Ever wondered what it'd be like if Sonic 1 just focused on those chaotic, spinning special stages? This demo strips away the regular zones and throws you straight into the rotating mazes where you're scrambling for rings while the camera keeps flipping on you. It's disorienting at first—I kept running into bombs because I misjudged the perspective—but once you get the hang of it, there's something weirdly satisfying about nailing a perfect run.

The original special stages were always a love-it-or-hate-it thing, and this demo cranks that up by making them the whole experience. No Emerald rewards here, just pure, unfiltered "why am I suddenly running upside down?" energy. If you ever wanted to practice those stages without replaying entire zones, this is basically a playground for it.

Fair warning: the motion sickness potential is real if you're prone to that sort of thing.