Sonic 2 Beta - Hidden Palace Zone

- Read Description - Hidden Palace Zone is the final scrapped level from Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It is an unique underground zone with water, featuring sparkling gems, batflaps and dinosaur badniks. Hidden Palace Zone is perhaps the most infamous of the scrapped Sonic 2 levels due to its widespread appearance in gaming media before the game was released. Hidden Palace is a colourful affair with ground made of golden crystals, straight gold platforms for surfaces, and crystal pillars of green, purple and gold, complete with glowing circles. The background is made up of rows of more purple and blue crystal rocks and through them are beautiful waterfalls cascading down throughout this jewel encrusted cave. The structure is fairly enclosed, with tunnels and passageways, and the ground is very step-based. There&water looming along the bottom of the level, long, twisting green pipes to add speed, and check out those cool green bridges, which light up as Sonic walks over them. Hidden Palace was removed but not forgotten. The name was recycled in Sonic & Knuckles for use in an unrelated level, and some of the background art was re-used in Sonic Spinball&Toxic Caves. Some elements like the glowing bridges and spheres were used later in Sonic 3&IceCap Zone as well. Here ends my Sonic 2 Beta run. Thanks for watching folks.