/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1522412
If you want "more than a level to clear", play The Legend of Zelda or Final Fantasy or something like that. Those were designed with large-scale exploration in mind from the very beginning.

Sonic has always been about high-speed platforming; the proportion of high speed to platforming can change with each game (compare Sonic the Hedgehog's platforming-heavy gameplay to Sonic 2's speed), but the core mechanics must remain. Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, and every Sonic game since then (with the debatable exception of Generations, which is beyond /vr/'s scope anyway) has deviated from this.