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Diamond Dust Zone
Sonic the Hedgehog in Diamond Dust Zone.
Overview
First appearance	Sonic 3D Blast (only appearance)
Location	Flicky Island
Stage theme(s)	Winter theme
Statistics
Level number	4
Number of acts	3
Enemies	Bunny Pengo Snowman
Boss(es)	Diamond Dust Zone boss
Level order
Previous level	Spring Stadium Zone
Next level	Volcano Valley Zone

Did you bring your Sonic snowboard? The snowy mountains of Flicky Island are filled with icy snowblowers, frozen paths and rivers of slush. The occasional snowfall doesn't even faze Sonic, but watch out for snow-spitting snowmen and uncover snowy Springs to make your way through this Zone.

— Description, Sonic 3D Blast manual

Diamond Dust Zone is the fourth Zone of Sonic 3D Blast for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Saturn.

Description

The Zone is set in a large glacier in the cold peaks, composed of ice walls covered in snow everywhere but the walking ground. The Zone features the classic pine trees with their green leaves frost, and streams of snow go downhill, dividing the terrain. Explosive snowmen adorn the main path.

Gameplay

As with the other Zones in this game, Diamond Dust Zone consists of two standard Acts followed by a third Act containing only the boss fight. In Acts 1 and 2, Sonic must free captured Flickies inside Badniks, depositing five of the birds into a Goal Ring to progress between sections of the Zone (usually three per Act). This Zone is filled with snowblowers that can freeze Sonic. There are also rivers of slush that Sonic can walk one, but lead to frozen spikes, as well as frozen crystal that he can break by spinning, but still hurt him if he touches them.

Boss

The boss of Diamond Dust Zone

In keeping with the icy theme, Dr. Robotnik has augmented his Egg Mobile with eight freezing-gas pods he has dotted around the Zone. Robotnik begins as usual, hovering tantalizingly above Sonic's reach, but he'll soon swoop down and attempt to blast the hedgehog with a jet of cryogenic vapor. The nozzles fire cyclically, so the player must land a hit on Robotnik when the wave of chilling gas is on the other side of his vehicle. To spice things up a bit, Robotnik occasionally drops exploding snowmen onto the battlefield.

Trivia

• A remix of Diamond Dust Zone Act 1's music from the Mega Drive and Sega Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast is used in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood as the music for Central City and Blue Ridge Zone, respectively.
• Diamond Dust Zone Act 1's music from the Sega Genesis version of Sonic 3D Blast is present as an unlockable track in Sonic Generations. To unlock it, all challenges must be cleared.
• A remix of Diamond Dust Zone Act 1's music from the Mega Drive version of Sonic 3D Blast is played in Sonic Dash while the player is in Snow Mountain Zone. A remixed version is an available track in Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, with another being used as the stage theme for the Snow Mountain Zone in Sonic Dash.

Music

Name	Artist(s)	Length	Music Track
N/A (Genesis; Act 1)	N/A	2:32
N/A (Genesis; Act 2)	N/A	2:38
N/A (Saturn; Act 1)	N/A	2:54
N/A (Saturn; Act 2)	N/A	3:07

External links

• Sonic 3D page at The GHZ has detailed information on all the Sonic 3D zones.

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