Sonic Dream Team Beginner Tips: Your First Ten Runs

Runs one to three

Your first three runs in the Sonic Dream Team game page should be slow on purpose. Learn the jump, learn the boost, and learn how rails feel. New players lose time by holding boost constantly; veterans boost in bursts, on straights, and save it for gaps.

Pick Sonic for these runs. His controls are the simplest, and the game teaches its basics through him before asking you to learn flight or climbing.

Runs four to seven

Now explore. Take side paths, check high ledges, and replay levels with Tails once flight unlocks. Most Dream Orbs hide off the main route, and the game never punishes a slow exploring run.

Start learning one boss pattern in this stretch. Watch a full attack cycle before committing, and you will beat bosses in half the attempts of players who rush in swinging.

Runs eight to ten

By run eight, set a goal: a time trial time, a Dream Moon hunt, or a new hero unlock. Goals turn practice into progress, and progress into Dream Orbs, which turn into heroes, which turn into new routes. Related reading: Amy Moves in Sonic Dream Team: Hammer Swings That Open Routes.

Try a controller in this stretch if you have one. The difference on tight jumps is immediate, and many players never go back to touch after feeling it.

The one rule

The one rule for beginners: change heroes before blaming the level. A hard mission is usually a wrong hero, and the game is designed around that lesson from the first world to the last. Related reading: Wall Running and Gravity Shifts in Sonic Dream Team.