Mighty is generally a very helpful character to play as but Ray is a lot more fun to tool around with. Ray requires a little more finesse as his novel twist is that he can fly in a way reminiscent of Mario’s cape power-up from Super Mario World. Mighty is a bruiser and can charge straight down with a second tap of the jump button in the air. I know - more of Sonic’s friends are usually a bad thing for the franchise, but here, Mighty and Ray are brilliant additions that tease out more fun and depth to the branching levels. If you’ve never encountered the joys of Sonic before, it offers the ideal entry point to the legendary blue hedgehog’s exploits.The Encore additions are focused around two new characters: Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel.
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Every second that you spend playing Sonic Mania Plus reinforces the sense that it’s a labour of love, made for exactly the right reasons (the superb, utterly 1990s-sounding music and bold colour palettes and graphics drive that point further home). If you’re a Sonic fan, Sonic Mania Plus is a must-buy: it’s great value, and more importantly shows what could have been achieved had Sega ignored the vagaries of fashion and stuck with the franchise’s original format. Each level also has two 3D bonus stages, and every area includes a boss to battle – and while at first they’re pretty easy, as the game progresses they become more varied and inventive.
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The general inventiveness of the level-design breeds much more gameplay variety than classic Sonic games – jumping onto giant syringes in the industrial zone transforms vats of liquid into bouncy rubbery gel, while climbing into TV broadcast vans beams you up to a different part of a level in the airwaves. Plus there are several paths through each level, bringing loads of replay-value (as does the Time Attack mode). While there are plenty of the sequences which will be forever associated with Sonic – fast, long downhill stretches punctuated by loop-the-loops, springs that launch you miles into the air, countless pinball references and so on – there are many others which display much more ingenuity and variety. Sonic Mania Plus has plenty of those: the most impressive aspect of the game is its level design. These two obscure characters do at least mix up the gameplay with their unique abilities: Mighty has a great ground-pound and is immune to spikes, while Ray has a glide move which takes a while to master but can open up previously inaccessible areas.
Both will be familiar only to the most committed of Sonic-geeks: they only previously appeared in the 1993 arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog, rarely spotted beyond Japan.
Two of those characters that you acquire in Encore mode (and can play as elsewhere in the game, along with stalwarts Knuckles and Tails) are new: Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Squirrel. When your last character dies, it’s Game Over – and you’re returned to the start of whichever level you had reached. But as you progress through Encore mode, smashing up TVs to get bonus rings and power-ups, you also accumulate extra playable characters, which you can swap between. Mania mode takes a conventional approach for a Sonic games, since you’re allocated a set number of lives.
The main new addition is Encore Mode, remixing the main game’s 12-zone Mania mode and tweaking the rules slightly. The most impressive aspect of the game is its level design.
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