Back in the day, more people played Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles as stand alone, separate games, and considered "Sonic 3 & Knuckles" to be an extra feature.Nowadays, with emulation and fanhacks, most people will only ever play both games as one, and will downplay the originally released games, even though they never played them.
I don't play scam games like OP. I play games that are complete at release.
>>12629057I only played them as separate releases too just because I didn't want to have to play through all the Sonic 3 levels again to get to the actual new content in S&K. Is there any extra content if you play them combined?
All my life I've heard that S3&K was the original intended vision for sonic 3 and is therefore the only version you should be playingWas that not how it was seen back then
the fuck are those covers
>>12629057Skill issue
>>12629313That's how they released in Taured
>>12629314Sonic 'N' Knuckles 2 was better to be quite desu
>>12629075>the different screenshots create a sense of animation sequencekino
>>12629057I played Sonic 3 on repeat for over a year before I finally got '& Knuckles. During that time I could only speculate what wonders lied behind picrel and my mind wandered each time I passed it. Sometimes I would spindash at it or try to find some other way through, knowing that there was an entire other path through the level behind it. I felt excited about it. It was a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Literally only happiness and joy could be on the other side. Then when I finally got to play it with Knuckles and breakthrough, it was the worst level in the whole game, possibly in the whole series, and 30 years later I still feel the hurt.
>>12629057Ive played them all, big arms is such a cool fight in sonic 3 im glad they brought it back for knuckles in 3&K but i wish the dark sky with the theme song was there. But I guess they really wanted to save it for the final Mecha Sonic fight
>>12629057>SONIC SOIIC SONIC SINE K(ot)&NUCKCLESMy favourite sonic game personally. Capetgimendo was really cooking with this one.
>>12629314>fazwonga!
>>12629857>the dark sky with the theme songCrazy to think that probably a majority of Sonic fans nowadays don't even know this is a thing.I agree it's a 10/10 moment, a more humble final showdown compared to S&K final boss + doomsday chase which is just Sonic Team going literally Super Saiyan mode, but Big Arm feels more like an OG Dragon Ball final boss, you know what I mean? Think Goku vs Black. Still intense, shorter but with every moment being extreme. S&K's final boss blows your mind the first time but then when you replay it, it's basically QTE sequence, whereas Big Arm still feels engaging and challenging to fight, every single time.The sky turning black also adds a dramatic tone that "fight in space" just doesn't have, as cool as it is.
I feel like this is why they made 3 & Knuckles only an unlockable in Sonic Mega Collection. I didn't actually know about it until after I beat both 3 and Knuckles separately, and it blew my fucking mind that they could combine.
