before fight. It was very well done:
>start with some running and jumping
>now there's deadly pit too
>not here's section where you can be shit and fall down to boss proper or stock up on rings and shields
>now fight boss which is immune to tanking it with thousand rings

so how likely is Sonic Mania 2?

>>388679948

It's the highest rated Sonic game in years, so I'd say chances are pretty high

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>>388679948
>Aaron actively encouraging people to protest DRM
>Taxman actively encouraging people to protest DRM
>Stealth being a complete fucking hothead
>No indication of console sales but potential PC sales have probably dropped like a brick thanks to this whole fiasco
>When Forces comes out, it will be mocked and called shit in comparison to Mania which will probably piss off those prideful Nips
Sega higher-ups are probably fuming. I'd be very surprised if those guys got re-contracted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZVSqQaRJfQ
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKK

I love the oil ocean act 2 music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9K2tPq0SU

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>>388675535
>tfw i'm on lava reef and i only have 1 emerald because i suck

>>388675764
>always found lava reef boring

A Maniafag with shit taste- what ARE the odds?

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>>388680318
>something goes good
>sega still manages to fuck it up
EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME! THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T MAKE CONSOLES ANYMORE

>>388681618
>>388681442


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9MGMqAQzgs

YEEEEEEEEEEEE
HAAAAAAAAAAW

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>>388672397
God DAMN did that surprise me! I was deathly afraid of the Tails Doll as a kid, and seeing the Amy Doll freaked me out for a second.

>>388681865
Not him, I always thought S&K Lava Reef was way more notable for its visuals/music and boss setpieces than its level design. The spindash lifts look cool while they're transporting you to another portion of act 1, but that's about it. Act 2 has flamethrowers everywhere making a fire shield super useful, and those spiky ball thingies which make things a little interesting but other than that...

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I love Blue Sphere so much. Too bad Mania's version isn't exactly like 3&K's, but it's still fun.

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>yfw suddenly puyo puyo

>>388682645
I can't figure out how to perfect the stage where there are only a dozen or so blue spheres all on corners. It's the only one I haven't perfected.

>>388682821
One of the coolest bosses in the game, no doubt

I was blown away when I heard that a lot of people didn't like the boss. Who gives a fuck if it's a random genre change, it's cool as fuck and it's not exactly difficult even if you've never played a Puyo game

>>388683068
Robotnik is weaker then mean bean machine first stage robot. Still a fun diversion.

>>388683371
I have actually seen Eggman get something like a 4 combo on someone on stream, obviously it was just a pure stroke of luck (or lack thereof) because the CPU is designed to be legitimately retarded

>>388671997
Is this a meme or not? I can't imagine anyone struggling with this

>>388683371
And you can unlock both a two-player version and more difficult version from medals. I'll never have a friend to play with, but I appreciate the detail.

Anyone played the special Mania mode Blue Sphere? Purple orbs teleport you once, green orbs turn to blue. Gives all these new strategies where if you want to turn things to rings you've gotta turn green to blue, then the border of blue to red.

>been playing on and off all day
>read this thread
>decide to play again
>it no longer recognizes my controller
I don't understand this.

>>388677836
no fuck you there could have been even more! CD a shit! Shit! another level from 2 would have been nice also, like Mystic Cave Zone or another sonic three level like Snow Cap

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>>388682645
somewhere out there, there is a guy playing his original cart of sonic and knuckles with another game jammed in it and 'blue sphere' is his favorite game of all time

>>388683896
and now it works fine again. Guess all I had to do was bitch about it.

>>388678538
yeah, Hydrocity is probably the only good zone in sonic 3.

>>388678643

hated it. i guess its a nice call back but...thats sonic 2's lowest point. and it's the same shit, they didn't improve it at all.

>>388679032

the new flying batter was not as good as the original honestly. My autism flared up when the wing curves of air fortress were added to it and i get why but....the machines are not the same, flying battery is a heli carrier and air fortress is a plane. didn't flow as good either, there this one part with a trash pit where you can actually just get fucking stuck if you're not knuckles and you fall into it.

