The Oddities of Sonic Zone Names
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Today I wanted to talk about Sonic Zone Names.
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Sonic CD’s official government name with no abbreviations is Sonic The Hedgehog Compact Disc.
Snitching on sonic CD isn't cool
*Disc
Sonic, compact disc the hedgehog
@@sumfira2003Both disk and disc are correct.
@andraw4003 Sure, but "Disc" is used in the CD logo (which you can find on nearly every CD) and is written as such in any other official material.
Every time someone pronounces it “Hydrosity” reminds me of Megamind saying “Metrosity”.
"There's only one guy i know who pronounces it as Metrosity" -Titan....
or is it Tighten.
Real Recognizes Real
@Fatih_M177
Assuming you're not making a joke, then it's really kind of _both._
Megamind intended his name as "Titan".. though Hal, being the absolute braindead prokaryotic dumbass he is, thought it was spelled "Tighten", which ended up being his villain name.
Also, saw the thumbnail of this video and immediately clicked just to look for a comment about Megamind's pronunciation skills.
YESSS !!!
I pronounce it high-dross-ity because i like being wrong and channeling my inner Megamind
I finally found my people. I absolutely believe that it's supposed to be "hydro-city" but "high-dross-ity" is so much funnier.
It doesn’t, it just makes you sound special…
This guy gets it
Me
That is actually strangely how I pronounce it Hi-dross-ity.
One thing that has ALWAYS bugged me for some reason is that Titanic Monarch from Mania isn't called Titanic Tyranny despite it being on Little Planet. Would've been a real neat detail
NOO
That's for the better
I agree with @RandomEmmy, titanic monarch is too cool
It actually isn't, in the ending cutscenes you can see it "parked" close to it, I could get the idea of it due to MMZ transition
Plus Titanic Monarch sounds awesome, knowing the Mania Team, they would have named it like that if it was on Little Planet since Sonic Mania is basically Sonic CD 2
1:13 “I do not speak English” this is a very important detail we have to take that the folks who created this game and named the zone don’t speak English so them thinking of a name as simple as “hydro city” is more likely then a clever “hydrocity”
Lest we remember that Genocide City was once on the table for the same reason
@@MicoTheRaccoon I mean it was changed to Cyber City after American Developers changed it.
The katakana used is 'ro' not 'ra', even though I'd normally say "Hydrocity", the Japanese pronunciation would definitely come across closer to Hydro City.
@@theotakux5959 Even if "hydrocity" was intended by the Japanese devs, wouldn't it still be ハイドロシティ (haidoroshiti), and not ハイドラシティ (haidorashiti)? Like, the name John is ジョン (Jon), even though ジャン (Jan) sounds a little bit closer.
@hrrrrghOtacon I wasn't sure, I can read it but I'm not an expert on converting English words to katakana, so I canr speak on intent.
I've never once heard an ACTUAL argument for saying it like "hi-draw-sity" until now.
7:52
Eggmanland actually does have an alliterative name, being "Crimson Carnival".
It's not the official name of the Eggmanland zone, but I believe some of the fandom adopted it as its name upon Unleashed's release
crimson carnival sounds a million times better than eggmanland lol
@@sirkjohno0129 im pretty sure its the name it was given in the wii version of unleashed or the japanese version of the hd version, not sure
@@saturnwitch Yeah, people always say that name is from either of those 2 options, but nope, in all of them the stage still is called "Eggmanland", Crimson Carnival is purely a Fan Made name
@@saturnwitch Just checked the wiki, apparently that it is incorrect, it is not official in anyway. Funnily enough, searching Crimson Carnival on the wiki actually does direct you to Eggmanland so it's at least very popular.
Someone else said it's seen when selecting the stage but I can't go check myself.
I always said Hydrocity, but I can totally understand the people who say Hydrocity. Now that I've heard you're pronunciation, I will forever call it Hydrocity.
