There are a total of 29 stages with 100 areas (plus the bonus ones), the difficulty is progressive.
Duration: More than 7 hours of gameplay, depends on how good you are at using the speed bonus.
Key Features:
- Phase Shields : It gives you advantages over battles, like earning the twice amount of Tech-Gears or stopping the random encounters. You will need E-Bits to activate them.
- Audio Signals: You can search for secret musical tracks that are in the game, you will need Audio Receptors.
- Medals: Depending on your performance, after finish the Area or a Main zone, you get a golden or silver medal; those are exchanged later for Golden Gears at the end of each stage.
- Type of Speed: Depending on how fast you finish an Area or Main Zone you could get different types of speed.
Manage your style of play and beat the game; will you raise your level to fight better the enemies? Will you collect E-bits to avoid battles? Will you focus on complete the bonus areas to get shields upgrades? Will you be a speed runner and see how fast can you finish the game? The final answer is with you.
For the second run you can try to get all the Golden Medals; it will raise the difficulty of the game.