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Sonic 2 Archives: What Sonic 2 Could Have Been

24K views · Jul 26, 2025 · Gaming

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  • @Sonic2ArchivesYT · 1 year ago

    Hey There!! Stopping by to say thanks for checking out &quot;Sonic 2: Archives&quot;. We&apos;ve been working on this ROM hack for a couple of years now and it always is a pleasure to see people discuss the topic of our passion project. We can assure you, there&apos;s more to come and there will be soon enough. Hope you stay tuned and await the future demos that will arrive upon being prepared... Try 2 keep up!!<br><br>- Archives Team

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  • @olamiposiadebayo8110 · 1 year ago

    As a guy who just beat sonic 2. Doing the development video made it better cause I think is one of my favorite classic sonic games

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  • @Thebibleforps2 · 1 year ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR-RVvnhO18&amp;t=260">4:20</a> it’s likely from sonic before the sequel, lost levels act 2 is one big wood zone reference, and has spinning saw blades as a gimmick

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  • @TheMasonGamer · 1 year ago

    I think you may be mistaken, Sonic 2 Archives is more of a remixed original take on the beta zones. What the original game’s vision would’ve been more like is Sonic 2 Time Quest.

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  • @JamesR624 · 7 months ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR-RVvnhO18&amp;t=252">4:12</a> You&apos;re probably thinking of either Sonic 2 Delta, or the Wood Zone in &quot;The Misfits Pack&quot; mod of Sonic Mania. I am pretty sure the buzz-saws were in Wood Zone in one of those. Though they&apos;re just brown versions of the saws from Scrap Brain Zone in Sonic 1.

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  • @gabrielcarvalhoseixas3112 · 1 year ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR-RVvnhO18&amp;t=106">1:46</a> Even though Aquatic Ruin is not in the concept art, she is in others from the time, so she would probably be Taria if the original vision had been in the game.

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  • @DabiggestplayB0i_13 · 1 year ago

    If Sonic 2 kept all its beautiful concept designs and stages, it could possibly be my favorite classic game (mine in CD).

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  • @Jonny-n1e · 10 days ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR-RVvnhO18&amp;t=164">2:44</a> &nbsp;fun fact, this is also the case in the simon wai prototype where if you finished act 1 if green hill, the color plate turns dark. The sonic fandom calls this the night plate, even though it was for testing.

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  • @yellowinahat · 1 year ago

    No, there are no saws anywhere in the concepts of Sonic 2. At the while I was finding for it, it seems that I have also been cursed with the Mandela effect, but at least you can rest easy now.

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  • @armystuntman8601 · 11 months ago

    As someone who obsessed over the Sonic 2 beta since 2007 this mod is extremely cathartic

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  • @o.l.ashman9696 · 1 year ago

    Being from Australia, Tropical Sun zone reminds me a lot of far North Queensland<br>Especially around the Cairns area where the land is very hilly and surrounded by rainforests

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  • @ZetaNull · 1 year ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR-RVvnhO18&amp;t=264">4:24</a> I believe a few other projects that brought back wood zone used buzzsaws and stuff

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