Sonic mania bosses mod#
Sonic mania bosses update#

Surmised, these robots are made up of a string of ten giant pink spheres, with the one up front acting as the head. I don't see the problem.Based on caterpillars, the Uber Caterkillers are simply much larger versions of the Caterkillers. Compared to these two the rest are fairly straightforward and easy, if lackluster. Gunner just has a bunch of fake difficulty because the autorunning means and rings you drop end up getting left behind and the game does very little to compensate for this, and the Spidermobile just does a really poor job of explaining what you need to do but is totally doable once you figure it out. But I think what's happening is the slightly more obtuse/difficult bosses (Heavy Gunner and the Spidermobile) are giving a false impression to blind players that all bosses are going to be obtuse and frustrating like this. I will admit wholeheartedly a lot of these bosses kind of suck, the minibosses especially can be duds. That being said I fail to see how most of these guys are apparently so garbage that people are 'dreading' reaching the end of the zone or are straight up giving up on the game because of it.

Sonic mania bosses mod#

I mod the game extensively (and as such have clocked in a playtime on Steam somewhere in the hundreds, to say nothing of my hours playing the Switch version) and have thus fought these bosses numerous times, so I know how they go down. Granted, there is probably a lot of bias at play here. I don't get the hate for these Mania bosses too much. I'd say it's definitely the weakest aspect of an otherwise great game.Į: On the topic of 3D bosses in Sonic games, I'll have to think about it some more but I can't recall the majority of them being good myself atm. But overall I think it could had been handled a lot better. I also do think most bosses in Mania do a better job of fitting the theme of the zone compared to most of the Genesis bosses. I do like that some bosses do bring in a bit of strategy in that not every boss is having to ram/bounce on top of the cockpit repeatedly some bosses in the older games (namely a handful of them in Sonic 2) can absolutely be cheesed in this manner to an easier-than-easy victory. At least the remaining third of bosses are the exceptions to the outlier (Metallic Madness Act 2 and Press Garden Act 2 are good bosses that avoid falling into the aforementioned problems). It's especially accentuated by the 3&K approach of having minibosses / main bosses after every act, rather than one boss per zone like in 1/2/CD.

Sonic mania bosses update#

Unfortunately the designers of Mania really prioritized having to wait for slim windows in between lengthy attack patterns/stages to only get one hit in for 1/2 to 2/3rds of every boss in the game and it can really drag the pace down (and prior to the update making it an option, seriously run down the clock to a Time Over death). Having to wait for a window to attack or put in the work to make a boss vulnerable had the trade off that if you know what you were doing, you could get at least two or even three hits in so you would only have to run the gauntlet of a specific attack pattern only a few times. Barring maybe a few exceptions, most of the bosses in the original Genesis games had mostly active hit boxes, even during attack patterns that made them hard to reach. Metallic Madness 2 Boss, you're too good for Mania.Īs a fan of Mania, I'm not really going to offer much resistance on this point.

Fuck bosses with satellite shields that are designed to fucking dare you to get an early shot in with bizarre crisscrossing hitboxes that are sweet littles lies.

There's like one scenario with the Green Hill 2's boss where you can use the upward slopes to get enough height with a spin/drop dash to arc over the pointy forearms, but it's pointless because its feet have no hurtbox on them to warrant the extra effort. There doesn't feel like there's a lot of physics tricks to sneak in hits either when it isn't your turn.

Most fights have a lot of these drawn out, upfront invulnerability/shielded phases that are just long enough to make me want to eat the hit instead to just get it over with. The problem is that describes almost none of them in in Sonic Mania. If you have a Sonic boss where the player can seize the tempo of the fight like, 70% of the time through skillful play at minimum and can get the opening shot to start unloading damage almost immediately without taking a hit back, that's generally a good boss.