Someone went and restored the cut zones from Sonic 2's development and the music sounds like it belongs on actual Genesis hardware. Sonic 2 Restored brings back Dust Hill Zone, Wood Zone, and others that fans have been piecing together from prototypes for decades.
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Dust Hill has this dry, open desert feel with that crunchy FM synth doing exactly what it should. Winter Zone takes the Mega Drive's sound chip somewhere cold and crystalline, which is hard to pull off on that hardware. The World Map track gives the whole thing a scope the original game never had.
Cyber City just goes off. If you've ever dug through Sonic 2 beta content and wished you could actually hear these zones fully realized, this is it.