Robotnik's evil traps.

Well theres those fish in Hydrocity that latch on to sonic slowly taking away his rings, then at 0 rings he dies. Perhaps its refering to that?

 

Sounds like glitches you only can get if you are a crazy Japanese running like no other can do. I'm talking about those super Japanese people.

 

You mean like the ones that play DDR on hard mode and set the settings to 4x hidden?

 

silly rabbit, I play MAX 300 on 8x Boost Reverse Stealth.

The traps they're talking about are essentially "Our programmers told us that a few undesirable object collision checks cause the player to get stuck. They also say they aren't getting paid enough for what they do, and can't be bothered to fix those occurrences, so we'll just say Eggman set them up to trap you."

And Carnival Night 2 was completed in 2:27 by me. No idea of any efforts by the Japanese.

 

That's pretty stupid, it's better to just wait for a Time Over and continue from the last checkpoint you hit...

 

or

If I didn't want to piss people off, I'd go for option two. Waiting for 10 max minutes isn't my idea of a good time. I'd rather reset, and get past that checkpoint in half the time.

 

I would reset if I was right at the start of the zone. But otherwise, I'd rather do something else (cough EATING cough) while waiting for those up to 10 mins to pass.

 

Would you not consider that mayhaps restarting the level, regardless from what point, and playing straight away, rather than waiting however long left till 10mins would be quicker ? Say it had taken you 3 mins to get to a certain point, and you get trapped. that's 7 mins left until you die. In that time, you could have got over twice as far as that point, theoretically. That be why.

 

This is a bad excuse for the many bugs in Sonic 3. I've been stuck in the same wall / floor in Lava Reef 1 a few times from running too fast. The manual tries to blame Robotnik as if it were intentional.

 

What if you were in Marble Garden 2? Resetting would make it take around 5-8 minutes to get back to where you were (at the speed I play, anyway, and assuming you don't use Super/Hyper Sonic), and waiting would take about oh maybe 5-6 mins? Besides, if you reset, it would get rid of the lives you earned in that zone.

 

(From S3 manual.)

MEANING:

Self-explanatory.

 

I was reading my Sonic 3 and Knuckles manual for the Sonic and Knuckles Collection to see if there was anything that mentioned it. (I know most manuals have some differences in it, depending on which version you use) Then this odd paragraph came to me:

Dr. Robotnik has quickly built a base on Floating Island to harvest the Emeralds. He has kidnapped animals and transformed them into robots, and changed the island's environment into a nightmare with his Environment-Control Machine.

"Yeah! Even if Sonic comes to the island, it's too late! This time the Emeralds are mine!".

Enviroment Control Machine? :huh: I never heard that in the other manuals... Think these are the 'traps' mentioned before? If so, he doesn't use them much... Ice Cap would prolly be the only one I could really think of. Lava Reef was already there before the Death Egg crashed to Angel Island.

~Nytloc

 

Just a guess:

Mushroom hill Zone: The season's changing in Act 2 (with the satelite on the Egg-O-Matic, which Sonic destroys before the boss and the "weather" [Aka the level pallette] goes back to normal).

Lava Reef: The way the lava keeps cooling down and heating up with the Death Egg in the crater of the volcano.

 

Possibly Sandopolis ? And I guess he muddles with MGZ by drilling it and causing the bit at the end to collapse :huh:

EDIT:

That makes the most logical sense. I'd go with that.