I thought for a brief, wonderful second to myself finally, a sonic game where you don't have to collect emeralds. Then I saw the end game screen and wept, for there it was looking right at me, 0 emeralds. I looked up the good ending on YouTube, and it's little more than the game telling you here you are, these are the emeralds, look at em. There's no reason to play this game, and yet I did. I guess it was short