The fastest time overall in the game however is still. The run beats a 2 year WR from speedrun legend Mike89/SegaJunkie, whos 14:58 is the only other sub 15 minute run with Sonic.

Still nothing compared to Sonic 3 having the chance to max out your lives counter before a fresh playthrough finishes, especially thanks to easy bosses, bonus stages and special stages rewarding you rings and lives, and the abundance of special stage rings. A truly amazing run from Zaxon here who is also in the top 3 for a plethora of Sonic games such as Spinball, S3K, Sonic 1, Sonic Mania, Sonic CD and Sonic Mania Plus. Came out of my first playthrough with over 50 lives, thanks to farming them with all the rings and 1UPs hidden around (and getting Super Sonic before Studiopolis Act 2, making the following special stage rings a free 50 rings for about 70% of the game). He had a temporary warning on his top 3 runs on, but it is no longer there. Sonic 3 really dialed back the difficulty from the first two games (especially since it's all over the place between the two games that make it whole) and Mania feels like it pushes back with trickier platforming from the first two games, on top of a number of much more engaging bosses you can't just spam with mercy invincibility and the pressure of a time limit with longer and intricate levels.īut again, still on the easy side, especially with the Super forms being so easily accessible. Argick's Sonic Mania commentary is some serious manic energy. I've even replayed the classic games a bunch before getting Mania on Switch it's still even above Sonic 1 and 2 for difficulty even though Sonic 1 and 2 both have no save system and no rings for the final bosses. Originally posted by naisugai spy:Its not even harder than the original gamesI mean, I'd say it is.

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