In Sonic Rush Adventure game, there are 7 regular Zones, plus 16 Hidden Islands and the training stage Whale Point, plus the three R Hidden Islands lap courses
only found in Time Trial and Two Player, and the Sea Stages discussed separately. Some of the Hidden Islands are similar some of the Zones, while others are like Whale Point and can almost be thought of as another Zone.
The First zone you play is Plant Kigdom. After Wave Cyclone is built, the crew decides to check there for materials. Plant Kingdom is an island that is big forest filled with huge flowers and mushrooms you can jump on. Green Material is found there and hidden islands 6 and 7 are similar to this zone.
There are ivies found in Plant Kingdom that you can swing on. When you are at the highest point of the swing, simply jump off to get to higher places.
Giant Mushrooms work like springs and you can do many tricks by them. When bouncing on a trail of them, just keep doing trickes to get a huge amount of scores for S Rank.
There are also gaint trees that have a face and a hand and when you pass them, they'll pick you up and throw you in the air.
In act 1, there's also a section where you grind on ivies (picture above). Press left or right to jump from an ivy to another. Instead of focusing on getting rings, focus on not trying to hit the bombs.
Generally, in some parts you run on the water. When running on the water you can't boost, but if you are in boost mode before running on the water, you'll still be in boost mode knocking the fishes out of your way.
