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Prototype Windy Valley perfectly captured the feeling of "2D Sonic in 3D" but they straight up scrapped it because the Dreamcast couldn't run it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YhS4nhs8fM

By the time console hardware could actually adapt 2D Sonic to 3D, Sonic Team was already beyond washed up and just couldn't bother going back to their original ideas when making the levels ultra linear and semi automatic was much easier