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It is a sequel to ''Sonic Robo Blast'', a very crude fangame by a user named Sonikku. It was created in the ''Klik And Play'' game making program, and was very primitive and quite buggy. Despite this, the game is full of secrets, and is renowned for being one of the first Sonic fangames ever created.

=== This game contains examples of the following tropes: ===

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: SRB2's current producer, Mystic, wasn't one of the original developers, but was among the first to be modding the game in its early years and eventually worked his way onto the staff. This is also, more or less, how a large portion of the current devs joined the project.

** There exists [[Dummied Out]] cutscene data that was meant to be used after GFZ3 to insert Knuckles into the story.

* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: Somehow ''averted''.

* [[Best Boss Ever]]/[[That One Boss]]: The final boss is {{spoiler|Black Eggman, from [[Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie]].}}

* [[Bonus Level of Heaven]]: {{spoiler|Neo Aerial Garden Zone}}

* [[Boss Remix]]: Inverted; the music for Castle Eggman Zone is a remix of the boss theme.

* [[Death Mountain]]: Rocky Mountain Zone would have been this as well as [[That One Level]] until it was essentially turned into Arid Canyon Zone, which still fits the bill - rockslides, crumbling terrain, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|chunks of the ceiling]] that conveniently collapse when you cross under them, and of course, [[Bottomless Pits|some lethally steep dropoffs]].

* [[Development Hell]]: Started out in 1998 as a TGF game, switched to Doom Legacy shortly after, and '''14''' years later, development still marches on. Well, albeit with long stretches of inactivity - the jump from 1.09.4 to 2.0 took four years, and 2.0 to 2.1 is closing in on three.

* [[Difficulty Spike]]: Techno Hill Zone Act 2.

** Largely due to the fact that the game is incomplete, but Egg Rock Zone counts as a spike up the unsuspecting player's rear end, as you leap from the sixth zone to the eighth/ninth zone in an instant. In this sense, Red Volcano Zone is something of a [[Breather Level]] before the game starts trying out dozens of ways to [[Instant Kill|destroy your sanity]].

** Additionally, there are several beta rooms inside Egg Rock Zone Act 2 accessible only with the NOCLIP command.

** The [[Respawning Enemies|Chaos]] gametype was cut back in version 1.09; however, Chaos Enemy Spawns can still be placed, and it's possible to re-enable the (now half broken) gametype with EXE modding.

** Some of the textures and flats from [[Invader Zim|Zim's Base Zone]] still exist, too.

* [[Easter Egg]]: Examples include {{spoiler|a weird cyborg echidna dressed as the Pope that sends you to Neo Aerial Garden Zone}}; the Ultimate Cheat, which {{spoiler|closes the game when activated}}; and literal easter eggs which only appear in old versions of the game.

* [[Embedded Precursor]]: An incomplete remake of SRB1 (with no bosses yet) can be unlocked in the game. It serves as something of an amusing reminder of the [[Zeerust|more primitive days]] of Sonic fangaming.

* [[Eternal Engine]]: Techno Hill Zone, Egg Rock Zone, and several multiplayer stages with those themes.

* [[Freeware Games]]

* [[Fridge Horror]]: When a Deton crashes into a wall, the animal is released. But... If it hits the player or another Deton, there is no sign of the animal inside.

* [[Game Mod]]: The game itself is an open-source mod of the ''Doom Legacy'' engine, and the community promotes user-created levels and characters with a section for releases on the official forums and a bimonthly contest for level designers that anyone can take part in.

* [[Gravity Screw]]: Egg Rock Zone, so much. Of both 'The Variable Gravity Chamber' and the 'Fun With Gravity' variety. Twisted Terminal Zone's main gimmick is this.

* [[Green Hill Zone]]: Greenflower Zone, Jade Valley Zone and Meadow Match Zone. And Sapphire Falls contains Green Hill Zone textures and music.

* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: Techno Hill Zone's first act is a mix of [[Green Hill Zone]] and [[Eternal Engine]] elements, then it goes full-out [[Eternal Engine]] for the second.

* [[Holiday Mode]]: There was a Christmas Mode, present from at least Demo 4 to Final Demo 1.09.4, which activated during the twelve days of Christmas (or any day of the year, when the program was launched with -xmas). Most of the game's more natural textures changed to have a more wintry feel (eg: dirt took on a frosty blue shade and grass turned into snow, while metal retained its texture), as well as changing some of the decorations in the game (flowers turning into poles and Christmas trees). Demo 4 even had a map exclusive to this mode, where you would search for Chaos Emeralds amongst Santa's workshop; this map was retained in later versions as "Emerald Hunt", available any day of the year. Christmas Mode was eventually deleted in 2.0, due to its tendency to riddle netgames with consistency errors.

* [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity]]: {{spoiler|1=As soon as you enter the [[Easter Egg|Disco Room]] in ERZ2, you find two 1ups just sitting there in the corner. To say the least, you are about to need them.}}

* [[Sidetrack Bonus]]: As usual for ''Sonic'', this game is loaded with extra rings, shields, and emerald tokens for those willing to look.

* [[Springs Springs Everywhere]]: It's a Sonic game, what did you expect?

* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://wiki.srb2.org/wiki/Main_Page Here.]