Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Master Edition

I've yet to test this hack, so I don't know where my position on it will be, but, whether or not it applies to this hack, I have to say
Lack of something better doesn't make shit good, and you don't have to cook, or even know how to, in order to complain when your soup is full of flies.

 

I spelt this right. The dictionary agrees.

But seriously though, get rid of those cheap traps and included more of those areas with the enemies and actual clever platforming bits and you'll have a challenging fun Sonic hack.

 

Your Angel Island Act 2 music edit seriously hurts my ears.

 

Oh... I'm sorry. I come from Australia... and we use PROPER English. =P

At last... someone gives an alternative to the traps. +2 respect points.

 

I was worried about the length in a few levels, and the music edits really didn't sound that good to me (the bass tracks ,and some others are transposed a key up or down, sometimes more) although I liked the drum edits in MGZ 1 (Were those the drums from AIZ 2?) . I think it could do with a few less confined areas and a tiny bit more speed. But I already said most of that. Overall I had fun with it, even if at times I was grinding my teeth.

 

The games always, always brought you to an immediate stop before reaching the crusher.

You always knew what you were getting yourself into before going under, nothing blind about that. Cheap, perhaps, if you don't know what you're doing, but never blind.

That's because the genre is suitable for constant saving. A decent gamer can make it through most RPGs with relatively few deaths (I only died about 2 or 3 times in FF7, each death at the hands of the final boss); the constant saving lends itself to paranoia- and rightfully so, as such games are quite long, so mistakes are unforgiving- not repeated failure. Straight platformers are only ever meant to be saved between stages, end of.

Anyone who times out on any stage other than CNZ2 and SZ2 has no clue what they're doing. As for the strategically-placed hazards, yes, those are valid, as they add to the challenge without being cheap. Now, that's how you're supposed to ramp up the difficulty. There's nothing strategic about the traps in this hack. Tossing countless blind traps at the player is an infallible strategy for tripping the player up, but it isn't fun nor challenging in the least.

Oh lawd, I've been waiting all day for someone to play the "WELL LET'S SEE YOU DO BETTER" card on me. One doesn't need experience to use their Common Sense. Besides, I realize how difficult constructing layouts in S3&K is, and I've given him credit for that much, but the amount of time and effort put into a project has little to do with it's quality in the long run. Even then, what he does have here isn't all that notable, anyway- the stages haven't deviated much from their original layouts, which, I take it, is why he relies on objects so heavily to provide the challenge factor. If hackers aren't willing to go the distance, then perhaps S3&K is a medium best left alone until we've got a good enough grasp on how it ticks.

Well alrighty then

 

Yay! Someone else comes in with more than "IT SUX! CHANGE IT NOW!".

Anyway, after testing out the new BETA, I can safely say that the layout of AIZ1 has changed enough to allow for the "speed" that everyone craves. While it's not without its bugs, and I never got past a certain point due to a bug, as well as a mistake on my part, and a message from Nova lagging my emulator to the point where I lost control of Sonic and he fell into a pit... it is a good change.

 

WHOA SHIT, that's fabulous! Where'd you find the room to put new art? :o

 

Great Success! Nice job putting art in S3&K. You may just be dubbed the person who made the first successful Sonic 3 and Knuckles hack. Good for you.

 

I'm guessing he just overwrote the old art...

 

That art looks excellent! I hope to acheive something of this magnitude (as small as it may seem).

 

Well, this is quite simply amazing. Angel Island is iffy, but people have said that again and again I see. The other palettes, however, are quite good. And the edit to HydroCity's art... Nice. I haven't ever seen that done before, sooo that's cool. Especially since this is your first hack. Keep up the good work!

 

You're guessing correctly, my dear Rika.

 

Ah, okay. I was wondering if you had cleared up some reserved space elsewhere to fit the art, but I guess I was expecting too much. :P