The Evolution of Hill Zones in Sonic Games
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Today I wanted tot alk about all of the Sonic Zones with Hill in their names.
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Can’t forget the classic “Hill” stage where Tails runs down a flat pathway with absolutely nothing strange going on.
if its flat then there is no hill so it's called __ "Can't wait to play __ Zone!"
Making sure to have exactly 420 coins to maximize the level of Green Hill Zone appreciation is exactly the kind of attention to detail I subscribe for
For some context on pluralizing "Hills", in Japanese there is no distinction between single and plural inanimate objects. "Green Hill" and "Green Hills" are both valid translations of the original Japanese name. Why they didn't sync up on the translation I don't know, but this is early 90's Sega we're talking about here.
Such a weird error...but yeah Sega in the 90s was wild.
Mystic Cave Zone was never called Dust Hill Zone, Mystic was just a replacement for its scrapped "sibling".
i was thinking the same thing
Mystic Cave was called Dust Hill in some early builds of the game like the Simon Wai prototype.
@@kirotalksyt a few of the sonic 2 developers actually said it was a scraped desert level
@@netmeister7941 sand=dust I guess
@@PyroLuigiOG well it used to be sand shower zone then eventual sand hill zone
Great video! My favourite "Hill" zone is Seaside Hill, because it was actually my first time going through a "Hill" zone, also Sonic Heroes was my first Sonic Game. (Also thanks for the likes guys! 😊)
Seaside Hill holds a special place in my heart too 😁
@@kirotalksyt that's nice to know :D
@@kirotalksyt Love the music of it to I have played a little bit of sonic heroes but I remember I used to run out the time just to listen to the whole track of seaside hill
Such a great game
@@benjaminon00b90 agreed.
Sunset Hill is gorgeous, I love the melancholic twist that bids farewell to the classic games. There was definitely a shift in style after Advance 3.
Dust Hill wasn't the original name for Mystic Cave, It was a whole zone that got scrapped. The Idea was reused for Mirage Saloon in Sonic Mania.
IT WAS CALLED DUST HILL
@@basiccatplush5247 yes it was called that in the Simon wai prototype because it replaced the desert level dust hill.
Does mystic cave really scream a dusty hill?
Ive got a feeling the "New Green Hill" name could mean that Aquatic Ruin is some ancient city area, similar to how when some areas were hit by earthquakes or destroyed new areas were made, using the same name but usually with new.
Hill…Hill…Hill…Are You Done Yet?
SEGA:NO!
Hill,Hill,Hill,Hi-Wait Is Everything Hills?
SEGA:Yep.
Pumpkin Hill was so great. With "ceeepy" elements and secrets, hidden treasures and all. And living in a country where we don't have Halloween makes it even more appealing.
We need a hill hill zone
Who agrees
Hill yeah
@@bahamut1169 glad someone agrees that would have been a hill of a zone
Definitely!
This is great and hilarious! Really fun stuff.
Regarding "the pit," if you play Sonic Jam's version of Sonic 2 on anything other than "Original" difficulty, there will be a yellow spring on one side of the pit so you can get out of it if you fall in. Sonic Jam made a lot of little tweaks to some of the more infamous level elements across these games, such as removing "the barrel" from Carnival Night Act 2.
4:14 THE PIT
Kiro talks is great. I wish you nothing but success with this channel. Keep the good stuff coming bro
Appreciate the support 😀
Dude, in the movies it’s called Green Hills
Now I want an evolution of polis levels in sonic games
I love how Mushroom Hill's colours transition from like, 'summer' to 'autumn' (the colours I prefer), and I also think the act 2 boss is really good.
You can do anything is actually a remix of Green Hills Zone, rather than the other way around
I get that this is for the zones that have "Hill" on the name, but Lost World's Frozen Factory is actually just Windy Hill but snow and some factory stuff.
Also, for Speed Battle, the name of the stages are basically just Act names on an area, kinda similar to Forces where the stage names are always different even on the same area like Lost Valley or Guardian Rock takes place in Green Hill.
You gotta love it when kiro uploaded a commentary video
Green Hill is looking a lot more like Green Hill right now.
Bruh your content is the Best
Can't Wait for more👍
@@DinoRicky thx lol
Thanks a bunch. More videos are on the way 👍
This was one hill of a video!
Honorable mention: Sonic Blast's Green Hill
2:06 character assassination at its finest
Great video!
This is Sonic CD's birthday, maybe tomorrow for hill appreciation day?
Yeah
"and the worst part is, it's not even using the original Green Hill Zone music!"
That's actually the best part lmao.
Also might as well call Sonic 2 "Sonic the Hillhog" with all those "Hill" zones lmao.
