One part of Sonic Mania that wasn’t revealed yet was the Special Stages. Nobody knew if they were going to be new ones, or revamped old ones. Well, at long last, we have gotten our first look at them, courtesy of a reveal by SEGA at their San Diego Comic Con Sonic Mania panel. The stages are inspired by the SEGA Saturn and CD, where you chase down a UFO to collect a Chaos Emerald. They also announced that the game will have cutscenes similar to Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and it will have a Sonic CD-inspired opening animation that we will get to see on August 14th. As for more information on that Special Stage reveal, we’ve included all the related tweets down below.
Introducing: #SonicMania’s Special Stages, inspired by Saturn and CD! Prep those Chaos Emerald-hunting skills… #SDCC17 pic.twitter.com/tGMvmtbTZe
— Sonic Stadium ✪ The Sonic the Hedgehog Community (@sonicstadium) July 23, 2017
Collect rings for more time and Blue Spheres for more speed, all to chase down that UFO for a Chaos Emerald! #SonicMania #SDCC17
— Sonic Stadium ✪ The Sonic the Hedgehog Community (@sonicstadium) July 23, 2017
And some new music for the occasion! Special stage track is called “Dimension Heist!” #SonicMania #SDCC17
— Sonic Stadium ✪ The Sonic the Hedgehog Community (@sonicstadium) July 23, 2017
Direct-feed audio will be uploaded via the Sonic social channels over the weekend. #SonicMania #SDCC17
— Sonic Stadium ✪ The Sonic the Hedgehog Community (@sonicstadium) July 23, 2017
This confirms Super Sonic will be in the game! Yes!
Lets also hope for Hyper Sonic, Super Tails and Hyper Knuckles
When the Super Emeralds were brought up Webber reconfirmed that they don’t exist anymore. Could be wrong about that, but fairly sure that’s one of the things that was brought up.
Regular Tails and Knuckles aren’t even playable. They’ve been shoved aside (yet again) in favor of blank slate custom hero.
You know, I never did like Sonic CD’s special stages, I’ve always preferred Sonic 2’s and Sonic 3’s, but eh, it’ll just have to deal with it.
Awesome! Sonic CD’s special stages were always my favorite. This game just keeps getting better 😊
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I love the music for these Special Stages but I detested the Special Stages in Sonic CD. I’ve completed all Special Stages in all Sonic games to dates except for yes you guessed it……Sonic CD.
Was hoping for a revamped Sonic 3 type Special Stage tbh but this isn’t enough to cast a cloud so all is good.
I’m sure these Stages will grow on me in time.
to date not dates.