Hedge Maze

The Hedge Maze is a Trap Item that appears in Sonic Forces: Speed Battle.

Description
The Hedge Maze takes the form of green vines wrapping around each other, with five/four-petaled white, pink and violet flowers blossoming on them.

Overview
In gameplay, the Hedge Maze can only be obtained at random from Item Boxes by Spring Cream. As with all other Items, Metal Sonic can also use the Hedge Maze if he uses the Steal Item to steal it from the aforementioned user.

When Hedge Maze is used, plant pillars will be dropped some distance ahead of the user's current location on all the lanes. Up to three of these lanes (or none at all) in particular will receive plant pillars that are so tall that they cannot be jumped over. The rest of the lanes on the other hand will have plant sprouts that only extend slightly above ground level. Regardless, colliding or otherwise touching the tall or small plant pillars will result in the playable character losing Rings. In addition, should a playable character (including the user) collide with a plant pillar, they will, for several seconds, be surrounded by multicolored flowers and lose speed every time they switch lanes.

In order to avoid Hedge Maze, the player's only option is to jump over the short plant pillars that this Trap Item produces.