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Frog Forest (フロッグフォレスト Furoggu Foresuto?), also known as Frog Forest Zone, is the ninth stage in Sonic Heroes.
Description[]
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Story[]
After destroying Egg Albatross in Bullet Station, the heroes go north to a canopy. Team Sonic goes through the forest to stop the Egg Fleet. Team Dark must go through the forest to make Eggman explain about the Shadow Android at the Egg Albatross crash. Team Rose now searches for Froggy and Chocola in addition to Sonic after concluding that Eggman stole them, and Team Chaotix must sneak through the forest while avoiding Eggman's robots and the giant frogs, the latter of which will alert the robots if they spot the Chaotix. During Team Rose's version of Frog Forest, Big the Cat mentions that Froggy comes from the Frog Forest. This fact is backed up by the fact that the frogs here are very similar to Froggy in appearance, although much larger.
Gameplay[]
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Frog Forest has a variety of nature and flora-themed gimmicks. Giant Frogs can be found throughout the stage, which have the power to summon rain which enables various plant-based gimmicks often required to progress through the stage, including: orange spherical fruit that launch the player upwards whilst remaining in Spin Jump (which can be targeted with Speed formation's Homing Attack), orange mushrooms that act as springs, small green round platforms, the tall trees which sprout several wide orange disc-shaped platforms as its "branches", or grindable ivy. The player can also grab on ivy swings, move back and forth to gain enough momentum to reach the next ivy or the next platforming section. The player is also introduced to the Flower which can transport them across large gaps, and are enabled with the Tornado Jump.
Overview[]
Team Sonic[]
Mission 1[]
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- Get through the forest where the wild animals live!
Team Sonic first starts on a grinding section, then passes through a series of giant loops before reaching an isolated platform inhabited by a giant frog. After the frog summons rain, the player can either reach the ivy rail, drop down to reach an Item Box on top of an orange platform or Ascending Flight up to the top of the tree, then fly up to a Dash Ring which will launch them into a vertical tunnel. Regardless of the path chosen, the player will end up in the next platforming segment where the player must spot a frog which will summon rain to grow orange mushrooms which can launch the player to the next part.
After defeating the three enemies, the case with the frog will open. After the player is spotted by the frog, its rain will enable the ivy rail to be grinded on, which eventually leads to the Goal Ring.
Mission 2[]
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- Get to the Goal Ring within 5 minutes!
Time can be saved where after the player leaves the giant mushroom, if they take the upper route of grindable ivy where they can be spotted by the giant frog, the rain that the frog summons will spawn Homing Attack-able fruits that lets the player reach the top of the last platform with the grindable ivy quicker.
Team Dark[]
Mission 1[]
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- Get through the forest where the wild animals live!
Team Dark's version of the level has the same length as Team Sonic's although various shortcut routes have been altered, in addition to the higher enemey count.
Mission 2[]
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- Defeat 100 enemies!
There are a total of just over 50 enemies which can be encountered by Team Dark in a single pass of the entire stage. As such, the player is usually expected to clear this mission within two-three cycles of the stage, making the A-Rank time threshold fairly reasonable to achieve as long as the player can pace themselves.
Team Rose[]
Mission 1[]
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- Explore the forest where the frogs live!
Mission 2[]
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- Collect 200 rings!
Team Chaotix[]
Mission 1[]
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- Get through the forest without being detected by the frogs!
The player must get to the Goal Ring without being spotted by the giant frogs. As such, this stage's layout for Team Chaotix is accomodated with changes from the other three teams where the player can still progress through the stage without any need for the rain. To avoid being detected by the frogs, the player must use Espio's Leaf Swirl to slip through the frogs.
Team Chaotix starts from the first on-foot platforming segment after the initial grinding section that the other three teams start from and their goal is located right after the end of the giant mushroom section.
Mission 2[]
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- Hurry and get through without being detected by the frogs!
The mission is the same as the first mission, although the player must now reach the goal within four minutes.
Ranking[]
| Rank | Score[2] | |||
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| Team Sonic | Team Dark | Team Rose | Team Chaotix | |
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35,000 | 45,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 |
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32,000 | 40,000 | 38,000 | 38,000 |
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28,000 | 35,000 | 34,000 | 34,000 |
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25,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 |
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<25,000 | <30,000 | <30,000 | <30,000 |
| Rank | Score/Time[2] | |||
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| Team Sonic | Team Dark | Team Rose | Team Chaotix | |
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38,000 | 14:00 | 3:30 | 42,000 |
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35,000 | 14:30 | 4:00 | 40,000 |
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30,000 | 15:00 | 4:30 | 36,000 |
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28,000 | 16:00 | 5:00 | 32,000 |
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<28,000 | >16:00 | >5:00 | <32,000 |
Trivia[]
- It is possible to get Team Rose over to Team Sonic and Team Dark's section of Frog Forest if the player skips the Goal Ring.
- Mushroom Hill from Sonic & Knuckles is referenced in this stage, as Knuckles says "We have jungle mushrooms on my island, too...but not this huge".
- This is the only odd-numbered stage to lack cutscenes for all teams.
Music[]
| Name | Artist(s) | Length | Music track |
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| "STAGE 09 : FROG FOREST" | Jun Senoue | 2:31 |
Videos[]
References[]
- ↑ Sonic Team USA (30 December 2003). Sonic Heroes. Xbox. Sega. Area/level: Egg Albatross (Team Chaotix). "Client: Listen carefully... there's a jungle just to the north of here. Go there immediately!"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guess, Gerald (6 January 2004). Sonic Heroes: Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games. p. 159. ISBN 0761544496.