I'd say they're the equivalent to the shrines in the open world Zelda games. Little bite-sized versions of the familiar formula the franchise is known for, where you get rewards to help you progress. Also the fact that they're scattered all over the place and share the same aesthetics, though Frontiers has 4 themes whereas the shrines have 1
2 years ago | 31
i'd say there's a sliding scale between special stages and cyberspace stages, and the game land levels from colors fall right in the middle
2 years ago | 3
Within the lore, those stages are all in the digital cyberspace created by the Ancients, everything in them are created by user memories. The special stages from poles, portal rings are more psychodelic, formed to more like challanging spaces (as in, "it be pretty hard for someone the live here") then some kind of recreation of a space. In the game sense, they dont fulfill the same objective, and play more like the base game play rather then it being minigame of sorts.
2 years ago | 3
I would say that they're another variant of special stages since special stages typically serve as gatekeepers for the chaos emeralds and the cyberspace levels guards vault keys that can be used to unlock the chaos emeralds. They both technically serve the same purpose of guarding the chaos emeralds, but done in different ways. Plus the cyberspace levels also is a virtual memory of the ancients n also Sonic's past while special stages, just floaty objects n random shit that Sonic Team makes up.
2 years ago (edited) | 3
I suppose they are in a sense as they do give you vault keys to get the Chaos Emeralds. However, they also aren’t necessary to attempt or complete as vault keys can be obtained via other means. If anything, they’re more like challenge or action stages.
2 years ago (edited) | 9
They are like levels in an open world Sonic game. Kind of like what I tried to make in Roblox before Frontiers came out.
2 years ago | 3
They’re more like the “obligatory second play-style” that every Modern Sonic game must have.
2 years ago | 3
They're the levels. If the open zones are the meat, the cyberspace levels are the potatoes.
2 years ago | 0
They're lazy copy/paste levels. We've already been through Sonic's memories twice before - with Generations and Mania - did we really need to do it again? Especially when there was the missed opportunity to explore what happened to the islands and inhabitants through their memories that were in Cyberspace. But no, we have to go through Sonic's memories. Again.
2 years ago | 2
Not unless you wanna stretch and count the mini-levels of special stages in the Game Gear titles.
2 years ago | 0
That was the intention of the Cyberspace stages, something extra to do on top of the open zone.
2 years ago | 0
I'd say they are more like the bonus stages in Sonic 3 and Knuckles.
2 years ago | 0
chaomix
Are the Cyberspace levels from Frontiers “Special Stages” like the Special Stages from the classics?
2 years ago | [YT] | 402