R2 - The Lost Level From Sonic CD

So THAT's why it's so good...

 

What kind of involvement does Naka have with the current/upcoming games anyway, if any...

 

None. I think the way things worked, he looked at development of Sonic 06 on one day, and then he decided to jump ship and form his own company.


Coincidence?

 

Me please!

 

Only one?

 

Show off. =P

Oh well, you've got a few back up copies at the very least.

 

R2 will always be a mystery to me. I firmly believe there was supposed to be a level there somewhere and it HAD to be scapped early.

 

Surely everyone knows that R2 is Mercury Mine

 

R2 is "Super Sonic Galaxy", Using quantum interference to allow the Sega CD to be as powerful as a Next Gen system, Naka will program the R2 to be Sonic in a SMG esque game with more Sonic elements. I say "will", because it hasn't happened yet. When he does, we will no longer remember Sonic CD ever missing R2. Nintendo will be just a memory (Hey, it make more sense than Sonic 06).


But Seriously, the music track with the bird noises would work fine for a ruin level. I can tell you for sure that those are not seagulls.

 

Erm... Those are fucking seagulls. Hvae you ever been near a seagul? I live near them, and that is %100 annoying ass seagul sound.

 

Can't find a good example, this music, right? Those aren't Seagulls.

 

It's birds.

 

Yeah, no, living in the Bay Area, I hear seagulls everyday. Those aren't seagulls. Just birds.

Which would be suited to a jungle/abandoned ruins level.

And even if they WERE seagulls: so what?

 

The idea is that the song has sound effects of birds and running water, which really fits exactly what the song is named after—Little Planet. If you take a look at the image of Little Planet from the D.A. Garden, it shows that the Little Planet has a very upbeat, surreal, peaceful feel to it which the song perfectly represents, in my opinion.

Of course, musical interpretation is pretty subjective, but I don't think the song was meant for anything other than what it's used for. After all, R2 was scrapped rather early on—perhaps even before music could be made for it! And remember, it was never shipped in any public demo of the game, either, so the chances of seeing what little was done with are pretty slim.

It sucks that the level is so elusive, but there you go. :\

 

<!--quoteo(post=213195:date=Aug 2 2008, 11:52 AM:name=Master Emerald)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Master Emerald @ Aug 2 2008, 11:52 AM) [/quote]

WTF this is neat. A bonus stage which appears to be two mode-7 rotating planes (And some gambling element, as the '777' would show) and Sonic appearing to either be doing something like Sonic & Tails' Strike Dash, having a new invincibility (Or similar) power up or an alternate time travel effect.

Interesting.

 

Any chance of a translation? The only part I can understand is the Mega CD parts.

 

The bonus stage picture looks to me like it's just an updated version of the Sonic 1 special stage, but with two "tiers" (with probably some sort of bumper object for moving between them) and a slot-machine mechanic that probably just handed out free rings and/or lives or something like that. If you look close, in the bottom right there's a block with what appears to be a U on it—like the "Up" blocks from Sonic 1—and on the very edge in the top left there's a R block. Given how much this game was inspired by Sonic 1 in other respects (sprite set, level design themes, etc.), that would make sense, no?