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Mystic Mansion is set inside a haunted house with all types of rooms. Halloween-based elements, such as decorative skeletons, spider web-based Grind Rails, and ghosts are very common. The rooms here are of all types, ranging from large rooms to infinite hallways and massive areas with dark bottomless pits. Below the castle is a cave with orange rocks. There are lots of Egg Pawn-based statues and paintings depicting various things such as Seaside Hill and Pawn SeriesBadniks like Egg Hammers. Typically, these forms of visual art come to life through magical switches.
At the end of this mansion is a massive area that is connected to three weird voids colored blue, yellow, or red, with the cyan, a separate void, but final area of the level has torches, and an Heavy-Egg Hammer, which are guarded by a few Badniks or feature hazardous gimmicks. These voids are, in fact, a puzzle that, when cleared, reveals the outside of the building, being a lush field below a blue sky, heavily contrasting the black night sky from earlier.
Story[]
After managing to get inside of the creepy fortress, Team Sonic must escape the mansion located within to intercept the Egg Fleet. Team Dark must escape to interrogate Dr. Eggman. Team Rose must escape to rescue Froggy and Chocola. Team Chaotix must put out the 60 red torches in the mansion to escape. When the level is beaten by Team Dark or Team Sonic, players will find themselves standing in a giant, ghostless, calm reservoir on top of Hang Castle.
Gameplay[]
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Lasers will occasionally block the player's path in this stage, but if Espio is invisible he can slip through them unharmed.
This is the only stage where all teams start at the exact same point.
In the very first room, there is a picture of the whale-shaped island from Seaside Hill.
It is possible to score infinite points in this level: putting out the red or blue torches rewards points, and the Power characters are able to reignite them, while putting them out again rewards more points.
The ring hallways cannot be accessed by Team Rose or Team Sonic on normal mode. However, Team Sonic can access the hallways in Super Hard Mode {not in the GameCube version}, but there are only comments made in those locations for Team Chaotix. The only location that has voice clips regarding another Team Chaotix area is at the spider web room near the lobby.
The E-1006 Egg Hammer appears when the player falls off the edge which leads teams downstairs from the hallways in Super Hard Mode {outside the GameCube version}.
Every time the player enters a room where the door has the usual skulls, another part of the level's music will be added until the player gets the full skull.
Team Rose is the only team to have another door located in three rooms with the giant skeleton statue, with this being how they escape the castle.
The standard pose of the giant skeleton resembles the skeleton in the stage select screen from Golden Axe, which also appears in Adder's Lair.
The doors are placed in the hexagonal cornered rooms in Team Chaotix's mission, with one being in the fan room to block the player from getting to the skeleton room, with collision detection behind the door as well to prevent glitching through it. Another is in the room with the hole to the well, placed to block the team from going into the wall crossing area.
The three colors of the pocket dimension's areas represents the colors of the team formations; blue for Speed Type, yellow for Fly Type, and red for Power Type.
The mipmap textures used for the GameCube, PC, and Xbox versions are not seen in the PlayStation 2 version. One mipmap texture has the skulls on the floor with bat decorations on it, and the others are blue walls that do not have Terror Hall's green coloring on them.
In addition, the PlayStation 2 version uses a simpler texture effect for the pocket dimension area of the stage. A static texture that resembles a simple water surface pattern flows across the surfaces, as opposed to the dynamic special effect that resembles a rippling watery surface.
It is possible for Team Rose to explore beyond their Goal Ring. At the skeleton part near the end of the stage, the player should hit the switch on the left side, so the skeleton's hand is closer to the Goal Ring. They then must Rocket Accel off the stage and instantly switch to Cream and fly onto his head. The player must then use Cream to get through the hole in the wall to reach Team Sonic's portion of the stage. To get to Team Chaotix's section, the player should not touch the switch in the room with the second fan. Instead, they must glide to the top of the door, belly flop and then cancel the move by switching to Cream, and fly to the area. To reach the spider web room using this team, a Flower glitch is required to be active and the torches must be lit in the lobby room with the Heavy-Egg Hammer. The player must then jump onto the flower in the robot statue and picture room.
It's possible to get Team Chaotix through the first Trolley segment. To do this, the player must repeatedly use Vector's Hammer Down and/or Bubblegum Descent while facing the front of the wall behind the blue torch. This will make them phase through it to the start of the Trolleys with the Hint Rings {no hints are programmed to them} and everything else {Team Sonic's placement} remaining.
The music is split into six different segments that change depending on where the player is in the stage. The first segment is exclusive to the starting point of the stage, and the pocket dimension has an exclusive segment as well. These tracks will loop endlessly until the player moves to the next area with a different music segment.
This is the only stage in the game which features this segmented structure.
