Sonic Mania

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I was really hyped for this. Sonic 1-3/k and even the 8bit ones were my life and the reason for my sega collection But the more i see of this the more it just looks like so much has been added for the sake of it. I hope I am wrong.
 
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I bought it a refunded it. It was ok. It was sonic but I was expecting to see some new stages and decent full screen support.
Full screen was just blury

Might buy in sale...
 
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There are new stages, I think even the second stage is new? Then the Act 2 of each stage is a remix of the original.

It is blurry because the pixel art is still a low resolution and the FOV remains the same which means blow up pixels. It is rendering at the full resolution but the base art is low res.
 
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This is just such a poor platformer in comparison to rayman legends + mario and the original sonics.

It's a different style of game to Rayman and Mario, but I'm curious why you think this is very poor compared to the original Sonic games?
 
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No it isn't its different, different strokes for different folkes.
It plays great, runs great and if I'd not read about it I wouldnt have a clue that the DRM is even there.
Thats the whole point. We already know Denovo is malware. Another iteration of Secure-rom which was proven to destroy hardware. We can pretty much assume denovo will be doing the same.
 
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It's a different style of game to Rayman and Mario, but I'm curious why you think this is very poor compared to the original Sonic games?

Oh I know it's a different style of game, I played sonics non stop growing up. I replayed all them recently inc sonic cd which is probably my fave ( along with replaying the rayman games / mario's / kirby..etc with the mrs)and I never got bored but in mania the level construction just doesn't flow, I find them dull with lame trap placement. Titan monarch is quite possibly the worst levels in any platform game i've ever played. I know it's been highly praised and received mainly favourable reviews but I don't get it myself. I like the direction they have chosen with the style and it has some fun elements but it's lacking consistency.
 
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Thats the whole point. We already know Denovo is malware. Another iteration of Secure-rom which was proven to destroy hardware. We can pretty much assume denovo will be doing the same.

How is Denovo malware? It's DRM which is always a controversial issue, and in this case Sonic Mania's delay seems to be attributed to it's addition, which in itself seems like a silly move. Why delay a game for two weeks losing the launch hype to add costly and unpopular DRM which can now be cracked relatively swiftly? It seems a wrong headed move and to actually cost them more (and also created a news item in itself). How can you leap to the conclusion Denovo is destroying hardware? No-one likes it, especially for the perceived performance hit, but is it actually damaging? I have yet to see solid proof of that, other than for game historians.
 
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How is Denovo malware? It's DRM which is always a controversial issue, and in this case Sonic Mania's delay seems to be attributed to it's addition, which in itself seems like a silly move. Why delay a game for two weeks losing the launch hype to add costly and unpopular DRM which can now be cracked relatively swiftly? It seems a wrong headed move and to actually cost them more (and also created a news item in itself). How can you leap to the conclusion Denovo is destroying hardware? No-one likes it, especially for the perceived performance hit, but is it actually damaging? I have yet to see solid proof of that, other than for game historians.
Pretty much agree with what you said. The issues with Sonic Mania has been hilarious. I mean the the devs had no say in implementing Denuvo. (https://twitter.com/CFWhitehead/status/902573147592900608) What on earth were Sega thinking?
 
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