Sonic Heroes - Super Hard Mode

Описание: Here's Super Hard Mode. All 14 stages as Team Sonic with harder stages than Team Dark. There's no ranking system, but you need to play all levels continuously without losing all your lives.
You'll notice almost immediately with needing to Light Speed Dash across rings near the start of the level that the platforming challenge has increased alongside the combat. Most of the Egg Pawns will have the metal shields. This is a trend that will continued throughout the stages.

You'll also be doing stuff like timing homing attacks on the metal flying robots to not get spiked and comboing that with another homing attack and/or Light Speed Dash to progress a lot of times.

There's also times where you'll be using Blue Tornado to get closer to a Light Speed Ring cluster.

Of course Casino Park and Bingo Highway have an annoying segment each too, the first with the green panels being the way to progress and having monsters on them. Bingo Highway generally everywhere, but specifically the Bingo tables being more treacherous.

Rail Canyon and Bullet Station make the rail grinding segments a lot harder, and the transitions. You'll be using Tails more to stop on the spot to avoid trains and avoid a death by running off the edge of a rail.

Thankfully a lot of the skips in Frog Forest are still there, but expect more weather based shenanigans and harder combat on small platforms in both this and Lost Jungle. Lost Jungle is where the combat starts to ramp up more through the introduction of Hammer enemies, and a lot more of them.

Hang Castle starts with you needing to light torches, and it's osmething which continues, and of course there's the same general difficulty spike. The torch layout is still the same for the phantom bridge, so you could skip, but I was convinced it would be changed (the flame colour changed). Mystic Mansion has the same torch gimmick and adds hammer enemies on some smaller platforms, and makes the later web section be a three switch puzzle - use Tails as the leader here.

Egg Fleet adds more cannons, and more larger cannons at that too. Also more of the flying transforming mech enemies. This is a Tails rips through everything with Thunder Shoot level, for sure.

Final Fortress of course adds all the tricks in almost every segment. More cannons, more top tier enemies, more difficult platforming. The hardest laser segment so far. Thunder Shoot will get spammed in some segments to build up Team Blast, for sure.

Beat Final Fortress and you get Team Sonic's credits, but with Sonic Heroes playing instead of We Can.

I give a quick run through of all the scores I got at the end to wrap the playthrough up.

0:00 - Seaside HIll
6:20 - Ocean Palace
13:20 - Grand Metropolis
21:35 - Power Plant
29:30 - Casino Park
37:10 - Bingo Highway
45:10 - Rail Canyon
52:15 - Bullet Station
1:02:05 - Frog Forest
1:10:15 - Lost Jungle
1:19:25 - Hang Castle
1:29:00 - Mystic Mansion
1:39:55 - Egg Fleet
1:50:00 - Final Fortress
2:04:20 - Ending