Am I just terrible or are the special stages hard? I've played Sonic 2. I've gotten all the emeralds. But the speed the special stages in this game go seems absurd. Everything just blows past me before I can react.
They are not as hard as they first seem.
Just practice them a little, you'll eventually be able to guess the patterns the game is throwing at you. Mind you I didn't say you need to memorize the level, just the possible patterns. If you manage to do that you can clear any stage the game has.
- Try to never stay in the center too long, you'll likely get hit by a bomb
- Jump left and right, don't run left and right
- If you keep tapping the direction of the wall you're in, you'll stay stable in the same place
- Each section has 3x the required amount of rings, don't get discouraged if you miss a line of ring at the start of a pattern.
- Don't worry too much about having all the emeralds on the first playthrough. You can replay green grove and go for the missing emeralds quite easily on a cleared savegame
in reality those stages are really easy and the music doent's seems to help but if you want some energetic music for the special stages i will recommend you the wow soundtrack for this game made by me, those are an banger tho. (the special stages from the genesis ver or 3D blast are good but i like the saturn music more)