How did you all enjoy this game? Favorite stages, bosses, characters, music?
I personally thought is was brilliant, easily in my top 3 Sonic games of all time. For a long time, I had given up hope that I could ever truly love the 'classic' style games that so many other people seemed to adore; I liked them well enough but never truly understood what made them so great. So before playing Mania, I went in with somewhat reserved expectations which were then blown out of the water by how amazing it was. I couldn't believe it. If this is what classic Sonic is, then I want more of it.
My favorite zone is easily Studiopolis. Following that, I also loved Stardust Speedway, Hydrocity, and Press Garden. I think all of the characters were handed excellently, although I still have to do a proper playthrough of Knuckles. They did great justice to my favorite character, Tails, so I'm very pleased about that. I don't know that I have a favorite boss, but the Hydrocity Act 1 fight was a really fun twist of events. Egg robos in general were quite fun. I'm not even going to bother trying to decide my favorite piece of music.
I personally thought is was brilliant, easily in my top 3 Sonic games of all time. For a long time, I had given up hope that I could ever truly love the 'classic' style games that so many other people seemed to adore; I liked them well enough but never truly understood what made them so great. So before playing Mania, I went in with somewhat reserved expectations which were then blown out of the water by how amazing it was. I couldn't believe it. If this is what classic Sonic is, then I want more of it.
My favorite zone is easily Studiopolis. Following that, I also loved Stardust Speedway, Hydrocity, and Press Garden. I think all of the characters were handed excellently, although I still have to do a proper playthrough of Knuckles. They did great justice to my favorite character, Tails, so I'm very pleased about that. I don't know that I have a favorite boss, but the Hydrocity Act 1 fight was a really fun twist of events. Egg robos in general were quite fun. I'm not even going to bother trying to decide my favorite piece of music.