My entire live and uninterrupted Encore Mode playthough of Sonic Mania Plus and with all 7 Chaos Emeralds collected.
Sonic Mania was released in August 2017 and became the highest-rated Sonic game in fifteen years. Many reviewers saw it as a return to form for the Sonic series following a number of poorly received games released after the 1990s.
Encore Mode is a harder version of the original Sonic Mania. It does away with lives completely for starters. If you 'die' whilst controlling a character, that character will be lost and has to be unlocked again. But on the plus side, you can switch between and can play with two characters on the fly, which always switches up the gameplay and varies the approach to take to tackling a particular level when pairing certain characters. Enemy placements, colour palettes and paths are also tweaked and the Chaos Emeralds are far harder to obtain. If you lose all your five characters, it's game over.
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