I love that u said this in a way that didn’t show which one u leaned towards it’s hilarious
Sonic games love using the word "hill" in their zones. And there's a LOT of them.
Hillo
hill top zone
how about just Hill?
@@nathussilverus mushroom hill, hill top, green hill. There are so many
@@gonnachangemychannel9449
Hill Hill Zone
Eggmanland already has a stage name when you select a stage in the hub world called crimson carnival
That's a fan made name, like Dark Super Sonic
@@gunman8452 it literally isnt?
like you can SEE the name when selecting the stage, it's not fanmade...
@ironicallyuncreative if that was the case, why is the music for the stage called Eggmanland Day and Night rather than Crimson Carnival Day? The stage and huh share the name Eggmanland. Crimson Carnival isn't official
@@gunman8452 play the game. it appears. its literally there. ingame, the name of the song of all things doesnt matter when the name itself is in the game.
@ Same reason why Eternal Highway is called Cyber Space X-X in Frontiers.
No more debates,Toilet Town is the true name of the secound zone from sonic 3
There's also a lot of zones with "hill" in their names like
Green Hill from Sonic 1
Emerald Hill from Sonic 2
Hill Top also from Sonic 2
Green Hills from Sonic 2 8-bit
Mecha Green Hill from Sonic Chaos
Mushroom Hill from Sonic & Knuckles
Neo Green Hill from Sonic Advance
Sunset Hill from Sonic Advance 3
Splash Hill from Sonic 4 Ep 1
Sand Hill from Sonic Adventure
Seaside Hill from Sonic Heroes
Windy Hill from Sonic Lost World
Pumpkin Hill from Sonic Adventure 2
And Turquoise Hill also from Sonic Chaos
Mobius is hilly
@@Malenbolai help my brainrotted mind somehow misread mobius as morbius in 2025
Hillo
they sure do love the word hill
It makes sense when you remember that Sonic was all about exploring unusual terrains especially when designing levels with slopes and loops. They just want some really curvy and NOT FLAT stages to explore.
This is an atrocity
The atrocity of hydrocity
Coming to you at high velocity
Love how almost all comments are just about how hydro city is supposed to be said when it’s obviously Hy-d-ro-cit-y
Hi-derr-oh-sih-tee
Great video! Strange zone names are one of my favorite things about Sonic games. Recently I posted in a FB Sonic fan group:
"One of my favorite quirks of the Sonic series is the occasional bizarre zone name that seemingly has nothing to do with the zone itself: Scrap Brain, Panic Puppet, Gigantic Angel… What are some others?"
scrap brain is such a cool and creepy name it stuck with me since i was a kid. i think some of them come from japanese guys not really knowing what those cool english words actually mean
in Sonic Origins, if you check the sound menu in the museum and go to the zones name for Sonic 3, you'll see that "Hydro" and "City" are seperated. Meaning it is Hydro City, not Hydrocity
The way I see it, the ZONE name is consistently Hydrocity (as seen in the title cards and level select of 3K and Mania), and the SONG name is Hydro City (as seen in Generations, Mania, and Origins)
In other words SEGA has played us for absolute fools
@@524caretcopypasting my comment from a few minutes ago, so please forgive the laziness:
ハイドラーシティ(Hydrawssity) = ❌
ハイドロシティ/ハイドロCITY (Hydro City, and even my phone's JP showed the second one as an option when I was typing)=⭕💯
Source: I just read the JP Sonic 3 manual. I've had enough of this debate. It's the same as people who say Pokēmon (incorrect) rather than Pokémon (correct) and it's ridiculous. No, I'm not joking. ドロ (Doh Roh) is not ドロー (Doro-h) ("Draw" phoenetically), nor is it ドラ (Doh Rah) nor ドラー (Doh Raah), so Hyドラssity and Hyドラーssity do not make sense, therefore it can only be ハイドロシティ with the most important kana being ロ (Roh) shown here. It's not a pun, it's not a pseudo portmanteau on hydro and velocity, it's HYDRO CITY, even though there are no spaces in the katakana like ハイドロ•シティwould have looked if it has been typed that way in the manual. The "•" doesn't matter, but the kana being ロ / ロー / ラ / ラー does, and it's ロ. End of discussion.
