Lava Reef

Lava Reef has always been my favorite zone. Because of the originality, details, and music, it is the best zone, ever.

Lava Reef owns j00. :P

 

The main draw to LRZ for me is the music, mainly the Act 1 music. That, along with Ice Cap are some of my favourite Sonic choonz of all time.

 

I never got far enough into the game to play Lava Reef.

Yes, I know I suck.

 

Lava Reef is a cool zone. Hell, the entire Sonic 3 & Knuckles cart is a good game. It's hard to pick a favorite zone since it's all good! When is comes down to it, my favorite is Sky Sancutary Zone. I like it because it's just a quick paced level that is very enjoyable. I find that as the level I play the most often if I'm bored

 

Heh.

As soon as I load up S3&K in Gens, I almost always press F8 for level select/debug. And if it counted hits on the level select, Lava Reef 3 would definately be in the hundreds by now. It's so damn cool!

But I don't like the actual levels because they're frustrating, especially those stupid flamethrowers. Whenever I play the levels in Lava Reef (not the bosses), I always do one of the following:

a) use debug and create a load of S monitors so I'm invincible
b) use the invincibility code (is annoying with bottomless pits though...)
c) use the keep shields code, and get a shield.

I would say Ice Cap, Hydrocity, Marble Garden and Death Egg are my favorites.

 

I'd have to say Ice Cap's my favorite, followed by Lava Reef. In excitement and variety, Lava Reef is almost a mirror of Ice Cap. I mean Fire/Ice, yeah...

 

Lava Reef zone makes me think of Sonic 2's Hidden palace.The music sounds like Hpz's music in the final and the background looks like Hpz;s background.
Its a peaceful level in almost every aspect.

 

That's perfect chaos? How can you be so sure? :huh:

 

Perfect Chaos almost always puts semicolons instead of apostraphes.

 

Ah, I see. Well, he's on the way to rejection. :D

 

L0st: Its you!
SupperTails66: How are you Perfect Chaos
L0st: all your *BAN!* are belong to us
Badass Cyborg: You are on your way to rejection
Badass Cyborg: Haha

etc etc.

 

Lava Reef is the only zone of which I can acquire 999+ rings. Reason is because of so many starposts and at least 4 big rings [I think there's 5 in all]. And that's only in the 1st act.

 

Lava Reef has got to be one of the greatest Sonic levels ever. And to make things even better, all of it's cool effects and objects are amplified by the fact that it comes right after Sandopolis Act 2, one of the most hated levels ever (at least, by me). Even the music is awesome, which reminds me, have any of you checked out the OverClocked remix of LRZ? It's gotta be one of the best instrumental songs ever.

 

Yeah, Lava Reef is a very cool level. Myself, for some reason, I always favored Doomsday over Lava Reef, but I couldn't tell you why...At any rate, the level layout rules, the music is probably the best in the game, and that says a lot, and there are enough little touches that you notice something new everytime you play. BTW, Knux13, I haven't heard the remix of Lava Reef from OCR, but another good one is the one by LeeBro. Sadly, I believe it's no longer available from his site...

 

Lava Reef is definitely one of the best levels ever designed in Sonic 2D gaming. The music fits the level perfectly for a lava zone, and is most definitely one of catchiest ones to boot. The scrolling backround even shows that the level was thought of clearly when they made the design. It is probably the most damn-ass longest level ever greated for playing and exploring, which is a very thing. They pulled every stunt they could just to make it the best level in the game. The spitting of the spike balls, the bouncers and running abilities on the ceiling, the turbines which shoot you upward, and the flamethrowers which last a period of time. And as LOst mentioned, I think, the lava does look real enough to me. Plus, when you do the boss battle, it is one the most awesome boss battles as well. The fact that you fall, and land on a platform, and then the Death Egg flashes, turning the whole place into a burning inferno. Nice effects! Even with the racing from the missiles. Though that bug, when you fall down and hit a ring at the beginning of act 3, aka boss, still puzzles me as to why they didn't catch that. Oh well, it's a cool glitch nonetheless.

 

Yes, LRZ is one of the better Sonic leves in the history. IMO is the most complete zone of all 2d Sonic games and the Sonic Team put much effort in this level.

And LRZ is the unique leven with 4 parts, and their are LR1, LR2, the boss, al HPZ (IMO, HPZ is the last part of LRZ, and for this reason is very short).

IMO, when Sonic Team make S3&K, want make a new HPZ and make it as a really great and unvailable zone, the better zone of all, and LRZ is the incarnation of HPZ (IMO), for this reason probably the most worked zone of S3&K and one of the better.