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[[File:Entrancestageportal.png|thumb|250px|The entrance to the Entrance Stage.]]
[[File:Entrancestageportal.png|thumb|250px|The entrance to the Entrance Stage.]]
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The {{Nihongo|'''Entrance Stage'''|エントランスステージ|Entoransusutēji}} is an explorable hub world that appears on the [[PS3]]/[[Xbox 360]] version of ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' and contains the game's [[Gaia Gate#PS3/Xbox360|Gaia Gate]]. Unlike the other hub worlds presented in ''Sonic Unleashed'', these stages feature an all-time gameplay identical to those found in the game's Action Stages. They are the equivalent to the [[Gaia Gate#PS2/Wii|Sacred Shrines]] featured on the [[PS2]]/[[Wii]] version of ''Sonic Unleashed''.
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The {{Nihongo|'''Entrance Stage'''|エントランスステージ|Entoransusutēji}} is an explorable hub world that appears on the [[PS3]]/[[Xbox 360]] version of ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' and contains the game's [[Gaia Gate#PS3/Xbox360|Gaia Gate]]. Unlike the other hub worlds presented in ''Sonic Unleashed'', these stages feature an all-time gameplay identical to those found in the game's Action Stages. They are the equivalent to the [[Gaia Gate#PS2/Wii|Sacred Shrines]] featured in the [[PS2]]/[[Wii]] version of ''Sonic Unleashed''.
==Description==
==Description==
Revision as of 11:52, 25 December 2013
The entrance to the Entrance Stage.
The Entrance Stage (エントランスステージ,Entoransusutēji?) is an explorable hub world that appears on the PS3/Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed and contains the game's Gaia Gate. Unlike the other hub worlds presented in Sonic Unleashed, these stages feature an all-time gameplay identical to those found in the game's Action Stages. They are the equivalent to the Sacred Shrines featured in the PS2/Wii version of Sonic Unleashed.
Description
The Entrance Stages in Sonic Unleashed are featured as explorable hub areas that can be found inside the game's other explorable hub worlds called the Town Stages. The entrances to these areas in the Town Stages are marked with a rotating circle that is split in half and spots a sun symbol and a moon symbol. The Entrance Stage can found on each continent in the game (except Eggmanland), making a total of eight Entrance Stages.
The Entrance Stage get their name due their role as hosting the different continent's Gaia Gates, which serve as entry points to the game's Action Stages and Boss Stages. From within each continent's Entrance Stage, the player can access all the different playable stages that are featured on the said continent.
Unlike the Town Stages and most other hub worlds featured in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the Entrance Stages' permanent layout are identical to those found in the game's actual Action Stages, where other hub worlds only have brief moments of such gameplay in them. This means that every time the player enters the Entrance Stage, the player can fight and take damage from enemies, collect Rings, gather and lose lives, obtain upgrades and items for missions (only once), gather collectibles and medals, and even get a Game Over.
Each Entrance Stage contains a large hourglass that, when attacked, will cause it to flip and change the time of day from day to night or the other way around. This gimmick allows the player to switch between Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Werehog as playable characters.
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The time-altering hourglasses featured in the Entrance Stages
