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My own take on the echidna ruins seen in most Sonic media. The base tiles came from the PlaySega Sonic level maker's Zone art.

Features include a mix of Marble, Lava Reef, Aquatic Ruins/Labyrinth (Minus water), Hidden Palace, Marble Garden, and Angel Island Zones.
Also includes stuff inspired by Jazz Jackrabbit's Planet Marbelara: Large echidna heads with tongue platforms, and statues holding spears.
Hazards include tortoise statues that shoot fireballs, gargoyle heads that spew like flamethrowers, plus some unique enemies.

- The harpy pretty much acts like the Castlevania ones, swooping at the player.
- Tar monster from Kid Chameleon, with same behavior.
- Round Leech from Altered Beast. Same deal as original game, only it drains rings to zero. Player needs to shake it off via left and right very quickly.
- Chicken Stinger also from Altered Beast, with same attacks. Went with it's new name that's mentioned in the re-release of Golden Axe for XBLA and PSN.
- Shadow, based on the creepy ghost featured in Pokemon Gen1. Attacks like the Sandopolis ghosts with added slashing with its hands.
- Hungry Beast, originally from Shadow of the Beast III. The main gimmick with this thing is that it chases the player in a narrow and flat hallway, and needs to be lured towards a spiked crusher.
- Stone Guardian sub-boss. The fight is the same as sandopolis, only it needs to be lured into a pool of lava.
- Undead Dragon boss. Originally from Revenge of Shinobi, complete with same attacks.

Originally, the boss for the level was going to be an echidna lich. But I couldn't find decent wizard sprites that could fit in Sonic's style.
Was also going to have undead echidna warriors: Males with spears, and females with boomerangs. But I felt six enemies was enough.
Oh, and the reason there's a mural of the Aboriginal flag, is because when I draw echidna ruins, I draw Aboriginal art on them, including the flag.
I mean, they're echidnas, and yet they lack anything related to Australia. The Mayan inspired designs doesn't really suit them, honestly.

Anyway, Hopefully anyone making fangames will find use for this. Though, it has too many colours to be used for ROM hacks, unfortunately.

All graphics by their respective owners.

Description
My own take on the echidna ruins seen in most Sonic media. The base tiles came from the PlaySega Sonic level maker's Zone art.

Features include a mix of Marble, Lava Reef, Aquatic Ruins/Labyrinth (Minus water), Hidden Palace, Marble Garden, and Angel Island Zones.
Also includes stuff inspired by Jazz Jackrabbit's Planet Marbelara: Large echidna heads with tongue platforms, and statues holding spears.
Hazards include tortoise statues that shoot fireballs, gargoyle heads that spew like flamethrowers, plus some unique enemies.

- The harpy pretty much acts like the Castlevania ones, swooping at the player.
- Tar monster from Kid Chameleon, with same behavior.
- Round Leech from Altered Beast. Same deal as original game, only it drains rings to zero. Player needs to shake it off via left and right very quickly.
- Chicken Stinger also from Altered Beast, with same attacks. Went with it's new name that's mentioned in the re-release of Golden Axe for XBLA and PSN.
- Shadow, based on the creepy ghost featured in Pokemon Gen1. Attacks like the Sandopolis ghosts with added slashing with its hands.
- Hungry Beast, originally from Shadow of the Beast III. The main gimmick with this thing is that it chases the player in a narrow and flat hallway, and needs to be lured towards a spiked crusher.
- Stone Guardian sub-boss. The fight is the same as sandopolis, only it needs to be lured into a pool of lava.
- Undead Dragon boss. Originally from Revenge of Shinobi, complete with same attacks.

Originally, the boss for the level was going to be an echidna lich. But I couldn't find decent wizard sprites that could fit in Sonic's style.
Was also going to have undead echidna warriors: Males with spears, and females with boomerangs. But I felt six enemies was enough.
Oh, and the reason there's a mural of the Aboriginal flag, is because when I draw echidna ruins, I draw Aboriginal art on them, including the flag.
I mean, they're echidnas, and yet they lack anything related to Australia. The Mayan inspired designs doesn't really suit them, honestly.

Anyway, Hopefully anyone making fangames will find use for this. Though, it has too many colours to be used for ROM hacks, unfortunately.

All graphics by their respective owners.