It was composed by Richard Jacques, the same person behind the soundtrack for the Saturn/PC version of Sonic 3D Blast, another Traveller's Tales game.

Despite being cheesy, the music is pretty good.

It also has transparency effects and fading which makes the draw distance problem a bit less important (except for Radiant Emerald due to technical problems with the transparency). It has a lot of detail and the characters look very cute.

While the draw distance is kinda poor and the graphics are clippy, it does look pretty good for the Saturn.

You can work around most other missing options by using the Sonic R Mod Manager.

You can still use F1 and F2 keys to adjust draw distance.

The 2004 PC re-release also removed the graphics option.

Network multiplayer was almost completely removed in the 2004 PC re-release!.

You must be in the first place if you want to get a Chaos Emerald, and if you don't, the game insults you by saying you didn't get it.

Like most attack costumes in Balan Wonderworld, Amy and Eggman cannot jump.Super Sonic is nearly an automatic win, and Amy, Eggman, Tails Doll, and Eggrobo are too slow to be useful. Most characters are too overpowered (mostly Metal Knuckles, Super Sonic, and Metal Sonic) or completely useless. The unlockables (aside from Amy) are all robot clones of the main characters (except Super Sonic).When running on a loop, you can sometimes get completely stuck, and it can be extremely difficult to escape.

Speaking of steering, the same button also controls the camera, which is very slow and can cause you to lose a race.

Steering the character you play as is difficult as if you're running on thick, slippery ice, which makes maintaining a straight trajectory sometimes complicated, controlling Tails is the worst, as he slips and slides all over!.

Finding collectibles often require taking detours, slower routes, and outright stopping for a few seconds ( in a racing game, by the way), and you still have to win the race to keep them.The level design makes the courses feel more like mazes.It also tries to simulate water reflections by just flipping the skybox, which ends up making it look as if the courses are floating in midair. It looks unfinished with a poor rendering distance, and textures and backgrounds just missing.It is riddled with glitches, like characters sticking to the walls and passing through the ground.The ports of the game barely improve the graphics, outside of a longer rendering distance.With only five courses and six unlockable characters, the game is too short and can be beaten in less than an hour.

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