Played via Eukaryot's Sonic 3: Angel Island Revisited add-on for the Steam Sonic 3&K release on Windows 11 (Gigabyte B560 HD3, i7-11700 @ 2.5GHz, 16GB DDR4 RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070).
I don't feel like I'd be particularly fair if I were to give this a score so I won't. For whatever reason I really didn't care for my time with this half of the 3&K experience. It took me just shy of 4 weeks from starting the game and making my way through the first couple of stages to go back and finish the damn thing and I really was forcing myself at points. Maybe I'm burnt out from Sonic after completing Frontiers twice through back to back or maybe I'm just not in the 2D platformer mindset of late but either way this was a struggle. I was thankful at least that due to Eukaryot's S3AIR release that I didn't have to care about lives or continues or such because I died a lot in the later areas and usually to really stupid mistakes too.
For whatever reason I found the level design frustrating and I think it's because unlike newer Sonic fan games like Fallen Star you can't just blast your way through them, there is an element of caution and timing you have to keep in mind and I definitely was not keeping that in mind.
So this will be a "come back to later when I'm actually in the mood for some old school gaming" for me so I can form an actual proper opinion on it as opposed to half-arsed ramblings.
I don't feel like I'd be particularly fair if I were to give this a score so I won't. For whatever reason I really didn't care for my time with this half of the 3&K experience. It took me just shy of 4 weeks from starting the game and making my way through the first couple of stages to go back and finish the damn thing and I really was forcing myself at points. Maybe I'm burnt out from Sonic after completing Frontiers twice through back to back or maybe I'm just not in the 2D platformer mindset of late but either way this was a struggle. I was thankful at least that due to Eukaryot's S3AIR release that I didn't have to care about lives or continues or such because I died a lot in the later areas and usually to really stupid mistakes too.
For whatever reason I found the level design frustrating and I think it's because unlike newer Sonic fan games like Fallen Star you can't just blast your way through them, there is an element of caution and timing you have to keep in mind and I definitely was not keeping that in mind.
So this will be a "come back to later when I'm actually in the mood for some old school gaming" for me so I can form an actual proper opinion on it as opposed to half-arsed ramblings.