Me first. Amy Rose is not in this game
the repetitive super sonic music, that's it
The fact that it was the last great sonic game
>>321463057
It's not Sonic 2.
That you had to buy two full price games to get the full Sonic 3 experience.
>>321463057
> Amy Rose is not in this game
That's not a flaw
>>321463057
That Michael Jackson didn't stick around to finish the soundtrack his way.
>>321464505
That too. It was cool how you got 2&K, though.
>>321463057
Carnival Night, Marble Garden and Sandopolis suck
>>321463057
play the hack with her in it now its prefect
Sandopolis "No Fun Allowed" Zone
Its not on 3ds
>>321467618
Marble Garden isn't so bad, but I definitely agree about Carnival Night and Sandopolis.
>>321463371
this. the second games theme was superior.
>>321463371
Underrated post.
>>321464505
They opened the door to unfinished products and imminent DLC for decades and decades to come.
Thanks, SEGA Technical Institute.
>>321463371
Super Sonic music in the old games is like the Werehog music in Unleashed. It's a fine enough tune, but it's short, repetitive and isn't worth getting rid of the otherwise fantastic soundtrack for. It's practically a punishment to use.
>>321463371
I'll allow this complaint.
>>321463371
>>321464505
I can agree with these.
I'll add a personal opinion; Tails isn't that fun to play as. Yeah he has flying and swimming, but said abilities feel slightly too slow.
Mecha Sonic is not as cool as Metal Sonic
>>321463057
It's sonic
>>321463057
hydrocity
made me fucking rage more than anything as a kid, everything about that level is cheap as fuck. got so mad playing it i threw my controller at a mirror.
The Barrel... Yeah, I am not that good at Sonic.
>>321473068
ah, also carnival night zone. literally could not get past the cylinder thing in act two. took me dozens of attempts until i managed to jump and drop the cylinder low enough to get past it.
>>321473068
>>321473524
Were you guys 4?
>>321463057
>The final boss in Launch Base Zone gets removed when you lock on the two games
And Sonic 3 Complete includes the option to add it back in so whatever.
It was lame playing half a game back in the day. The Sonic 3/Knuckles split is kind of unfortunate.
>>321473068
Holy fuck the shit taste on this motherfucker, Hydrocity is literally the GOAT Sonic level.
>>321475238
With GOAT music
like the last overrated shitty game, it gave birth to the 10 times of thousands of victim-complex based classic-sonicfags!
>>321463057
when it first released it was one game for the price of two.
Found one.
>>321473068
>mfw all of this rage is literally because of the act 2 wall
>>321463057
Marble Garden
Carnival Night
Mushroom Hill
Sandopolis
>>321463057
>>321467618
lol awww was baby too retarded to figure out the barrel, too slow to get through the collapse, and too garbage to keep the lights on?
>>321477764
Marble Garden I think was pretty good, it was a pretty unique and ambitious level when you think about it. Didn't execute everything perfectly but had some cool shit in it, mainly dem steep as fuck slopes.
>tfw have an electric shield and the rings take 5 seconds to catch up
Fucking hell Sonic 3 & Knuckles was a great game.
>>321477806
/fucking this
Do you know how much frustration I endured because of Sega's little reindeer games with this fucking cutesy cyclinder? All to find out all you had to do was press up and down.. Fuck my life.
>>321478708
The mechanics aren't hard, they just pointlessly slow down the game for no good reason
>>321464373
>Some fags actually believe that Sonic 2 is better than Sonic 3.
I always liked Sonic 2 better because it had much more enjoyable stages.
Sonic 3+K only had Ice Cap Zone, Flying Battery Zone, Lava Reef Zone, and Hidden Palace. Every other stage was either annoying or boring.
Then again, this is coming from someone who enjoys Metropolis Zone from Sonic 2.
>>321480040
>the first thing these fags will dispute is the redrawn sprites, like they even matter
>>321480040
S3&K > Sonic 2 > Sonic & Knuckles > Sonic 3
>>321480196
I seriously don't get people that prefer 2. S3K just had such a larger scope and tried out so much crazy shit in every level. I think the Genesis Sonics are a rare example of each installment improving on the last.
>>321463371
This is it.
>>321477806
>tfw never had an issue with this, had no idea where people were getting stuck on when I heard about it in message board posts at the time
>>321464505
this
didn't get to play S&K until years after because I only had the Sonic 3 cart growing up
played S&K over with my friends, and then later in Sonic Mega Collection (and then I discovered emulation a year after that and felt mildly retarded)
>>321480196
>Then again, this is coming from someone who enjoys Metropolis Zone from Sonic 2.
that's probably it, since I think Sonic 2 falls apart completely after Mystic Cave
it's not just Metropolis, but that's a large part of what I don't like about S2
I think most S3 stages are great other than Marble Garden and Carnival Night act 2. Best is Ice Cap by far.
Same with S&K, only Sandopolis 2 is a particular damper on an otherwise ace game. Lava Reef is the best fucking stage.
>>321463371
>Sonic 3 complete
>can turn on and off Super/Hyper whenever you want
>super music is the faster track for the stage like the speed shoes
Bless Sonic 3 Complete
>>321467618
>Carnival and Marble
Get the shortcuts. Those stages have so many different paths dude you will be amazed how you can do them fast.
But I have to say, years ago I never enjoyed those 2 stages, but now I do. The first time I played Marble I got angry because spikes everywhere. Carnival act2 was not the barrel thing(because I did that while jumping+pressing down on my first try), but because that stage was very long on the 1st try, like 7 or 8 minutes.
>Sandopolis
Is just act2 that is boring because those sand sections and it's pretty linear act.
Unlike Sonic he didn't chuckle.
>>321480605
>didn't get to play S&K until years after because I only had the Sonic 3 cart growing up
Opposite. Played S&K first. Like 3 years bought Sonic Jam a thing I didn't knew it existed until a friend said to me because he saw on a videogames magazine. First thing I played was 3.
>>321480601
I felt Sonic 2's stages were more consistently good compared to S3&K which had a few really big stinkers.
In my opinion.
>Angel Island
>Hydrocity
>Icecap
>Launch Base
>Mushroom Hill
>Flying Battery
>Lava Reef
>Death Egg
Did Sega sell their souls to the level design devil for this game or fucking what. Is that why the series is garbage now? Nothing even comes close to this shit, even Super Metroid.