The Doom Zone (ドゥームゾーン Dūmu Zōn?) is a location that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It was a parallel dimension created by Black Doom during the Time Eater incident to test Shadow the Hedgehog as he acquired the Doom Powers.[1]
Description[]
The Doom Zone is made to resemble Radical Highway, but its visual appearance appears distorted like a fractured mirror with pieces of glitching floating debris in the sky.
History[]
Shadow Generations[]
In Shadow Generations, aboard the Space Colony ARK, Shadow encounters Black Doom's Doom's Eye, who unexpectedly transports him to the Doom Zone. Black Doom tries to rekindle Shadow's hatred for humanity by insisting he cannot deny his fate, but Shadow resists and ultimately manages to escape.
Later, as Shadow makes his way through Rail Canyon and has begun to harness some of the Doom Powers, Doom's Eye suddenly appears and transports him back to the Doom Zone, instructing him to follow him. Uncertain of Black Doom's intentions but also not having a better choice, Shadow reluctantly does so. He manages to attack Doom's Eye, who commends him but says it’s still not enough and sends Shadow back to Rail Canyon with Shadow pondering what he meant by that.
When Shadow makes his way through Sunset Heights and has harnessed even more of the Doom Powers, he suddenly finds himself back in the Doom Zone. There, he encounters Doom's Eye once again, who attempts to finish him off by using the unnatural terrain against him. Just before sending Shadow back to Sunset Heights, Doom's Eye smugly remarks that the plan is going as intended.
When Shadow unlocks the final ability, Doom Wing, Black Doom envelops White Space in a Doom Zone, declaring that Shadow is complete. He challenges Shadow to confront him, vowing to claim him once and for all. However, after Shadow clears Radical Highway one last time and defeats Neo Devil Doom, the Doom Zone is destroyed along with the Black Moon and White Space reverts back to normal.
In gameplay, the Doom Zone occurs in Act 1 of Space Colony ARK, Rail Canyon, and Sunset Heights. During it, Shadow is sent temporarily through a corrupted version of Radical Highway, before coming back to the current stage. In addition, the last stage, Radical Highway, can be considered to fully reside within the Doom Zone as well, due to it being a space inside the Black Moon. When Shadow is in the Doom Zone, Chaos Control will be disabled.
After the player has beaten the game, an object resembling the Black Moon appears in White Space. The player can activate it to return the Doom Zone to White Space once more. Additionally, the Doom Zone contains harder versions of the boss fights against the Biolizard, Metal Overlord and Mephiles, as well as harder versions of some Challenge Acts and Open Zone Challenges.
Music[]
Because the Doom Zones of Space Colony ARK, Rail Canyon, and Sunset Heights are set in a distorted version of Radical Highway, each Doom Zone's music is an arrangement and variation of Radical Highway's music.
Trivia[]
- Kingdom Valley, Chaos Island, and Radical Highway are the only stages to not have a Doom Zone interference mid-stage.
- However, Radical Highway can be considered to fully reside within the Doom Zone, making the former two the only stages to not have any connection to the Doom Zone whatsoever.
- The Doom Zone shares similarities to Cyber Space. Both locations involve altering the terrains and serve as obstacles for Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog.
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