Arid Sands

Arid Sands
Shamar's level, Sonic Unleashed
Number of Acts: 3
Boss: Dark Guardian

Arid Sands is Shamar's level in Sonic Unleashed. Based on a Middle-Eastern desert town, Arid Sands features many breakable objects, ruins, and a great deal of Wall Jumping. The day stage ends outside of a structure resembling the monastery at Petra in Jordan; a building carved into the rock itself.

Most of the night Act focuses on finding several keys to open doors. You also learn that throwing barrels of water at flaming wizards will extinguish them. There's a ton of combat, including a rooftop section that seems to last forever...

Unused Area

The Night time level also contains a large chunk of level that was blocked off, likely to keep what already felt like a slow level short. This area can be seen in the Shamar Debut trailer and features several ruins in a canyon. However, the same video also shows the city having a different layout in terms of battles and one battle in the unused portion with an unprecedented three Titan enemies. Because of this, it's believed this may be a "Hard Mode" of the level that could be released as downloadable content. Players can explore most of this area using a combination of physics abuse and glitching. Template:SonicUnleashedZones