Sonic and Knuckles & Sonic 3 Review by: Eddy88 - 10/10

Sonic to the Max.

In 1993, Sega created Sonic 3... Of course, the 1st. Thing that the players noticed was that the game was pretty shorter in comparison with Sonic 2... Also, the Ending of the game didn't felt like a Ending... In another words: It was an Open ending. Deception? Maybe a bit.

But then, In 1994... Sega make the Sequel: Sonic & Knuckles... This cartridge came up with a system named Lock on: With this simple thing (Another cartridge slot in the upper part of the Cartridge.) the player could fuse games: So, Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles= a New Sonic game. The result was a real impact: A long game, more playable characters, more Emeralds, new transformations... The Dream of all Sonic fan of the Era!

Deception? What Deception? This is a master piece!... So, That Master piece (Named Sonic 3 & Knuckles) is the game that we're going to talk today... Ready? So, Let's Run thought!

History: The history is set just after the ending of Sonic 2. The Death Egg, build by Robotnik, is taken down by Sonic... The Robotnik's space station falls over a Floating Island named "Angel Island", the impact of the huge ship makes the island fall to the ocean... Amazingly, Robotnik survived to the fall. And he's helped by an Red Echidna named Knuckles... The evil doctor takes advantage of the Goodness of the inhabitant of the Island, and tells him that he just were escaping of two evil animals: A Hedgehog and a Two-Tailed fox. Knuckles believes on his story and decides to help the Doctor to get rid of them... Some days later, Sonic and Tails arrives to the Island (after hearing the rumors about Robotnik being still alive) but, the Red echidna attacks both, steals the Sonic's Chaos Emeralds and escapes... Our heroes chases him. And suddenly, then they find an Army of Badniks blocking their path. After defeating all, they figure out that Robotnik is still alive. To make the things worst: Robotnik is planning to steal the "Master Emerald" (the Island's main power generator) to power up the Death Egg.

So, as you see it's pretty long and interesting history. This might be the most complete history I've seen in the 16-Bits Sonic games. (9/10)

Graphics: If you have played the two (three, if we count Sonic CD) previous games. the 1st thing you will notice is that the Characters have new sprites. Also, the Backgrounds seems to had more details... Being far superior to the graphics of the previous games. The animations are smooth and some has nice details. (Like the characters making some powder clouds when breaking after taking a great speed) (9/10)

Sound: The music, just like the game, is a master piece. There's not two zones with the same music. Even each act has different music! (Which, usually, is a remake of the music of the previous act)... Launch base zone (both acts, Those voices saying "YO!" fits very well.) Hydropolis (2nd. Act) and Flying Battery (Both acts) are my favorites. Sound FX is the same as the other games (excepting by the Bosses explosion sound.) (10/10)

Addictiveness: The game addictive, Doesn't matter how many times you have finished it. You ever will want a bit more of it. (8/10)

Depth: Let's see: Sonic 3 alone has 6 zones, Sonic & Knuckles has 7... So, there re 13 zones in the game. (14 if you got all the emeralds)
also, Some zones have different kinds of traps and obstacles... Like puzzles or unbreakable walls.it also have three different kinds of shields, everyone gives the character some extras... So, As you see... This game offers a pretty good duration.(10/10)

Difficulty: Well, about difficulty... This game doesn't offer much of that... Figuring out how the beat the bosses isn't a challenge... If you lose a life, it will be because you got squashed or you felled into a pit. (6/10)

Final Rating: 10

This might be one of the Best Sonic games ever made. It can compete with Sonic 2 in terms of "Best saga game" if you're a huge Sonic fan... And you didn't played this game... You're committing a crime. So, Go and play this game. You will not get arrepented.

-Eddy Out-
 

Sonic and Knuckles & Sonic 3 Description: Sonic and Knuckles Lock-on with Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The revolutionary Lock-on technology adds all new features to the other Sonic games for ultimate replays! Lock-on with Sonic 3 and transform Floating Island into a huge 34 meg Sonic-epic loaded with new secrets! Play as Sonic, Knuckles, and even Tails - with Game Save!

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