Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

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star light zone is my least favorite level from sonic 1 in both design and music

I have to sort of agree with this too.

Starlight Zone does have some pretty good level design much like the other zones, but it just looks bland due to its graphics, and also the music (it is pretty calming and doesn't have the strong percussions that other classic Sonic songs have) but also a bit due to its design too I guess.

But I do appreciate it because it mixes up elements from other zones - there is a slope that is exactly like Spring Yard's, there are loops from Green Hill, there are fireballs from Marble Zone, and there are Orbinauts from Labyrinth Zone, while still bringing elements of its own, like those Bomb badniks that are used pretty interestingly in it. It is a nice mix of slowness and speed and of pretty much everything you learned so far! So that you can take on the sadistic Scrap Brain.

Oh also I love how the classic design looks there. I prefer it to the Modern because... Pretty much everything from the Modern bugs me. How the belt of the shoe is so big, how the buckle also is, how the shoe isn't very pointy and is so round and thick, the bigger spikes on his head that makes it look like some sort of anime hair instead of actually spikes, how the spikes on his back are so small, making it not look like continuations of the spikes on his head but rather some sort of useless thing on his back, the douchey "nike" smile instead of a simple smile or his usual "lack of patience" look, his bean-shaped nose and torso, the anime-ish green eyes, the lanky tall body... Luckily recently they did a slight redesign took away some of these elements or made them be less apparent, but I'd still take the classic design over any day. Mostly because it looks cuter and less anime-ish and douche smile :V