My favorites are Seaside Hill and Sunset Hill, the former is an amazing tutorial type stage (if you don't play Sea Gates first you still perfectly understand most of the game by going through Seaside Hill) and is aesthetically distinct, and the latter is just a big blast of nostalgia for me as Advance 3 was one of my first Sonic games (and this is also my first encounter with the iconic Green Hill Zone theme; except here it's actually used accordingly and given a remix that matches the ambiance!).
I halfway expected this video to go over all the different versions of the ACTUAL Green Hill though. You would've had more than enough material between 8bit Sonic 1, the Adventure games, Generations, and ESPECIALLY Forces. XD
I really liked this video style, hey kiro, how about make another video in this style but talking about the final stages from each game? It could be splitted in 2 parts (or more if needed)
Windmill Isle Act 1 being re-skinned as Green Hill Cyberspace in Sonic Frontiers means that Windmill Isle is officially a Hill Zone and no, I won't elaborate further.
the pit....
the flashbacks
lmao the silence when he needed to say "The Pit" and "didj" and showed an image of those words
Green HillS came out before CD so you can do anything is a remix of that. The mecha green hill is a remix of both
You forgot Faded Hills from Sonic Forces, but awesome video!
10:31 As someone who prefers "Kick the Rock" (the Wild Canyon theme), I say "Fair enough"
YoU MiSseD GReEN hIlL fRoM sOniC mAnIa!!!
mushroom hill zone was originally called mushroom valley zone and in sonic 2 dust hill was indeed mystic cave zone's early name thats what we see in the simon wai prototype the zone that people think that it was unused is not dust hill rather its called sand shower zone which was a cut zone that became an easter egg in sonic cd it was a screenshot with the zone assets and it was called desert dazzle which was a cut stage from sonic cd that got its assets reused in sonic mania's mirage saloon zone
YOOOOOOO WE GOT THE DIDJ
00:01 first thing that caught my attention was the coin counter lmao
Have you heard of Faded Hills from Forces ?
"Alright. Next is Walmart Brand Green Hi- oh- i mean- Emerald Hill Zone."
bro holdin back anger
Who’s here before this turns 1 hour?
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5:22 Neo green air bubble zone
You were happy about them using the melody of You Can Do Anything for Mecha Green Hill in Chaos, but not using the full song in Green Hiils Zone in Sonic 2?
5:28 I think they initially called it "Neo Green Hill Zone" as an allusion to the cultural and artistic movement of Neoclassicism from the XVIII and XIX centuries, which drew heavy inspiration from the Classical Period (aka the Greco-Roman period). I do, however, think that it was a smart choice to change it to "Aquatic Ruin Zone" since a lot of people wouldn't get the reference (and it still wouldn't at all be obvious to those minimally well-versed in the artistic world since 1 - as you said, "Neo" literally means "new"; 2 - Even in an artistic context, there are literally dozens of artistic movements throughout history designated by "Neo____"; and 3 - looking at the stage, one would instinctively think of the original Classical Period and not the much later Neoclassical Period).
Sonic Lost world is way underrated. It’s got the same beginners jank of any sonic game. But I think it’s super fun.
Here's my hottest take:
Seaside Hill > Green Hill Zone
I will not explain my reasoning
Nah
Sonic Battle has a green hill zone arena, i think you get it after beating the game, it can be played on training and free battles
In Sonic and All Stars racing transformed as well as team Sonic racing there is a racetrack that's at that seaside level in Sonic heroes so you can almost say that counts as a hill level because it's the second act of that Hill zone at the beginning of Sonic heroes.
And by the way Sonic forces speed battle is completely different than the Sonic forces you get for PC and console. What Sonic forces speed battle is similar to is Sonic dash which is also on smartphones. The difference is Sonic dash actually has more obstacles and I'd say it's more difficult while Sonic forces speed battle is more focused on trying to beat actual human opponents on the internet to be the first of the finish line which therefore they made the obstacles easier to avoid not to mention you get power-ups to mess up your opponents. I haven't played either of the games in a long time but I used to livestream them every once in a while but I played them a lot more than I live streamed them, and this may sound like a brag but I mean in my opinion I think it's what just makes Sonic forces speed battle really easy. I get first place to vast majority of the time. Although I think I noticed as I was leveling up more my opponents started to get more challenging so I think as you just get better at the game you start having better competition but I still would win the majority of the time.
"Dust Hill" was a scrapped zone, which was meant to be a desert stage. In one of the betas, SEGA accidentally put "Dust Hill" instead of an Early Name for/"Mystic Cave".
yeah
Bro fell in "the pit" as super sonic... with 100 rings!
HILL APPRECIATION DAYYY!!
I love emerald hill because of the music.
Emerald hill is called emerald hill because you can get all 7 emeralds in that zone alone.
