This feels like the easiest game so far. I like that this is the first 8bit game to have special stages for the emeralds, which felt missing from the previous 2. And I like how the special stages change things up a little. But what I don't like is how once you get 100 rings you're instantly brought to the special stages which also makes you skip to the next stage. I wish it was like a couple previous games where you have to jump into the special stages at the end of the maps with the sign post, that way you actually have to complete the stages instead of skipping them.

Tbh not as enjoyable then the last couple. The time travel mechanic I think could have been handled better, sometimes it would take forever to get enough speed to go to the past without being interrupted. The special stages were also a pain. I also feel like there was not much a reason to go to any versions of the future since you have to do the past stages to break the machines to change get the good futures or get the time stones (which you can do in any versions of the stage) so you usually don't get enough time to go to present and future. Maybe an easier way to replay levels and giving the future stages their own goals (past the stones) would make them worth wile?
Great music tho!