Sonic 3D Blast: Flickie's Island (Sega Saturn) - All Special Stages (Part 1)

Описание: One of two videos featuring all of the special stages for the Sega Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast: Flickie's Island. This covers the first four special stages. The next video (see the video response) contains the remaining three.

Special Stage 1: 0:17
Special Stage 2: 1:58
Special Stage 3: 4:04
Special Stage 4: 5:58

For those who aren't in the know, this game was released on the Genesis/Mega Drive, Saturn and PC. And while the Saturn and PC versions featured upgraded graphics from the Genesis/Mega Drive original, each had completely different special stages that were unique to that version.

The Saturn was the only one to feature a true 3D special stage, and considered by many to be the best out of all of them (the special stages, the game itself is subjective). Similar in style to those found in Sonic 2, it's gotten a 3D face lift with new platforms, accelerators, tunnels and curves.

I read that while Traveler's Tales was responsible for producing the majority of the game, the Saturn's special stages were done by Sega of Japan. So that kicking my interest, I decided to give this game a go again, and now that my computer's good enough for Saturn emulation (I'm using SSF), decided to tackle all seven of them and put it on YouTube, since it appears no one's done it yet.

Strangely, I remember these being a lot harder for some reason. I could barely get past the third one back then, and now I didn't lose until the final. I gotta admit, though, I used save states before each stage so I could practice and learn the pattern of the stages. That way when it was time to record I wasn't missing rings and instead running into bombs left and right.

As mentioned earlier, I'm using SSF for the emulation, and playing off the original Saturn disc.

Music by the awesome Richard Jacques when he was an in-house composer at Sega of Europe. Good times.