They also have moves exclusive to themselves. Like the original playable characters, Mighty and Ray play similarly to Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel are featured as playable characters.Main article: Sonic Mania#Gameplay New features The text "YOU'RE TOO COOL!" will then appear. Later, in Mirage Saloon Zone, Sonic's crew celebrate their victory, with the Heavy King surprising them with a sundae. However, Sonic and his friends use the Chaos Emeralds to assume their Super States and escape, knocking Eggman into the rift in the process. Immediately after, the Phantom Ruby creates a space-time rift that sucks everything in. If the player has managed to collect the seven Chaos Emeralds, the Phantom Ruby will start to go out of control while Eggman tries to escape in a vehicle.The text "TRY AGAIN" will be shown as well. After that, the Heavy King will be featured on a black background, juggling with the Chaos Emeralds the player did not collect, as two of the player's crew members will stand in front of him either disappointed or angry. He will then use it to power himself as Sonic's group and Eggman leave. If the player has not managed to collect the seven Chaos Emeralds, the Phantom Ruby will be stolen by the Heavy King immediately after Eggman's defeat.After destroying the Phantom Egg, the game's ending will depend on the player's progress: Traveling to the planetoid and entering the re-built Titanic Monarch Zone, the heroes find and fight Eggman wearing his Phantom Egg. Eggman has seized Little Planet once again. Not giving up after this, the group continues their adventure from there, defeating various of Eggman's machines, including the Hard Boiled Heavies, along the way.Įventually, Sonic and his friends discover that Dr. Deciding to use the gem once again for his own plans, the doctor takes the Phantom Ruby and uses it to send Sonic's crew to Chemical Plant Zone. When the heroes go there to check it out, they find that Eggman has discovered the surviving Hard Boiled Heavies with the Phantom Ruby. Eggman in his Death Egg Robot, though they manage to defeat him, with the robot falling into the ground until it gets stuck in a cave.
Along the way, they find their other friends, who join them on their adventure.Įventually, Sonic and his group get attacked by Dr. The Phantom King then uses the Ruby to restore the Hard Boiled Heavies, leaving Sonic and his teammate to begin hunting them down in Green Hill Zone. However, they arrive too late, as the Heavy Magician gives the Phantom Ruby to the wrecked remains of the Phantom King, among the Phantom Heavies. Suddenly however, the Heavy Magician reveals herself to have been disguised as the other prisoner and steals the Phantom Ruby, leaving Sonic and his new teammate to chase her down. Upon freeing them, Sonic sides with one of them. These are none other than Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, two of Sonic's old friends who helped him on a previous adventure. Eventually though, he finds it above two familiar figures trapped in a trap box. The ruby then floats away, and Sonic tries to catch it. However, he finds out that the Phantom Ruby has survived the past incident and followed him home. In the aftermath of the War to Take Back the Planet, Sonic is transported back to his dimension's Angel Island. Sonic finding Mighty and Ray trapped in Angel Island Zone. Main article: Sonic Mania#Plot Encore Mode Since Tee Lopes was busy working on the soundtrack for Sonic Mania Adventures, one of the members of Hyperkinetic, Hunter Bridges, worked on the new music tracks along with Falk Au Yeong. Hyperkinetic Studios was part of the development of this update. However, the new content is separately included as a downloadable DLC named "Encore DLC".
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This re-release adds two new characters to the game, Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, as well as a new game mode, Encore Mode, and expands the Competition Mode up to four players.Īround the time of the release of Sonic Mania Plus, a patch was released for the base game which includes many changes and bug fixes from Sonic Mania Plus. The content introduced in this version was also made available as downloadable content to digital copies of the original game for all platforms. It was released in July 2018 both physically for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One consoles, and as a digital-only release on Steam for the PC.
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Sonic Mania Plus ( ソニックマニア・プラス, Sonikku Mania Purasu ?) is an expanded version of Sonic Mania. The ultimate celebration of past and future.