JezMM

His final move is to blow himself up, spreading Bean chunks all over his traumatized enemies.

I guess they did that to make Game Overs actually mean something...

Sending you back to the beginning of the act would've been fine.  I've already proven I can beat Act 1 without getting a Game Over.

Just seems bizarre when the same team felt sending you back to Act 1 in 1/2/CD was too harsh and fixed that in the remasters, yet Mania is no different difficulty-wise.

Git gud. Then you won't get a game over. I finished my Tails playthrough with a life count of 43...

Mania is supposed to be a challenging game. Allowing to re-start the same act after a game-over would be pathetically easy.

Besides if you go back to your save-file you can restart the same zone (from act1). That's easily generous enough.

I'm glad you genuinely like this feature, Jez.

How about let people enjoy whatever difficulty level they prefer?  Besides I was playing as Knuckles, whom bosses are always harder for due to his jump.  It was annoying to decide I wanted to play a couple zones as him before going to work just to be sent back to redo the whole of Oil Ocean, which I've already proven I can beat just fine the first time through, because I failed at the boss in particular.

Like well done you turned what was a fun platforming experience the first time through into a punishment because that's how we did it in the old days regardless of whether that was a good idea or n

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Yeah, starting the zone all over again seems pointless in this day and age. It may not bother me personally, but for someone like my dad (whose reaction time is not so great) or a newcomer or just someone who wants to play a single act, it's a shame.

There aren't any continues in this game? Huh.

Maybe it makes more sense to remove them, tbh. Continues were tied to arbitrarily doing well in the game's scoring compared to lives, and this game practically throws lives at you if you do semi-well at actually preforming well throughout the game. Thought it was too easy and generous because of that, but if there are no continues I guess it makes more sense. Still feels wrong to see the life count tick up so high without even trying to make it, though.

I really disagree with the notion that game overs should only send you back to the start of the level tho, lmao. Too tired to explain it right now, though.

Did someone seriously actually use the "git gud" phrase in a serious manner? lol 

I can kinda see why but honestly I feel like lives in general would be redundant if when you lost them all you only got kicked back to the beginning of the act your in. Personally glad they did it this way (even though, and this is not to brag, I haven't seen the game over screen yet in this game) as it adds more weight to continuous screw-ups.

The funny thing is I did totally fine as Sonic, no Game Overs, but for some reason Knuckles' crappy jump makes SO much difference.

I just feel, if you want that retro challenge, play No Save mode.  I don't understand why the developers decided to be lenient in the ports of Sonic CD/1/2 but not here.

Oh also like, defending the game by saying "it's not that bad, I never got a Game Over" is like... you're basically saying "the issue you're having wouldn't affect me whether it was fixed or not but I'm still gonna say no you should continue to not have fun" lol.

I'm not saying its not bad because I never got a game over, but keeping that thought in the back of my head makes me consider situations more carefully. Doing no save mode would also be pretty sucky just for this as its hard for me to play these games straight through without having to stop for other things during the day (mostly this one in particular since its so long which is probably why they don't just make you do the whole game over again) so i'm cool with where its at right now.

Though you might be right, the issue probably wouldn't affect me all that much whether it was the way it is now or not, i'm admittedly pretty selfish when it comes to mechanics like this in games since I feel like a proper punishment should be handed out for repeated failure.

I think if it was up to me, I'd make it so Game Overs only send you back to the start of the act, but you get a Game Over count on your file saying how many you've got.  I'm sure a "0" would be a badge of honour for most players to incentivise them to avoid it.

Classic sonic was always trial and error

These stages take a stupid amount of trial and error, I'm just thankful that after you finish the playthrough, you can level select and use the same special stage ring to retry as many times as you need.

Oh, I'm talking about the bonus stages, i.e. (I guess it isn't a spoiler since they showed them on official media) Blue Sphere.

While there is trial and error in the regular gameplay, the worst punishment is taking damage.  In these stages, the only punishment is 100% failure, and you don't get to try again right away - meaning it'll be a long time before your next attempt and you'll likely make the exact same mistake again every time for a long time.

It's not fun.  They did a bad job there.

I don't mind it too much, honestly while it does require some trial and error, i'd say about 70% of it can just be done as you go (just don't expect perfects on some of them) and I enjoy blue sphere's a lot more than I probably should so I don't mind constantly going back to them.