A decent game from a studio that has put out stinker after stinker. Even so, with this probably being the game of theirs that has the best moments in it, it also has some of the worst. Of course the themes of the game are handled badly! David Cage is barely even human. He doesn't understand what makes a good story good. And of course Kara's entire plot is just an excuse to have his favorite "pretty woman in peril" trope. I've seen it all before.

What I did not expect was the genuinely awesome buddy cop between Android and Human. Connor and Hank are great, and their scenes together feel the most believable and human of any of them. And from what I understand, that is almost all attributed to Clancy Brown and Bryan Dechart's improvisation during filming these scenes. And apparently they had to fight tooth and nail to keep those little moments in the game because of David Cage who did not understand why they would do such improvisation. Ridiculous french man tries to self sabotage his own game.

It's one of those games that you play it, you have a good time, and then the next day you start to think about it and it all falls apart. If the game was all Connor and Hank? Possible 10/10. But with the Madison Paige 2.0 bot having one of the worst story moments I've ever seen, and Jesus bot Marcus as the leader of the robot civil rights movement, Detroit disappears SO FAR up David Cage's ass and miles away from anything that was initially likeable about it.

That Star Wars game is gonna SUUUUUUUCK.

Sonic 3 and knuckles is a pretty great sonic game and a fantastic conclusion to the original trilogy of games, but that's not to say this game doesn't have its shortcomings, one of which is the levels in this game.

The first couple are great, it's just when we hit mushroom Hill zone that I have issues. This level and every level after it up until Sky sanctuary are just SO BORING, the levels are stupid long and have nothing memorable or special about them. So thank God for Sky sanctuary, and the two levels after it.

One thing I absolutely LOVED about this game is knuckles himself, at the start of the game he knocks sonic OUT of his super state which instantly tells the player just how strong knuckles is, and then throughout the remainder of the game you see knuckles be nothing bully who gets in sonics way.

This is until the end of the game when you find out that he was just trying to protect the master emerald, and through eggmans lies he thought that stopping sonic would save the emerald. It's when eggman betrays knuckles and steals the master emerald, you truly see how much he cares about it.

Immediately he springs up and goes after eggman with the help of sonic. It's crazy to me how they told such a great story in a game that has no dialogue. As usual, the music in sonic 3 and knuckles is spot on, it's great throughout even in the bad levels.

Another thing that is fantastic in this game is the boss battles, I kid you not every single one of them is amazing, and whilst the giant eggman robo is nowhere near as good as the death egg robot from sonic 2, it still makes for a great boss fight.

Overall sonic 3 and knuckles is an amazing sonic game that sadly isn't quite as good as sonic 2 due to it being weighed down by some of its weaker areas.