Windy Valley

For other uses, see Windy Valley (disambiguation).

Windy Valley (ウィンディーバレー, Windī Barē^?) is an Action Stage in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut.

Description

A large set of greenery ruins set flying high in the clouds amongst dangerous gusts of wind and a lethally violent tornado, Windy Valley is located inside a cave within the Mystic Ruins. The level is split into three main parts: the windy hills at the beginning, the tornado, and the aerial spiraling tracks. Sonic goes through all three, while Tails goes through only the third, and Gamma goes through only the first.

Gameplay

Sonic

In Sonic's story, Windy Valley is the second level. Here, he and Tails attempt to track down a Chaos Emerald to stop Chaos from collecting them all. For Sonic, he has to proceed forward through the stage until he reaches a tornado section, where he must go upward through to exit. Afterward, Sonic will enter a sky section where he must run down several twisted platforms to reach the Chaos Emerald.

Acts

Level	Mission
C
B
A

Tails

Windy Valley is Tails's first level, where he must race Sonic from the section after the tornado to the Chaos Emerald. Interestingly, because the whole level moves downward, Tails can fly from the beginning to the end of the level without touching the ground using the airborne Dash Rings.

Acts

Level	Mission
C
B
A

E-102 Gamma

Windy Valley is Gamma's third level. Here, Gamma searches for E-103 Delta to free him after being banished from the Egg Carrier. Like his other levels, enemies and other structures must be destroyed to increase the time limit.

Acts

Level	Mission
C
B
A

Animals

• Peacock
• Parrot
• Swallow
• Seal
• Mole

Other game appearances

Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games

Windy Valley became the location of the Dream Discus event in Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

In other media

Archie Comics

Main article: Windy Valley (Archie)

Windy Valley appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic spin-off, Sonic Universe, as a location that three of the Secret Freedom Fighters–Silver the Hedgehog, Larry Lynx, and Shard the Metal Sonic–go to while spying on Geoffrey St. John right before the Ixis Resurgence. (SU #41, #43)

Sonic X

Main article: Windy Valley (Sonic X)

In the anime series Sonic X, Windy Valley is a location on Earth. In this media, Sonic and Tails came to Windy Valley in search of a Chaos Emerald. E-102 Gamma later came here to shut down E-103 Delta.

Trivia

• The music in the Windy Hills section of Windy Valley is based on the Special Stage/Bonus Stage music from the Sega Genesis version of Sonic 3D Blast. The aerial tracks area has music based on Green Grove Zone Act 1's music from the same game.
• A segment of Windy Valley, called Windy Hill, is also the same name as a stage from Sonic Lost World.
• Windy Valley is the only level that went through the biggest visual changes and beta elements between the announcement of the game on August 22, 1998 and its release in December. Though still broken up into three parts, the layout and textures for each were completely redone. Although it was not included as a playable stage in the Autodemo, there are still remnants of the early model of Windy Valley in its game files that were shown in the prototype images.
• Windy Valley's music can be played in events in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii version), Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

Music

Name	Artist	Length	Music Track
Windy Hill ...for Windy Valley	Jun Senoue	1:41
Tornado ...for Windy Valley	Jun Senoue	1:37
The Air ...for Windy Valley	Jun Senoue	2:53

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