Sonic Mania

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>her
Uh-oh

>Heavy Magician is female
Excuse me but WHAT THE FUCK

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there's going to be porn isnt there...

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>YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW

>her
Better keep that image off of Tumblr.

>Magician and Rider are female

Is there a problem officer?

Oh wait never mind, they already know.

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I wish they had more of a presence in the game than showing up for just boss fights. Heavy King shows up once during the game, during the opening cutscenes, and never again until the true ending.

You fight King instead of Rider at Lava Reef Zone when playing Knuckles.

I have no idea what the strategy for Heavy Rider is supposed to be. I beat it by just spin-dash-jumping into it and hoping for the best, and just scooping up my rings when I got hit. One of the more annoying boss fights in the game.

>Press Garden changes to a frozen japanese themed level for no reason other than to justify Heavy Shinobi
>Heavy Rider is the only one that doesn't appear in a new stage, nor is her bit with looking like a knight even have anything to do with the stage she's in (Lava Reef)

>Motobug Jimmy
I still can't believe this reference. The way it jumps is clearly after the mod too.

>robot
>female

>robot
>male
Two can play this game, Anonymous.

Yeah, fembots. Siri, Cortana, you know. AI.

Too late.

user, you better be here to fix this up

>Knuckles gets to play the actual fun version of Mirage Saloon Act 1 because Heavy Magician did him the favor of knocking him off the Tornado so he wouldn't have to do Skychase Act 2

Can't I just play this level as Sonic/Tails, fuck

Poetry

>magician is a girl
>can turn into any Sonic character
Yes please.

Do you think people will call it sexist for giving the female robots boobs?

shouldn't those star bumpers be where her robo nipples would be

>Can't I just play this level as Sonic/Tails, fuck
It's designed around Knuckles's abilities.

I didn't draw it.

>Sonic Mania is so good, people don't even care how buggy it is
Imagine if it was anything less than stellar, people would be ripping it to shreds as "yet another buggy Sonic game"

He fights Knuckles. It still is kinda strange how the next time they meet he's all upgraded. But then that's also the case for the others in Titani Monarch.

The bugs make it an authentic retro game. Also more potentially interesting to Speedrun.

Lava Reef Zone act 2 turns into Hidden Palace for no reason who gives a shit.

Hey, check it out.

Tumblr did some chassis work.

is heavy rider's inclusion proof that they planned a fifth original stage with a medieval castle theme

the lava cools down and then it naturally leads into crystal. The transition is fine and believable.

Meanwhile Press garden is a newspaper factory that after beating the miniboss suddenly causes it to snow and it no longer has anything to do with newspapers.

Eh, they can keep some of them for authenticity but there's some really bad ones that should be patched straight away.

It did the same thing in S3&K

speaking of, do you only deal with Gunner, Shinobi and Magician in the final boss fight? And even then you don't even have to hurt them, just survive. It felt kind of out of place especially since you CAN hurt heavy gunner but ti doesn't do anything.

Yeah, but you know. It's weird to see a ""retro"" game with too much polish.

It's almost like you went to the garden portion of the zone

Hey at least we have the ability to patch these games, if this was cart based we'd have to hope for a revision.

Don't forget the spike bug in Sonic 1, that wasn't fixed until it was put on Gamecube, shit have a look at this:
info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(16-bit)_bug_list

You can hurt all of them.

They're there to support their daddy, Robotnik. They're trying their best and I hope they become mainstays.

>yet another buggy Sonic game
Sonic games haven't been noticeably buggy since 2006 (aside from that one Boom game). It's weird, Sonic Team hasn't really improved that much when it comes to general game design, but they sure do try to make sure their games are polished on a technical level. I guess Sonic 06's reputation as a technical mess left an impact on them.

Although I'm surprised with how buggy Mania currently is. The game is great, but it feels like the developers ran out of time in few areas. There being a lack of transitions in between some zones, in particular.

I know for a fact that the first act's motif would be a full level for heavy rider, and Act 2's for Shinobi. Press Gardens name is an after thought.

>her
>him

they're fucking robots.

Remember when Sonic Lost Worlds had a seizure glitch?
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Cogist.

They have AI and the Ruby gave them personalities. You're acting like female AIs like Siri or Cortana don't exist. If anything, the most famous robot intellects are female.

Only flaw in that design is that she should have exposed legs, Since all the egg-robos don't have any paint covering their legs

Exactly.
Those aren't female, in fact you can change the voices to whatever you want.
AI has no gender

King is just some shitty Super Sonic boss? I haven't beaten the game with all chaos emeralds yet but please don't tell me the final zone is literally just some Doomsday tier shit? There's a real boss fight before the Super Sonic part, right?

>tfw realizing the Egg Reverie has the clock all fucked up and it just ticks through random numbers

Also I should hate the phantom ruby but blah blah gemstones. I hope it stays relevant in some way

See, that just provokes laughter. I find this shit funny, not rageworthy.

It's almost certainly gonna be some important MacGuffin in Forces.

The transition in Press Garden makes sense. Eggman builds a propaganda factory in the middle of a tree-filled garden area so he can use the trees to make newspapers and wanted signs.

That's why the miniboss has saw blades for hands and act 2 features a wood chipping gimmick.

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The phantom ruby is Infinite.

>her trusted Motobug, Jimmy
>Motobug
>Jimmy
rip

but why is it suddenly snowing?

