Rather than earning lives the old fashioned way, players begin with Sonic and Mighty or Ray and have the ability to swap between the two characters on the fly as long as both are on screen and are standing on the ground. ![]() Zones have new color palettes, harder to reach special stage rings and more difficult special stages, but what really sets Encore Mode apart is how lives are handled. ![]() Ray plays similarly to Cape Mario from the Super Mario series and has a bit of a learning curve to his wingsuit-like ability. Mighty and Ray have their own distinct abilities, with Mighty having a supercharged equivalent of the bubble shield attack and invulnerability to spikes. ![]() This time, however, players are treated to a brief Angel Island stage and the return of Mighty and Ray. Encore kicks off with Sonic seemingly returning from the end of Mania mode with the story starting all over again. As the name implies, the mode takes you through an encore performance of Sonic Mania with some distinct differences. After the break, read about the new additions and enhancements, as well as the contents of the physical release.Įncore Mode is the star addition to Sonic Mania Plus. If you’d like to read our initial review, click here. Sonic Mania Plus is everything that made the original Sonic Mania great, and more. Typically a reviewer would take this moment to pose the question: “So does Sonic Mania stand up one year later and are the new additions worthy of a double dip or DLC download?”, but I’ll just let you know right now that the answers are “yes” and “yes”. This definitive edition answers fan demand for a physical release while adding gameplay tweaks, expanded multiplayer, a new mode and two additional playable characters. Now, a year later, SEGA is releasing a new version of the game dubbed Sonic Mania Plus. The original game’s release in 2017 was delayed by two weeks on the platform, compared to home consoles, largely believed to be because of SEGA’s implementation of the DRM… and when it did launch on Steam, fans complained of slowdown and forced always-online features, to name but a few things.Īll in all, it sounds like a bad time for PC players, and we hope that a fix is being prepared by SEGA to overcome these issues soon.When I reviewed 2017’s Sonic Mania, I praised it as being the best 2D Sonic game in decades. This isn’t the first time Denuvo has caused problems for Sonic Mania PC players. ![]() “ caused by a trigger in the time attack menu when you scroll down till the last levels, which is not closed properly, which causes Denuvo to continue writing in its section until the game is closed, which causes massive game slowdown,” Voksi writes on Reddit.Īnd, while we would certainly never endorse cracking games or circumventing copy or DRM protection on video games, Voksi – during an attempt to do just that with Mania Plus – claims to have discovered a DRM looping issue preventing legitimate users of the game to get past the menu screen. According to hacker Voksi, the problems are almost all entirely down to “an insane amount of bloated Denuvo code, compared to the previous version”. Reports have hit the Steam community forums moaning about issues with slowdown and freezing on the main menu screen, once they install the Plus DLC. Sonic Mania Plus may have brought back classic characters Ray and Mighty from the dead, but on PC the expansion pack appears to have also revived the gameplay-destroying horror of Digital Rights Management software Denuvo.
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