Sonic Mania

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How did this game do in Japan? Not just sales but reviews too. Anyone know?

purple rings?

Yo, so apparently there are these new Purple Rings found?

it must be 4th gen again cuz sonic is better than mario

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What purple rings?

Like special stage rings but purple

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must be some Debug mode shits

Okay what is the point of these rings, and I'm pretty sure people have went through the whole fucking game.

Where the hell is this shit coming from?

Sonic was always better than Mario.

This is now the Purple Ring thread.

We need the top autists on the case.

Honestly at this point, I don't see how Mario can even compete. Odyssey looks like garbage.

people are hunting for the secrets taxman said we havnt found yet.

Kawaii.
I'm sad that we won't see more quality Sonic animation like the opening of Sonic Mania.

Tee lopes is composing music in his stream right now by the way

youtube.com/watch?v=nsvBYqQZpgA

Is he an illegal?

If you actually thought that OP in the other thread was anybody but an attention whore, let alone the most visible fucking face of the Mania development team, you are fucking retarded.

Nah he is a completely legal hue

Oh, he's Portuguese. Nevermind

literally pasted from taxmans twitter

Cute of you to repost that, but no.

>Completed story mode with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Sonic & Tails
>All golden medals
Time Attack is the next step right?

Nobody in Japan cares about Sonic
not even the devs

Destroying the 10 Capsules in Stardust Act 1 is the next step imo.

So I just completed my first save file, Sonic & Tails, 7 emeralds collected and true final boss defeated. Before I move on to beating the game with the other characters, I thought I'd turn my attention to dear old Blue Sphere. Sadly beating the game didn't unlock a level select for that (apparently you only get it from beating all the Blue Sphere stages, for some godforsaken reason). So, questions:

Does beating a Blue Sphere stage remove it from the rotation for that save file? My guess is no, since I swear I encountered some a second time during my playthrough even after perfecting them.

Regardless of the answer to the previous question, is there a way to manipulate which Blue Sphere you're going to enter from the checkpoint pole?

cute

Guys I don't understand the transition from Metallic Madness 1 to Metallic Madness 2
Why does it suddenly turn Present despite it being Past before?

You have to essentially GOLD or not a blue sphere stage. Otherwise you have to get atleast all medals silver to make all the silver gold!

None of them are in the new stages, they're all in the returning stages.

WHAT THE FUCK
Can you catch them?

What do they do when you touch them?

why?

Is this really happening? A new discovery!

Any idea on what they do?

The green hill one was in last thread

nvm apparently you have to do some other things as well. whatever that means. Guess we'll find out when the PC version is datamined

They only seem to appear if you have the emeralds already, it works like the normal Big Rings except you play the stages in reverse order, you get all the emeralds again but you keep the ability to turn Super and it says "Sonic can now be Super Sonic" after every emerald you get
Not sure what you get once you have all 7 Extra Emeralds

What? I know the game makes a distinction between beating a stage (silver) and perfecting it (gold) and that the latter is obviously better, but other than that I don't understand what you're trying to say.

When you play a blue spheres stage and complete it. It gets taken off the rotation untill you do ALL OF THEM. So go for golds first time round !

does getting all the golds do anything?

GO NORTH MY WAYWARD SON, GO GET THEM ALL

Only gives trophies/Achieves/Street cred.
Just go for silver if you want debug and other stuff!

So the stages ARE taken off the rotation when you beat them? I guess there's a lot of repeated elements in them, then.

Why the fuck are people so gullible. Hot damn.

The guy's being vague as fuck, the game's been out a week, and everyone and their mothers have already combed over the stages with debug mode.

There's no mention of special purple rings outside of this site, and the cunt's being unnecessarily vague when everybody's first choice upon such a discovery would be to share the fuck out of the exact details.

you're getting amazed at literally photoshop

Some of the crazy ones are amazing.

Heck ive only done a bunch of the unlockable mania ones with GREEN AND PINK SPHERES!!!

aaron said on stream that not everything has been discovered.

stop saying vague shit like it matters

>Sup Forums is retarded
What else is new?

are there any sound mode secrets? you know what i mean - you play certain tracks in the sound mode to unlock secret art work or something.

anybody want me to stream some blue sphere before mania pc comes out?
I'm a bitter pcfag

if this is BlueSphereAnon then yes

;^)
If you're curious on why there was a hiatus, the answer was I got a little tuckered out on doing Blue Sphere. Sorry.