@@jomon324 This hurt my brain but now I understand what you said is "when you write it with a 'ra' you don't get any results"
It's Origins. Chances are it's a typo
Metro City is two words and look how it's pronounced.
A fun Sonic Zone naming tidbit I know is that in Sonic Triple Trouble, there's a zone called Robotnik Winter, and despite the Robotnik name being an American only concept at the time, it was still named Robotnik Winter in Japan too, despite him only ever being referred to as Eggman there until the Sonic Adventure games canonized both names. I think that's pretty neat!
The pronunciation depends on whether there’s a space in between it. Therefore, I shall refer to it as hydrossity in Sonic 3, Mania and wherever else it lacks a space, and hydro-city if it has the space.
This satisfies everyone, I think.
Didn't talk about 3 word zones like Neo Green Hill, Wild Water Way and Space Colony ark?
Also forgot to mention that SegaSonic also has all alliterated zone names except for the finale
@@LsAdventurerShadow Generations?
@ ohh right- i thought they meant in SA2...
I always forgot that SEGASONIC also did the alliteration gimmick. Only from this year on will I always remember (cause I had to keep looking them up for an OST project)
ATROCITY that you missed opportunity to make a atrocity, hydrocity joke in the title
Reminds me of Megamind calling 'Metro City' Metrocity.
That whole joke is why I always assumed it was Hydro-city.
That’s why I call it Hydrocity
I think "Metrossity" actually sounds much cooler.
11:13 think of how many ancient ruined civilizations there are in real life. It's not that farfetched that the sonic world, earth in the far future, has lots of ancient ruins. Maybe these ruins are the ruins of current places in real life?
That's a fair point.
But if you count both the Adventure games, 06, Unleashed, plus a lot more games with humans in them... I mean, maybe the "ruins" levels in those games are a result of all the anthropomorphic animals making those civilizations uninhabitable, therefore the humans rebuilding their cities in desolate regions away from them and the "ancient cities" soon collapsing into rubble. Or it's just a result of the doomed echidna tribes.
You missed an instance of "Green Hill but at sunset." It also appears in some of Sonic Frontiers' Cyberspace stages.
One interesting thing about the "single word zone names". Marble, Labyrinth and Final zone are all 1 word. Star light should really be starlight. Spring yard was formerly sparkling and Scrap brain was Clockwork. So all sonic 1 zone names (except Green hill) were 1 word.
Also, why are some, but not all CD level names synonyms for Chaos, like Panic, Chaos and Mandess, but they just gave up halfway?
@Protoman3
Imagine if we got Tidal Terror, Quartz Quiver, Wacky Workbench is fine because being wacky is very similar to a person going mad, and Starstruck Speedway
@@abaddon1503 noice
I have played too much Pokemon to where whenever I see "City" I immediately think [insert thing here]-city
whenever someone says "it's hydro-city because it's a city underwater!" i say "yeah but the meaning doesn't ALWAYS have to affect the pronunciation"
and about the -polis names, coming back to hydrocity, i think that if people pronounce hydrocity as hydro-city, they should also pronounce metropolis as metro-polis
As Tee Lopes wisely said before:
"🎶 'Hydro' means 'water'; 'City' means 'city' 🎶 "
I have always thought of Hydrocity as a portmanteau of the prefix "hydro" and the word "velocity". To me, "Hydro City" sounds more like a Pokemon gym than a Sonic level.
it's not pronounced like Velocity, it's pronounced like Atrocity, because that's what the stage is.
Y’know what? We can call Hydrocity anything we want! So I’ll call it Johnson.
It’s officially the Johnson Zone now.
it's always entertaining to see "hydro city" pronouncers writing whole paragraphs explaining themselves
9:07 Egg-oss-itty
"Hydropolis" would have worked as a new-Greek word without the 30 year debate.
