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I’m glad to see Sonic Mania’s special stages made first place but on a related note, I feel it’s worth mentioning that the special stages in Sonic Mania Encore deserve recognition; the increased difficulty and bigger maps made it all the more rewarding when you finally got all seven. In Mania mode, most of the emeralds can be acquired at a Mach 2 Speed if you take the right route whereas with Encore mode, the only emeralds I was able to get at Mach 2 were Stages 5 and 6 while the others required Mach 3 because of how far away the UFOs start from Sonic.
It’s nice to see Sonic Mania has reigned supreme in not only being the best 2D Sonic game, but with having the best special stage ever. Such a great game 👍
Thank you Nathaniel for giving Sonic Rush Adventure its flowers! It is still the most fleshed out special stage of all time, giving you time to learn the mechanics, and the boat upgrade feature changes everything! It definitely deserves its praise!
This rank is so spot-on! I liked the Sonic Rush special stages cuz the controls are very responsive and Sonic 3's will always stay as my top favourite. I do however don't like Sonic 2's (Especially the Genesis version) as it was more frustrating.
FYI - Sonic Advance has a flip move you can do that DRAMATICALLY increases your hitbox. It's a big help, and lets you do stuff like collect all the rings in those squares you fell through, and guarantee hitting all rings in a path. Not saying it's all that great a special stage, since I didn't like it much either, just the flip move makes it a lot more bearable, and I find is practically required to get through.
I'm glad to see some love for the 3D Blast Genesis special stage. I recently played through the game again, making sure to get all the chaos emeralds, and the special stages were a seriously fun time. 3D Blast as a whole is just a really great game once you get the hang of the controls.
I’d say the difficulty curb in mania’s normal special stages isn’t perfect, as the one I (rarely) fail on the most is the 5th one, while the 7th is just as easy as the 2nd one or even the 1st one
But really though, imagine you're waiting at the dentists office, playing Sonic Lost World on the 3DS and all of a sudden you get into a special stage and have to get up in the middle of the room and move around the place
I like these stages when I was younger I had no idea what were the point of the stages mainly because I mostly played Mario games more than sonic games.
I'm not sure Sonic is "pushing the plane himself" when you get the blue ring. I think it's a afterburner/jet upgrade, and the implication is that the plane is now going so fast that the character has to hold on for dear life.
Man, I beat the sonic rush special stages with my fingers and a broken touch screen and it was still one of the funniest experiences I've ever had. How were they beat by some funny polygons?
3:17 funnily enough Mario Kart Wii obviously came after Sonic Heroes, so i know this is just a simple joke but there's a chance Nintendo copied SEGA on this aspect
