Sonic Mania SPOILERS/Impressions Thread

[DiamondX]

I still wanna know what the "& Knuckles" mode does...

[molul]

46 minutes ago, DiamondX said:

I still wanna know what the "& Knuckles" mode does...

Where did you see that?

[DiamondX]

Last page.

[Red Hot Jack]

I enjoy these extras, I hope Amy is a secret character. I have to say I'm quite disappointed by the game, for the lack of new zones and ideas, the various rehashes, some of the bosses, the lack of Amy. But the cliffhanger made me even more hyped for Forces!

[JosepHenry]

Thank you so much Mark!

Those extras are amazing. But if a new character is playable this game is gonna be near perfection.

 

[Rodx]

Watching the begining I notice that the Hard Boiled Heavies are just regular Egg Robo transformed by the power of the Eight Emerald(don't know the official name of it),really a good nice tought .

Edit : people are theorizing that Switch version is unfinished, because of that we don't have stage transition for late areas .

[Jango]

Oh no, I doubt the Switch version is unfinished, unless if there's a day 1 patch.

[JosepHenry]

Maybe you can unlock more stuff by getting the gold medals?

 

@JangoIt has to be that. Mark can't do a peel out or a insta-shield. Day 1 patch is pretty much confirmed.

[Jango]

4 hours ago, Rodx said:

I know we can't take a Sonic plot too serious,but somethings don't made sense(or I don't understand) why they are at the Little Planet in the ending ? and I have the impression that Little Planet goes to another dimension alongside classic Sonic at the ending stead to go to the space like in Sonic cd's good ending, that mean that Infinity is Bad Future Little Planet incarnated ?

Noticed that too. IDK why, the team overcomplicated the story for nothing and threw everything at it. Angel Island isn't floating during the intro, Little Planet comes out of nowhere and it's still chained and traped under the metal shell... 

I still liked the simpler story of Eggman artificially creating the "Sonic Island" to lure Sonic into going there, and all the returning zones were actually illusions. Eggman's plan is to re-write his past fails, as if he was directing a movie, that's why he goes over the top right at the beginning, bringing the freaking Death Egg Robo and such. 

Anyways, teleportation and time travel shenanigans are cooler, right? Right?

[Rodx]

I confess, I liked the plot, but, at least this Swith build is obviously unfinished,if be this on ps4/Xone as well  without a day 1 patch will be Metal Gear Phanton Pain level of ''the game is not broken but we can see that something is missing here''  . 

[Indigo Rush]

So is it actually confirmed that the game is getting a day 1 patch?

[Rodx]

I don't see anything about it .

[JosepHenry]

2 minutes ago, Indigo Rush said:

So is it actually confirmed that the game is getting a day 1 patch?

No, but the only mode that worked so far was the Mean Bean. So it must be unfinished.

[Eggman]

Just watched all the boss fights and I noticed that studiopolis and metallic madness fights have a unique boss theme. wonder why they did this

[JosepHenry]

So now I saw... The first extra must be a multiplayer minigame too because of the black bar to the right.

Mania is looking like a Kirby game in terms of unlockables, is just perfect! Completionists will have a really good time.

[TargetWatch]

2 hours ago, Jango said:

Noticed that too. IDK why, the team overcomplicated the story for nothing and threw everything at it. Angel Island isn't floating during the intro, Little Planet comes out of nowhere and it's still chained and traped under the metal shell... 

I still liked the simpler story of Eggman artificially creating the "Sonic Island" to lure Sonic into going there, and all the returning zones were actually illusions. Eggman's plan is to re-write his past fails, as if he was directing a movie, that's why he goes over the top right at the beginning, bringing the freaking Death Egg Robo and such. 

Anyways, teleportation and time travel shenanigans are cooler, right? Right?

All returning zones may be illusions in Sonic Mania? OH SNAP! I recently came up with a theory in regards to Sonic Forces being an illusion in areas, including Classic Sonic himself and that Infinite is somehow creating it.

 

[Rodx]

Now that I know that the writter is the same as S06,I leaning to think that Infinity is created by a Paradox just like in the first Terminator and recently Game of Thrones 6x5 The Door episode,Mephiles itself is a Paradox, and recicle plot is so  video game (I not being a dick,sequels with formulaic plots is basically on every videogame franchise I not lying).

Let's say : Eggman conquer 95 % of Earth,in some point Sonic and his friends will go back in time to save the world and someone will cause the born of Infinity . 

 

[TargetWatch]

23 minutes ago, Rodx said:

Now that I know that the writter is the same as S06,I leaning to think that Infinity is created by a Paradox just like in the first Terminator and recently Game of Thrones 6x5 The Door episode,Mephiles itself is a Paradox, and recicle plot is so  video game (I not being a dick,sequels with formulaic plots is basically on every videogame franchise I not lying).

Let's say : Eggman conquer 95 % of Earth,in some point Sonic and his friends will go back in time to save the world and someone will cause the born of Infinity . 

 

I think he's what is left of Mephiles. The yellow to green eyes give it away.

Only scars remain of who I was.

[Rodx]

6 minutes ago, TargetWatch said:

I think he's what is left of Mephiles. The yellow to green eyes give it away.

 

Sega will have the audacity to shoehorn a S06 continuity porn like that ? I will laught hard if that will be the case .

[TargetWatch]

2 minutes ago, Rodx said:

Sega will have the audacity to shoehorn a S06 continuity cavalgate like that ? I will laught hard if that will be the case .

Nakamura would...

[Spooky Mulder]

7 minutes ago, Rodx said:

Sega will have the audacity to shoehorn a S06 continuity porn like that ? I will laught hard if that will be the case .

Would that make Sonic Mania a sequel to Sonic 06?

[Ratcicle King]

So someone posted a HD version of the final boss, spoilered for obvious reasons

Spoiler

 

And now with a better quality, I realized one thing...

The Final Final boss theme? It has some musical cues from Fist Bump.

[JosepHenry]

2 minutes ago, Ratcicle King said:

So someone posted a HD version of the final boss, spoilered for obvious reasons

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And now with a better quality, I realized one thing...

The Final Final boss theme? It has some musical cues from Fist Bump.

OH MY GOD

 

Spoiler

So maybe my theory about the clouds vaguely forming multiples Infinite symbols in a frame (diagonally -> /) isn't that wrong.

 

[Lord-Dreamerz]

22 minutes ago, TargetWatch said:

I think he's what is left of Mephiles. The yellow to green eyes give it away.

 

Green? His eyes are yellow and red.

[Rodx]

I take that theory of Infinity being a entirelly new character but with the  same backstory as Mephiles from this  : 

http://nintendoeverything.com/sonic-forces-devs-on-the-custom-character-system-development-started-before-mania-more/

''near the end Infinite appears. I think it would be interesting to consider what role Infinite will play in Sonic Forces. We haven’t said anything about the new character yet but you may find a clue in his name.''