9:32 you forgot about Icecap being used twice.
that most likely was intentional though, with it being on Angel Island and all
@ ohhh true, i didn’t think about it.
@@Tozito911 Yeah they are both confirmed to be the same area, even Speed Highway was originally planned to be a Stardust Speedway remake
@@TheGoldBlur3.0 makes sense i guess, mainly because stardust speedway is one of the most iconic and best stages of sonic of all time.
@@TheGoldBlur3.0source?(of the speed highway thing)
Fun fact: There are also a lot of Highways in the level names. Here we go:
Speed Highway - Sonic Adventure
Radical Highway - Sonic Adventure 2
Bingo Highway - Sonic Heroes
Lethal Highway - Shadow The Hedgehog
Battle Highway - Sonic Battle
Colosseum Highway - Sonic Rivals
Metropolitan Highway - Sonic Forces
Pinball Highway - Team Sonic Racing
Eternal Highway - Sonic Frontiers
11:36 About Death-related levels, we have..
Death Egg (2 and 3&K)
Doomsday Zone (3&K, by coincidence the SatAM Finale is called The Doomsday Project)
Dead Line Zone
And the strangest to me is Dead Line. (It's also the origin of some of "Starline" in my username.)
EDIT: Apparently it's a made up name for the stage, which is a shame. Calling the location and the zone name the same is kinda boring stilk.
-7:55-- I thought the stage's name was Crimson Carnival? The location is called Eggmanland, but the stage name itself is Crimson Carnival-
I could've sworn I've heard this video before.........
You may be thinking of the Game Apologist video.
@@PoorGameMechanic
Yes. Thank you.
Wait wait
what if we've all be going about this wrong?
Act 1 is Hydro-city and Act 2 is High-drosity!
It’s Hydrocity in Sonic 3 and Mania, and when it has the space it’s Hydro City.
All these ruined ruins are probably from the greater than one canonized catastrophe deities in the Sonic mythology records.
The civilization that made emerl went extinct. Gerald found this robot and if I'm not mistaken he said that there were 5 great civilizations in the past and that they all went extinct. One of them is the echidnas, so much so that Pachacmac wanted the emeralds to be able to defeat the rival clans. Let me theorize the other civilizations near Angel Island in the past (I theorize that Angel Island was all the Knuckles clan could dominate). Owl Clan: located on West Side Island. Kitsune clan: located on the west side island, creators of Emerl. And... that's all... there was a civilization on Little Planet and Never Lake but I don't know which civilization it would be in Sonic CD. Could the fourth Sonic movie give a hint of this civilization? What about the fifth civilization?
@@Bratwurst_Chao-13I believe the 5th would be the ancients,who created cyberspace and turned into chao and chaos
@Jintyandpugstudios356 Maybe. But the question is: which civilization would be the one on Little Planet and Never Lake?
@@Bratwurst_Chao-13 that's a really good question. Because in wacky workbench past, there's an angel statue that grants you rings. On top of that, stardust speedway past seems to be some sort of ancient city (as seen in the background). Another question, who even BUILT wacky workbench, quartz quadrant, or stardust speedway? I feel like that angel statue could be remnants of a civilization who once lived there. It couldn't have been the little animals who built these places because that wouldn't really make sense (although it would be hilarious)
@Appl-w3k Wacky Workbench, Quartz Quadrant and Stardust Speedway were built by Eggman. In the concept art of Little Planet shown in Sonic Origins, it shows how much influence pollution, robots and machines have on the present rounds. Quartz Quadrant is at 70%, Wacky Workbench is at 90%, and Stardust Speedway and Metallic Madness are at 100%. Now, the past of these rounds. Wacky Workbench present has the possibility of being owned by Eggman like Metallic Madness past. But I don't know. I hope Sonic 4 the movie has hints of the civilization that lived on Little Planet and Never Lake.
