


Even though the final boss can typically be tedious and challenging due to its multiple phases, it becomes surprisingly easy and brief if you get the hang of positioning yourself right above Robotnik without excess horizontal momentum whenever his electric shock phase begins, and landing as many hits as possible on Robotnik during his downtime.Oh, and the game also give you a checkpoint before entering the aforementioned second phase of the boss this time around so you don't have to redo the entire fight all over again if you die. The only harder aspects are that you can't recover your rings in the final phase as easily (in the original version, dropped rings would be pushed by an advancing spike wall, making them easy to grab) and that bumping into Metal Sonic may knock you into the pit behind him.

His Silver Sonic-producing machine can be defeated just by attacking the enemies normally, bypassing the confusing original method, the second chase phase is cut out, and his final phase is overhauled while Phantom Ruby-powered Metal Sonic looks intimidating, he only has two attacks outside of advancing and his weak point can be hit quickly, especially with Sonic's Drop Dash.
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