4 zones

>4 zones
So what exactly is the point of this game again?

Shills. Shills everywhere.

That and desperate sonicfags

There's 12

Now remove all the rehashes

There's 12.

11

Yeah, save for the boss, Hydrocity was a COMPLETE cut and paste. Other than a stupid fucking boat, it's the same level. All the rest of them are completely different stages, just with the same background tileset.

its copy paste

Whatever, fag.

Why do people pretend holding down right and gotta go fast (straight into a trap) is fun?

Autists
Just look at the fanbase

Act 2 is the copy-paste level in Hydrocity, Act 1 is the new stage

If you hold right and are punished for it... maybe that's NOT how you're supposed to play? user... you know you are supposed to AVOID the traps... right? That's the point of the game.

>WHO THE FUCK PLAYS THIS MARIO GAME, WHEN YOU JUMP INTO AN ENEMY YOU DIE. STUPID GAME

Of the 25 acts in the game, about 7 of them are direct ripoffs of old acts in some shape or form. If you believe that, say, Chemical Plant Act 2 is a "rehash" in any way other than the tileset being familiar, that's quite simply wrong

Of the 26 bosses in the game, 8 of them borrow conceptually from earlier titles in a heavy way - stuff like the enhanced Final Zone boss in Metallic Madness or the enhanced Death Egg boss in Titanic Monarch. It's worth noting that although these 8 "borrow" from earlier concepts they're often quite different (see: Hydrocity) and one of these 8 is actually Mean Bean Machine so you can probably let that one off on the "rehash" front just because of the creativity of the content it's rehashing

7 brand new Special Stages, no rehash here

32 Blue Sphere stages. 16 of them are from S3K (or the original Blue Sphere), 16 of them are new. Admittedly a pretty bad slant towards old content here, 50/50 mix

These are the actual "rehash" statistics. Make your own judgement call on whether Sonic Mania is worth buying folks instead of just falling for anti-Mania (or heavily pro-Mania) shills

There's a difference between jumping into an enemy and a game about going fast punishing you for actually going fast.

The game punishes you for trying to go fast and not knowing the level.

The game is not about going fast. The game is about getting to the end of the level alive. Going fast is a reward to those who are good at the game.

Autism

>if you want to have fun and go fast in a game about going fast you have to endlessly replay the same 12 levels over and over and over and over again


who /autism/ here?

Fuck games that try and teach you how to play them properly.

HAHAHAH AUTSITM XDD
fuck off already I'm tired fucking trying to shit on sonic, git gud and shut up

Did you expect to be able to speedrun a game on your first playthrough?

That, or you could just get gud. With the new widescreen functionality in Taxman's Sonic's the game is far less punishing as you can see further ahead of you than you could before. With the streamlined level design and the ability to see further ahead, you should have no problem beating the game and being relatively snappy about it with as few lives lost as possible, unless you literally have the reflexes of a sloth.

You might have had an argument for the 4:3 Genesis Sonic's because in those games you have about a quarter of a second to react at high speed, i.e. only those with slightly-better-than-average reactions could cope with it blind. Nowadays there's no excuse. You simply need to git gud, no memorization necessary.

>Forcing rote memorisation of every single trap of every level is teaching you how to play properly

Please nigga, games were tiny back then and had to be made harder so people would replay them. Don't pretend this is some masterclass is game design because you it isn't.

You write like an invalid.

>Sonic Mania is released on consoles
>Sup Forums has tons of great discussion
>Sonic Mania is released on PC
>nothing but bitching and bait from PCfats
really jogs the noggin

you argue like one

>12 Zones

ftfy

Actually there aren't any new zones.
Studiopolis was cut-pasted from a Rom hack called Sonic 1: The Next Level
Mirage Saloon is just Dust Hill/Desert Dazzle which has already been in 2 previous games
Press Garden is R2 from Sonic CD
Titanic Monarch was an extra level that got cut from Taxman's CD port

Okay, then you can just play the game slow.

There are a few bullshit placements in the classic sonic games but they are really overblown, the vast majority of the level designs are perfectly fair, it's obvious when the game wants you to go fast and when you're in a more platforming focused segment.

Cut it out mate, some poor gullible fool will probably believe this

>memorization meme
press down you nigger

found the autist

Did you see how many people were begging for download links on release before we knew the game had DRM? I'd imagine a ton of the people kicking up shit are those who were just gonna download the game and are salty they can't

They're pissed they can't pirate the game because of the online drm.

Fuck off already stop going into threads you don't like sick of it

Calm down and take your meds, autismo

REEEE STOP COMING INTO MY THREADS REEEE

back to your safespace aspie

The only medicine for autism is a 12 Gauge to the back of the head at birth, behind the shed.

You don't know who I am and therefore have no clue if I've even made an argument in this entire thread.

Kill yourselves and get better taste in games too

wew you said kill yourself, I was wrong about you young man, clearly you DO belong here in the cool club! You better upload a picture of yourself with your membership badge and remember the first rule of Sup Forums is we don't talk about it ;) don't want those peskie normies coming around do we? xD