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>>388680318
the fuck is this little passive agressive bitch even going on about? its not like it takes away from his glorified first party rom hack. he's lucky sega even approached him and had a childhood dream come true instead of getting fucking sued or killed by the yakuza

>>388673627
This completely. The Sonic CD levels, even with great music, were a fucking drag primarily because side by side with the other stages, it just doesn't work...There's no rhyme or reason, just keep going and hope you're heading the right way...much like CD. "Clusterfuck" gets tossed around a lot but I fail to see how that isn't the most accurate way of describing things. I really think we would have been fine without another Metal Sonic chase fight.

>>388679395

thanks for the heads up, just saw it. they acted fast, good on them.

>>388679453

If you press the left directional button you drop the depth charges...just found that out

>>388684320
What are Carnival Night and Launch Base?

>>388673627

Metropolis was shit, but Metallic Madness is pretty cool. All you have to do is not be retarded and avoid getting crushed, which is pretty easy. The saws are annoying but nowhere near the level of scrap brain act 2's saws.

I never die on Metallic Madness. I just enjoy the ride and listen to its awesome music.

>>388679859

oh, and thats another thing...I really don't like the boss music. I kinda wish they had used the same music from sonic 2, 3, S&K

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>>388673301
>How was I sposedta know???
Man what game prior to S3&K did kids have in 1994 that taught them how to solve this incredibly difficult puzzle I wonder?

>>388685254
I actually dug it. Sure it follows the CD style, which I'm not really fond of. But it worked. And in some fights, pretty well. Particularly the weather report boss and Hydrocity. I had the biggest smile on my face when the second part of that fight occurred. Devs were clever in the execution.

That being said, sure it's not as amazing as S3K but at least it isn't Sonic 4's clown fucking music.

>>388671316
TM Act 2 is basically an evil church thing though.

>>388673627
i didn't mind MM but i agree with Stardust Speedway always hated that and i hate in mania too

>>388685152
The two weakest zones in the game. That other anons an idiot though; all of the Sonic 3 levels are good.

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>Hydrocity backgrounds were in the wrong acts

TRIGGERED

>>388684441

Sonic 2's low point are the special stages and thank fucking God they didn't show up this time.

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You got all the emeralds on your first run right?

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I FINALLY GOT MY SONIC FIX AFTER TWENTY YEARS

>>388686040
I couldn't find the rings anon. Had 2 to go. I'm pathetic.

>>388677759
>>388673304

Titanic Monarch is just Panic Puppet in 2D.

>>388686248

It's okay, they were pretty out of the way this time. Not like hugging random walls like before.

>be Taxman or Stealth
>have onslaught of closet pirates whine at you over DRM like it was your personal decision for it to be implemented
>big circlejerk over the Denuvo boogeyman
>"BUT IT KILLS SSDS AND AFFECTS GAMEPLAY PERFORMANCE"
>only effect it has currently that negatively affects consumers is not being able to play in offline mode which has already been claimed to be unintentional and will be patched (even if it is Sega backpedaling)

And let's be honest, you have to have an internet connection in the first place to buy and download the game, the idea that this is a huge issue not being able to play without a connection is some serious mental gymnastics. That being said, I wouldn't mind Denuvo being outright removed, if it'll stop the shitposting and backlash at the wrong people.

>>388683068
This, it's pathetically easy and I never even come close to losing.

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>>388686040
I only got four. I found maybe like eight rings total, and it took a few practice runs after beating the game to nail special stages 5 & 6.

>>388686040
ye by studiopolis

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I didn't get a single card playing this game, what the fuck?

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>>388686040
Yes I did, I also got all the Gold Medallions my first time through and I only died twice as solo Sonic without using Super Sonic. The Flying Battery Act.2 boss confused me for a little bit so it killed me once & the real final boss got me. Nearing the end of my Knuckles run now.

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>>388687056
>card
Haaaa?

>>388687173
The Steam cards. I wanna get some change while they're still worth shit

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>>388686040
Sure did

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>>388687261
Sold my foil sonic card earlier for 8 bucks. Used the money to buy this costume. Today was a good day.

>>388685729

lol no.

>angel island
>zig zag clime up and down the stage horse shit, tile set looks like a corrupted game file, CW fixed that shit in Sonic Mania when you see it in the cut scene.

>Hydrocity is great.

>Marble Garden is fucking awful. I often turn the game off here because it takes 7 fucking min to complete one act. SEVEN MIN. In a sonic game. It's tiresome and the boss is annoying as shit.

>carnival night is terrible also. bouncing around like a fool and lost of bullshit set ups. and the barrel, don;t even get me started.