I say "High-Draw-Sitty" for two reasons:
1. The "velocity" argument
2. Every "High-Droh-City" stan in existence pronounces Studiopolis Zone as "Studio-opolis"
"Windmill Wake" is also a _genius_ name for the zone, considering that Dark & Light Gaia were woken up by Dr. Eggman before entering this zone and that Sonic will awaken to his Werehog form in the night missions.
Biggest question is:
Is it Green Hill?
Or Grin Heel?
I don't understand the controversy with Hydrocity's name
Its obviously pronounced "Hydro City" because its an ancient city full of water
It doesn't really look like a city, or even a settlement of any sort. It looks more like a church. Plus "Hydro City" is boring, so people often prefer the least boring option
@@KidPrarchord95 "Hydro City is boring" yeah because a really fucking shitty pun that is just such a stretch is so much more exciting. Also they're names???? like names can be cool but they cant really be "exciting" or "boring" because its literally just words
i dont get it either. i get why ppl pronounce it hydrossity, because that's how it looks like it's pronounced in one word, but its obviously not meant to be the correct pronunciation
@@KidPrarchord95 It's a city in the same sense as 'The lost City of Atlantis'; An ancient ruin submerged underwater.
@@KidPrarchord95doesn't matter if it's boring, it's correct.
If it was written as two words, I would pronounce it as "hydro city." But because it's one word, I pronounce it in the way that rhymes with velocity. The sounds of words changes when they are expanded and the stress changes. This is a normal part of English, and why should Hydrocity be any different? In reality I don't really care how it's pronounced, It is a compound word used for the translation of a game originally developed by a Japanese team. They are both equally "right" and there are good arguments for using either pronunciation. But I'll keep saying it the way that makes sense to me. The reality is, if the team put a space in the name and called it "Hydro City" instead, no one would care and no one would be asking this question.
I never knew there was even a debate: it’s a water level, so it’s a no-brainer: Hydro-City, as in “the city of water”
Yes, because it looks just like a city. You know where I build my cities? Underground, with the only way to access it through falling off of a bridge.
It’s pronounced Hydrocity in its original appearance. If I am referring to the zone in a game where it has a space in between, I’ll call it hydro-city, but the original zone doesn’t have a space on it and neither does the Mania version.
"The debate rages through the ages" as the Sonic Encyclospeedia says.
10:49 Bars.
It's interesting to me that the combination of the names of parts of Robotnik's base in SA2 that Knuckles and Rouge navigate to get keys - Death Chamber and Egg Quarters - give you the name of his ultimate weapon - the Death Egg.
With Eggmanland's alliteration, it should be pointed out for YEARS, several unofficial sources have referred to the stage as "Crimson Carnival", but no actual origin for the term has ever been found, as far as I know.
08:01 Crimson Carnival: Am i a joke to you?
If you think about it, the Japanese pronunciation of the word "velocity" is ベロシティ(BEROSHITI) and Hydrocity would be ハイドロシティ (HAIDOROSHITI). So you could say the answer is technically both (or neither) as the pronunciation of the O in VELO- would simply be OH. Also English words borrowed in Japan don't treat emphasis the same way we do, so they don't need to modify the straightforward pronunciation of hydro-city to make the connection work. Heck, it works better as a reference to "velocity" because the Lo is pronounced the same way as Ro in Hydro. Be-ro-shi-ty. Hai-do-ro-shi-ty.
a little surprised ice cap (sonic 3) and ice cap (sonic adventure) wasn't brought up, especially since those are two mainline sonic games
I’ve always thought that zone names were made up on the spot in Sonic’s head based on what was observable at the time ingame when he found it. Oil Ocean probably wasn’t always covered in oil after all, in an industrial area it should have its own proper name. It would explain why the final space level in Sonic 2 is named Doomsday Zone. It’s just a strip of space, but if Eggman got away with the Master Emerald at that time, it would cause doomsday to occur.
So what made him go “yeah, this looks like Scrap Brain Zone”?
