Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Difference between revisions

* [[Evil Knockoff]]: Silver Sonic.

* [[Green Hill Zone]]: Emerald Hill Zone and Green Hills Zone in the 16-Bit and 8-Bit versions respectively.

* [[Multiple Endings]]: [[Department of Redundancy Department|As mentioned above]], the ending in the GEN version changes a little based on who you're playing as and--in Sonic's case--whether or not you got all the Emeralds, though there are [[Averted Trope|no]] [[Downer Ending|downer endings]] or even [[The Stinger|stingers.]]

** In the 8-Bit version, without collecting the first five Emeralds upon defeating the Scrambled Egg boss, the game simply ends there, and you get a total [[Downer Ending]]. Unable to save Tails, Sonic is running along a trail while sad music plays, and after the staff roll ends, he halts to look at the sky, where he sees Tails's face in the clouds, implying that {{spoiler|poor Tails was killed}}. The good ending is infinitely more satisfying. Happy music plays (unless it's the SMS version, where it plays the sad music for both endings) as Sonic and Tails run along a trail, and after the staff roll ends, they halt to look at the sky, and see each other's faces in the clouds.

* [[Punny Name]]: Miles Prower = "miles per hour".

* [[Sequel Difficulty Spike]]: Both games are considerably tougher than Sonic 1 for Genesis and Gear, the Game Gear Sonic 2 being particularly more brutal than the original.