>Ice cap is great.

>launch base is ho hum and then the game is over. I can still feel the disappointment i felt.

Sonic and Knuckles blows it out of the water.

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>that hard boiled heavies theme

>>388679668

You forgot the Metallic Madness one, it's much harder than the Act 2 one, being a harder version of Sonic 1's final boss. Kind of feels like they switched the MMZ bosses around, since Act 2's is a joke boss.

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Buy it now or just pirate it later?

>>388686496

you're not wrong anon but if my internet goes out like say for instance the STORM OF THE CENTURY visits my town and i have no Internet, now I can't play, it's shit.

>>388687764
Why not buy it later?

I hate blue sphere. is it really the way you have to unlock cool stuff? cause... i can't stand it.

>>388686040
>>388686574
>>388687158
>>388687306

>Not intentionally holding off on the last emerald so you don't miss out on the regular ending

Use your brains a little

>>388687910
>is it really the way you have to unlock cool stuff?
Unfortunately.

>>388686040
I only got 1 emerald and like 5 silver medals. I also died a dozen times against the Studiopolis miniboss and Metal Sonic

>>388687764
Buy. It's important for the industry to understand the success fan talent can bring in order for it to evolve.

>>388674430
It's feels like porno music, is it just me?

>>388677274
>activating super form with jump
>he didn't play the superior version

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tfw you find a new giant ring

>>388687564
>I often turn the game off here because it takes 7 fucking min to complete one act
HOW?

>>388687764
>grrr I can't play this game in my garden so I'll pirate it out of spite! Fuck good games!

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>>388687056
Works on my machine

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never realized how much I didn't care for Blue Spheres until trying to get the gold medallions trying to get perfects is exhausting

>>388687564
act 2 takes 4 minutes at most. Sounds like you're shit at the game mate.

>>388687702
That's is like legit fighting game/ turn based RPG music. It's awesome

>>388685883
This annoys me more than it should.

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>>388671316
>All this moaning and complaining about Sonic Mania happens only AFTER it comes out on PC

>Doesn't like Metallic Madness or Hydrocity
>Is the only person that feels that way

>>388688563
I can understand Metallic Madness but Hydrocity? what's wrong with it?

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Wasn't this game supposed to had bugfixes on PC? I got this nice softlock bug and I'm waiting to get a time over on the second act of Hydrocity.

Also, some zone transition are awful, Hydrocity for example, after beating Metal Sonic, puf, camera off, YOU FALL INTO WATER.

Please..

>>388688681
nu-Hydrocity is shit. Should have just called it by it's real name, Labyrinth Zone.

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>>388688468
>only AFTER it comes out on PC
Were you here when the delay was confirmed? People were complaining about Denuvo/DRM shit from August 11th. Not being able to play offline is a serious issue.

>>388686040
I only got four. The fourth one took me like 5 tries and i had no chance on the fifth stage.

>>388688563

>I'm the only person who

No you're not, retard.

>>388688681

There's plenty wrong with Hydrocity, at least Act 1. Adding a bunch of slow underwater segments to the one water level that was famously NOT slow and annoying was a terrible idea.

>>388688893
Alot of Zones became shittier because they added gimmicks from terrible ZOnes to them.

Exceptions being FB because I love Wing Fortress and Oil Ocean because it was already so terrible that adding anything actually improved it.

>>388688759
>and I'm waiting to get a time over on the second act of Hydrocity.
Pause the game and hit restart, it'll restart that act & I think you'd prefer doing that than waiting to go back to your check point.

>>388687764

Buy it, make some of it back with cards. Game's great.

>>388689104
Thanks, I didn't knew about that since that wasn't an option in the classics, I guess was there in Sonic Advance.

>>388689070
Flying Battery can be so different on different plays. First time as Sonic was basically just the regular, except went through trash and had an electro wire underhanging adventure, as Knux went upwards and played Wing Fortress all of the day, going in and out of the ship.

Most divergent level I've seen.

In fact do yourselves favours and throw yourselves into pits, there is always platforming sections, giant Rings down there and shit.

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I had no troubles playing through the PC version last night. Titanic Monarch wasn't even that hard either.
Think I only died maybe like three times during the whole game?

>>388686040
I've been stuck on the 4th stage for a bit. I keep making stupid jumps or falling off the course at Mach 3.

