Mystic Realm/Levels/Flame Rift Zone Act 2

Single Player levels
MAPAB: Flame Rift Zone Act 2
JCZ JCZ1 JCZ2 JCZ3	TVZ TVZ1 TVZ2 TVZ3	VFZ VFZ1 VFZ2 VFZ3
FRZ FRZ1 FRZ2 FRZ3	MFZ MFZ1 MFZ2 MFZ3	SPZ SPZ1 SPZ2 SPZ3
	AGZ AGZ1 AGZ2 AGZ3 AGZ4
Emerald stages
Extra levels

MAPAB, Flame Rift Zone Act 2, abbreviated as FRZ2, is the second act of Flame Rift Zone, the fourth zone in Mystic Realm. Similarly to the first act, it is set in a valley filled with many enemies and lava lakes, but it also features more difficult platforming sections involving crumbling platforms. This stage contains the fourth Mystic Shrine, which leads to Flame Rift's emerald stage, Blazing Forge Zone.

Walkthrough

First half

From the starting point, jump up the two steps in front of you. You now have two choices to continue: You can either walk down the staircase to your left or use the platforms in front of you to reach the top of the cliff to your right.

Left path

After walking down the staircase, you will enter a room covered with a large pool of lava. Jump across the platforms sticking out from the lava to reach a row of diagonal yellow springs, which will propel you to a floating platform. This platform will crumble after a few seconds, so quickly jump to the platform in front of you. If you miss the jump and fall into the lava, quickly make your way back to the beginning of the room and try again. The crumbling platform will respawn after a while.

Once you've made it to the safe platform, turn left. With a running start, jump to the ledge protruding from the right wall. From there, jump to another ledge in front of you. Jump up the step to your right and turn around. Jump to the higher ledge with the torch on the other side. From there, you can use two more crumbling platforms to reach the exit of this area. After a right turn, you will enter another room covered by lava. Dodge or kill the Crawla Commander and then jump across the platforms leading left. On the other side of the lava pool, you will reach a strip of land with the first Star Post. Here the paths rejoin.

Right path

After making to the top of the cliff, turn left to reach a room covered with a large pool of lava. Jump across the lava to a narrow strip of land in front of you and then use a square platform protruding from the lava to reach a ledge attached to the outer wall of the room. Turn around to see two floating platforms leading to a pillar with a spring that allows you to reach the top of the cliff to your left. The platforms will crumble when stood upon, so make your way across them quickly. If you miss a jump and fall into the lava, quickly make your way back to the beginning of the room and try again. The crumbling platforms will respawn after a while.

Once you've reached the top of the cliff, turn left and jump across the lava to another cliff. Jump to the square pillar with the torch in front of you and turn right. Below you is a strip of land with the first Star Post, so jump to it. Here the paths rejoin.

Second half

After the Star Post, you will reach another area covered in lava. A Crawla Commander will approach you, so either dodge or kill it. Then, jump to the square platform in front of you. Take the diagonal yellow springs, which will propel you to a crumbling platform. From there, jump across another crumbling platform to a safe pillar. Turn left and use another crumbling platform to reach the top of the cliff to your left, which contains the second Star Post. Walk along the cliff until you reach a huge drop-off. Jump down to the bottom and turn left to see the entrance to a cave. Here the path splits again: You can either continue forward into the cave, which will lead you to the upper path, or walk down the staircase to your right, which will lead you to the lower path.

Lower path

After walking down the staircase, turn left and jump across the lava to reach the third Star Post. Continue from there until you reach a large valley covered entirely in lava. Jump to the platform in front of you and turn left. Jump to the platform with the torch and from there to another platform to the right, which contains a row of yellow diagonal springs. The springs will propel you to a crumbling platform. From there, jump across another crumbling platform to a safe pillar. Turn right and jump to the ledge across the lava to reach the fourth Star Post.

After jumping across two more pools of lava, you will reach an area with a lot of enemies where the path makes a right turn. It leads to a final pool of lava with a platform protruding from it. The platform contains a red spring that you can use to propel yourself to a ledge on the far side of the lava, which contains the Level End Sign.

Upper path

Continue through the cave until you reach the third Star Post. After jumping over a gap in the floor, you will reach a large valley covered entirely in lava. Jump to the platform in front of you and use the diagonal yellow springs to be propelled to a crumbling platform. Quickly jump to the pillar to your right and across another pillar to a ledge attached to the outer wall of the room. Turn right and jump to another pillar, which contains a row of red springs. These springs lead up to a higher pillar from which you can overlook the entire area. In front of you, you should see another crumbling platform slightly below you. Jump to it and from there to a ledge even further below. Follow the ledge to the end and turn right to see two more crumbling platforms leading to another ledge. From there you can jump across two more ledges to reach a high cliff to the right. However, the path to the exit continues below, so jump down into the valley, being careful to avoid the lava.

Continue through the valley until you reach an area with a lot of enemies where the path makes a right turn. It leads to a final pool of lava with a platform protruding from it. The platform contains a red spring that you can use to propel yourself to a ledge on the far side of the lava, which contains the Level End Sign.

Points of interest

Extra lives

• After the second Star Post, walk up to the drop-off that leads to the cave with the second path split. Instead of jumping down to the bottom, jump down to a slightly lower ledge in front of you. Look for a bustable wall to the right, which leads to a room with two extra lives.
• Take the upper path at the second path split. Instead of jumping down into the valley at the end, continue across the ledge until you reach a high cliff to the right. On that cliff, search the left wall for a bustable wall, which hides an extra life.

Shields

• Take the left path at the start. Once you reach the ledge where you have to turn around and jump to the ledge with the torch, search the outer wall of the room for a bustable wall. It leads to a cave with two Super Ring Monitors and a Whirlwind Shield. Beware of the Eggman Monitor directly behind the Whirlwind Shield, however.
• Two ring monitors and an Elemental Shield can be found in Knuckles's emblem location.
• After the second Star Post, at the drop-off that leads to the cave with the second path split, there is a ledge across the room with two ring monitors and an Attraction Shield.
• Take the upper path at the second path split. After taking the row of red springs to the tall pillar overlooking the area, you should see a far-off ledge on the right side of the room, which contains an Armageddon Shield. As Sonic, you can reach it with a spindash-jump.

Invincibility

• Take the right path at the start. In the area where the paths rejoin, the platform with the torch contains an invincibility monitor.

Emblem locations

Blue ( 一 )

Accessible by: All

At the first checkpoint, turn around. You'll see that the path before this checkpoint actually splits between left and right. Go down the other path, and jump across the raised pillars and cliffs further down this path until you reach the Blue emblem.

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Red ( 二 )

Accessible by: All

Fun fact: This emblem is actually located where the Flame Rift Mystic Shrine used to be located at in previous versions of Mystic Realm.

For those unfamiliar: Take the upper path at the split in the cave. Take the yellow diagonal springs at the end of this split (while being careful not to veer too far off the nearby platforms) and jump onto the cliffside, following it to a set of red springs which will take you to the highest pillar in this area. From this point, turn around and you will see a small passageway. Go here to find two 1-up monitors and the Red emblem.

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Green ( 三 )

Accessible by: All

Take the upper path at the split in the cave. Instead of jumping down into the valley at the end, continue across the cliffs until you reach a higher one to the right. The emblem is on that cliff.

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