Yoshi said:So, uhm, play Sonic Rush, Sonic Rush Adventure, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Adventure 2 or any other decent Sonic game? They all don't require you to die 12 times, you don't even have to die once, as the traps are visible beforehand. Not neccessarily for a long time, but for a long enough time to react. I'm quite sure, that I didn't die more than three times in any level of Sonic Rush Adventure for example - and when I died it was my mistake.
Uh.. As much as I liked Sonic Rush, I would not say, in any sense of the word, that Rush's traps were anywhere close to being visible before hand. And this rings especially true for the last level when you had to control some rockets with shit controls at high speeds to get past a massive bottomless pit (and guide the rocket to a corridor that was barely double Sonic's height).
Rush Adventure and Adventure 2 were decent in this regard, however.