Here's an innovative twist on an old challenge I once wrote. This takes the old box diving challenge to a new level of difficulty, requiring you to plan a route before you begin. A basic calmness challenge can't get much more difficult than this without requiring it to be a higher-order emerald!
Blue Chaos Emerald Challenge: In Sonic the Hedgehog's Scrap Brain Zone, Act 3, find and open four underwater boxes, then finish the Act. If you lose a life, your run is invalid.
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It's not too difficult for this Emerald. You just have to take the long route, popping any boxes you find. And there's only one that you have to really have to go out of your way for.
Like I said in the Pink Emerald topic, I do not fear the water.
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Was a bit challenging to figure out the route to do this as I've never really bothered to explore and memorize the zone, mostly due to childhood memories of trying to not drown in the stage and finish it asap Anyway, here's the demo...
You'd think that the water pressure would be screwing around with Sonic's ears, especially rolling around that much. I can barely reach the bottom of a 13ft pool.
I've never liked the underwater challenges, actually I never liked underwater full stop... which is a shame. Still, I managed to do this run and it got quite tense at the end XD.
this emarld took me a while because I haven't gone down that bottom route in ages but I still did it.
<Sorry, this is invalid. You only opened three item boxes. Try using the longer route next time. -Nick>
Sorry about my invaild run i did make the run again and find the way i was supposed to go
<Wow, that last bit was tense. I honestly thought you were gonna drown there. -Nick>
Wasn't expecting this sort of challenge. Still easy.
Sonic 1 (W) rom
<I honesty thought this was going to be an invaild run, since I didn't know you could get the second Ring box like that. You learn something new every day, I guess. Good job. -Nick>
I didn't either. I didn't realise there was a wall there until i looked at the map afterwards D: