Sonic In This Game Can Get A State Called “loopspeed”, Which Is Something The Game Automatically

Sonic in this game can get a state called “loopspeed”, which is something the game automatically gives you as soon as you enter a loop, and basically works like a scripted auto-run section. It exists to make sure that you get properly through loops.

You can however get this state on this level without being in a loop, by homing attacking close to its backside. Now you have loopspeed without being in a loop, and together with the altered gravity you get from spindashing off the side of the loop, the game puts you on the side of the tree and lets you run up it.

Now from the wall you you can do a spindash off the wall, and then pause and unpause by holding A. This will cause the game to not give you an additional A-input and make you jump (because you used the press to unpause already), but it will notice you are holding A, which gives you after a more “floaty” state as if you just were doing a full jump for about a second that allows you to gail extra distance mid air and make it over to the platform