I forgot to mention this, but S.A.G.E. begins tomorrow and ends on August 14th.
Makes me want to play Sonic 1, 2, and S&K3. I get depressed whenever I die in a last before last before last gen game and turn it off after a single death and play a different game.
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The only thing I find difficult about those games is Sonic 2's last boss and the bonus stages for that game. Admittedly, I absolutely suck at the last boss and I blame Sonic 2's way of accessing the stages as the reason why I suck at them. Sonic 2 is the only Sonic game I can think of that literally punishes you for accessing the special stages so I usually avoid them. In the last time I played that game, I was so mad that accessing the special stage before the boss at the mining level caused me to lose all of my rings and my shield with no way of being able to grab any rings before the boss fight. Then there's the fact you need to beat a stage with 100+ rings to get any continues at all and since Sonic 2 is the only Sonic game with a boss battle that causes me to lose an embarrassing amount of lives, that really fucking sucks. >_< The special stage and continues mechanics were so much better in Sonic 1, CD, and S3&K.