Along the way, they find their other friends, who join them on their adventure.Įventually, Sonic and his group get attacked by Dr. The Phantom King then uses the Phantom Ruby to restore the Hard Boiled Heavies, leaving the heroes to begin hunting them down in Green Hill. However, they catch up to her too late, as she gives the ruby to the wrecked remains of the Phantom King, among the Phantom Heavies. Suddenly though, the Heavy Magician reveals herself to have been disguised as the other prisoner and steals the Phantom Ruby, leaving Sonic and his new teammate to chase her down. Upon freeing them, the hedgehog sides with one of them. These are none other than Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, two of Sonic's old friends who helped him on a previous adventure. Eventually, he finds it above two familiar figures trapped in a trap box.

The ruby then floats away, and the hedgehog tries to catch it. However, he finds out that the Phantom Ruby has survived the past incident and followed him home. In the aftermath of the War to Take Back the Planet, Sonic is transported back to Angel Island in the past. Sonic finding Mighty and Ray trapped in Angel Island Zone. Main article: Sonic Mania#Plot Encore Mode However, the game was subject to criticism for the lack of new features in the new mode.

However, the new content is separately included as a downloadable DLC named 'Encore DLC'.Īs with its predecessor, Sonic Mania Plus received positive reviews, with most praise being directed towards the inclusion of Mighty and Ray and the gameplay in Encore Mode. Around the time of the release of Sonic Mania Plus, a patch was released for the base game which includes many changes and bug fixes from Sonic Mania Plus. Since Tee Lopes was busy working on the soundtrack for Sonic Mania Adventures, one of the members of Hyperkinetic, Hunter Bridges, worked on the new music tracks along with Falk Au Yeong. Hyperkinetic Studios was part of the development of this update. This re-release adds two new characters to the game, Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, as well as a new game mode, Encore Mode, and expands the Competition Mode up to four players. The content introduced in this version was also made available as downloadable content to digital copies of the original game for all platforms. It was released in July 2018 both physically and digitally for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One consoles and as a digital-only release on Steam for the PC.

Sonic Mania Plus ( ソニックマニア・プラス, Sonikku Mania Purasu ?) is an expanded version of Sonic Mania. The ultimate celebration of past and future.

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