VC in Brief: Sonic & Knuckles (Sega Genesis)

by David Hinkle on Feb 15th 2010 6:15PM

This week's release is quite the treat. Sonic & Knuckles was a great game when it released back in the day, made even greater if you had yourself Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 -- which you probably did. Now that experience is on the Virtual Console and if, like me, you have both of those games downloaded on your Wii, you can relive the experience all over again.

Or you can just watch the above episode of VC in Brief for free.

Sonic & Knuckles (Sega Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)

Every week, we like to check out what's new on the Virtual Console. We offer these videos as a sort of taste to help you decide whether or not you would want the game in question. We also toss in our own two cents because we're pushy jerks like that.

Tags: sega-genesis, sonic-and-knuckles, vc-in-brief, virtual-console

Reader Comments (6)

Sonic 3 & Knuckles is probably one of the greatest platformers ever made. 26 stages mapped into 14 unique environs, tons of secret rooms, many alternate paths, and three characters who play very differently from one another (Knux in particular, with his lower jump, climbing and wall-busting abilities; he winds up going in completely different areas from Sonic half the time, and yet both paths still fit onto the same map)? What more could one ask for?

Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles separately... not as much. Sonic 3 still has some alternate music choices here and there (Knux's theme, midboss theme, and the late Michael Jackson's "Stranger in Moscow" credits theme), but S&K has nothing to offer that S3&K doesn't.

Knuckles in Sonic 2 and Blue Sphere are nice bonuses, of course, but S3&K is where the real meat is.

Sadly, most of the time Sega ignorantly advertise this just by saying "You can play as Knuckles in Sonic 3"

That's nice, but they're forgetting to tell people about the TONS of extra content like Hyper forms, the 14 emeralds, the extremely long selection of levels, etc.
They even forget to tell you that you can play as Tails in Sonic & Knuckles.

Okay. That is awesome, I'm gonna buy those two games now.

Everyone... just get Sonic Mega Collection for gamecube. It's like $7 used on Amazon and has Sonic & Knuckles plus all of the lock-on games, and a ton of others. Buying it on VC is a waste of money.