What is something in Sonic that you love, but feel gets overlooked or just doesn't get the love it deserves? 

For me personally, it's the original cyberspace stages. Mainly 4-4, 4-A, 4-B, 4-G, and 4-I. I know it's hard to remember which levels are which with the naming scheme, so I've put pictures of the stages in the order listed.

One thing I love about all of the following levels is experimenting with the homing dash and the spindash to speedrun through the level. Optimizing your angles and executing them as quickly and efficiently as possible makes Frontiers my favourite game to speedrun as well as my favourite game of all time.

4-4-Best level in base Frontiers. I love how it starts with three alternate pathways. I love the use of switches guarded by obstacles used to progress at certain points that you can either do as quick and efficiently as possible or find ways to skip. I love the more vertical platforming and ascent closer to the end.

4-A-The rocket booster gimmick is cool, but I love the levels honeycomb geometry and how they're often positioned in ways to let you soar with the spindash. I love that the majority of the level has a top and bottom path, where the top path is faster as is traditional Sonic level design. I love that you can spindash off of the big loop close to the end to reach the secret exit. I love that with the tower at the end, you can either tackle it from the bottom up, use the top path to get to the ramp which skips half of it OR if you use the spindash properly, you can use that ramp to skip the entire tower.

4-B-I love how many alternate paths there are, and how some of them are tiered with a top and bottom path. I love how instead of the alternate paths being designed in a way where you pick one and that's it, that they weave into one another so you can constantly jump from path to path at almost any time. I spent so much time on this level exploring and finding all of the different routes you can take. I love the section at the end where much like most of the level, the playforms are falling and you have to make it to the end without falling. I go back and forth between 4-A and 4-B being my favourite level in Frontiers.

4-G-Similar to 4-B I love how many alternate paths there are and how the weave into one another and you can jump from one to another at almost any time, though they're not as tiered as 4-B, but there is a secret exit and I love the gear system. A level that punishing you from skipping the level with the spindash unless you're smart with it is a fun gimmick and the slightly lower gravity is fun to mess around with.

4-I-City Escape's layout, but in reverse. I love the near zero gravity. It has one of the most satisfying skips where you spindash off of a ramp and try to line up with a rail in the distance. This level doesn't necessarily have alternative paths, at least not that much, but the level design is so open that you always have multiple ways to tackle the path ahead.

I could go on and on about these levels. I really do love them and they're some of my favourite in the franchise in part because of the level design and in part because of how fun the spindash and homing dash are.

Very excited to hear what you think is overlooked and deserves more love in Sonic.

WHAT THINGS DON'T GET ENOUGH LOVE IN SONIC?