Did Tails's AI get worse on PC? I don't remember him acting as retarded on PS4.

>>388689383
I died on every EVERY Act II boss at some point, wether by glitch or unfortunate accident, and a few Act I bosses.

Otherwise only really died from Time Over while exploring.

Then next play I did everything flawless except I went and died like three times on some moving blocks in Titanic Monarch because I kept brushing knuckles hitbox between them a little

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So are there any interesting unused shit in the files we know of yet?

>>388671316
holy shit the bonus stages after 2 are fucking hard, how do I get good?

>>388689686
I was expecting trouble from the Oil Ocean Act 2 boss but he was piss easy. How did that Mark guy Game Over so many times? Jesus christ.

>>388677836
>replace this shitty zone with an even shittier one!
Anon did you take your pills today?

>>388689556
The physics takes spme getting used to. You don't really drift in midair like you'd expect ... can't put my finger on it ... but it you hit a powerup bubble you DO drift.

My advice as well is to not jump when about to go off course, let the rough terrain slow you down.

>>388689934
These Special Stages are fun as fuck though. The low-poly 3D look is also super cool.
It's shitty that a branch of Sega forced them to put the Denuvo shit into the game, but luckily I didn't feel any performance dips or anything. I didn't even know about the outrage until I finished the game.

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>>388686318
You mean full-size Chrome Gadget.

>>388690140
Even though it looks a lot like Chrome Gadget at points, Titanic Monarch feels more like some kind of bad future Carnival Night to me. Probably my favorite final zone in classic Sonic now.

>>388687726
>harder version of Sonic 1's final boss
>harder
Fuck no it isn't. Mania's version gives you a lot more room to maneuver plus a longer warning period. It's much easier.

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Did anyone rip the sprites of this game yet? I wanna make some wallpapers

>>388689820
The Oil Ocean 2 boss killed me a couple times since I tried fighting it patiently and slowly, dodged all the shots the tentacle fired on the platform all skillfully and shit like that, but then I got fucked up by the aimed shots when the boss itself surfaces. Then I said 'fuck it' and just berserk rushed the boss without caring about rings and boom, it was dead in seconds.

>>388689323

Last time I played Flying Battery it diverged a little too much for me

>https://twitter.com/i/videos/900055798826631168

>>388690140

Visually yeah, but conceptually it's Panic Puppet. With the giant Eggman robot in the background and all.

>>388690523
Also really helps to keep a fire shield handy.

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>Stardust Speedway Act 2 boss
>No checkpoints after the first form

>>388671316

Titanic Monarch is a tremendous complex reaching into the upper atmosphere

>>388690249
I second this.

How good would it have been if the boss fight took place ontop of a giant spinning barrel that bounced up and down?

>>388690748
Second phase (Not the chase parts) is retardedly easy though.

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>>388673304
what? I thought Titanic Monarch was supposed to be a city that was taken over by Eggman

>>388690913
The first phase isn't fucking fun at all. The second phase with the spiked wall is better but dying there and having to restart with the first phase is just retarded.

>>388691000
It's a giant mecha
You see it exploding when you beat the boss
Hell, most of the background of Act 1 has arms or legs and stuff

>>388690748

That boss went on way too fucking long, and cutting Stardust Speedway Act 2 down to a minute and a half long to fit it in should be a felony offense.

>>388673324
exactly my thoughts, I was expecting a death egg zone

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>>388689383
same here and those few deaths were during the Titanic Monarch act 2 boss fight. Honestly Mania's pretty easy. I assume the people really struggling with it aren't huge classic fans and also didn't drop dash like crazy during Titanic Monarch

>>388682856
Look closer at the layout and it will make sense.

>>388682645
blue spheres is nice but why did they make it the only fucking special stage other than the new one

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>Sonic Mania's dev menu has randomly generated Blue Sphere stages

>>388686040
Hell no. I only got four of them since I kept fucking up the fourth for most of the game.

It's amazing to think I ever had trouble since now I tear through these special stages like wet paper.

>>388691414
someone on the team really liked Blue Spheres

>>388691000
Watch the ending. It's a giant tower designed to look like Heavy King (To show his ego is growing to rival Eggman's)

It seems to be on the little planet too, so it's the outside of Metallic Madness I guess?

