Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24714013-20150324035248/@comment-679780-20150325205821

Beren Camlost wrote: Yeah, but the chaos emeralds don't affect the ending. That's whats annoying. True but collecting all those red rings were much more challenging than seven special stages and Super Sonic was purely a novelty.

If you have to collect all those red rings in order to finish the story, well players may not like that. Plus could contradict gameplay with story.