Sonic 3

[Baloo]

IMO, I love Sonic 3 and it's music, but I don't like S&K. The levels and music just aren't as good.

[thedaemon]

I find Sonic 3 less attractive than 1. For me Sonic 1 holds the view of what Sonic games should look like. Mind you I enjoyed the crap out of Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic 3, but they weren't as challenging as the first one nor did they have the same charm.

[Deo]

IMO, I love Sonic 3 and it's music, but I don't like S&K. The levels and music just aren't as good.

Gotta love the Michael Jackson style miniboss/ending music.

[Masked Avenger]

IMO, I love Sonic 3 and it's music, but I don't like S&K. The levels and music just aren't as good.

Pretty much.

Sonic 3 is the better part, S & K are the left-overs.

[gamegenie]

Sonic 3 by itself doesn't hold a candle to Sonic 2, but once you lock on Sonic & Knuckles and play it how it was originally intended to be played, you have a big Sonic game.


only thing I don't like about S&K is how it replaces some of Sonic 3's midi tunes.

[TmEE]

they're not MIDI, they're SMPS...

and Sonic2 sucks compared to either Sonic3 or S&K alone.

[Mr Smith]

Sonic2 sucks compared to either Sonic3 or S&K alone.

I never thought I'd ever hear such lies coming from you, good sir.

[jerry coeurl]

Yeah that's blasphemy right there. S3&K together isn't even as good as Sonic 2 by itself!

[TheEdge]

Can someone explain to me what Sonic game will be in the Gencore, Firecore because if its just sonic & knuckles add on then how can it play in the first place?

Doesn't it need one of the three previous sonic cartridges to work?

[QuickSciFi]

^Sonic & Knuckles plays like any other cartridge. It holds the second "half" of the zones that compliment those of Sonic 3 (Both games were made as one, then sliced into two for size constrictions; and by size I mean price). Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and SnKs can all be seen as the same story in terms of continuity. Therefore, since Sonic 2 is a different game as well, then Sonic 3 and SnKs independently may also be seen, story-wise, as two different games, since the continuity of Sonic 3 also takes place right after the events of Sonic 2 (and by right after, I mean right after he falls from the space ship and into the island that Knuckles protects).

...Technically, all the games in question (Sonic 1,2 and 3) are the add-ons to SnKs themselves. By mixing one of them with SnKs you will unlock certain aspects made available through the latter. It is crucial that you lock onto Sonic 3 if you want to save the SnKs levels, for it is in Sonic 3 that the memory is stored.

P.S.> Storywise, it is ilogical to see Knuckles in Sonic 2. Technically, by way of one of Dr. Robotnik's inventions, some random element not explained, or even the powers of "the island" (like in the show LOST, seen later on), it can only be that knuckles is having a dream by being in the world of Sonic 2, or that he is being transported into the past, without consequences, by one of said elements. I like to think the island made him have that dream of experiencing the events of Sonic 2 as part of his reconciliation with Sonic and Tails.

[kool kitty89]

...Technically, all the games in question (Sonic 1,2 and 3) are the add-ons to SnKs themselves. By mixing one of them with SnKs you will unlock certain aspects made available through the latter. It is crucial that you lock onto Sonic 3 if you want to save the SnKs levels, for it is in Sonic 3 that the memory is stored.

Sonic 1 doesn't work for that.... (other than blue sphere like any other non mixable cart)

Just Sonic 3&K and Knuckles in Sonic 2. Unfortunately the PC S&K collection only has Sonic 3, S3&K, and S&K, no S2 in K...

[QuickSciFi]

^Doesn't work for what, exactly? To unlock the certain aspects made available through SnKs I spoke of? Such as making Knuckles a playable character in Sonic 2? Or perhaps unlocking the Blue Sphere levels on SnKs by locking onto Sonic 1?

Oh Kool kitty89, how did I know you would come to antagonize me? It's almost essential to sega-16 . Like I said, Technically, all the games in question (Sonic 1,2 and 3) are the add-ons to SnKs themselves (considering Edge's analogy). By mixing one of them with SnKs you will unlock certain aspects made available through the latter.

Sonic 1 doesn't work for that.... (other than blue sphere like any other non mixable cart)...

Are you implying that ANY sega genesis cartridge will unlock the blue sphere special levels as the same game stored in SnKs that you see when locking onto the Sonic 1 cart? If you looked closely, some, not all, cartridges unlock a different kind of blue sphere game than the one seen when locking onto the Sonic 1 cart. For one, you get to select the different levels, starting from level 1, and the code, as it appears on the bottom, varies from them. In fact, depending on what non-sonic cart (that does work) you lock onto, you will get a different starting level. It's just not the same experience as locking onto the Sonic 1 cart.

[zetastrike]

Sonic 3 is better than Sonic 2. Yeah, I said it, big deal, wanna fight about it?

[kool kitty89]

Oh Kool kitty89, how did I know you would come to antagonize me? It's almost essential to sega-16 . Like I said, Technically, all the games in question (Sonic 1,2 and 3) are the add-ons to SnKs themselves (considering Edge's analogy). By mixing one of them with SnKs you will unlock certain aspects made available through the latter.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound harsh/antagonizing.

And yeah, I forgot Sonic 1 was the only one that unlocked all the blue sphere levels.

Still, I meant it won't do the same kind of thing Sonic 2 or 3 does when locked on -ie Knuckles in Sonic 1.

[QuickSciFi]

We're all friends at sega-16.