Ranking EVERY Sonic Special Stage

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  @chaomix · 2 years ago · pinned

  Fill out the tier list for yourself and post in in our Discord server! (Links in description) <br>Also, HUGE thank you to Opera GX for making this video possible! <br>Get a browser that’s literally better at everything: <a href="https://operagx.gg/chaomix4">https://operagx.gg/chaomix4</a>

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• BI

  @bigbrobird116 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAFhBNCPOY&amp;t=1797">29:57</a> In defense of Color’s special stages, there is a penalty for picking up orbs before you need them. Most orbs do not respawn after you collect or knock them out. So, if you knock out a line of yellow orbs when you are supposed to collect blue orbs, you can’t recollect those yellow orbs, hurting your chances of beating the stage.

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• MR

  @MrNeedleM0use · 2 years ago

  Gonna be real. The mania and the Sonic 3D blast (saturn) as well as the rush ones are honestly amazing imo.

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• EN

  @enjoyerofcake2123 · 2 years ago (edited)

  In the original genesis games at least, Sonic 1 special stages aren&apos;t accessible in Scrap Brain at all. Meaning you only have 10 attempts to get the 6 emeralds.<br><br>In Sonic 2, Sonic and Tails have separate ring counters so Tails hitting spike balls isn&apos;t necessarily on you. But playing with Sonic and Tails forces a higher target of rings so *shrug*.<br><br>Sonic 3D Blast Genesis doesn&apos;t let you fall off the edges of the bridges, they are still on rail walls.

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• TH

  @theantgre · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAFhBNCPOY&amp;t=780">13:00</a> oh look, the draw distance from Sonic Frontiers was actually inspired by this game! How genius.

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• CO

  @confused_mista-n6r · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAFhBNCPOY&amp;t=840">14:00</a> chaomix, what are you talking about? You can&apos;t fall off the bridges in the special stage. They have invisible walls to the left and right. It&apos;s phisically impossible to fall off the bridge.

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• CA

  @castform7 · 2 years ago

  I really liked getting good at the base Mania Special Stages. I replayed Encore Mode a while back and wondered how I got 6 Chaos Emeralds the first time. Those ones don&apos;t mess around.

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• LI

  @littleguystar · 2 years ago

  I need to stress that Sonic 4 Episode 2 has a full Coop mode, and as thus the Special Stages gain a whole extra bit of teamwork and being competitive. Perhaps not a tier change but it&apos;s certainly a different vibe trying to mix working with your friend and use the boost rather than just zooming through alone.

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• LO

  @loziclec.1295 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;d personally consider Game Land in Sonic Colors Wii to be Special Stages. You access it by collecting Red Rings, and beating the levels gets you a Chaos Emerald.

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  @noahmaldonado5461 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAFhBNCPOY&amp;t=1070">17:50</a> crazy this was an official sonic game. For a second i thought he accidentally included sonic adventure 7 in this list

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• SH

  @ShadowXeldron · 2 years ago

  I think the point of the special stages (at least in the earlier ones) is to be technically impressive, kind of like Sonic Team showing how they can make the Mega Drive sing. Sonic 2 and 3 try to do sprite scaling (an effect that Sega really liked back in the day) while Mega CD actually has an extra DSP chip for hardware accelerated sprite scaling. The cool thing about old hardware is that you had developers trying to see how much they could squeeze out of low specs, which I don&apos;t think you see as much these days.

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• KO

  @KOTSOSMC2002 · 2 years ago

  You did a disservice to Sonic 4: Episode II by not even mentioning the Combination Dash, the tether Sonic and Tails use during those Special Stages. They&apos;re a very unique gimmick and playing them co-op with a friend and trying to come up with the best route to take to maximize your ring count using this tether is unbelievably fun.

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