Ranking Every Classic Sonic The Hedgehog Level From Worst To Best
2. Chemical Plant Zone
It could just be that I was raised in the industrial heartland of Middlesbrough, but something about Chemical Plant really resonates. Those smoke stacks just scream 'home'.
Quite honestly, the music is enough to rank the level in the top two, an industrial electronic rhythm which perfectly sets the stage's tempo and tone. If the thumping choon was all Chemical Plant had going for it though, you could easily be content with the sound test. Even with the volume muted it's a rollicking affair, featuring some of the steepest, speediest slopes in Sonic (which is saying something), lots of tubes ('totally tubular', in '90s parlance), and a heart-stopping, lung-stretching sequence in bubblegum-flavoured drink (officially 'mega-mack').
The plant may be a pollutant, but this is Sonic's special chemistry at its purest.