Upon collecting every last one, you'll be rewarded with one of the coveted Chaos Emeralds you've been after. Put simply, your goal is to collect every blue sphere on the planet, the total number of which varies between each of the seven different planets on offer. These all remain for S&K, but a yellow sphere is also added, which acts as a spring. Laid out neatly on the checkered ground in the Sonic 3 Special Stages were only four different types of object, blue and red spheres, white bumper spheres with a red star on them, and of course the rings. You can alter his direction with the left and right buttons, but only in straight right angles, so you can head in four different directions as you go round and round the planet continuously. The view is forever positioned directly behind your character, looking down on him slightly as he heads forever forward across the smooth terrain, and regardless of which direction he's running across it in. Be quick if you want to stay in!Īs is usually customary, the Special Stage is in pseudo 3D, and this time each one occurs on a small checkered planet.
This begins to slowly ascend shortly after the stage begins and is constantly following you up, ready to catch you and return you to the main game should you be consumed by it. In order to exit this bonus stage, either make your way to the very top, where you'll just leave the area, or fall downwards into a kind of winding laser stream. Along the side walls of the shaft are pinball flippers, which will sling you across when you press a jump button whilst sitting on them, and large triangular bumpers. There's an unmarked black gumball that is not an item, but a bumper, bouncing you off when you hit it and a perfectly clear gumball, which does absolutely nothing when you grab it. There's also a grey shield with a ring on it, holding 10, 20, 40 or 80 additional rings (depending on how high up the shaft you are) and a magenta 1-up gumball worth an extra life. The orange one is the fire shield, blue, water shield and the gold, the lightning shield. The three shields are available, each with a "B" written on their gumball. These will return you to the regular game with the amount of rings you have managed to collect, but any one of the blue blocks that make up the perimeter borders of the arena can also change into a goal circle as well, after you touch it three times (first changing from blue to yellow and then yellow to pink after each touch). The objective is to grab as many rings as possible by collecting the few that are around the arena and finding your way into the slots, before you touch a "goal" circle, which at first are only found in little pits in each corner of the arena. It puts you in a large, square-ish arena that constantly rotates, with various objects dotted around to knock you about the place, while the slot machine sits in the centre. I usually just avoid using it at all to be honest, but if you're looking to gamble for a big payout of the little shiny wonders, and therefore more extra lives, you've come to the right place. This bonus stage only offers you rings and no shields, and it can also take some away from you too. A mixture of the Sonic 1 Special Stage and a casino style slot machine, perhaps intended as a substitute for the unusual lack of a pinball level in S&K alone.
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