

What about the new version of Old Sonic? Old Sonic It's perhaps a little too reliable on the perfect route to make the game look its most flowing, but that's been true of modern Sonic since Sonic Adventure 2.īut you're probably aware of Unleashed-style Sonic. Interestingly, getting hit doesn't lose all of your rings – it just affects your score at the end of the level. There's even a bonus if you make it through unscathed.

The chances of death from the bottom of the screen are minimal, but meeting a time-sapping wall with a spring back to your left are genuine 'curse, pause, retry' moments.Įverything you do here is graded when you finish the act, with time, rings and hits taken into consideration before you're given a letter rank. The idea is to avoid plummeting down into the bottom of the route. There are a few sections where Sonic is travelling quickly to the right, jumping between grind rails and consecutive platforms each lower than the next. Above: Apologies for the same screenshots - Sega hasn't released any new ones for a while