>You are just now notice heavy rider has spike tits

They're both defaulted to female, though.

Nice conspiracy theory but in the sonic mania Livestream the devs already said that press garden is based on the early industrialization of Japan, so the paper mill and frozen gardens do go together

What do you mean suddenly? How would you know whether or not it's snowing while you're inside the factory?

I've found one bug, where the music stops if you get two near-consecutive extra lives (as in, you get the diddy started for a second time before the first one ends). Not great, but we live in the age of patches now. That, and the ones others have found, will soon enough be gone.

Means literally nothing. All humans default to genderless, doesn't mean humans don't have gender.
Something had to be the default and that is simply what they chose for marketing purposes.
It's just 1s and 0s

Why would a factory be roofless?

How many tokens are needed for each unlock?

still begs the question why Heavy Rider doesn't even get her own stage to fit her theme, which given her gimmick and design, I imagine would have been a medieval theme park.

>Phantom Ruby
I thought it was Disaster Ruby. That sounds better.

Technically all humans also default to female being as we share the X chromasome regardless.

I've had a fair few bugs so far.

>Sonic just falls through the ground and dies after beating GHZ act 2 boss
>Sonic dies trying to jump into the pistol thing that launches you to the boss in MSZ act 1
>Sonic phases through ring container in special stage and falls to his "death" while the camera goes batshit and zooms out on the stage

I'm not sure if OOZ act 2's boss instakilling you by pulling platforms into the oil is a bug or intended.

there's windows, i don't see any snow on them/falling from the outside.

Also, why are there ice machines all of the sudden? what's that have to do with making paper?

>Press Garden changes to a frozen japanese themed level for no reason
First level is inside the press, second is outside. Juts look through the windows.

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Because the game was made in a year with the precedent that it had to be 40% new zones and 60% old zones, one of them had to get cut and rider didn't get a stage

Then maybe it starts snowing after you beat the first act nigger, relax. Your theory already got debunked anyway.

>I'm not sure if OOZ act 2's boss instakilling you by pulling platforms into the oil is a bug or intended.
It should be patched either way. It's a cheap death on your first playthrough. Also OOZ's miniboss potentially flinging you up into some off-screen spikes is another cheap moment.

GOOD SHIT.

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Why the fuck is it raining in flying battery act 2? I mean I didn't see any fucking rain in act 1 so how could it just change out of nowhere

Who fucking cares.

I care about the porn.

Will AI gender be the civil rights movement of the future?

I always thought Eggman and the HBH were fighting for the gem

Fair enough, but I still don't get why there's suddenly ice machines.

Honestly though, it's actually my favorite new stage, both segments.

>they're fucking robots.

Well, their trying to at the very least.

the HBH were working for eggman but upon activating ZA WARUDO it 'knocked some screws loose' when empowering them, which is why they're fooling around at the end of Green Hill, and why Heavy King tries taking the ruby for himself in the end.

>figured heavy magician was just a master ruseman
>read the description and also find out it's a grill
>now whenever I see it I just think of a heavy that's a huge team hooligan fangirl

I think I prefer my autistic headcanon

Surly Sonic wouldn't trash Jimmy now would he?

what makes me more curious is why the Heavy King wanted the Master Emerald. And what happened to the super emeralds?

Only when sex bots become a thing, But AI rights is a subject that is doomed to fail, No-one wants Futurama robots, Governments will intervene on any AI rights activists with a suicide with two gunshots in the back of the head.

No, embryonic development starts genderless and then morphs depending on the hormones the person and their mom produced in the womb

>Six animals died when the infinity stone created the heavies.
Why does this give me such a boner?

>Get 7th emerald as Knuckles
>Can't glide no more (above 50 rings) without turning super

I've been spoiled by Sonic 3 Complete.
And I keep forgetting too.

Do you think she conjures up illusions of the "Team Hooligan" members to let them fuck her?

I like the one on the mottobug.

I encountered a part of the game that makes it crash in switch.

Can you report it to Sega or something? Also can't crashes be used to find exploits in hacking?

>Power Rangers colors
>Black ranger is absent
>Yellow and pink are still girls
They need to merge together to form the MegaHeavy.

what I hate more is that they do zone transitions and then kind of stop doing it. and then the actual zone progression doesn't make sense when you don't consider the Phantom Ruby warping time/space

Angel Island -> Green Hill: Phantom Ruby warp
Green Hill -> Chemical Plant: Phantom Ruby warp
Chemical Plant -> Studiopolis: You pop out of a manhole leading from Chem Plant
Studiopolis -> Flying Battery: Flying Battery passes by, allowing the player to hop aboard it
Flying Battery -> Press Garden: No transition
Press Garden -> Stardust Speedway: Phantom Ruby warp
Stardust Speedway -> Hydrocity: No transition, but you're suddenly falling into Hydrocity like Sonic 3. Makes no sense since Tiny Planet and Angel Island aren't anywhere near each other
Hydrocity -> Mirage Saloon: No transition, you're suddenly in Sky Chase mode
Mirage Saloon -> Oil Ocean: you get shot from one to the other
Oil Ocean -> Lava Reef: No transition
Lava Reef -> Metallic Madness: No transition
Metallic Madness -> Titanic Monarch: no transition

Mania's final boss is the best in the entire series. The bosses in general were actually amazing and the best overall too.