Green Hill Zone
Alright, just played through the first zone of the series. Sonic is about going fast, his name is Sonic for chirstsakes. But I feel like I wasn't really moving fast at all. I rarely reached top speed, but I chalked that up to me not knowing the level that well at all. I've seen speedruns that are fast as s***, so this was all my fault. In addition to mostly going slowly and taking my time, I felt at times that I didn't want to go fast. I felt like if I did go fast I wouldn't have had the precognition the game would want me to have to react to whatever it was going to throw at me. I wanted to preserve rings for the special stage, but I only ended up getting there once, and when I did I was booted out almost immediately because I didn't know what the f*** I was doing.
It wasn't a bad thing though, I had fun. The franticness of it all and the constant screams of "Oh s***, oh f***" are probably all parts of the experience I shall embrace in time.
Or maybe I just suck at Sonic(this is it)