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DoctorWhat posted:Does anyone know where I can find Giant Rings in Metallic Madness Zone? I only need one more emerald and I'd like to get it before too long! There's a real easy one in Act 1, when you first get thrown into the background, ignore the first two things that toss you back into the foreground and use the last one.
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MarkeyJester is never gonna stop making weird and cool Sonic romhacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxtkAacbYM
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Aug 17, 2017 00:34
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How do clear saves work? Is it possible to go back and track down the emeralds I never got so I can unlock the true ending? Do the giant rings I've already found come back?
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Aug 17, 2017 00:39
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Yes and yes. You can just grind the GHZ 1 ring forever if you like, although I find it more fun to re-explore the stages to try and find them.
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Aug 17, 2017 00:42
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CandyCrazy posted:In Press Garden Zone Act 1, get to the spinning cylinder, and drop down. Turn left to go through a brief area that leads to a Giant Ring. It generally took me 20-30 seconds to get there per attempt. THANK YOU
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Aug 17, 2017 00:47
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absolutely anything posted:There's a real easy one in Act 1, when you first get thrown into the background, ignore the first two things that toss you back into the foreground and use the last one. Thanks dude! That one did it. Got 'em all now!
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Aug 17, 2017 00:47
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I mean it has a entirely different vibe to it but man I think the new final boss theme outclasses doomsday. It's so loving good
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Aug 17, 2017 01:06
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Gammatron 64 posted:Saying that only hedgehogs can go Super and trying to make Shadow into some kind of badass (lol) is so strange I dunno, the character that can, at a whim, turn himself into a sixty pound, bladed bowling ball that can carve through plate steel at mach 1 seems pretty fierce to me.
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Aug 17, 2017 01:17
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:I mean it has a entirely different vibe to it but man I think the new final boss theme outclasses doomsday. It's so loving good It's literally a remix of Fist Bump, the vocal theme for Sonic Forces. There's some Kirby-grade Lore poo poo going on![/spoiler]
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Aug 17, 2017 01:21
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The new Super theme is so aggressively triumphant I love it. I also love that it isn't a 5 second loop.
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Aug 17, 2017 01:24
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Enable & Knuckles mode then level select to the true final boss as knuckles for a hidden ending  Someone please screencap this in 4k
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Aug 17, 2017 01:25
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Kurieg posted:The new Super theme is so aggressively triumphant I love it. I also love that it isn't a 5 second loop. I kinda wish it would just do the Speed Shoes treatment to the existing level theme but it's still a huge improvement over the 3K loop.
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Aug 17, 2017 01:26
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DoctorWhat posted:It's literally a remix of Fist Bump, the vocal theme for Sonic Forces. There's some Kirby-grade Lore poo poo going on![/spoiler] I actually saw someone raving about it before someone pointed out where it came from/what it was a remix of. Their response was "Oh, well I don't like it anymore." This fandom is going to eat itself.
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Aug 17, 2017 01:48
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It feels good to be solidly in the middle of the sonic fanbase and loving both styles of games. I tell you what
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Aug 17, 2017 01:55
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Beat the game for the first time tonight. Metal Madness does a great job of being "that loving mechanical zone" that you hate, perfect callback to S1 and 2. I thought TMZ was OK, but the crushing deaths were loving obnoxious. It's like they know that's the only way they'll kill the player, so they added in a ton of them. I ended up clearing just under 3/4 of the blue sphere stages in my single play through, almost all of them Perfect. I enjoy those things. Going to start another play through soon and try to get good at this game. It deserves it.
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Aug 17, 2017 02:02
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Crushing deaths wouldn't be so obnoxious if they had fixed the 25-year-old uncrushing death bugs!
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DoctorWhat posted:Crushing deaths wouldn't be so obnoxious if they had fixed the 25-year-old uncrushing death bugs! Are you guys referring to those bullet shaped up/down platforms? I kept dying when trying to walk between them; turns out jumping is the way. If you look closely they have conveyor belt surfaces that hold you in place. 
