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Sonic Advance 3 (2004)

Dimps

Game Boy Advance · Wii U

3.40 from 318 ratings

785 members have it in their collection · 8 playing now · 167 backlogged · 103 wish listed

How long? Main story 30h (from 1 logged playthrough)

Sonic is back, and this time, he needs the help of all of his friends to defeat the evil Dr. Eggman. In Sonic Advance 3, Sonic and Tails must reunite with their friends Cream, Knuckles, and Amy. Team up with any of the five characters to gain special attack moves: Sonic increases your speed, Tails increases your jump power, Knuckles … Read more
Sonic is back, and this time, he needs the help of all of his friends to defeat the evil Dr. Eggman. In Sonic Advance 3, Sonic and Tails must reunite with their friends Cream, Knuckles, and Amy. Team up with any of the five characters to gain special attack moves: Sonic increases your speed, Tails increases your jump power, Knuckles increases your attack power, Amy offers the Piko Piko hammer attack, and Cream lets you perform a homing attack. With a Game Boy Advance link, you and three of your friends can battle it out in multiplayer modes. Read less
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Details

Developers
Dimps
Publishers
Sega, THQ
Genres
Adventure, Platform
Themes
Action, Kids
Franchises
Sonic The Hedgehog
Series
Sonic Advance, Sonic the Hedgehog

Release dates

  • Jun 07, 2004 (North_America) Game Boy Advance
  • Jun 17, 2004 (Japan) Game Boy Advance
  • Jun 18, 2004 (Europe) Game Boy Advance
  • May 25, 2016 (Japan) Wii U
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Rating distribution

5 stars
32
4 stars
116
3 stars
125
2 stars
36
1 star
9
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internpepper

Status internpepper Jan 17, 2024

I didn't go for 100% completion on this one because I felt that with the first two games, it actively took away from my enjoyment. Even with that, this is the worst entry in the trilogy. It has pretty good ideas (mostly in the boss designs), but the level design is horrendous and just mean at times. The team gimmick …

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I didn't go for 100% completion on this one because I felt that with the first two games, it actively took away from my enjoyment. Even with that, this is the worst entry in the trilogy. It has pretty good ideas (mostly in the boss designs), but the level design is horrendous and just mean at times. The team gimmick was more annoying than anything else as my team member would just keep disappearing or screwing up jumps for me. Having looked up what you have to do to get the Chaos Emeralds in this game, it would be a 1-star game if I tried going for that, so at least I can say that.

Also tempted to add half a star because hitting Dr. Eggman makes him say "YOOOOU LITTLE--"

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Reset_Tears

Status Reset_Tears Nov 28, 2018

Definitely my favorite of the Sonic Advance games. I had my doubts at first, what with the "two characters at once" setup that felt gimmicky. But that ended up being pretty cool, once you learned which combinations are worthwhile, and which ones are bunk. You play as one character, and have another as a partner who can change your moveset …

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Definitely my favorite of the Sonic Advance games. I had my doubts at first, what with the "two characters at once" setup that felt gimmicky. But that ended up being pretty cool, once you learned which combinations are worthwhile, and which ones are bunk. You play as one character, and have another as a partner who can change your moveset somewhat, and give you a special ability for you to take advantage of. The levels in this one are also more clever than the past two games. The first level is a city one, rather than a Green Hill type zone -- and the last level is a cool-looking temple ruins one, rather than a Death Egg type zone.

The levels are designed to encourage exploration, basically the opposite of Sonic Advance 2. Which in this case works great for getting into special stages, as once again you have to find hidden items scattered throughout the levels (in this case chao babies). You don't have to get them all in one go either, thank god. I ended up getting all the Chaos Emeralds for this one, and enjoyed beating the bonus final boss at the end. The bosses in general were pretty clever too. There's a kind of pointless hub world for each level, but it doesn't take long to get to the stage you want. All in all a solid 2D Sonic game, and the one I'd recommend most for the GBA.

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