An In-Depth Sonic 3 Design Analysis

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  @DaveControl · 3 months ago (edited) · pinned

  Some things I missed:<br><br>- From @keikurono6571 - The music Sonic Origins used to replace Carnival Night Zone, Ice Cap Zone, and Launch Base Zone was actually first used for the PC release of Sonic 3! You can search the PC Sonic 3 OST and check it out yourself.<br>- From @tacofoxo - The only bonus stage available in Sonic 3 is the Gumball Machine. Sonic &amp; Knuckles has the other 2, and only S3&amp;K combined has all three. When I was playing Sonic 3 on Genesis, I&apos;d always end up in the Gumball Machine - but my ring total also always equalled what it was supposed to for the Gumball Machine mini-game, so I completely missed and forgot about that!<br>- From @BrothaKyo - While I talked about Tails being able to hurt Robotnik by flying up into him with his tails, I forgot to test this on enemies. Tails&apos; tails are a weapon for general flying! I&apos;m not sure how useful this is as most enemies are grounded, or in range to jump into, but a fun note.<br>- As @areoants9453 pointed out - there are two different rewards for completing the bonus stage. One for collecting 50 rings, and one for collecting all of them.<br>- From @ABlob - Yuji Naka actually confirmed on Twitter that &quot;Hydrocity Zone&quot; is supposed to be pronounced &quot;Hydro City Zone&quot;.<br><br>Thank you everyone for the comments. :)

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  @theharvardyard2356 · 3 months ago

  Aside from the control being different from anything else in the game, the main game design sin that caused everyone to get stuck there, I think, is that it gave you a clue how to pass it, but it have you the WRONG clue. The barrel does move up and down from jumping on it, and even moves up and down further by jumping on it with good timing. This sends an extremely strong message to the player that, if they continue to jump with good enough timing, the barrel will continue moving up and down further and further. The problem is, the barrel soon meets a maximum limit for how far it moves from jumping, but it isn&apos;t made clear that limit was inherent to the mechanics of the barrel, rather than an error in timing from the player. As such, this signals to the player that they were on the right track, but made a mistake in their execution that requires more of the same effort. <br><br>It basically amounts to the game telling the player &quot;here, try this!&quot; And then &quot;keep going, you&apos;re on the right track!&quot; When in reality the player is slamming into a dead end and being told to keep trying.

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  @SleepyOwlFilmsVT · 3 months ago

  I will not tolerate this sub-boss music slander! ;)<br>Awesome vid, another great banger from you as always. :)

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  @keman3025 · 2 months ago

  the Hydro City/Hydrocity switching killed me lmao

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  @llennoxyt · 3 months ago

  We ARE seated for this PEAK

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  @Ragesauce · 3 months ago (edited)

  I love the sub boss music. It perfectly captures the cartoon with that funky beat.<br><br>BTW the destruction of the island like setting it on fire and digging through it is because Robotnik is looking for the master emerald.

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  @TVboy----1 · 2 months ago

  So I&apos;m one of those people that didn&apos;t discover supersonic until seeing the sonic 3 cutscene. I only owned sonic 2 as a kid, but one day at a rec center that had Sonic 3 setup for kids to play, I got to play and was dumbfounded to learn Sonic could go super saiyan and realized it was tied to those gems from the special stages that were neat but that i never tried too hard to beat. I went home and then spent months trying to get all the chaos emeralds.

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  @Themanofcold · 3 months ago

  This is one of my favorite games of all time. the Sonic series as a whole is just a massive part of myself and it’s so cool that you have given so much insight and deep analysis of both Sonic and mega man.

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  @BurritoGarp · 3 months ago

  seriously one of my favourite series on youtube. loving every new entry!!! great work!!!!

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  @SonicTheHedgedawg · 3 months ago

  HydroCity is one word probably just because, in English, “hydro-” isn&apos;t a standalone word, it&apos;s a prefix. &nbsp;I don&apos;t think it&apos;s accidental that there isn&apos;t a space, but, even without the space, it was still almost certainly intended to be pronounced like every other time you see the word prefix Hydro

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  @parkerlewis7 · 9 days ago

  Thank you for this wonderful and interesting analysis

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  @seibzehn90 · 2 months ago

  Sonic 3 was the first game i ever owned. It will always hold a special place in my heart ❤️

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