Decided I was going to try and beat Sonic 2 this winter, in observance of the 30th anniversary. Only made it to Wing Fortress Zone tho-- the final level-- before I hit terminal exhaustion with the level design b.s. peppered throughout the back half of this game.

The first half is some of the best easy-breezy platformer levels of the era. Casino Nights Zone is an all-timer. Everything after Mystic Cave is total garbage, however, and there's way more of it than you remember.