Sonic 3D in 2D Playthrough Part 5: Volcano Valley Zone

[@Aeon479]

Sonic 3D Blast is the only game where I'm glad we don't have Super Sonic, the OST is just so goddamn amazing that I'd legit be pissed if Super's theme interrupted my vibes lmao

[@ctpp64]

Seriously, theres no reason for the ost to be as good as it is lol

[@solarenity]

​@@ctpp64honestly it's almost top 3 sonic game osts

[@kgs0n1c]

This stage used to get on my nerves when I was younger, but have always loved the music, especially act 2's music. While no Classic stage will beat Press Garden, this is still one of my favorite zones. The Mecha Knuckles boss was interesting though, kinda reminded me of the act 1 boss in Lava Reef Zone (S3&K). I remember that act 2 boss too.

[@itsgiants150]

He's tough

[@kgs0n1c]

@@itsgiants150 yea, but at least you fought him with a fire shield and rings. Imagine if you had to fight him with neither? (Sonic 2 Death Egg Robot, I'm looking at you)

[@itsgiants150]

@@kgs0n1c well than it will stupidly difficult

[@kgs0n1c]

@@itsgiants150 yup, just like the DER

[@RandomRetroTrainGuy82]

5:14 Act 2

[@DTX0217]

Good playthrough! 😎 Yuzoboy sent me here. ✌️

[@idadood2278]

I know the game's dev probably wasnt a good spriter, and just used other assets to make what he needed, but I still feel the need to point out where most of the assets come from. First of all, the rocks in the foreground use a pallete-shifted version of Lava Reef's rocks. Obviously, the lava is from that same zone. The floor tiles use the floors from Hot Crater Zone, of Sonic Advance 2. The "back" tiles use the rock textures from Hot Crater as well. The background, meanwhile, is a fusion of Hot Crater's background -- specifically the lower part -- and the middle part of Mystic Cave's background. Above that Mystic Cave background is the mountains from Marble Garden. I honestly have no idea what clouds at the top of the background are from. I believe they're from Flying Battery? Possibly? I'll admit though, its a good use of assets.

[@Bora_slash]

Act 1: Hot Crater(Sonic Advance 2) + Lava Reef Act 1 (S3&K) Act 2: Hot Crater + Lava Reef Act 2

[@MrRuePine]

Great observation! I was thinking exactly the same thing tho.

[@ОльгаБондаренко-е2г]

Get power!

[@yusufdunphy5402]

Yeah the cavern backgrounds of both acts are the cavern backgrounds of Hot Crater Zone from Sonic Advance 2. I did also thought of that as well. Now don’t forget the fact that Volcano Valley Zone Act 1’s outside background has the Marble Garden Zone mountains with the area below the mountains but above the cavern part being a certain part taken from Lava Reef Zone. Now the part of Lava Reef Zone Act 2 that appears in Volcano Valley Zone Act 2 is the bottom part of Lava Reef Zone Act 2 while the top part of Volcano Valley Zone Act 2’s part is the same as that of Sonic 3’s Hidden Palace Zone and I’m pretty sure that the fact that Sonic 3’s Hidden Palace Zone background appears into act 2 implies that act 2 is set in the interior of a volcano.

[@bracken8782]

anyone else really bothered by the fact that he uses the super peel-out on the elevators? it's much less safe and it's actually slower than button mashing with the spin dash.

[@bracken8782]

i'm noticing every stage in this game is somewhat like a fusion of multiple zones from various 2d sonic games. Green Grove is kind of like Splash hill (sonic 4) and Palmtree Panic (Sonic CD) combined, Rusty Ruin is kind of like Hydro City (Sonic 3) and Tidal Tempest (Sonic Cd), Spring stadium is the generic 'casino/carnival' level, so that's fairly obvious, and act 2 is like Carnival Night, Diamond Dust is like Ice Cap (Sonic 3) and Blizzard Peaks (Sonic Rush), this is kind of like Lava reef (Sonic and Knuckles) and Hot Crater (Sonic Advance 2), Gene Gadget has aspects of Flying Battery (Sonic and Knuckles), Death Egg (Sonic 2), and Chemical plant (also Sonic 2), and Panic Puppet's background is almost carbon-copied from Wacky Workbench (Sonic Cd), and the interior is like Huge Crisis (Sonic rush). please tell me i'm not the only one who sees this?

[@jerrycuff013]

@Bracken878 I think the level that you're referring to on Sonic Advance 2 is Hot Crater Zone.

[@yusufdunphy5402]

And don’t forget that Gene Gadget Zone also having aspects of Scrap Brain Zone because the background of Gene Gadget Zone especially in act 1 is extremely similar to that of Scrap Brain Zone.

[@bracken8782]

@@yusufdunphy5402 didn't realize it until now, but gene gadget's first background also looks a bit like Stardust Speedway.

[@yusufdunphy5402]

@@bracken8782 Yeah that is but looking at the city background of Gene Gadget Zone, it’s uses the city line taken from Scrap Brain Zone.

[@vitaliktarasenko422]

Boss without Super Sonic is hell!

[@loogle00]

It would be better if the gameplay was faster. Compared to this game, Sonic 3 and 4 from MD/Genesis look much more dynamic

[@marquesbastien2938]

DODODODODODODO THE THA DO DOM DODODODODODODO THE THA DO DOM RRRRRREAAAAAHHHHHHH sorry JUST ENJOYING M U S I C

[@xokukamiru9964]

The soundtrack is mine Sonic borrow mice my soundtrack so what he did he put it in the game so now the song has it in the 8-Bit version

[@deserted4ever]

????? What does this mean

[@conlia]

tf does this mean

[@ОльгаБондаренко-е2г]

Почему ты неходеш по лаве когда у тебя огненная браня