Tropical Jungle


 * ''Not to be confused with the Tropical Jungle Zone from Sonic the Comic.

Tropical Jungle is the large jungle located around Soleanna, which appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog. This zone is near Radical Train and Soleanna city.

Sonic
Sonic travels through the Tropical Jungle along with Elise in order to escape Eggman's robots. This stage has two acts. You're carrying Elise throughout this stage. The stage begins with Sonic running through the inside of a tree trunk and bouncing off of springs. You occassionally grab on to vines with purple flowers on the end to swing to a higher elevation. There are also occasions where you run across giant turtles.

Rouge
Shadow never plays through this level in his story. Instead you fly through as Rouge. It is a relatively short stage. You never really have to use the vines to swing onto a higher platform due to Rouge's ability to climb walls and glide. This stage is simply a maze of platforms.

Silver
Tropical Jungle is Silver's first zone after travelling to the past, in which he attempts to find the Iblis Trigger. Silver's version of Tropical Jungle is more involved then the other two. Not only do you swing on vines and run along platforms but occasionally you have to actually ride on the giant turtles you see to get to a new area. Other times you will be expected to fling giant logs through wooden blockaids in order to proceed.

Sonic's story
After Sonic completes his fight with the Egg Genesis and rescues Elise, they proceed into the forest to escape the onslaught of Eggman robots headed their way. Sonic carries Elise for the entire level.

Sonic saving Elise from Eggman's robots and carrying her to safety while grinding on trees and vines is very similar to Tarzen rescuing Jane from the baboons.

Shadow's story
Rouge comes back from the future with Shadow's Chaos Emerald. She's now worried about him as he no longer has a means of returning to the past. She then gets a contact from G.U.N. asking her if she had recovered the Scepter of Darkness (the game screws up and says "book" of darkness). Rouge says she needs to get into contact with E-123 Omega. Once his location is pin-pointed she goes off into the forest to find him. When she finds him the situation is told to him and Omega heads off to complete his new mission.

Silver's story
Silver, after defeating Iblis, is told by Mephiles the Dark that in order to save his future, he must head into the past and find the Iblis Trigger. Silver gets a vision from a Chaos Emerald that shows him the Iblis Trigger is none other then Sonic the Hedgehog. Mephiles then takes it upon himself to send them into the past. Silver is thrown into the past where the forest is located. He looks around and realizes that he's been seperated from Blaze and Mephiles. That's when he notices his surrounding and is transfixed by its beauty. With that he heads off into the forest to complete his mission and find the Iblis Trigger.