>>388691191
I've played through 3&K more then enough times to have my grips with classic Sonic. Gotta say, Sonic controls fantastically in Mania, like even smoother then 3&K which was super cool.
Is it bad that I actually died twice fighting Heavy Shinobi? I was probably rushing too hard.

>>388676601
Oddly enough, you can get it in Competition Mode too. I was playing with my nephew and we split the first two rounds, Puyo was the tiebreaker.

>>388691545
I felt like you really had to try to get hit by Heavy Shinobi, as long as you were jumping/rolling his freezing moves could only freeze you rather than make you lose rings, and aside from that I don't remember what attacks he had besides throwing those starfish enemies that were easy enough to avoid.

>>388690338
Sonic 1 had a safe spot from all the crushers.

What happens when I miss emeralds? Do I get a chance to go back and get them?

>>388692073
The next time you find a Special Stage ring you'll just redo the last one you failed at. And while you didn't ask about it for Blue Spheres you just go to the next one until it loops around before being able to redo the one you failed at.

>>388690541

LOL

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>mfw LRZ Act 2 music

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>>388690338
The layout of the pistons is different in Mania.

I don't understand what a "perfect run" means for getting the achievement.

Also, I'm miss achievements for something involving a Barrel and something that's submerges.

Anyone wanna enlighten me?

>>388691414
The problem is that it's too long to be put in the middle of stages as a simple bonus.

>>388690249

nah. death egg still beats it.

>>388692841
You mean Scrap Brain.

>>388671316
Fine with me. City/Factories are the best levels in sonic and the new Metallic Madness is great.

>>388688391

if you're casually playing it the level takes forever. Spindash, grab the hillring, jump to the next one, all the way to the top, jump on the stupid blue top and float ar ound to then next set of slopes to slowly hop back and forth from. up and down, over and over. Its a fucking awful fucking level, maybe one of the worst that isn't a CD level.

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>>388690512
Seconding this. Need new Speedways and Press Garden backgrounds.

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>TFW got a game over on Mirage Saloon Act 1 because I couldn't jump on the train

>>388692809
Perfect run is completing Act 1 of Titanic Monarch without taking any damage. Losing a shield counts, but you can use your super form. The barrel one is in Act 2 of Mirage Saloon, one of the barrels you push to find a secret entrance to a special stage. The other one is in Act 2 of Oil Ocean, there's a secret submarine that you can only find by submerging under oil in one section. You'll probably have an easier time just searching the location of the last two on youtube or something.

>>388692905

it had great music too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVY7nvcel0

i can honestly say, none of the songs in this game really jumped out at me that weren't remixes of already good songs.

>>388693078
But CD levels are fine so I'm not sure why you're bringing it up.

>>388693129
I died at the same point because suddenly tails isn't glued to your feet without warning so I fell of the plane and died instantly.

>>388692717
Incredibly sexy

>>388693190

That's just your low musical intelligence then. Most of the new tracks are instant classics and took less than five seconds to hook me.

>>388693094
Did the guy who ripped these backgrounds ever do SS Bad Future?

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>>388694449
No_

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>No midnight release
>Sonic 1 as a pity gift
>2 Week Delay
>"Optimisation" was a huge lie. Bugs everywhere.
>Denuvo

PCFats just can't catch a break!

pic related except it's for offline play and full enjoyment of Mania.

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>>388695883
Well, they did fix bugs but I'm not if it was many bugs, plus got the Super Sonic button that consoles don't have. We also have (albeit simple) mods working on this so your shitpost is a little broken there, Anon.

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I heard an e-celeb today say the fight against Heavy King with Knuckles is shit but I can't think of a single reason why someone would think it's bad.

>>388694406

nah.

>>388696334
>e-celeb
got your answer right there, buck-o.

how do you guys know all this shit

>know names like heavy king
>know the gem is the "Phantom Emerald"

it's like back in the day when star wars fans knew the name of a puppet that sat on jabba's ass, i was like What the fuck where is that written and how did you find it?

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>>388696334
I disliked it since it made me miss the Super Emeralds. Honestly I thought it was fine.

>>388691203
I got it not long after I made that post. Don't know if it's how I was supposed to do it, but I jumped through the patch of bumpers for a while until I found where I should be. If that's not how it's supposed to be done, I still don't know.

