Running state: The most basic form of movement, running has several properties. Pay attention to the storage state, as it is possibly the least known about to beginners, and it has several uses. If you are a beginner, you don't really need to know all of these things, but they will help you understand the logic of how action stages function, and there's some terminology that you should know if you want to speedrun this game. The following is a list of most of the states you can be in as Sonic/Shadow. 1.2 Useful movement tricks in action stagesĪction stages are usually the most movement intensive stages, there are many different movement techniques used in these stages, especially in Sonic stages with the addition of the bounce bracelet.