Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit)/Development
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Revision as of 06:27, 16 September 2009 by Black Squirrel (talk | contribs) (Feel free to move it back if I'm wrong, but I think those shots look more like they're from Sky High rather than Green Hills)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has gone through several changes over its development process. There are several rejected ideas, level designs, and other things that were left on the cutting room floor. The following details several of these things.
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Early Game Design
These scans come from various magazines. They show Sonic 2 when it was in earlier stages of development.
Various
Title screen looks a bit different than final and lacks Tails.
Underground Zone
Here the roof is lower than in the final.
Sky High Zone
Prototype screenshots show Sky High and Green Hills using some very basic checkered floors, similar to Sonic 1.
There's palette differences and more trees than the final game too.
This style is used in the opening cutscene, the ending and can be seen scrolling in the title card animations.
The handgliding section of act 2. The clouds seem to be different.
The lightning is also yellow rather than blue
Green Hills Zone
As Green Hills Zone shares many of the graphics from Sky High, it makes sense for it to have similar early checkered floors.
Again. It was likely this zone was due to appear first (instead of Underground Zone), but was altered last minute.
An early Map. The trees and flowers are different.
Again.
