Weather Globe

The Weather Globe is the sixth boss of Sonic Mania. The battle begins at the end of Studiopolis Zone Act 2 with a widescreen television turning on the background, while Dr. Eggman enters the arena with modified Egg Mobile with spinning windmill plates and thunder ray on the bottom.

Boss guide
The arena contains large background wall with sideways poles on both sides and widescreen television on the center. It will turn on and starts up with weather forecast of Eggman's private television. Eggman uses a Cluckoid on the monitor to activate one of three weather conditions, while hovering around the arena. Cluckoid gives following weather announcements:


 * The windy weather condition causes the player to rise up onto the top of the stage where Spikes on the roof will await the player, if they do not grab onto the poles at the side of the monitor. Eggman will move around the arena faster while rising further below Spikes.
 * The heat weather condition causes beams of light to occupy a majority of the room, except for where Eggman is being positioned, giving the player an opportunity to provide a hit on the Egg Mobile. Placing the playable character on the heating parts of the arena damages the player.
 * Thunder cloud condition that makes Eggman summon clouds that shoot bolts of lightning at the player. Clouds themselves do not damage the player until they start create lighting bolts.

The player can do Spin Jump on the Egg Mobile anytime of these moments. Prior the weather announcements and during thunder cloud conditions, the player can barely reach the bottom side of the Egg Mobile. During the windy weather condition, the player can provide few hits while hanging on the sideways pole by letting go right when Eggman is hovering above. Doing this will bounce the playable character back to the pole.

After eight hits, Eggman escapes in his Egg Mobile, while the weather forecast gets interrupted and transitioned to the test card. After releasing all Animals from the floating Capsule, the monitor shows a news report of the Flying Battery Zone returning.