I always saw Scrap Brain as sonic's description of Robotnik and his domain. Kind of like, "This is Green Hill Zone, that is Casino Night Zone, and that's.... Scrap Brain's Zone" A sort of insult and not a literal zone, seeing as Robotnik built his center of operations there and it used to be some other place.
God damn... never cease to make me laugh... I recall another joke awhile back, citing a "Twilight Zone" I forget the exact bits of it though... something about 4 acts, greyscaled, a narrator, gay vampire & werewolf badniks, and the narrator is the boss... something to that extent.
Emerald Fortress Zone Chemical Ocean Zone Aquatic Cave Zone Casino Top Zone Night Hill Zone Angel Base Zone Carnival Garden Zone Marble Cap Zone Mushroom Sanctuary Zone Flying Palace Zone Death Reef Zone Azure Mine Zone Balloon Gadget Zone Chrome Park Zone Endless Battery Zone
I'm really sorry, but it's been bugging me so much every time I see it that I just have to post this: 'resusement' isn't a word. Just "reuse".
So what should it be changed to? Everyone seems to have an opinion. Also if someone doesn't make Hank Hill Zone soon I will have to just do it myself.
Ahh the Zone names, I do wonder why they used Zone at the end of everything back in the day, the best explanation is that it sounds cool...and it does. Though with later games and stages, I didn't mind that they dropped the Zone title, though with other games like the Advance series and 4's episodic run, it always gives me the Zones I love. Also here's a list of Zone names! Emerald Grove Zone Marble Ruin Zone Casino Carnival Zone Aquatic Tempest Zone Mushroom Jungle Zone Genocide Gimmick Zone Giga Speedway Zone Toxic Quadrant Zone Mystic Valley Zone Dusty Dazzle Zone Volcanic Hill Zone Winter Paradise Zone Angel Sanctuary Zone Sky Carrier Zone Cosmic Egg Zone Doomsday Way Zone Pretty badass names if I do say so myself! ...I think I just might have made a fangame with zone names like this...
To be fair they have made some good names nowadays, like for the Advance series, 4 has some good names, some obvious ones, and a few weak ones like Oil Desert and White Park, the levels are cool and all but those names a pretty weak sause compared to other games, I mean they fit sure but still. Though they are coming up with more original names for Zones like Mad Gear and Sylvania Castle, which are good names for Zones.
"the popular act of correcting a topic's name instead of discussing its subject" goodness why can't we just let people make up words for fun the thing about reusing specific words in zone names is not many have seen heavy reuse. the big ones are, of course, "hill," "casino," "night," "emerald," "carnival," "green," and "ruin." nothing else really sees as much reuse, and zone names that lack those commonly-used words are usually pretty unique. I personally like how first-levels often have "hill," "green," or "emerald" in them; it makes for a nice familiar feeling before the games thrusts you into the really new content.
Yeah, it's best for Sonic games to start off with a traditional tropical, green setting at first. Granted I don't mind games that start off differently (Sonic 2 8-bit, Colors), but the first level that's like that always brings me home. Also it's always nice to see what they will do differently in each of these first levels, those levels always impress me with their music and what they have. For Naka and Sonic Team in Sonic 1, they had a big focus on Green Hill Zone to make it the perfect first level, they made it so and now each "hill" level that starts off as stage 1 pretty much as to be perfect, I think they've always had that right in each new game for the first level, granted there are some I favor over others but still it's good to have tradition sometimes. As for the other reused words, you can never go wrong with any of them! Though I would like to see more uses of words like "toxic", "spring", "wacky", "cave", "jungle", "aquatic", and "speedway".
When games start off with anything but tropical/hilly levels it just blows my fuckin' mind! I remember playing SA2B for the first time and knowing that the game was gonna be kick-ass. Same goes for Advance 3 and Colours. It's nice to have a change now and then but it's something that should really be reserved for every five or so years because there generally does need to be some coherence within the series. I am really looking forward to seeing the next main series game!
