Sonic Mania

>enjoy playing Sonic Mania
>get to this boss
>stop playing and drop the game

The game was so close to perfection before this.
Bummer.

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>First thing in the game that might actually kill you once or twice shows up
>Retard user has to give up because this extremely easy game for literal children is too hard for him, even though it's the easiest 2D Sonic game

Good riddance, you don't deserve this game.

>Hear about how hard this boss was from SM theads
>Finally get chance to play game
>Got to this boss
>Beat him on my second try!

Is everyone here that terrible at video games?

This boss is literally not hard.

It's easy to spot the guys who cheesed the Submarine boss from oil ocean. God forbid you might actually have to use your brain.

hi etika

if you don't know you're supposed to do it can be pretty hard. took me a while to figure it out before I beat it.

>Implying retards like OP ever got past Chemical Plant in Sonic 2

It is a good boss. Actually Sonic Mania has some of the best bosses in the series. It just needs less auto scrolling timed bosses and more bosses that are dictated more around the players pace rather than the games.

>Sonic Mania has some of the best bosses in the series
oh fuck off. the bosses in Sonic Mania have more RNG than any other game. maybe they look cool and flashy to you but those qualities don't make for good gameplay.

How do they have more RNG than any other game and how does it negatively affect the boss fights in Mania?

Nice meme kiddo, did you learn it today?

>Being this bad at video games
>Having to justify being bad at video games by making it seem like you're in the right for hating it.
kek

MUH SPEED RUNNING

I am really trying to figure out what you mean by RNG

Do they do a variable amount of damage? No cause that doesn't make sense in a Sonic game. Do they do different patterns at random, with some patterns being much harder? No, they all* function on pretty stable patterns. Do you deal variable amounts of damage to them? No, Sonic hits a specific amount of times, though it not being 8 hits does chaff my booty. Do they have impossible to time attacks that you are better off trying to predict instead of react? No, not really, however Sonic bosses almost always function under the best strategy of "Attack mindlessly and collect rings when you get hit".

I don't see what's RNG.
>*Crimson Eye (Titanic Monarch Act 1) does choose at random which direction he flows, and one direction makes him easy to hit and one direction makes him hard so there's that.

They already abuse things like skipping triggers for bosses like the Metal Sonic fight. Not like other older games aren't wrought with RNG.

>No, they all* function on pretty stable patterns

You can quote and post silly pictures as much as you want, but if you don't point out where he is actually wrong with an example it really means nothing.

Casual filter thread?

Name one Mania boss, outside of Crimson Eye and Mean Bean Machine (Which I had forgotten), that operates outside of a simple pattern that does not vary between plays.

>Metal Sonic
>Studiopolis Act 1 boss
>Studiopolis Act 2 boss
>Chemical Plant Act 2
>Titanic March Act 1
>Metallic Madness Act 2
>Dustopolis Caterkiller
those are all the bosses with RNG attack patterns. the fight times have a radically high standard deviation as a result.

People had difficulty with this boss? It was honestly just a souped up version of the original Oil Ocean boss, and I only died once.

I was legit shocked when people were complaining about the difficulty the new Oil Ocean boss after Mania came out.

I dont understand. The bosses in the game were really easy guys.

Is that it? The time it takes to kill them? I don't see how this is an interesting complaint.

>Metal Sonic
I guess the robots not going into balls for you can fuck you out of a few seconds, but that only matters to speedrunners, a minority population.
>Studiopolis Act 1 boss
Same as before, if the rocket he can hit back is the last one every time, then that's a few seconds, which only matters to speedrunners.
>Studiopolis Act 2 boss
Chicken Man is a fair point, a long string of no-sun is no fun.
>Chemical Plant Act 2 and Titanic Monarch Act 1
Mean Bean and Crimson Eye is fair, already mentioned
>Metallic Madness Act 2
Gacha Robotnik is easy, you don't even have to kill the Gacha's in a row, you can have them all out at once if you want, I don't know what you're talking about.
>Caterpiller
Caterpiller's early moves are always the same, comes background to foreground, foreground to background, background to foreground, tunnels to either the left or right, comes from the tunneled side. After that there's some RNG to vary gameplay and it should only matter to speedrunners.

Jesus fuck so you want every boss to be stable and mechanically driven?

The only really bad one is the lift. Maybe the Hydrocity Mobile too.

>Not having all the chaos emeralds by then

While this CAN be a pain in the ass if you suck, the game stopped being fun at Flying Battery Zone Act II

>getting all the Autismeralds on your first run
Sorry, not all of us have played Sonic CD

Just turn into Super Sonic/tails/Knuckles and destroy it.
It's not that hard.

Wait. Was this supposed to be hard?

Maybe you just suck?

>Chicken Man is a fair point, a long string of no-sun is no fun.
If you aren't knuckles it doesn't even matter. You can still hit him consistently even with Sonic as he bobs up and down.

>keep hearing about how hard this boss is
>beat him on my first try
>beat my first runthrough of Mania with over 20 lives left
Holy shit, how casual are you faggots?

Yes.

One of my favorite things about Sonic Mania were the bosses. I forgot how much fun Sonic bosses used to be.

The only ones you listed that have "radically high standard deviation" are Studiopolis Act 2 (only as Knuckles, though) and Titanic Monarch Act 2.
Plus, if you're a speedrunner, you skip the Studiopolis Act 1 boss.

0 rings

>Being competent at a child's game means you're autistic

This was bait, I just wanted a Sonic Mania thread ;)
I'm not bad at the game or anything.

Yes.

I can't believe anyone had any sort of trouble with this game.
It's the easiest genesis-style Sonic game ever made.

>Get damaged
>jump 3 hits while invulnerable
>pick up coin
>repeat for every obstacle
How can anyone find Mania difficult?

It is bullshit however thats they never fixed horizontal slide crushing.

Glad to know you're so casual you can't even beat a Sonic 2 boss, let along complete Sonic 2 halfway through.

>mfw speedrunners become professional Puyo Puyo players just to improve their Mania runs

Oh no, you stopped playing? How on earth will Sonic Mania recover now?

>merely pretending

Fo this decade.....yes

>pick up coin
>up coin
>coin