Mystic Cave Zone

Mystic Cave Zone is the sixth level of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Mega Drive, coming after Hill Top and before Oil Ocean Zone. As with most other stages in this game, Mystic Cave Zone consists of two standard Acts with a boss fight at the end of Act 2.

Sonic and company later revisit the area during Sonic Drift 2's 2nd Chaos Grand Prix, where Mystic Cave is one of the racetracks.

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After braving the subsurface magma chambers of Hill Top Zone's volcanoes, Sonic now descends deeper underground to the dark, yawning caverns beneath Westside Island's mountain range. Mystic Cave features moss-covered rocks and dangling plant tendrils within these dimly-lit subterranean spaces. Impassable walls can be lowered to form convenient bridges if you are sharp-eyed enough to spot the hidden switches within the slimy vines that hang from the ceiling.

Eggman has deployed a variety of fiendish badniks within the caves to slow our heroes down. Crawlton snake-bots are particularly frightening; like a scaled down version of Gigalopolis Zone's Dangerous Ball Tower, the blue-yellow segmented worms spring out at you from hidden nooks, with their heads being the only weak point. Flasher firefly-bots hover around enveloped in forcefields of light, and the only way to destroy them is to wait until the shield peters out.

Boss


In this Zone's boss fight, Dr. Eggman attacks with a double-barreled drilling machine. He's been mining in the caves in search of the Chaos Emeralds. This burrowing mecha tunnels into the roof of the cavern, dislodging rocks and stalactites which rain down injuriously on Sonic and Tails. After bombarding the heroes with debris, Robotnik's mecha descends and comes at the Mobians with its drilling arms. Dodge, and jump on Eggman to defeat him.

Music
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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
The cave appeared in "Slowwww Going" where Scratch and Grounder took Sonic at.

Sonic Underground
The cave appears in the episode "Harmony or Something", as the home of the Oracle.

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Mystic Cave also appears as a racecourse in Sonic Drift 2 for the Sega Game Gear. This stage is the fifth track of the White Grand Prix (White being the intermediate of the three available tournaments), coming after Hill Top and before Emerald Hill. Unlike the majority of races in the 2nd Chaos Grand Prix, this isn't a three-lap circular course; the objective is simply to get through the tunnel system ahead of everyone else. And the winning racer gets a Chaos Emerald!

The course is fairly straightforwards, with no track sides to fall off (although slamming against the wall will, predictably, slow you down). As in Quake Cave, the occasional stalagmite jutting up from the floor is the only real obstacle.