This is my piano attempt at doing the 3D special stage music from Sonic the Hedgehog 3; it is also used in Sonic & Knuckles and the combination of the two, Sonic 3 & Knuckles. The game is sometimes called "Blue Spheres." If you have the lock-on cartridge and attach to any game other than Sonic 3 or Sonic 2 (because Sonic 2 results in the game Knuckles in Sonic 2), provided the game was released prior to Sonic 3, a screen showing Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Dr. Robotnik with the words "NO WAY!" pops up, alowing players to play the Blue Spheres game. Each one contains a unique level and password.
Special Stages are entered by finding giant rings hidden in secret passageways: the player is placed in a 3D environment and must turn all of a number of blue spheres red by running through them, but must avoid all red spheres, including formerly blue ones. Yellow spheres bounce the player long distances, and white spheres with red stars on them make the player walk backwards in the opposite direction. Completing a Special Stage earns the player a Chaos Emerald; collecting all seven Emeralds allows the player to turn our heroes into Super Sonic, Super Tails, or Super Knuckles, more powerful versions of the characters. Collecting all 7 leads to a further round of 7 levels; finishing these allows the player to turn the heroes into the most powerful upgrade, Hyper Sonic, Hyper Tails, or Hyper Knuckles.
The player must have at least 50 rings to activate super mode or hyper mode; the rings then count down to zero, at which point the player reverts to normal. Collecting rings will increase the length of time the player is super or hyper.
Note that I have also attempted to do tempo acceleration; the game's track speeds up the longer it takes you to finish it, or until you hit a red sphere and end the game.
This arrangement © me and me alone
Credit goes to the arrangers of a different score that helped me to do this one; I really wanted to be sure I had the rhythms right for this.
Original music composed by the Sonic Sound Team, including Howard Drossin, Sachio Ogawa, Tatsuyuki Maeda, and Jun Senoue. There's also the chance Michael Jackson contributed to this.
Sonic the Hedgehog © SEGA
Blue Spheres (Special Stage): • Special Stage - Sonic ...
Sonic 3 & Knuckles (full game): • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 a...
7 сен 2024
