Nightmare Zone (stylized as NiGHTMARE Zone) is a downloadable content Zone that is included with the Deadly Six Bonus Edition of Sonic Lost World for Wii U and included with the PC version. In this Zone, the player fights the Deadly Six with their mechs replaced with second-level Nightmaren bosses from Nights into Dreams.
Description[]
The stage opens with Sonic running along a strip of land in Windy Hill before being taken to Nightmare by Wizeman. Through a Paraloop portal trap set by Reala, Sonic is thrown into a series of boss encounters with the Deadly Six and Wizeman's second-level Nightmarens. After the bosses are defeated, Nights appears and traps Reala in a Paraloop, freeing Sonic from Wizeman's curse.
Each of the Deadly Six bosses have undergone the following changes:
- Zazz's Moon Mech is replaced with Puffy.
- Zomom's totem platform is replaced with one of Wizeman's hands.
- Master Zik's fruit is replaced with Gulpo.
- Zeena's snowmen are replaced with Clawz and his mouse fireworks.
- Zor's robotic owl is replaced with Jackle.
- Zavok's robotic dragon is replaced with Gillwing.
Trivia[]
- Many elements from the Nights series appear in this stage.
- Blue Chips and yellow rings appear during the auto-running segments, essentially taking the place of Rings.
- Instead of saving Animals, Sonic saves Nightopians.
- Instead of normal Cannons, the Boosters from the Nights series are seen.
- At the end of the stage, Sonic breaks a Nights Capture from Nights: Journey of Dreams containing Nightopians, instead of a Capsule containing Animals.
- At the entrance to the stage on the World Map, a dream cloud is shown depicting Nights flying by the Bellbridge clock tower from Nights: Journey of Dreams. When selected, Sonic lays down and goes to sleep, indicating the zone is nothing more than a dream like in the games it comes from. Upon completion of the stage, Sonic wakes up and the dream cloud disappears.
- Furthermore, two of the music tracks playing in NiGHTMARE Zone are from Nights: Journey of Dreams:
- "Nights and Reala" plays when facing against a member of the Deadly Six and its corresponding second-level Nightmaren, similar to Nights' first encounter with Reala.
- "Peaceful Moment" plays when the stage is cleared, similar to when Nights defeated a second level Nightmaren.
- Furthermore, two of the music tracks playing in NiGHTMARE Zone are from Nights: Journey of Dreams:
- Nights' appearance in this stage marks the twelfth time Nights has appeared in a Sonic game.
- Likewise, this also marks the eighteenth time Nights has appeared in a game alongside Sonic.
- All seven of the bosses from Nights into Dreams appear in this Zone.
- Reala appears in this stage, but the player does not fight him.
- This is the first DLC stage to be released for Sonic Lost World.
- Due to the other two DLC stages being based on Nintendo-exclusive properties, this is the only DLC stage for Sonic Lost World that is available for the PC version.
- Additionally, it is the only Sonic Lost World DLC stage that remains available for purchase, due to the two Wii U-exclusive stages becoming unavailable after the closure of the Nintendo eShop for Wii U.
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