Egg Quarters

Egg Quarters is the 5th stage in the Dark story on Sonic Adventure 2. Rouge is used to play this stage.

Speed Tips

Mission 1

This is a treasure-hunting stage. The general hunting tips apply. The best locations are:

Key 3: "Semi-dark Eggman" Head left from start, and two shadows over, there's an Eggman symbol on the wall that's partially covered by a shadow. Dig on the ground just in front of that.

Key 2: "Where you first landed" Okay, not quite where you first landed, but close enough. Just a short glide forward, and dig in between the two columns.

Key 1: "Yellow head" This one's fun. Head forward into the hallway, and do a suicide rush past the beetle. Once you're past it, jump up and let momentum carry you into the first E-1000 robot ahead, which can contain the key. The radar for this one starts out blank, but turns green before entering the doorway.

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Mission 2

You might think nothing can rival treasure-hunting mission 1s for annoying random factors. This particular mission 2 begs to disagree.

There are several different ways to complete this mission, but the fastest way will take plenty of tries for even the most consistent player. From the start, dig once. Did you get a lightning shield? If not, you're not going to get the record this time and can restart.

While all mission 2s make it impossible to dig up rings, they don't do the same for shields. It's unknown what each item's frequency is, but lightning shields almost certainly come up less than 1% of the time. When you finally get one on the first try, be prepared to make that run count.

Run right and get the circle of 6 rings within your attract radius, then go left for 6 more, and continue in this direction. Through the curved hallway, get the 6 in the small room for 18. In the large room, climb up on the center structure (with the mystic shrine) and get the 8 rings there. Glide forward and right, climbing the pillar.

Normally it takes 3-4 jumps and lands to get this big circle of 24 rings. Thanks to your lightning shield, you can do it in 2. Jump as high as you can, and glide counterclockwise around the circle, making sure to attract all the rings therein. When you're done getting all the rings, glide right to the wooden box on the wall and break it, getting 20 rings to go to 70.

Continue through the path, getting the 6 rings before the next curved hallway. Into the green room, get 6 more rings at the entrance. Go to the other side of the room. There's another circle here, for 88. Get them with your shield and head up a level along the path to the blue room. There are 12 rings in the hallway to get to an even 100. If you somehow missed one or more, the wooden box on the table to your left in the wider hallway has 10 more rings.

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Mission 3

Head clockwise through Egg Quarters' natural path as normal, until you get to the structure with the mystic shrine. Be careful not to get stunned by the ghost, costing time. Play the Mystic Melody to get warped into the Chao room.

Normally you have to go through another room to press a switch, but you can avoid all that. Once you emerge from the warp, glide toward the center and, without touching the ground, glide under the weight and dive down on the Chao for a quick completion.

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Mission 5

TODO

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