Hydro is related to water, and is used as prefix on the stage name to make it mean "City of Water".
It makes no sense to pronounce the "hydro" nor "city" any different that you normally would just because Hydrocity is "one word".
Specially considering that english is really loose about phonetically pronounce words as they are written.
"Colonel" is the first exemple that comes to mind, and that is just the point of iceberg on this weird language.
What I mean is, unless we can some how talk to the people that, in universe, named that zone and hear what they call it, it is impossible to really know how you are supposed to say "Hydrocity". It could be "Hide-Roc-Itch" for all we really know. :v
2:10 starting a petition to rename Tokyo to match the two word naming scheme. Like Tokyo Terror, or Japanese Japes, or Oriental Obstacle... I'll figure something out
it's interesting how in a video about zone titles in Sonic games, Genocide City has not come up once.
One of my favourite level names is Desert Ruins Zone 3 from Sonic Lost World. It's got a candy theme, so the loading screen is written as:
s
Des^ert Ruins
Don't forget Sonic Lost World's "Des(s)ert Ruins" title card for Desert Ruins Zone 3
I personally call it "hi-draugh-kitty"
I call it Hello Kitty zone
Hydrocity is spelled with a K, as in "hy-dro-kity"
Hydro-Kity?!?!
It’s a kitty
Kawaii ahh take 😂😂
Water cat
meow
I’m not sure when I started pronouncing it has Hydrocity (like velocity) because I’m pretty sure I read it as Hydro-City the first time I played 3&Knuckles. There was a lot of Sonic content during early UA-cam so maybe that’s how it spread?
Speaking of zones, I wonder if you could make a video about sonic locations appearing in other video games. For example, there was an anime fighting game called Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax which has a ton of Sega references and Green Hill Zone appears as a bonus stage. What’s even stranger is that the music isn’t a remix of Green Hill Zone but instead a remix of Seaside Hill from Sonic Heroes called Seaside B-Field.
IT'S PRONOUNCED SEWER SPEEDWAY
hydrossity sounds better phonetically. it rolls off the tongue more. hydro-city sounds so clunky
You mean Hydrociry (Head-row-ky-tea) zone, right?
I am now going to pronounce hydrocity as “hee dro sigh tee”. this is the true correct pronunciation
Like Aphrodite. These morons just don’t understand the raw intelligence of us big brains.
Something I find fun is how at a glance, it looks like Sonic CD uses the same naming scheme as the other classic games, because the word "Zone" is primarily displayed on the title cards. Like, the full name of the first level is "Palmtree Panic Zone 1", which technically contains the string "Palmtree Panic Zone", but that's just because the subdivisions of levels are called "Zones" instead of "Acts" in CD. The same is true of Sonic Lost World, though Smash Bros. apparently didn't get the memo, because the stage based on Windy Hill is called Windy Hill Zone.
The Sonic3K water level. That's how I say it.
11:08 sky temple from superstars
Why didn't tails just ask knuckles how he says Hydro city? It's his island
in the comics, he doesn't care what it's called
Hy-draw-city rolls off the tongue infinitely better i will not budge on this
Your Sonic content is Wonderful!
Scramled Egg is one of my favorite zone names for sure, too
maybe the reason why unleashed only went _half_ with the naming thing is because only _half_ of the game is a standard sonic game?
alright but now the question is:
Luminocity
or
Lumino-City
considering luminosity is a word in of itself. thats not even a question
so sad there's not enough Marble
Marble Zone (Sonic 1) Marble Garden Zone (Sonic 3 & Knuckles)
Kunckles
I really wanna see a map with all of these zones in their appropriate areas. So many of them. I'd be surprised if that's even possible.
5:12 You'd love Kirby's naming schemes then, they usually spell out a hidden word, such as crowned (Cookie Country, Raisin Ruins, Onion Ocean, White Wafers, Nutty Noon, Egg Engines (yeah eggs are even here too), Dangerous Dinner) or flowered (Fine Fields, Lollipop Land, Old Odyssey, Wild World, Endless Explosions, Royal Road, Eternal Dreamland), they mostly relate to the games ending/theme!
