Sonic Mania Plus unboxing, Encore Mode footage and details

SEGA hosted a live stream this week in which it showed off a bunch of footage from Sonic Mania Plus. The Switch version was unboxed, Encore Mode was shown, and more.

Here’s the full recording:

We also have the following details:

– Looks like you always have 2 characters at all times
– Character swapping mid stage is in
– New stage gimmicks for Mighty and Ray, look and layouts for stages are also changed
– New harder special stages
– Mention of harder bosses
– Looks like lives are gone
– Mighty has a Ground Slam with AOE, also makes hidden TVs fall
– Has First hit spike immunity when in a ball
– Ray had Mario World cape like gliding

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