[beeswax]

I loved Sonic on Master System, Game Gear and Mega Drive/Genesis and was completely thrown off guard when I played Sonic Generations on the 360 decades later ("whoa how can anyone keep up with that pace?").

Once you embrace that pacing (which has been there all the time) you'll be able to appreciate that special kind of game/level design. It seems that Team Sonic was able to apply that principle to Quote a good number of titles with the IP.

Back in the days the controller would have been soaked in several people's sweat ofc and there were no persisted save points. If you want to improve on persistence, priorities and quick decision making: Go play these games on their original hardware (or at least don't use the emulator's snapshot abilities).