Dark Valley

Dark Valley is a racecourse in Sonic Drift 2 for the Sega Game Gear. This stage (as "Dark Valley 1") is the third track of the Purple Grand Prix, after Hill Top 1 and before Casino Night; and the races re-enter the region during the Blue Grand Prix, where "Dark Valley 2" is the first track, before Quake Cave. As with most other races in the Second Chaos Grand Prix, the player has to complete three laps of the track to proceed, and the fastest racer gets a Chaos Emerald.

Overview
Amongst the ridges and crags of a deserted mountain range lies Dark Valley, an area which seems wreathed in permanent shadow cast by the towering rocky peaks. This stage features a racetrack with yawning voids on either side of the roadway; veer off course and it's a long way down.

Dark Valley also features occasional gaps in the track where the entire surface is gone, replaced by a pitch-black abyss. Make sure to hit the springs that come up before these absences, or once again the character will be taking the fastest way to the jagged rocks on the bottom.

Sonic Drift 2 makes no unambiguous statements of where in Sonic's world the races are located, but based on the Green-Hill-style checkerboard soil elsewhere in the Blue Grand Prix, the best guess for Dark Valley's geography (and the rest of the Blue tournament, for that matter) is on an isle somewhere near South Island (if not on South Island itself).