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New Sonic Mania Patch Adds Stage Transitions and Other Updates

Sonic Mania

Sonic Mania was an excellent Sonic release when it first debuted, but that doesn’t mean it was above needing any extra polish. That’s why a new patch has been released that takes care of a few issues fans had with the game when it first hit store shelves.

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Starting off, a huge issue fans had with the game is being addressed. It previously lacked stage transitions between every stage, using smaller animations instead to keep the stages locked together. This would help send through additional pieces of story as you played through the game, which explained smaller plot holes that would arise otherwise. Now the patch has added these for each level, which should please fans looking for the extra context.

In addition, cutscenes may now be skipped, menus have been altered, you can disable the Time Limit, and there are brand new overhauls and animations spread throughout the rest of the game, as fans have taken notice of. While they’re small changes in general, it helps to polish the game even further.

There’s still the matter of Sonic Mania Plus as well, a new physical version of the game if you choose to buy it, or you can get it as a paid DLC update to the digital version that you already have, with new characters Ray the Flying Squirrel and Mighty the Armadillo as well as new and remixed stages, hitting all major platforms this year.

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Brittany Vincent

Brittany Vincent is the former News Editor at Twinfinite who covered all the video games industry's goings on between June 2017 and August 2018. She's been covering video games, anime and tech for over a decade for publications like Otaku USA, G4, Maxim, Engadget, Playboy and more. Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, she’s a freelancer who survives on surrealism and ultraviolence. When she’s not writing, watching anime or gaming, she’s searching for the perfect successor to visual novel Saya no Uta.

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