>>388696531
http://www.sonicthehedgehog.com/mania/manual/en/index.html?pid=0

After finally playing it, I feel simultaneously really impressed and disappointed in the game. The remixed levels and some of the cool things they did with the bosses were amazing, and the new levels were fantastic for the most part, but some of the zone choices were bad. I'd honestly remove the CD levels since they don't really mesh well with the rest of the game even if the music and atmosphere is great. Maybe replace Stardust Speedway with Starlight or Spring Yard Zone, and Metallic Madness with Death Egg Zone and move it to the end. And as much as I love the nostalgic touches, the new levels like Studiopolis were so good I think I would have preferred them to just make a whole game of new zones instead of nostalgia pandering. At least its success means we might actually get some new decent Sanic in the future. Even a Mania 2 would be pretty good.

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>>388687726
>beat pistons
>expect it to be over and put controller down
>comes back faster
looking back it was completely obvious yet I still didn't expect it

>>388696924

that was a really nice touch, almost made up for how ho hum that zone was.

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>>388688759
Why does Miles have soft served ice cream on the top of his bottom

>>388673041
It only worked for me after I activated the pre-made profile made by the dev, something along the lines of
>right click sonic mania
>steam controller config
>browse configs

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>FOUR SPECIAL STAGE RINGS (THAT I FOUND) IN CHEMICAL PLANT ACT 1
>WACKY CHEMICAL BENCH
>All of Press Garden
>Flying Battery Act 2
>All of Studiopolis

fuck me this is a good time

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>>388695883
Is it just me, or does it feel like these zones take forever to complete? Some of them go on for over 7 minutes for me, and Metal Sonic's wonky physics with his mech-suit part almost made me Time Over.

>>388699552
Yeah, some of the zones are fucking HUGE. It's ridiculous, but also great for exploration.

>>388695883
I haven't encountered a single bug or performance drop in my three times of beating the game.

>>388699552
The only zone that goes on for longer then 7 min is Titanic Monarch. Most the other zones go to about 4 or 5 min.

>>388699452
I was a blubbering idiot while I was playing. So many cute references. So much blazing speed. Studiopolis is my favorite zone to replay as well, specially Act 2.
I think Mania might honestly be my favorite classic Sonic game now, with Sonic 3 Complete a hair below it.

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>Managed to go through geometry and get stuck in a 1x1 square in stardust speedway.

>>388699552
I was slow on my first run but I often fell into the low path. They seem to punish you for that by slowing you down and dragging out movement.

>>388699898

Wish I understood where all the love was coming from- I went into the game wanting to love it, but by the time I beat the final boss I was so pissed/disappointed that I couldn't even be bothered to watch the credits finish rolling.

>>388700881
Well I've been a big classic Sonic fan for years and years so everything in the game came naturally to me. I ended the game with like 35 lives.

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>Unlock ability for Sonic
>It isn't there when I go to freeplay
Is this a glitch or am I retarded?

>>388701346
You turn them on in the Secrets menu at the data select screen. You can also only use them in a No Save run.

>>388701626
yeah no save, that's what I meant.

Thanks

>>388701626
>>388701787
I dont have a secrets menu?

>>388701854
Press Y if you have an Xinput controller

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>>388701923
>You can't have shield, peel out, and drop dash at the same time
Kill me honestly.

>>388702017
Yeah it's pretty shit, but it's what we got. Can't have Sonic 3 Complete tier control schemes yet I guess.

>>388702095
Mods soon hopefully

>>388702210
When the Denuvo is removed/cracked anyway. Christian must be so frustrated.

>>388702281
Allegedly there's some basic mods already out.
Moves are already in the game so hopefully it can be modded in with or without Denuvo

>>388675616
>>388672017
new version is eons better.

>>388702379
It's not allegedly, there are videos of them but like you said they're basic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kYsHcZ9no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKhdQqmM9d0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u97PTnAFag

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>>388671894
Final Fortess > all

>>388703509
Egg Fleet and Final Fortress were cool concepts but the level design was ass

>>388702379
It's just so ironic that a game that was made with so much love by people that grew up hacking, changing and recreating the original Sonic games got their baby slapped with some secondary DRM crap by Sega of Europe of all branches. There's such an uproar about it that they need to make a statement, specially how it wasn't even mentioned anywhere when it was first launched.

Did they mix up the two Hydrocity acts? I thought act 1 was supposed to be the rehash act while act 2 introduced new mechanics.