I always thought S3&K had so many of its own things going on and Sega never really continued those things like the super emerald concept since we've never seen them again to this day despite having the same design.
Who really wants to do 14 special stages anyway?
I swear I saw screenshots of the special stages a few months ago, it was Sonic 3 blue & red balls.
They later clarified that it wasn't Mania in that image.
It could still be Blue Sphere but the picture seems to be from another project.
When they split Sonic 3 into two games they needed each half to have its own set of emeralds, and then they needed a reason to justify making you collect each emerald twice when you linked the games together, and Hyper Sonic became a reward for spending $100+ for the full game. Going forward the chaos emeralds never went back to their non-super forms and air dashing became part of Sonic's normal movepool in the Modern games anyway. Who really wants to do 14 special stages anyway?
Maybe they could do something like hide red rings in every stage, and if you collect all of the chaos emeralds + red rings you get Hyper Sonic.
Yea, I'm hoping they incentivize you to explore the levels. They're so much bigger than the classic levels, they really should use that level design!Man, if there was one system from modern Sonic that would work great in this game, it'd be red rings. These levels are huge - giving incentive to really explore every path would be a great addition.
Man, if there was one system from modern Sonic that would work great in this game, it'd be red rings. These levels are huge - giving incentive to really explore every path would be a great addition.
Man, if there was one system from modern Sonic that would work great in this game, it'd be red rings. These levels are huge - giving incentive to really explore every path would be a great addition.
Sonic Advance 2 sorta did it with its special stage unlock method.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLRFjKcQ8kc
Every level had 7 special rings you had to collect in order to access the special stage. This was poorly done because you had to collect all 7 rings in one go and collecting them only gave you 1 chance to beat one of level of the most frustrating special stages Sonic has ever had. And if you want to play as Amy Rose you have to do this with 28 times (collect all 7 emeralds with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, AND Cream).
The way I'd do it is like Star Coins in the Mario games. Make the red rings well hidden and once you've collected one you've collected it. You don't have to get them all in one go. And just collecting them unlocks whatever they unlock.
This bump - thought we were seeing more of Mania's cutscenes....
Damn....
Bump.
According to the SDCC panel for Mania, the game is comparable in length to S3&K.
I wonder why they aren't doing a physical release.
The special stages look NUTS.
Yup saw it on twitter.
Those fishes in the background of the special stage make me think of something beta'ish. Am I crazy or are those from another game?
Those fishes in the background of the special stage make me think of something beta'ish. Am I crazy or are those from another game?
Either way, I like what I see and I'm sooooooo happy they didn't just go the Blue Sphere route (I think I'm the only person in the world that hated those special stages)
Either way, I like what I see and I'm sooooooo happy they didn't just go the Blue Sphere route (I think I'm the only person in the world that hated those special stages)
Looks excellent. This will be my first switch download game.
Isnt it only 40 as well?
Looks excellent. This will be my first switch download game.
Isnt it only 40 as well?
Also reposted some pics from the manual in the OT
If they want me to preorder it, they'll announce a physical copy for the Switch.
Argh now I'm wondering if I should keep my Special Edition preorder or just go with the digital copy. All that swag is cool but if all I get is the code then I might start feeling like I could have just bought the game by itself.
Should be only $20 USD or $25 CAD
Wow, sega really doesn't believe in this then...
Wow, sega really doesn't believe in this then...
This is almost as ridiculous as the "this game is on sale for $15 on steam but its still $20 on other platforms? No sale." post from a while backWow, sega really doesn't believe in this then...