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156th: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Casino Night Zone
Composer: Masato Nakamura
Score: 51 (6.3), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (11/14)

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Theme of Sonic if it were made in the 30s or something. It's alright, but is super generic "old-timey casino music", which I guess is exactly what they're going for so they didn't fail in that regard. Starts off pretty good and falters the more it goes on. The repetition at the end of the loop is totally unnecessary and predictable as hell. Still, gotta hand it to them for nailing the atmosphere.

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155th: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (SMS) - Crystal Egg Zone
Composer: Tomonori Sawada
Score: 51 (6.3), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (SMS) (7/7)

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The intro is really cool and like it, but then it goes away and I get really sad cause the song itself is pretty average and not that interesting. It's almost a minute before it changes up at all, and while the back half of the song does get a bit better and the cool part comes back it doesn't save it from being an overall pretty whatever song.

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154th: Sonic CD (USA) - Collision Chaos "G" mix
Composer: Mark Crew
Score: 52 (6.3), Sonic CD (USA) (20/21)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzlnVhMbVZk" data-time="

Unlike the JP version's stage themes which all use a loose motif, the US version's stages are a lot more similar to each other. And yet, some of them do things that drastically change my opinion of them as we will soon find out! Can't say whether this specific stage theme will be such a case, but we shall see. Compared to other versions on Collision Chaos US, this one is a lot more subdued and has less going on in it over other themes. I don't really like the filtered guitar being such a focus, being louder than the other parts that come in occasionally. Definitely like it more when there's more going on in it, and that's all I can really say for now without talking about the other versions as well.