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The Abandoned Research Facility (古代族の研究施設 Kodai-zoku no kenkyū shisetsu?, lit. "Research Facility of the Ancient Tribe") is the second area of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.[1] It is the hidden ruin of a research facility belonging to the Ancients which has been deserted for a long time.

Long after its abandonment, Team Sonic came to the Abandoned Research Facility to find the Sun Crystal. In addition to the Crystal, the team also found MAIA, who would lead them to a map showing the other Crystals' locations, and Shadow.

Overview

The Abandoned Research Facility is located within a tropical region. The landscape surrounding the facility is a distant, mountainous archipelago, where large palm trees and lush grass grow in abundance on top of rocky cliffs. Ancient rocky structures resembling watchtowers can also be seen on each island.

The Abandoned Research Facility resembles an industrial factory crossed with a temple ruin. It is made from pale rocks with metallic runes and markings covering the walls, and holds scaffolds with artistic frameworks. Over time, weed, moss, vines and colossal roots have grown through the walls and into the factory. While the place appears inactive, it contains several advanced machines and power sources that are still operational, like siding doors, control panels, force fields, batteries, elevators, conduits and fuse boards. The interior of the facility is lit up by faint blue lights on the walls.

The Abandoned Research Facility is split into two sections: the upper and lower levels. The upper levels, despite the flora, some collapsed scaffolds and cracks in the walls, remain in surprisingly good condition, and consist of large and bright rooms. The lower levels are more dark and resembles sewers flooded with water. These levels consist of water tunnels and large metallic maintenance rooms connecting said tunnels. Down there, there is also a colossal flooded room for housing a massive thing and an abandoned laboratory with a time machine.

Story

A thousand years ago, the Ancients hid away the Sun Crystal away in the Abandoned Research Facility so that Lyric could not find it.

In the present day, Team Sonic came to the Abandoned Research Facility to find the Sun Crystal, but they got split up when Sonic and Tails got trapped in the lower levels. As Knuckles and Amy continued onward to meet up with their friends, they met an old robot named MAIA who knew Sonic and claimed she had to find him as only he could stop Lyric. Due to a slip of the tongue, Knuckles told where she could find him.

Later in the lower levels, Sonic and Tails met MAIA, who explained she helped imprison her creator Lyric a thousand years ago. Sonic still wanted to find the Crystals though, so MAIA revealed that there once was a map for the locations of the Crystals. She thus revealed a time machine to them which could take them back in time to when the map still existed. With help from Knuckles and Amy, they restarted the facility's generator so MAIA could activate the time machine, while Knuckles and Amy found the Sun Crystal.

Before the time portal was ready, Sonic and Tails met Shadow who intended to prove how weak Sonic was. Their battle took them into the time portal and through different time periods, until Sonic kicked Shadow into a portal taking him to the near future. Sonic and Tails then continued through another portal to the intended time.

A while later, Lyric came to the Abandoned Research Facility, only to discover the Crystal was gone. There, he met Dr. Eggman who tried making him give him the secrets to his technology using Lyric's own robots. However, Lyric retook control of his robots, so Eggman made an uneasy partnership with him to survive. Learning they had a common enemy in Sonic, Eggman agreed to help Lyric recover his map for the Crystals which undoubtedly was in Sonic's possession. When Eggman returned to meekly report that he had lost the map, but also claimed he had killed Team Sonic, Lyric had anticipated his failure and dispatched his Driller Worms to find the Crystals.

Gameplay

In the Abandoned Research Facility, the player passes through several rooms inside the complex in both the lower and upper levels. Like other areas in the game, the Abandoned Research Facility includes a speed level section, where the player runs down a long path with speed-enhancing gimmicks while avoiding hazardous obstacles, and as well slower-paced areas for exploration and combat. It also features the standard puzzles that the player must solve with the Enerbeam mechanic and Buttons. This level also introduces tiles puzzles where the player must find and step on a white tile and then press a series of blue tiles in the right sequence to proceed.

Despite all four characters being available, the Abandoned Research Facility contains only gimmicks for Sonic, Knuckles and Amy's character actions. This include Spin Balls for Sonic, Climbable Walls and Ceilings for Knuckles, and Beam Swing and Balance Beams for Amy. There are also the Hydro Gates which allows the player to perform the Hydro Dash to run across water sections, where the player has to dodge obstacles and jump off ramps. Environment hazards in this area include only the standard bottomless pit and floating mines in the Hydro Dash sections. Additionally, there also lie Commando Husks around which the Parasite Snakes can possess, thus creating stronger and tougher enemies.

Description

In the Abandoned Research Facility, the main objective is to collect the Sun Crystal. The level begins with a speed level section, where the player controls all four playable characters. After that, the player moves into the facility where they must solve a tile puzzle. Then, the player must climb to the top of an unlocked room using Knuckles or Amy and shut off the room's power with the Enerbeam. This will separate Sonic and Tails from Knuckles and Amy.

The player now takes control of only Knuckles and Amy, and must go through a door that opens nearby. From there, the player must continue to an arena where they must defeat enemies while waiting for a door to open. The player then has to continue through the door to an elevator where they must defeat incoming waves of enemies and repeatedly use a Button to make the elevator ascend. Once at the top, the player must deactivate a force field by clearing a puzzle in a room next door. The player then has to enter the room the force field blocked and put together a Tube-puzzle. Go through the Tube to enter an arena with enemies until the path opens and follow it to MAIA.

The player now takes control of Sonic and Tails. There, the player has to Hydro Dash to two maintenance rooms and unlock the paths there to proceed. Once through them, the player must cross a scaffold to enter the abandoned lab. From here, the player resumes their control of Knuckles and Amy, and has to activate four fuse boards. To do this, the player must scale a large structure and use the Enerbeam on all four fuse boards there, while being attacked by enemies. After this, the player will fight Shadow the Hedgehog who serves as the boss as Sonic and Tails. After defeating him, the player moves directly onto Lyric's Weapon Facility.

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Gallery

Music


References

  1. Sonic Toon. ワールド紹介 (16 October 2014). Retrieved on 17 October 2014.