If it were meant to be pronounced Hydro City and not Hydrocity, it would have been spelled like Hydro City. It's one word, not two.
3:45 Bro forgot about Sand Hill
"Green Hill's looking a lot more like Sand Hill right now!"
Get ou-
Thank god
Bro it’s literally water, why would it be anything other than HYDRO-city
This is the dumbest argument for this position I’ve heard so far.
It's pronounced HYDRO City! -Hydro Man
Well, Hydro Man is wrong. He should go take the hydro and leave us alone.
If it was pronounced Hydro City it would've been formatted as Hydro City. It's Hydrossity.
It was translated from a language that doesn't have spaces in its written language.
@ElliotKeaton It was translated into English by people who knew that and could've changed it if they wanted to.
@@concept8192 Because no video game was ever improperly translated in the 90s. Okay bud.
Screw the Hydrocity debate, I want to know why no one pronounces the apostrophe in Knuckles' Chaotix. Kiro pronounced it in Tails' Sky Patrol, but I've never heard anyone else pronounce it for Chaotix.
Because that's dumb
It's called using proper English
Apostrophes have a pronunciation?
@HungryWarden yes, when comnected to an S, normally an " 's " is added to the end of a word to make it possessive, like "John's apple", but if a word ends in an S already, you just add an apostrophe and nothing else
@ that’s pronouncing the s.
‘ by itself has no pronunciation.
1- Bro the correct way to pronounce first zone mentioned in the video. It's the water level from sonic 3
2- correct pronouncation of copycats from 8bit games and sonic advance is Green Hill Wannabe/Lookalike and Green Hill Good Future (Sunset copy)
3- Correct way to pronounce the mecha copy is Green Hill Bad Future
toilet town ACT 1
This is probably the most civil answer.
@Joshie-n8i Or as it would be called if it were an Action Stage, All Of The Forces Levels
its hy-drocity if its spelled as one word. its hydro-city if theres a space between hydro and city
I always pronounced it Hydrah-city because it sounds like "velocity".
It's hydrocity bruh.
Hydrocity is an underground waterway.
Therefore, Hydrocity.
Hydro City stinks.
7:20 How about Cold Coast? Or maybe Frozen Frontier, Rime Rim?
I think one of the Sonic Boom games on 3DS has a stage called Frozen Frontier, I think it was a Fire & Ice stage if i recall correctly
You missed one of the sunset Green Hill variations, Frontiers had it for a couple cyberspace stages
well if tails said its hydrocity, then its hydrocity
well tails is a genius so makes sense
No it’s hydrocity, obviously.
@@dynamicyouthtube The same genius who told Eggman Sonic had a fake chaos emerald
@TKilgore09 Eggman? the same Eggman who made an indestructible egg pod thing that not even HYPER SONIC! could damage it and didn't think to do it again?
@@TKilgore09 I mean everyone makes mistakes
Love your stage names ahah
The reason there are so many ruins is because Mobius is actually a Planet of the Apes situation. The alien race Xorda eliminated most of humanity with a gene-targeting bomb (which left their structures intact), after which animals rapidly evolved and inherited the earth.
9:44 IF were counting racing games (like Sonic R) Sky Road has been repeated three times due to one of Team Sonic Racing’s tracks being named “Sky Road”.
another name for a lava stage could be “boiled egg zone”
9:43 given there are cases where the zone names reference the story rather than the true location, and especially given the earlier areas' frequently reused names, I’m guessing it’s not a big deal if the place names are reused every so often.
You forgot about egg fortress and sky temple from super stars ⭐️
what if hydrocity is a double meaning, like aquatic town you run fast in
“Sonic Unleashed is like 16 years old”
Ow my back!
The muliplayer zones in Sonic 3 have an alphabetical naming scheme.