You really need to do them fucking green spheres in mania!

you wanna give a precise location to where you found them?

I'd love to, but again, no consoles, bitter PCfag.

Well i mean eventually. Its awesome once you understand the new patterns for ringing them!

This concept art from Sonic CD looks awfully familiar, doesn't it guys?

HOLY SHIT
IS THIS THE MOST OBSCURE REFERENCE?

fun fact: taxman is a god

>YFW THE PURPLE SPECIAL STAGES UNLOCK SUPER SAIYAN GOD SONIC

>yfw it actually unlocks Limit Breaker Sonic

>implying it doesn't unlock Jesus Sonic

Any sites uploaded the raw OST? I don't mean shitty YouTube links or a few downloadable songs here and there, I mean the full raw OST in whatever sound format it's in originally with unedited filenames all in one zip file.

I've gotten the fourth one, once I get all 7 I'll post the locations using debug.

>Blue Super Sonic was intentional
>Limit Breaker Sonic is next
>Purple Loop teleports you to Planet Vegeta Special Stages

So has anyone else been able to find the purple ring or is it bullshit?

I've been playing the levels normally haven't found a single one in GHZ. user here is doing debug mode though, or using a no save file so don't take my words for granted.

I think this time it's inferred that you're just entering the interior of the base. No time travel.

it's bullshit
we're a few days away from pc version being datamined to hell and back anyway

I'll post all I know about the Purple Rings in a moment.
Just have to find the one on Lava Reef

Why not make a webm, or video of you finding a purple ring, or something everyone is calling your ruse bs.

If it's bullshit I swear to god user, you don't know what I'm capable of, you might think you know, but you don't

Post picture of the screen with timestamp

This makes no sense.

So you said you need to have all the emeralds collected in order for the purple rings to appear. BUT in debug mode which you're using alongside & Knuckles mode are no save file only.

Meaning you can't have found one. As Green Hill Zone does not have enough special stages alone to get you all the emeralds and there's no way for you to get back to GHZ as the game doesn't keep your save afterwards.

So the Purple Ring thing is probably fake desu

Sonic Mania is the comeback of the vidya century so I hope Forces manages to at least be decent like Generations. Sonic's best entries haven't been regarded as anything more than steps in the right direction for so long that this warm reception is warping my brain.

It's probably that way because Sonic is an anthropomorphic critter, and Japan could care less about furries.
If Sonic was a cutesy chink style anime boy with hedgehog ears and spiky hair, he'd probably be more popular in Japan.

Considering that one of the locations he posted is impossible to get to without Debug, you probably need to get the emeralds by spawning the big rings.

>Japan could care less about furries
this is untrue

I have a question for you guys:
Do you honesty and sincerely think that Tee's song remixes on the game are the definitive versions of each respective song?

yeah honestly, save for Stardust Speedway 1, 2, and Boss (my autism wants the huehues for the first two and i'm not a fan of the boss theme)

yep I agree with you

Yes. Especially Stardust Speedway boss. Definitive version of SS. No other can possibly top it.

Yeah, especially the Lava Reef songs

Yeah

Pretty much, Metallic Madness comes to mind in particular.

Stardust Speedway still has a bunch of incomprehensible HUES for act 1 and act 2 is so good it makes up for the lack of them.

how is the betatesting consolecucks?

You forgot this user.
> strawpoll.me/13789838

i know, but i listen to this and think "fuck that's good"
youtube.com/watch?v=wuKp6itNQdE

Yes.

Eh, I think they're fine mixes, but aside from Lava Reef 2 sounding way better than I remember Hidden Sanctuary ever sounding in S3&K, they don't necessarily replace the originals for me. The all-original tracks are the real highlights.

If you're playing as Sonic do you prefer having Tails follow you or not? I noticed most people I've seen play go for Tails following you but I much prefer Sonic alone.

Personally I think the old HUES sound kind of out of place in that video, the new ones fit the slower R&B style of the remix more.

Japan has furries too you know.

they just aren't as cultlike and segregated as they are in the west, because it's more generalized as a facet of anime related shit

Most people go for +Tails because it's the canon way.
Did you not beat the canon story user? Wtf is wrong with you?

>Get super tails
>It's just tails glowing gold

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE FLICKIES SEGA

I go with Tails on the first playthrough to hunt for secrets and reverse my mistakes, but I always do solo Sonic for every Sonic run after.