Station Square

Station Square (ステーションスクエア) is a fictional city, and one of the three "Adventure Fields" in the game Sonic Adventure and its enhanced remake, Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut.

Station Square is famous for its many attractions, including an amusement park (the Twinkle Park level) a hotel/restaurant, and a casino (the Casinopolis level). An elevator also leads to the Speed Highway level located above the city. A train station in the city allows the player to take a train to the Mystic Ruins, while a boat allows them to reach Eggman's crashed Egg Carrier. It has a human population of 23,856,427 and a near-resemblance to | New York City.

Story
In the beginning of Sonic Adventure, Sonic goes to Station Square for fun, and stumbles across Chaos, a strange creature that is wreaking havoc in the city. Sonic defeats it, and later learns that Doctor Eggman had released Chaos and is planning on collecting the seven Chaos Emeralds to transform Chaos into an incredibly powerful beast that can destroy Station Square, so that Eggman can build his Eggmanland on its ruins.

Sonic and Tails go after the Chaos Emeralds in order to stop Chaos from obtaining them, and one was found in Station Square (in Casinopolis, to be precise). Station Square also plays a role in the other characters stories: Knuckles finds three pieces of the Master Emerald there, Amy lives there, and Big and Gamma both go there looking for Froggy.

Eventually the heroes face off against Eggman on his Egg Carrier, and defeat him and Chaos. In a fit of rage, Eggman fires a gigantic missile into the heart of the city. However, the rocket misfires and turns out to be a dud. Tails races Dr. Eggman to the missile and manages to deactivate it completely before the Doctor could have gotten the chance to set it off manually.

However, Chaos eventually obtains all seven Chaos Emeralds, and transforms into Perfect Chaos. Perfect Chaos easily destroys Station Square by flooding the city in a humungous tsunami, and proceeds to roam around the rubble of buildings submerged in the water. Super Sonic ultimately defeats the beast and leaves the destroyed city in pursuit of a fleeing Eggman.

Its current state is unknown. However, it is said that the Radical Highway is Speed Highway under construction as it is being rebuit. Station Square is only ever revisited in Sonic Adventure 2 and referenced when Eggman asks Rouge the Bat where the last Chaos Emerald is. Rouge takes out a newspaper article that states that Tails was rewarded with a Chaos Emerald at Station Square's city hall for saving the city from the missile. This may suggest that the city was rebuilt, or at least not completely destroyed.

Station Square is also the set location for Sonic X, which shows the city being repaired after the attack from Perfect Chaos.

Casinopolis reappeared as the location where Sonic Pinball Party's Story Mode was set.

Station Square reappears in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood as part of Blue Ridge Zone. However, it bears no resemblance to the one seen in Sonic Adventure, meaning it may be a different place, a new part of the city, or the city rebuilt after its destruction at the hands of Perfect Chaos.

Areas

 * Coastal area, a large outside area with the entrances to the train station, hotel, the office building, the City Hall area and Twinkle Park. Later in the game, there is also a boat that takes you to the crashed Egg Carrier.
 * Train station (SS Central Station), the building where the train to Mystic Ruins is stationed. It also has a path to the casino area.
 * Hotel, a large hotel that contains a pool, a Chao Garden and a penthouse restaurant. The entrance to Emerald Coast and Sonic's Crystal Ring can be found there.
 * Office building (Cyber-Net Inc.), a skyscraper with an extremely proud owner. It is the entrance to Speed Highway, and Tails' Jet Anklets can be found in its sewage system.
 * Twinkle Park area, a small room with doors that lead to Twinkle Park (Action Stage) and Twinkle Kart (minigame). In Twinkle Circuit E-102, Tails and Knuckles are able to play after finding their Twinkle Circuit pass (Found in the same place as where Sonic finds his security card).
 * Casino area, an area that only contains the entrance to Casinopolis and a small alley. Tails fights the Egg Walker there.
 * City Hall area, a downtown area with a small park, a burger shop, a variety shop and City Hall itself. There is also a manhole that leads to the sewer.
 * City Hall, a large government building which is the entrance to Knuckles' Speed Highway, and the area where Sonic fights Chaos 0.
 * Sewer, a dirty underground tunnel that leads to Twinkle Park and the variety shop. Sonic finds his Light Speed Shoes there.