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Aug 17, 2017 02:10
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Are you guys referring to those bullet shaped up/down platforms? Any of them I died twice to the platforms on Chemical Plant Zone where the water rises.
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Aug 17, 2017 02:34
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Three game overs on Mirage saloon act 1. What a whore of an act, since spin dash is so flaky.
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Aug 17, 2017 02:35
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Nice review of Mania at the Onion AV Club. http://www.avclub.com/review/90s-are-alive-and-better-ever-sonic-mania-259467
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Aug 17, 2017 02:35
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School Nickname posted:Three game overs on Mirage saloon act 1. What a whore of an act, since spin dash is so flaky. yeah just dont use it. that level is the only stain on this otherwise beautiful game.
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Aug 17, 2017 02:36
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School Nickname posted:Three game overs on Mirage saloon act 1. What a whore of a level, since spin dash is so flaky. Yeah, you can only briefly tap spin dash once. Otherwise you'll fly right off. Hurts 2B fast. anime was right posted:yeah just dont use it. that level is the only stain on this otherwise beautiful game. MS2 is pretty loving great though, almost too short.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Any of them I died twice to the platforms on Chemical Plant Zone where the water rises. Those hit boxes are right hosed
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Aug 17, 2017 02:37
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Electric Phantasm posted:Any of them I died twice to the platforms on Chemical Plant Zone where the water rises. theres literally a checkpoint where if you hold right you straight up die by pixel crush death lol
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Aug 17, 2017 02:42
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By "uncrushing" i mean getting caught by a crusher as it opens up and you barely fit in and then you die even though it's opening up.
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Aug 17, 2017 02:42
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It's so weird how insanely bad Hydrocity 1's level design is and how insanely good Hydrocity 2's is. Like even the bosses, H1's is awful and H2's is amazing. It's almost like with H1 the devs are saying "see? this is how it all could've turned out, but we wouldn't do you like that" Also, holy poo poo Mirage Saloon with Knux 
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Aug 17, 2017 03:32
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I finished this today with a Sonic only run so here's what I think: I like it. The challenge is pretty fair, starts out easy and ramps it up. The final zone has some annoying enemy placements but the old games did too. One thing I didn't like about some of the acts, the final two in particular, is that the levels are just so huge I end up getting a time out and I think that's dumb. I guess I could trim it down once I learn where everything is but it sucks I can't explore without running out of time. Also blue sphere is bad and I can't wait until I unlock everything so I don't have to do it anymore. Special stages are really good though. Overall I really like it, the old zones are fun, the new ones are good, and I wish I could play with the sonic 3 flash attack instead of drop dash and still save my game. Weird that I cannot. And about the bosses, I heard a lot of mess about them but they weren't hard or bad? The only ones that gave me some issue is Stardust Speedway act 2 and Green Hill act 2 but that one only because I thought I had to avoid it until the actual boss started. Nope.
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Aug 17, 2017 03:59
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I really wish I could use both the Sonic 3 Insta-Shield AND the drop dash instead of having to choose between the two. I was hoping all gold medals would give you this but I guess not.
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Aug 17, 2017 04:05
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well, I mean. They activate with the same button.
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Gammatron 64 posted:I really wish I could use both the Sonic 3 Insta-Shield AND the drop dash instead of having to choose between the two. I was hoping all gold medals would give you this but I guess not. wait for the pc "full control" mod
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im sad that i cant play this game
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Stairmaster posted:im sad that i cant play this game *staring longingly at my steam key card while I pet my Sonic statue*
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Aug 17, 2017 05:06
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*In extremely gabe newell's voice* My favorite zone was the Flying Battery
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So I decided to play Sonic CD for the very first time without reading any manual or watching a tutorial. I HATE THIS GAME, WACKY WORKBENCH UGHHHHHHHH. Then I decided to google how to get a good future and then OH! This game is about exploring!
