SONIC CD

Shared ideas such as pinball-themed stages and a robotic Sonic were explored in totally different ways, the Spin Dash worked differently, and Tails was nowhere to be found. But by far the biggest difference was in the structure of the game, as ’s best ending requires players to find a way back to the past in each stage, in order to find and destroy Robotnik’s machinery to create a good future. Where ’s stages often felt like obstacle courses that encouraged the player to get to the goal as quickly as possible, ’s stages invited more exploration and backtracking.