Lastly, tubes of varying color force a character into a certain direction: the vertical ones are tall, with blue sending a character upward and a red one sending them downward. Hovering platforms keep a character spinning in mid-air and some can form a long row covering much of the ground below. It's height distance depends on how much descension it had before a jump (if both Sonic and Tails are on the platform, both must jump in order for the platform to raise). A long, horizontal floating bar acts as a type of elevation platform and will lower if stood upon but will raise whenever a player jumps on it. Both types of nets can be ran on if enough speed was used to go upward from its ramps on its base. The lower-moving ones are more of a hindrance while the upward moving ones can be used to reach higher areas. Some areas contain large spinning cylindrical nets that either rotate downward or upward in a corkscrew-like pattern. The Zone also contains Balloons of varying colors used to either bounce over large gaps or used to gain height into the upper areas of the Zone. Large Flywheels are also present and some are used to reach other high areas of the Zone.

Some of these Spinning wheels also pose as hazards, threatening to crush a player. One element of the Zone is a series of hovering Spinning Wheels, which either move in a set pattern by themselves or can be moved up and down manually by pressing up and down on, though the latter is not obvious initially. The D-Struct Machine is still fought by Knuckles at the end of Act 1. In this case, each Act takes roughly just one-and-a-half minutes to complete, and the Zone lacks a boss fight in the second Act. Playing as Sonic or Tails, Carnival Night Zone is one of the longest Zones available in the game, but as Knuckles in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, it changes from being one of the longest Zones to one of the shortest. Knuckles will then use a teleporter to reach IceCap Zone. Knuckles can take a shortcut to a capsule, bypassing the boss completely. Eggman, Sonic and Tails will be shot out of a cannon to the next Zone. Later, a switch will be pressed to reactivate the lights. Partway through the Zone, Knuckles appears and turns off all of the lights (this does not affect the gameplay of the Zone, although it does raise the Zone's water level). Eggman in Marble Garden Zone, Tails airlifts Sonic to Carnival Night Zone, and Knuckles runs there from the previous Zone. Set in a massive metropolis on Floating Island that seems to have a never-ending carnival going on during the nighttime, Carnival Night Zone is full of lights, balloons, tilting cannons and giant rotating barrels.Īfter defeating Dr.

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