Sonic Mania (PC) - A Bubble Shield strat! (Hydro 2 first ramp skip)

3,271 views · Published 14 September 2017 · 0:25 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Werster · 2017 · Gaming

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We were having a discussion about how I love Fire Shield and how some other prefer Lightning, so of course it came up that Bubble is almost entire useless. So I went looking for a use and found this little skip. 

The reason I'm putting this in a separate video though is...I'm almost certain it isn't faster lol. But it looks cool!! And that's all that matters for now. It is faster in a vacuum, but the time spent getting a Bubble Shield would make it slower, currently. However, it probably would be faster in a full game run, because you would start act 2 with a Bubble Shield. Still exploring ideas and such, we'll see how useful this is in due time.

Edit: Optimised this a little bit, and made it a few seconds faster. Still not sure about this for an IL, but for full game runs it'd def be faster I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7IGV4k01U

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