Metropolis Zone has a 3rd Act because the 3rd act's layout was initially intended for a scrapped level called Cyber City Zone (it was known as Genocide City in the Simon Wei prototype due to the developers wanting a name that sounded dangerous without fully understanding the word's meaning). Assets from Cyber City were apparently used in The Machine level in Sonic Spinball. Also, Sonic 3 only has the fire, lightning and water shields rather than the generic ones from 1 and 2.
@@squeeg-gaming You're welcome. Sonic 2's development in general is pretty interesting (there's a lot of videos looking at concept art from when the plot revolved around time travel, and in addition to the Simon Wei prototype, there's an earlier build known as the Nick Arcade build because it was used on that TV show for a contest).
Metropolis Zone has a 3rd Act because the 3rd act's layout was initially intended for a scrapped level called Cyber City Zone (it was known as Genocide City in the Simon Wei prototype due to the developers wanting a name that sounded dangerous without fully understanding the word's meaning). Assets from Cyber City were apparently used in The Machine level in Sonic Spinball. Also, Sonic 3 only has the fire, lightning and water shields rather than the generic ones from 1 and 2.
dude thats actually really cool! thanks for telling me man. speaking of spinball i should make a spinball video-
@@squeeg-gaming You're welcome. Sonic 2's development in general is pretty interesting (there's a lot of videos looking at concept art from when the plot revolved around time travel, and in addition to the Simon Wei prototype, there's an earlier build known as the Nick Arcade build because it was used on that TV show for a contest).
@@tempestfennac9687 yeah i def remember watching a video abt that a few years ago lol. thats how i found out abt tropical plant zone
@@squeeg-gaming It's a shame the time travel plot was scrapped but I can see why they did considering how many zones they had in mind for it.
@@tempestfennac9687 it was really cool. i might just play every sonic game on my xbox at this point i might as well lol
you're one of the few people I've seen who played sonic 2 without tails
There are more of us out there in the wild than you think. I like to play with Sonic alone in part 2 as well.
@@juanwhitfield7626 glad there are more of us out there brother 🫡