Sonic 3 and Knuckles: Difference between revisions

* [[Bedsheet Ghost]]: In Sandopolis Zone Act 2.

* [[Berserk Button]]: The second stage of the Death Egg Zone's miniboss seems to have one: it will start spinning a pair of spiked platforms extremely rapidly while firing off a massive laser beam if you attack it.

* [[Blackout Basement]]: Carnival Night Zone Act 2 (for Sonic and Tails), and Sandopolis Zone Act 2.

* [[Bonus Stage]]: Unique among ''Sonic'' games for having two types:

* [[Convection Schmonvection]]: Two-thirds of Angel Island Zone is in the middle of a massive forest fire, yet the characters don't seem to mind. And naturally, [[Lethal Lava Land|Lava Reef Zone]]'s lava only hurts you if you actually touch it.

** Of course, you can stand on the lava just fine if you have a fire shield, even stand in a lava waterfall.

* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Most of the environmental hazards of the game can be rendered harmless with the right shield. Lava Reef Zone is obviously best played with the flame shield, whereas the lightning shield becomes extremely useful for running safely on the electrified floors and ceilings of Death Egg Zone.

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: The instashield of Sonic's. Slightly increases the range at which you can hurt enemies, and allows you to phase though things like projectiles, invincible enemies and other terrain hazards. It only lasts a split second though, so good timing is an absolute must.

* [[Hailfire Peaks]]:

** Angel Island is equal parts [[Green Hill Zone]] and [[Jungle Japes]]. Only after a certain point it's [[Incendiary Exponent|ON FIRE]].

** Lava Reef Zone starts off as a straight volcano level, then in Act 2, the lava cools off and there's white crystals everywhere.

** Sky Sanctuary is a [[Floating Continent|castle floating]] among the [[Bubbly Clouds]].

** Knuckles will start boxing impatiently.

* [[Immediate Sequel]]: To [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]

* [[Infinite One Ups]]: Those alarm lights that trigger flying enemies in Launch Base Zone. Hold down a spin dash in one of those alarms, and a constant stream of enemies will fly right into you and be destroyed. The score given for the chain of hits eventually results in one life being granted every ''3 seconds'', and even if you die by time out, since it's before the first checkpoint, you can just walk back there and do it again.

* [[Invisible Wall]]: Appears in a cut scene in Carnival Night Act 2, and just before the first boss battle in Launch Base Act 2.

* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Lava Reef Zone.

* [[Levels Take Flight]]: Flying Battery Zone features a few segments where the player must navigate the outside portions of Eggman's ship.

* [[Logo Joke]]: In ''Sonic 3'', the Sega logo remains in place as a blue ball blazes towards the camera before revealing itself to be Sonic, followed by a white flash that leads into the title screen. In ''Sonic & Knuckles'', the Sega logo remains as the background turns into Angel Island, splits apart as the Sonic and the Death Egg land on the ground below, and voila, title screen.

* [[The Lost Woods]]: Mushroom Hill Zone.

** Marble Garden's mid-boss uses a burrowing attack based on [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2|Mystic Cave's]] boss.

* [[One Game for The Price of Two]]

* [[Oxygenated Underwater Bubbles]]: Present throughout Hydrocity, and can be released by bursting open underwater balloons in Carnival Night Act 2. There's also water in Angel Island, and Act 2 of both Icecap and Launch Base, but you have to use [[Debug Mode]] to access the bubble for those levels, as they aren't already placed.

* [[Personal Space Invader]]: Mega Chopper in Hydrocity Zone.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Hidden Palace Zone has a mural showing Robotnik with the Master Emerald in his hands, and Super/Hyper Sonic confronting him. Knuckles misintepreted this as Robotnik trying to ''save'' the Master Emerald from Sonic, and thus treated Sonic and Tails as enemies!

* [[Power Floats]]: Super Mecha Sonic. Both of Sonic's super forms also hover above the ground when they're at full speed.

* [[Puzzle Boss]]: Many.

** Carnival Night Act 1: You hit the boss to make it expose its weak point, but the actual damage is done when the bouncing spike platform collides with it.

* [[Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom]]: Ice Cap Zone and Sandopolis Zone have the most of them.

* [[Songs in The Key of Panic]]: In Doomsday Zone, the music speeds up if you're low on rings.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Flying Battery Zone to Wing Fortress Zone from ''Sonic 2''. Carnival Night Zone would ''appear'' to be this to Casino Night Zone from the name, but besides being brash and colourful levels they don't share much in detail.

* [[The Spiny]]: There are a few of them.

* [[Stalked By the Bell]]: In Sandopolis Act 2, ghosts start to appear as lights in the level go out, and will start attacking unless the player continues to switch new lights on.

* [[Story Driven Invulnerability]]: At several points, Robotnik shows up outside of a boss fight but cannot be destroyed<ref>at least, not without exploiting some [[Game Breaking Bug|Game Breaking Bugs]] that allow you to land 256 hits on him.</ref>. The most notable instance is during his theft of the Master Emerald.

** The Hyper forms of Sonic and Knuckles can breathe underwater without the bubble shield, but by the time it becomes possible to get these forms, you've already passed the last level with water in it. Breathing underwater is thus only relevant if you're replaying any of the zones with water on a save file.

* [[Super Mode]]: In addition to the usual Super Sonic, it's also possible to play as Super Knuckles. And if you collect ''all 14 Emeralds'' you can become Hyper Sonic, Hyper Knuckles, or Super Tails.

* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]:

** There tends to be confusion as to why the original ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' could not be locked in with ''Sonic & Knuckles''. The two most popular explanations are Knuckles would have dramatically altered the color pallet or that Knuckles gliding on conveyor belts in Scrap Brain Zone would cause the game to [[Game Breaking Bug|crash]]--both of which were debunked by the famous rom hack "Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog 1."

* ~Walk, Don't Swim~: Tails can swim. Knuckles can glide in the water. Sonic sinks like a rock.

* [[Walk On Water]]: You can run across the surface in Hydrocity.

* [[Weather Control Machine]]: Featured in Mushroom Hill Act 2.

* [[Wrap Around]]: A few areas in Ice Cap Zone and Sandopolis Zone tend to loop when not exited from them properly. With the Hyper Sonic in Sonic 3 cheat, you can wrap around back to the first act of a zone, resulting in messed-up graphics and other glitches.

 

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