ultima espio, on 22 May 2017 - 02:46 PM, said:
It's interesting how the levels are totally different to their other time counterparts, unlike CD. Olympus might have turned into Aquatic Ruin thinking about it, the columns in the map sorta look like the ones in ARZ.
Montblanc, on 22 May 2017 - 02:44 PM, said:
Looking at it again looks like Olympus could be Aquatic Ruin Zone, the past of Chemical Plant Zone. Makes some sense with all that water to release waste. Perhaps the name "Neo" Green Hill Zone was a leftover of the scrapped time travel idea.
I don't think Olympus is Aquatic Ruin precisely because of its position in the data - Aquatic Ruin seems to have been tacked on the end of the list (second to last, before Sky Chase), and certainly isn't where the other zones in its era would be, so it probably postdates this concept (although you're right that the Neo Green Hill Zone would suggest that the time travel concept was still in play).
ultima espio, on 22 May 2017 - 02:46 PM, said:
And the warp point, that looks like a pyramid... Perhaps that was Hidden Palace? It says that to do a time travel you have to activate something "hidden".
Looking at the map again, Rock World Zone is in both the past and the (second) present. If you go around the map clockwise from the warp point, it'd be the last zone in the past, and then probably the first zone in the second present. Hidden Palace Zone was pretty rocky, too.
I've changed my mind, I think Rock World Zone was Hidden Palace.