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Angel Island Zone
First Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Number of Acts: 2
Level theme: jungle
Sub-boss: Fire Breath
Boss: Flame Mobile
Maximum rings, Act 1: 104 + 50
Maximum rings, Act 2: 306 + 60
Underwater areas: Both acts for Sonic/Tails,
Act 1 only for Knuckles
Non-English names:
Hydrocity Zone
For the eponymous zone in Sonic Advance, see Angel Island Zone (Sonic Advance). For the Sonic Mania level, see Angel Island Zone (Sonic Mania).

Angel Island Zone is the first zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. When playing as Sonic, a somewhat lengthy introduction is played in which Sonic and Tails discover the floating island and first run into Knuckles. An alternate version of the intro had Sonic surfing onto the island, which is a leftover from a beta version of Sonic 3. The surfing sprites can be viewed via debug mode. Nemesis created a savestate with a restored surfing intro sequence, which can be downloaded here.

Halfway through Act 1, an armada of Fire Breaths attacks the jungle, burning the entire island. Near the end of Act 2, a green ship (in the US manual stated to be the "Flying Battery Blimp") tries to drop bombs on Sonic and Tails but is outrun by the two. At the end of the zone, Eggman burns off the bridge to the left and ambushes them with his Flame Mobile but is quickly defeated.

After Eggman's retreat, Sonic and Tails are dropped into Hydrocity Zone by Knuckles, who destroys the bridge they were standing on. Knuckles was shown to simply jump off the bridge in S3K.

Quotes

Welcome to the Floating Island. Things will really heat up once Dr. Robotnik sets fire to this area of the island. Beware of the Flying Battery blimp.

Sonic Team Commentary (from Sonic Jam Strategy Guide)

We started development on "3" with a story in mind, but it turned out we couldn't make it in time without problems. In the end, the game ended up being cut in half (laugh). This stage starts off with a certain impact, as the flamethrower machines set fire to the island and change the color considerably.

Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka

Angel Island Zone in flames during Act 2.

Badniks

  • Rhinobot — A robotic rhino that charges at you.
  • Monkey Dude — Just your standard (blue) coconut throwing monkey.
  • Bloominator — A red flower with a metallic bluestem.
  • Catakiller, Jr. — A blue caterpillar surrounded by a shield-like contraption. Only the head is vulnerable.

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