Indigo Rush

This. The "3D" that people praise the Boost formula for is little more than behind-the-back side-stepping and drifting; and when they actually get into the real open 3D exploring and platforming, Sonic is an absolute nightmare to handle, and you end up relying on enemy targets to dash towards to navigate the 3D space. It's a disaster. Sonic's 360 degree movement is just not up to snuff for a true platformer, which stinks because they used to be. Whether or not there's merit to the boost, it's reliance on 2D is to prevent it from becoming a glorified Sonic Dash experience.

What he means is that the Saturn Special stages are all 3D. This one is Mode7 style pixel art with a 3D model in it. There's a difference. Gross. (Im kidding, you're fine lol)

It definitely has that "sound" down right, but the composition doesn't seem as strong. Maybe it'll be like the HBH theme where it grows on me over time. Heck, Sonic 1-3K's music might have been the same for me back then, too. What I do know is that it sounds good.

Fam, I'm just confused as to how you came to your conclusion when it's got none of the mechanics of the old special stages. It's a new thing, and you're calling it a combination of the two. I'm in perfect rights to call you out on that. If this was the halfpipe and you hated the halfpipe, then continue to hate the halfpipe, bruddah. I just can't even place what two special stages you're thinking of, because it's incredibly nebulous at this point. The Forces argument is hardly relevant right now. The laundry list of Forces hate is based off of stuff we know. Mania's special stage is something we haven't seen yet. If it were something we've already played in a game previously, then yeah man go at it. If you happened to play the special stages and they suck, then we've got something to work on. Just... It's a new thing man. Like. Just pointing out it's not the same thing. If it doesn't sound fun then aight. Just don't call it something it's not.

Either sell em online or give me a lossless PDF so I can print it and bind it myself: whatever the case is, I neeeed this.

Aside from having a Mode 7 track and there being a UFO to catch... I'm not sure how this is a Sonic CD Special Stage derivative? It's a racetrack like F-Zero. The blue spheres make you faster. If anything, this is closer to Sonic Heroes because you need to catch the Emerald. But without the janky controls. It's not the rotating maze. It's not the memorization-heavy halfpipe. It's not the 3D map that's Blue Spheres. It's not the UFO hunt in a flat 3D world. Not sure how you could even make the association beyond surface level reactions and just going into it with a negative mindset. And, y'know, not reading things. They're taking the visual cues from the other ones, not the gameplay mechanics. Whelp, don't let me ruin your pessimism!

Yes.

I wouldn't consider it's existence a spoiler. I'd consider the cutscenes itself a spoiler. The only thing left to sort out are the folks who doubted that there'd be one based off of the games file size.

Cleaned up the screenshot. Thank you, Photoshop.