Sonic Mania Plus has a new bonus stage

Is the Metal Sonic boss fight the only one that changed?

Yukinari said:

Still baffled IGN gave this a lower score than the base game.

Reverse Funky Mode shit going on

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They reviewed it as just the DLC, which being just palette-swapped levels with minor changes and 2 new characters is a little underwhelming... except it's only $5. What's really dumb about their review is the title doesn't indicate it's reviewing just the added content and people will think it's a 7/10 for the whole package.

sir_crocodile said:

Acts plural? There's more then just Angel Zone 1?

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I would not count Angel Island Act 1 as a real level. It's a short tutorial at best. AFAIK Mirage Saloon Act 1 is the only mostly new level.

Vidiot said:

Is the Metal Sonic boss fight the only one that changed?

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There might be a new final boss, but we aren't sure yet.

Not a good outlook for fans hoping for an updated Switch icon...

Bakercat said:

Edit 2: just watched that ign review. That was an awful review and all I heard was, "it was too hard, not enough content" even though the dlc is only $5. When did they review dlc for games anyway? I felt they wanted to shit on the game and used the dlc as a reason to do it.

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It's IGN. Of course they wanted to shit on a Sonic game.

No Depth said:

Not a good outlook for fans hoping for an updated Switch icon...

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Love the look of the new menus. Love how we get the video to the side. Knuckles being angry with the others is adorable.

Ferrs said:

It's IGN. Of course they wanted to shit on a Sonic game.

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It was written by a freelancer that actually loves classic Sonic stuff. The problem is the review is meant for the expansion and not the game as a whole, like Metacritic situates it to be.

Can't wait to delete the shit out of my digital data to start all over from the cartridge.

Physical Mania is a dream come true!

Does Mighty have some invulnerability to sideways spikes? He was bouncing off some stuff in the video in the OP.

The difficulty IGN refers to seems to be a few poorly designed Encore bosses and segments that other outlets have also identified as crazy hard.

Sounds like how the boss of Oil Ocean had a lot of cheap instant death mechanics that tripped up a lot of players.

Is this not available for preorder on the PS4 UK store? I can't find it.

Character switching reminds me of Donkey Kong Country

I really like the Knuckles Chaotic nods thoughout Encore mode :)

sir_crocodile said:

Acts plural? There's more then just Angel Zone 1?

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There's the little bit of AIZ, but another act in the game is completely redone. I think that's it, but I haven't seen anything of the final version outside of the bits on the official Youtube page.

//Itchy. Tasty said:

Character switching and being able to play as any duo of characters, also gets rid of lives in favour of the five characters just having one life (but you can gain characters again from power up TVs). The levels are slightly reworked to allow for Mighty and Ray's new abilities, and they have a new colour pallet.

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Ehhhh. As much as I love Mania that seems kind of disappointing. I thought the levels were completely remixed or something. New characters are ok, but it's really not what I'm looking for in more content for this.

I just hope they'll do a sequel or new original classic game.

IGN is honestly a complete joke of a website. It's truly incredible.

Absolutely stoked to pick this up for my PS4. I own it digitally but a physical copy is fantastic.