It's hard to say if Sand Shower was playable at any point. Based on the statements made by Yamaguchi about the moving sand, it sounds like there...
There's evidence suggesting this, take a look at the first past visit map on the timeline document: [ATTACH] Green = Tropical Sun Blue = Blue...
We're talking about Hill Top's background, not Hill Top's location. You were the one that brought up the rock formations near Blue Lake being...
Of course there's no snow seen in Hill Top's background. The rock formations seen in Hill Top (red circle) are separate from Rock World's mountain...
It's possible that Rock World (ruined present) had a different theme from Rock World (past), but it's also possible that both were ice themed and...
Different topic, but here's something I noticed with the "banper" concept art. [ATTACH] [SPOILER]
This is pretty much my thoughts on it too, that the time travel story was dropped sometime between Nick Arcade and Simon Wai protos, the latter...
Yeah, weird they went with this. I get that it's free, but it really would've looked better to just go full Shadow skin akin to the rabbit skin....
Official classic Shadow merch has been revealed, might be based on the upcoming costume: [spoiler]
Speaking of counterpart levels being done by the same artist, Craig was in charge of both Hidden Palace and Oil Ocean, which are listed as sharing...
The final names for Chemical Plant and Hidden Palace show up in the early time travel maps/docs, which predate Tom Payne's documents. My guess is...
Rock World and Ice are the same level though. Tom Payne's documents refer to the zone that shares Sand Shower's enemies as both "rock world" and...
Interesting stuff. The maps and documents imply that Metropolis was originally meant to take place within the pyramid, where the time machine/warp...
Exactly. Which is why it would be important for the correct name to be attached to the correct level.
Even if that were the case, does that actually matter when the names on the level select were being properly updated/maintained? Your argument...
Changes were made to the level select throughout development that shows the developer knew and cared about the working names matching their slots....
[ATTACH] Let's agree to disagree then. Dust Hill debates get tiresome.
I don't think you understand the whole "Fire Mountain" thing. That was a scrapped idea during Sonic 2's conceptional phase, before any actual work...
I mean, S3&K basically did the same thing with Sky Sanctuary (ancient ruins) before the Death Egg. Is it really that much of a stretch that NGHZ...
Wouldn't surprise me. It's implied that the time machines/Warp Points were ancient devices, with Eggman discovering the first one in the pyramid...
Separate names with a comma.
