Showing posts with label Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 April 2016

3 Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Sonic & Tails Run Part 2

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about the rest of the session I had with this game as Sonic and Tails. At this point I had 5 of the Super Emeralds and needed another two, starting from Sandopolis Zone. I usually dread this zone, but I managed to obtain the last two in the first act. Yay! Good ending guaranteed! To think I was on the verge of giving up after failing so much on Mushroom Hill!

For the rest of the session I didn't use Hyper Sonic that much, as I kept losing rings from being hit. Everything seemed to go wrong when facing Dr. Robotnik at the end of Lava Reef Zone.

In the Death Egg Zone, there's this boss shaped like a ball where you have to make its spiky little wheelie things hit it by using the gravity. I didn't know this before, but you can spin dash into these spiky things to toss them back at the boss. It took a lot longer before just timing it with gravity swaps!

In the Doomsday Zone I kept dying as well so I decided to take my time and collect a good amount of rings. I even got 100 for an extra life at one stage!

Anyway I beat the game with the best ending and that was that! :)

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

2 Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Sonic & Tails All Emerald Run Part 1

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about an all-emerald complete run of this game I did recently using Sonic and Tails.

I got 4 chaos emeralds from Angel Island Zone and another 2 from Hydrocity Zone. The last one I struggled with until I reached Carnival Night Zone, where I finally got it.

With the Super Emeralds, it was a bit of a disaster. I only got 2 from Mushroom Hill Zone and failed about 4 times to get one of them! I eventually got the troublesome one though. I got another 3 on the Flying Battery Zone.

Between all the failed attempts this session went very long! I had to continue the next day.

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

1 Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Tails All Emerald Run

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about a complete emerald run I did using Tails. I'm using Tails because I want to explore and try to get more used to Super Ring locations. It's good to gather intel this way!

I also forgot that you have to have all Super Emeralds to have any Super Form at all with Tails! It doesn't work with just the Chaos Emeralds.

I found an extra Super Ring under the waterfall in Angel Island Zone Act 2 this way.

There are two big dips and a ramp launching you upwards in Hydrocity Zone, where you can find Super Rings with good timing. One of them is to the left of shifting platforms and the other is above two cylindrical spinning platforms and can be reached with Sonic as well.

I took FOREVER looking for rings in Marble Garden Zone. Ran out of the 10 minute time limit several times in both Acts!

Had trouble with Dr. Robotnik here as well. He's pretty tough here when using Tails. I had to stock up on lives.

I think I got all the Chaos Emeralds by the time I reached Carnival Night Zone but I don't remember right.

Later on in Mushroom Hill Zone, I found at least 6 Super Rings. Well worth taking your time here!

Found another 2 or 3 Super Rings in Flying Battery Zone that I wouldn't have known about otherwise. One of them you have to push spikes aside and another is to the left of a lot of springs.

The game went quite smoothly from then onward and to the end of the game. I was using a SEGA Saturn controller and a USB connector to play on PC. It's not the Japanese one that everybody seems to love more. I like that one but I really like this one a lot too.