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Beat the game in one sitting without all the chaos emeralds. I'm guessing there's a real final zone if you have them all. Thoughts: Game's difficulty curve and level design feels more like Sonic 3&K and not 1 or 2 or CD. This is a good thing. Bosses are fun and the music is fantastic. Maybe I got lucky but the game feels way less pit heavy than the Genesis games. Still plenty of easy crush deaths though.  My only real gripe is some of the remixed zones don't feel that remixed, even in their second acts. Maybe it's because I just played through Sonic 3 Complete but some of the remixed zones that are from that almost felt like straight remakes. I also kinda wish Sonic 1 got a second remixed stage. Why can't I use the drop dash, super peel out and the insta shield all at the same time? 
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Beat the game yesterday with only 4 chaos emeralds as Sonic alone. Went back and got the rest today, then beat the game again and got the secret ending. drat, what a good game. The music's good, the levels are good, the bosses are good. My only real complaint is that there isn't MORE. Also as much as I love blue spheres and have every stage from S3K burned into my brain, they're kindof weird as the bonus stage. I still need to get all the emeralds and beat it as every other character like I did in S3K (and then endlessly steamroll the game with super characters), and I am absolutely looking forward to it. The bosses in this game are really fun to fight, especially since you can't just kill all of them in like 5 seconds like most other Genesis-era bosses. Favorite zone: Studiopolis, act 1 has the best music and both of the bosses and stage gimmicks are some of my favorite things in the game. Least favorite zone: Press Garden or maybe Titanic Monarch, first one just seemed like a low point of the game after a long string of highs, not that I don't like it, and the 2nd one felt more like if you tried to make Carnival Night the final zone. Still not sure how I feel about it, really. Though the true final boss is amazing, so I think that made up for it.
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Oh hey there's a thread for this, rad. Finished with the emeralds last night and all I can say is , even if the first section of Mirage Saloon was a blight on everything because apparently being anywhere near the bottom right of the screen when the train starts to scroll Just Kills You or somethingI think I cheesed some of the bosses though-- Lava Reef 2 I ended up just treating like Big Arm from Sonic 3, where I'd just wait for him to drive by and just jump at the right height to hit him under his attack hitbox, but the way he was running around made me think there was something I had to do with the flame jets?  That said, pretty much every robotnik boss was fantastic in "I can't believe they're doing this callback" way. Between the Bean Machine and Hydrocity Zone,
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Oh hey uhh--plot...question??? Endgame spoilers obviously So...after S3K, Sonic and Tails come back to Angel Island and the Heavies have unearthed...a Time Stone? Or something? It looks like it bends time and space since it warps you to Green Hill from Angel Island, and then eventually you end up on Little Planet (past), end up going to the future (aka the present, Stardust Speedway Act 2 is definitely Present, not Good/Bad Future), and then you fight all the Heavies, and fight the last Heavy while Robotnik and it fight over the purple time stone...infinity stone maybe...thing? And then Sonic wins and probably gets warped to Sonic Forces maybe? Am I the only one that cares/is thinking about this? I always really liked how S3K told its story without any words, and this one is no different, albeit maybe a little less straightforward than "Knuckles got tricked, Eggman stole the Master Emerald, go get it back"
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I think I cheesed some of the bosses though-- Lava Reef 2 I ended up just treating like Big Arm from Sonic 3, where I'd just wait for him to drive by and just jump at the right height to hit him under his attack hitbox, but the way he was running around made me think there was something I had to do with the flame jets? Don't think that was cheesing. That's exactly what I did.
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Went back and got all the gold coins in Blue Spheres today. Had 14 silvers by the time I beat them all originally. That 4 sphere; 16 rings stage is a bastard to figure out. I had to use unintended things to get it finished. At the end of my third playthrough now. Knuckles was very good. Anyway that my sonic mania story, thanks for reading.
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