Rules
1.This thread is about the discussing games from your early childhood or Nostalgia Zone. I am not asking you for your favorite games. The game you list, you dont have to Love. You dont even have to like. You can down right hate the game but as long as it tickles your nostalgia bone it fine.
2.Finding your Nostalgia Zone - Take your current age, cut it in half and from there goin back is your NZ. Im 24 cut that in half is 12, so from 1988-1999 is my Nostalgia Zone.
3.Under no circumstances is 6th,7th or 8th gen games aloud
4. You are not reviewing the game - Just plus or negatives from your experience with the game. If playing Mario bros with your male/female next door neighbor resulted in your 1st kiss you can add that as a + if that plays a part in your nostalgia about the game. If you had the runs while playing contra then that can be a negative. If there is no good then ignore good and vice versa
5. One game very 8 hours per person - Reduce thread spam, but open discussion is fine
6. Follow format please
7. Not gonna dictate what games ppl choose - Try not to be generic. We dont need FF1-6,Chrono trigger poping up immediately
Publisher: SEGA
Developer: SEGA
Genre: Platformer
Platform: 32X(Genesis)
Release Date: 1995
How I can in contact with Knuckles Chaotix
My cousins had a 32X with the wires snipped that was purchased by my eldest cousin. Knuckles Chaotix and Star Wars were the only games that we ever owned for the 32X like most people.
Summary of the game
After the events of Sonic&Knuckles a mysterious Island rises out of the Sea. Doctor Robotnick discovers that the Island houses powerful artifacts called Chaos Rings which have a similiar energy to the chaos emeralds. After more research he figures out that the rings can summon the Master Emerald. He sets up base and atempts to gather all of them. The Chaotix show up based on a whim by Vector to investigate but end up being captured but Knuckles who has been noticing the strange things with the master emeerald investigates himself and in the process free's Espio and they journey off to deafeat Robotnick and Metal Sonic.
The good. The Bad
+ The first ever true coop mainline Sonic game. Unlike Sonic 2 and 3 where the second player could play as Tails but the screen would only track Sonic, Knuckles Chaotix has a binding system that keeps both players toghether at all times. Nobody is left behind.
+ The best soundtrack Classic Sonic has to offer. Door into Summer is Fantastic.
+ The Best Sprite work/Art direction in the series. A nice water color effect.
+ Multiple Characters with unique gample styles( all based of knuckles abilities but with variance)
+ Levels were built around Knuckles abilities thus feel less speed focus and more like one giant maze that you had to you get through
- Very repetitive. There were 5 zones with 5 levels in each. Sounds like a cool idea, but each level was more of a different layout of the original layout and it never really seemed like the levels were really changing.
- Charmy the bee was broke as hell. Unlike tails Charmy had no rest periods so he could fly for as long as he wanted. You could fly through the whole entire level without ever dealing with any traps or enemies
- Very very easy. There is like no way to die in this game. To die would take some effort. The level barely has any threats. Enemies a few and when they do how p they dont do anything. Not really alot of hazards that I remember. Bosses pose no threat and even the final boss can be defeated with little effort. Many times he did not even perfom most of his attacks before he was dead. In order to die you have lose all your rings and then both players must die at the same time frame. If one dies he will be knocked out for a few seconds then return.
- Most boring special stages. They go on forever and they are not really xxciting.
- Remember those snipped wires? They made this game a pain the ass to play. Just slightly touching the system would cut the whole entire game off.
Conclusion
Alot of people dont like Knuckles Chaotix, I think it's an ok game and I would definitely buy it again if it came to any of our digital services. I would like to see the concept of the game used in a future Sonic game( it kinda was in Heroes and Advance 3). Finally offer a really good non party/racing coop sonic game.