Action Stages

 * Emerald Coast, a beautiful beach where orca whales and dolphins live. Playable as Sonic, E-102 and Big. Tails, Knuckles, and Amy are also allowed to play half of this level using a glitch.
 * Casinopolis, a casino with a gigantic lobby, and an equally gigantic garbage-containment area. Playable as Sonic, Tails and Knuckles.
 * Twinkle Park, an amusement park with bumper cars, a rollercoaster and a castle with a hall of mirrors. Playable as Sonic, Amy and Big. Knuckles, Tails, and Gamma can also enter the stage using a card next to the entrance of Speed Highway.
 * Speed Highway, the first part of the stage is set on high roads and skyscraper rooftops, and the second part is set on the downtown streets. Playable as Sonic, Tails and Knuckles.

In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comic)
In the Archie-published Sonic the Hedgehog comic book, Station Square first appeared in the Sonic Adventure adaptation where it was previously known as the "Hidden City of the Ancients". The city is hidden in a mountain with a plane sticking out of it located in a region of Mobius called the "Mysterious Cat Country". It is the only place on Mobius that humans (not "Overlanders", special four-fingered humans) inhabit. The only visitor prior to the arrival of the Knothole Freedom Fighters and Dr. Robotnik was Nate Morgan.

In issue #162, Snively stated that Station Square has expanded and had formed "United Federation", which is made up of all the Human/Overlander cities and inhabited area's on Mobius. The United Federation's capital is Station Square, and their large military is known as G.U.N. Recently, in issue #165, Casinopolis opened in Station Square. It was operated by Renfield T. Rodent who was working for Robotnik, and the casino was nothing more than a way to scan the minds of the citizens in order to replace them with Infiltrators, but the plot was foiled by Knuckles, Rouge, and the Chaotix.

In Sonic #110, it is revealed that Station Square has a defense system known as OTIS (the Outer Threat Immobilization System) but when the Station Square government inputs the tactical data on Robotnik given to them by Princess Sally (Sonic #106) the system switched its command protocols from defense to offense and launched a nuclear strike against Robotroplis that destroyed the city.

In Sonic X
In the anime series Sonic X, Station Square is the home of main human character Christopher Thorndyke. This was the location that Sonic X took place on for Season 1, (in the Japanese version, in the English dub they were Seasons 1 and 2) where Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and the other characters were sent to. Instead of being completely destroyed and never seen again after the Sonic Adventure adaption, the President of the country signed bills for the whole city, mumbling about why he couldn't be a hero as well as Sonic.

Trivia

 * The city and buildings in Station Square have similarities to real-life locations, such as New York City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Japan, Lagos, Portugal,Miami and Seattle.
 * Station Square is in fact an actual location, and a large portion of downtown Pittsburgh.
 * In Sonic Adventure DX, the city plays host to a cameo appearance of Cream. She is seen flying around various areas at an unreachable height in Sonic's story, she also appears in other characters story's such as Tails and Amy(In Amy's story she flies close to the ground and you could make contact with her, however it will not impact the game or Cream herself and will keep on flying.
 * The statue that can be moved outside the Burger Shop is possibly a reference on Statues of Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC. This statue has various glitches like falling through floors or teleporting. A little girl in Station Square is familiar with the statue and tells you never to throw it in the resevoir. This is a reference to the Curse of the Colonel, a Japanese Urban Legend.
 * Station Square is based off of Time Square.
 * In the scene in the television show Sonic X where Sonic first comes across Shadow, the two race into a part of the city. This scene was based off of the junction of Broadway and 7th Avenue.
 * In Sonic X episode 10 when Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and the others play a game of baseball with Eggman and his robotic team for the chaos emearlds the stadium they play in is based on the Yankee stadium which is a stadium located in the New York City, it serves as the home ballpark for the New York Yankees.