Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (InstanceTopic, 19)
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Sonic and Knuckles redirects here, because it's basically the same game anyway, so there.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3, who's second half is known as Sonic & Knuckles, is the third (fourth if Sonic CD is included) installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is full of much win, and even the idiots argue weather it's the best Sonic game ever. It's well known for it's graphical advancements (which includes the use of several graphical illusions and tricks), 3 playable characters, two player competition mode, and musical score by none other than Micheal Jackson. It is also the most massive 2D Sonic game to date, with 14 Chaos Emeralds to collect, 13 massive zones, and a boss at the end of every act. Because it is so massive, it's also the first Sonic game to let you save your progress. This would be epic, except it only saves the zone you were in, and not the act. It also had to be split into two parts because it's so huge, with the two halves' releases apart by a little more than a year. The Knuckles half, unfortunately, does not let you save unless you use that silly Lock-On crap to merge it back with Sonic 3.
Story
One day Sonic the Hedgehog and his buddy Tails randomly decide to fly to Angel Island in their airplane/super form, because they can. Unfortunately, Knuckles the Echidna makes a sneaky underground attack against the blue blur and steals his precious Chaos Emeralds (which he shouldn't have been holding in the first place). Knuckles has agood laugh, and then he makes his get away, thus prompting Sonic and Tails to give chase. Mysteriously, this scene doesn't happen when you play as Knuckles. Anyway, Soon you realize Dr. Eggman is also involved in some shady business, what with his burning down jungles and bombing shit with his Flying...Battery? (Well, it's better than a Flying can, at least) Sonic continues to hunt down his obesse nemesis through a variety of Angel Island locales, until he arrives at the Launch Base and learns of his sinister plan to relaunch the Death StarEgg back into orbit and take over the world. Eggman fails as usually though, and his Death Egg falls into a dormant volcano. However, Eggman is desperate, so he continues his antics by distracting Sonic with more random deforestation. Finally, Eggman plays Knuckles for a dope and steals his Master Emerald and launches the Death Egg. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are all pretty fed up with Eggman's shit by now though, so Sonic and Tails take to the Death Egg to teach the "good" doctor a lesson while Knuckles gets left behind with an evil Metal Sonic look-alike, who also wants the Master Emerald (which somehow was never stolen to begin with?). Eggman is still desperate after his Malcious Fingers get broken, so Super Sonic has to save the day for the first time, setting the now abused "tradition" of (anti)climactic Super Sonic boss fights. Happy End!
Characters
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Tails
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Dr. Eggman
- Mecha Sonic
- Egg Robo
Zones
- Angel Island (and mysteriously not Floating Island. Pay attention, Archie.)
- Hydrocity
- Marble Garden
- Carnival Night
- Ice Capp
- Launch Base
- Mushroom Hill
- Flying Battery
- Sandopolis
- Lava Reef/Hidden Palace
- Sky Sanctuary
- Death Egg
- Doomsday
