Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life If you ... an entirely new game icon on your Switch home screen, it simply uses the existing Sonic Mania one. Nice. Is Sonic Mania Plus worth buying if ...

Sonic Mania Plus is the definitive enhanced version of the original Sonic Mania's digital release, presented in a pristine collectable physical release. Building off its momentum and critical ...

Last year’s Sonic Mania was a superb return to form for one of gaming’s most enduring icons, and Sega has now ... rings without the rewards of extra lives and feature-unlocking bonus stages.

Sonic Mania launched on console and PC in 2017 and, in 2018, was updated to Sonic Mania Plus. The upgrade to Plus ... instead of Sonic and pals accumulating lives that get spent every time they ...

Ever since Sonic Mania dropped late last year, it has breathed new life into a blue hedgehog in ... Only a few short months later, Sonic Mania Plus has fallen into our laps, bringing with it ...

Sonic Mania's Plus expansion doesn't bring quite as much ... There's also a new special mode, but the big difference is in how life and death works in Encore mode. In this new mode you don't ...

Sonic Mania Plus is out, and those that pick it up or ... In Encore mode you technically only have one life, but you can use all five characters in the same file and have backups in case one ...

Their addition is the main new feature for Sonic Mania Plus, with Mighty having a powerful ... modernise the game’s approach to things like lives or the occasional instant or unforeseeable ...

But Sonic Mania Plus, a refined, expanded version of last ... a new campaign that also introduces a new way to play in which, instead of lives, you gradually assemble your cast of characters ...

where extra lives could be stashed away to all but ensure that a game over scenario couldn’t occur. In Sonic Mania Plus, extra lives cannot be earned – only characters can be added to the team ...

From the opening title's splash screen, Sonic Mania's presentation is intoxicating ... they take on a new life with a higher degree of detail and animation quality. The new effects add an extra ...

Mania mode takes a conventional approach for a Sonic games, since you’re allocated a set number of lives. But as you progress ... Sonic Mania Plus has plenty of those: the most impressive ...