Sonic's 18th Birthday ^_^

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an the thing with the breakable walls is that if you don't gain enough speed, you'll most likely stop in the middle of the breakable wall to where, you'd have to start the run + down thing again if you don't jump after pressing the roll command.

You are missing the point:

Actually, this is pretty much what the first game's concept is about: Gamers are rewarded for getting through obstacles and enemies without having to stop, by doing this, you are guaranteed to be a skilled player.

I'm not saying that anyone can make through a level without having to stop, but that skilled players are rewarded by skillfully running non-stop through a stage, avoiding all obstacles and avoiding or killing enemies.
Unlike Sonic Heroes that every five seconds you have to change through formations to get through artificial obstacles. Why they are artificial obstacles? Because they only exist to give a purpose to a certain ability of the character. If there aren't any of those swinging poles in Sonic Heroes, what purpose will it have to do that tornado attack? A good designer gives the player the freedom to use a certain ability of the character at the player's own will, and use creativity to skillfully use that ability through many different kinds of obstacles or to just get through a place easier than it would without it. There are tons of abilities for each formation in Sonic Heroes, but most of them are useless outside of the obligation to use them to get through artificial obstacles.

Plus, my quote isn't really my words, it's Hirozaku Yasuhara's.