My theroy about which levels replaced GCZ

Last I checked, both SCZ and WFZ have there music and levelslots (they can't been seen in level select). Personally, I t hink GCZ might have just been a name they choose, or something, and there wasn't any level

 

It could have been the old name of any other level, just like happens with Dust Hill Zone.

 

I have an idea but need to rethink my theory by staring at the level lists =P

 

It's Aquatic Ruin. Craig said in his interview that there was an Atlantis like theme in the game that never got very far. THAT was Genocide City... BUT they used some of the ideas from the Atlantis thing and put it in Aquaitc Ruin.

There ya go.

 

I'd never thought of that. Atlantis was an entire civilization being wiped out, a.k.a. Genocide. And that explain why people say the future zone of GCZ is Aquatic Ruin. Flippin heck, I'd never considered that before.

 

I always liked Aquatic Ruin.... then again, I like anything that looks classical ruins, has lots of water, and lots of greenery! ^^;

Back on topic....*coughs*

GCZ could have even been a test arena name, but, besides the hint at anceint ruins, we have no clue.....

 

But genocide is the systematic destruction of a civilisation, race or group. Not a civilisation being wiped out. If your definition were correct then the depletion of the ozone layer causing the death of every human on the planet would be classed as genocide when it's not.

Still, Genocide City never at all existed. It was just a level slot and a space in a level select.

 

No, I think it makes sense. In Sonic Adventure, we see the Echidna race was wiped out by Chaos (a Water God), but not the Chao.

I get the idea the Sonic 2 backstory influenced that.

 

The 2-D games really didn't have a back story. It was a simple upfront storyline

"Dr. Robotnik/Eggman wants to take over the world using th Choas Emeralds, get the emeralds and stop him."

That's it folks, no back story. It's a platform game, not an RPG. And S3&K didn't have that much of a back story either, just little cutscenes that transitioned you through levels.

IMO, if it isn't in the manual's little story intro, it ain't part of the story.

 

Uh... a storyline is one which actively progresses through the game in a logical fashion. That's a backstory; it sets the reason for gameplay and lets the game get on with it.

 

Yeah, you could be right.
Dust Hill proved that you cannot judge a zone by it's name very easily.

 

No, if you read the manual (Japanese one most likely) it says there was a myterious race in the Aquatic Ruin Zone who were wiped out by an unknown force.

 

So we're back to "do we believe the Japanese or the English manual?".

The simple solution is you believe neither. The two were written by different groups and thus neither can be truly trusted as the "correct" one.

And thus we're back to what I've been claiming ever since I played Sonic Jam; there is no definitive storyline.

 

Do you have a transcript or something that I could read? I'd like to read it myself.

 

Sonic 2 was made in America though.

I stick to my view that Genocide City never existed and that any theories which make use of it are hogwash.

 

The main reason to take the Japanese one as the "right" one is because it's the one Sonic Team accept in either Western or Eastern nowadays.

I think this is evidence enough.

That and the "Eggman 01" in Sonic 2 WFZ.