07:38 technically You can do anything is the remix and Sonic 2 Green hill is the original because both Sonic 2 where released before Sonic CD
Green Hills had a remix of "You Can Do Anything" from CD as well and i'm surprised you forgot to mention that
I always thought hilltop was at the very tip top of emerald hill because it looks like there are clouds in the background.
I call THE PIT a beginners hidden palace zone.
Green hill(s) uses the Toot toot sonic warrior tune.
Aquatic Mine is sooo chill I agree that it's kinda better than Pumpkin Hill
Green Hills from Sonic 2 for Master System is actually supposed to be a different zone from Green Hill, it even uses the opening music from Sonic CD! Also, it was released BEFORE Sonic 2 for Genesis, not a spin off, this is where Sonic first meets Tails before Genesis Sonic 2.
Kiro you should probably make Sonic the hedgehog 2 iceberg
What if, now hear me out, Neo Green Hill Zone might've originally been called Neon Green Hill zone?
2:49 Hill top is a palette swap of Emerald Hill because there was originally gonna be time travel in sonic 2
Watch the whole video before commenting
You forgot about Sonic Triple Trouble’s Great Turquoise, Drift 1&2’s Green & Emerald Hill, and Blast’s Green Hill
Im fine with that they change the name of Green Hill. Sonic 2 takes place on another Island. So i get the idea that it was origanaly intented to take place in the same Island as Sonic 1. Also Can you talk about almost every final level in a Sonic game?
So you got the Green Hills/sonic cd bit backwards
Sonic 2 (8 bit) came out first, then hayata decided to turn that into the game's theme
Mecha sounds similar because it's supposed to be a mechanized version of the same stage from Sonic 2 8bit
Where is the "Hill" which is absolutely flat with some ketchup?
In sonic heroes, knuckles says "we have mushrooms on my island, but not this large", nothing related, just wanted to say this
Werehog is dabbing in the Background as his game doesn't have any levels with the word Hill in them (That I know of)
Translation in the 80s and 90s was pretty new so today, the translation error of Green Hill to Green Hills is pretty confusing why it happened
*T H E P I T*
Also, if we're getting REAL technical, Chemical Plant is TECHNICALLY a hill zone too, as it's the FUTURE version, of Emerald Hill, or more accurately Dust Hill AKA Hidden Palace AKA location of *T H E P I T* leading to Hidden Palace. Or if you're not an *ELITE* then it's just spikes. Chemical Plant's music is a *BOP.* That's all I have to say.
ahh yes my favorite zone WALMART BRAND GREEN HILL ZONE
Hill top zone, dust hill as supposed to be the western canyon zone full of sand and cactuses
i feel like emerald hill was called that because you can get all emeralds in that zone
HAPPY LATE HILL APPRECIATION ZONE DAY
In mystic cave you can also find the hidden palace
Are you saying Mushroom Hill is just “good” This is an fantastic level. Yes the seesaws is a bit anoyying but the rest of the level is amazing
Don't knock Brown Hill. Brown is still a shade of green, if you neglect it long enough.
pumpkin hill the first time I played it.. took me HALF AN HOUR to beat.. it's F tier for me
mystic cave wasn't called dust hill it was a replacement for the now scraped dust hill which you can see prototypes of online and what it was gonna be like. remember sonic mania? mirage saloon was the reworked dust hill that they decided to finish and put in the game. mystic cave isn't dust hill the devs just didn't take the name out of the prototypes until the actual release. its the same for hidden palace too.
Sand shower was the desert level not dust hill
Hill!
that title sounded like “hill zone”
Someone make clayhill zone as like a sonic web series thing where he goes thru portals and enters clayhill, it can be a game too, idk just yes.
I know this might be a scratch but here I go.
"Hilltop Heights Zone from the fan game called Sonic the Hedgehog: Before the Sequel created by LakeFeperd."
Just wondering does this count or is it a no go.🤔
I think marble zone was originally called marble hill zone but in the final product it called marble zone only
Guess my birthday is hilll zone appreciation day 2
turquoise is a shade of blue
Actually I had Sonic mobile game endless runner where we were running on the green hill zone
Why do you always talk like you're just about to run out of breath??? Remember to breathe, sir, it's good for you.
*next is Walmart brand green hil- i i mean* got me💀💀💀💀💀💀
don't forget your schizo pill zone
Pumpkin Hill? I think you mean Halloween Town
Hill.
L I M E H I L L Z O N E
You Missed Gray Hill Zone From A Fan Game Called Sonic 2.5 for Pico-8
I played the mobile version of sonic 2 and feel in the pit
You can do anything IS the remix of green hills
Dust hill is not an early name for mystic cave zone but an cut desert stage
Also Dust Hill is the name of Classic Green Hill's theme from Forces...
how on earth did you add something as obscure as leapster sonic but forgot green grove
Emerald hill is on west island so calling it "green" hill zone would be canonically incorrect to the lore