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doggiedynastyHere's my 5th Sonic memory AND it is going to be about Sonic & Knuckles, which was developed in 1994 for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It uses the same sprites as its prequel, Sonic 3, and its game cartridge uses a "Lock-on system" that can attach with the Sonic 3 and Sonic 2 cartridges. Doing this makes Sonic 3 & Knuckles" (a full combo game of Sonic 3 and S & K) and Sonic 2 with Knuckles (it's what it says).
Here's a speedrun of of the entire game (Sonic 3 & Knuckles, all chaos and super emeralds).
While you can play Knuckles in Sonic 3's 2-Player mode only, you can player Knuckles throughout S&K's main game. Cool character; he is a slower (?) than Sonic, can't jump as high, but he makes up for it with his ability to break bricks and GLIDE and climb. Gliding was really fun. He also had a separate route compared to Sonic. Unless you attach Sonic 3 to the cartridge, you can't have Tails. S&K is mostly Solo.
There are new Bonus stages to collect rings and items: a gumball stage and a "gravity glowing sphere" stage. Am I missing one?
Favorite Stages? That's a hard one.
Also, S&K does NOT fail in the music department of course. You have Sandapolis with its stereotypical "Egyptian desert-like" (I don't know how else to explain it) theme; Flying Battery and Death Egg sounds fast-paced, cool, and dangerous at the same time; Sky Santuary sounds heroic and like you were launched high in the air (like Sonic 2's Sky chase, or maybe Wing Fortess?), and peaceful Hidden Place Zone.
When I hear the music of Mushroom Hill (first stage), I feel that it's perfect. Like you can really imagine large plants.
Lava Reef sounds great too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhprpTa4BH0 (Lava Reef by guitar)
Here's some bad memories:
- Flying Battery Zone falls
- Sandapolis Trauma: Ghosts in 2nd act.
- S&K still has the same darn "Collect the blue balls" Special stages for the emeralds. Difficult.
Here's a 3DS remix of Mushroom Hill
Apparently, Mushroom Hill is back in Sonic Generations ;)
Here's a speedrun of of the entire game (Sonic 3 & Knuckles, all chaos and super emeralds).
While you can play Knuckles in Sonic 3's 2-Player mode only, you can player Knuckles throughout S&K's main game. Cool character; he is a slower (?) than Sonic, can't jump as high, but he makes up for it with his ability to break bricks and GLIDE and climb. Gliding was really fun. He also had a separate route compared to Sonic. Unless you attach Sonic 3 to the cartridge, you can't have Tails. S&K is mostly Solo.
There are new Bonus stages to collect rings and items: a gumball stage and a "gravity glowing sphere" stage. Am I missing one?
Favorite Stages? That's a hard one.
Also, S&K does NOT fail in the music department of course. You have Sandapolis with its stereotypical "Egyptian desert-like" (I don't know how else to explain it) theme; Flying Battery and Death Egg sounds fast-paced, cool, and dangerous at the same time; Sky Santuary sounds heroic and like you were launched high in the air (like Sonic 2's Sky chase, or maybe Wing Fortess?), and peaceful Hidden Place Zone.
When I hear the music of Mushroom Hill (first stage), I feel that it's perfect. Like you can really imagine large plants.
Lava Reef sounds great too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhprpTa4BH0 (Lava Reef by guitar)
Here's some bad memories:
- Flying Battery Zone falls
- Sandapolis Trauma: Ghosts in 2nd act.
- S&K still has the same darn "Collect the blue balls" Special stages for the emeralds. Difficult.
Here's a 3DS remix of Mushroom Hill
Apparently, Mushroom Hill is back in Sonic Generations ;)
