Board Thread:Sonic News Channel/@comment-26567650-20141116054544/@comment-24908786-20141230222136

Mystic Monkey wrote:

Beren Camlost wrote: Well the medals weren't like emblems (you probably know this), as you HAD to earn them to progress the story. I'm still scarred from Adabat day. Oh you mean Sonic Unleashed medals, yeah they were much worst than Sonic '06 medals. The prime reason why I have yet to finish the game.

If collecting is an important aspect to story progress, why not have the Chaos Emeralds be located the the Special Zone to collect? Because you have to beat a boss to revitalize each of them in the Temples of Gaia, except for the last one. That's done before Egg Dragoon and Dark Gaia.