Knuckles: Horde of Enemies
Description
A horde of giant enemies will try to interfere in your race with Knuckles.
Knuckles: Horde of Enemies is the third Challenge Act of Green Hill Act 1 in the console/PC version of Sonic Generations . It is unlocked after clearing every Stage in the classic era and is playable only as Classic Sonic .
Description
In the late-afternoon time at Green Hill Act 1, Knuckles challenges Classic Sonic to a race to the Goal Plate . During the race, the player must confront giant-sized Badniks (Moto Bugs , Buzz Bombers and Buzzers ). However, the player can use these Badniks to their advantage; when Spin Attacking their heads, the player will be bounced into the air as a result. Doing so, however, will temporarily immobilize the Badniks, rendering the player unable to use the aforementioned advantage until they recover.
Parts of the course for this Challenge Act are the same as those in Green Hill Act 1. When crossing the Goal Plate before Knuckles, the player is ranked according to their time.
Overview
The player starts the Act with Knuckles behind them. While Knuckles burrows through the ground, the player must scale a few levels of wooden platforms filled with Moto Bugs. After escaping this section and getting through a corkscrew loop , the player must continue forward to find a large, yet harmless Moto Bug on the other side of a small gap. Hit its head to gain a small leap into the air, and the player should eventually encounter a huge Buzz Bomber. Like before, hit its head and proceed forward.
The next section, which is entered after passing through two shuttle loops , is heavily guarded by huge Badniks . At the highest point of this section is a looped bridge that leads to the final area of this Challenge Act. This section consists of wooden platforms that lead to the left and are guarded by huge Badniks. At the end of these platforms, the player must climb to the top of the incoming upward path where the Goal Ring is located.
Trivia
This Challenge Act is the first Challenge Act to feature Knuckles the Echidna .
A remixed version of "Super Sonic Racing " is the background music for this Challenge Act.
This is one of the few instances in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series where the original zone was in the daytime, but a variation of the stage takes place during the late afternoon. Other instances of this occasion occur in Splash Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I and Windy Hill Zone 2 (Wii U and PC version) and Zone 3 (Nintendo 3DS version) of Sonic Lost World .
If the player talks to Knuckles after finishing this challenge act as Classic Sonic, he will respond, "Man, if it weren't for that huge enemy, I wouldn't have lost. "
Gallery
Gallery
Title Card for "Knuckles: Horde of Enemies".
Knuckles at the beginning of the challenge.
Knuckles after the player completed the challenge.
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Video
Main article | Script (Console/PC , 3DS ) | Staff (Console/PC , 3DS ) | Glitches | Beta elements | Gallery
Playable characters
Modern Sonic (Modern Super Sonic ) | Classic Sonic (Classic Super Sonic )
Non-playable characters
Dr. Eggman | Time Eater | Tails | Classic Tails | Amy | Knuckles | Shadow | Cream | Cheese | Silver | Blaze | Omochao | Team Chaotix (Espio , Vector , Charmy ) | Orbot | Cubot | Animals (Flicky , Picky , Pecky , Cucky )
Wisps
Cyan ** | Orange * | Pink * | Red **
Stages
Console/PC*
Green Hill | Chemical Plant | Sky Sanctuary | Speed Highway | City Escape | Seaside Hill | Crisis City | Rooftop Run | Planet Wisp | Casino Night
Nintendo 3DS**
Green Hill | Casino Night | Mushroom Hill | Emerald Coast | Radical Highway | Water Palace | Tropical Resort
Challenge Acts*
Doppelganger Race! | The Buzz Bombers' Revenge! | Knuckles: Horde of Enemies | Swingset Circus | High Speed Challenge | Look Out Below! | Tails: Way Past Fast | Jump Rush | 300% Boost Gauge Challenge | Tails: Toxic Skies | Which Switch is Which? | Aqua Shield Challenge | Invincibility Challenge | One Ring Challenge | Amy: Taking the Leap Together! | Grappling with Grabbers | Underwater Ring Machine | Eggrobo Rush | Aerial Paradise | Ring Time Challenge | Amy: Topsy Turvy | Knuckles: Buried Treasure | 200% Boost Gauge Challenge | Balloon Bonanza | High-Speed Hijinks (Modern) | Cream: Chao Hunt | Hot Pursuit (Classic) | High Speed Challenge 2 | Resisting Arrest | Overdrift | Hot Pursuit (Modern) | Drill Baby Drill | Espio: Master of Camouflage | Lord of the Board | Thunder Shield Challenge | Rouge: The Bombardier | Rite of Spring | Cream: Helping Hand | Dash Ring 1-2-3 (Modern) | Topsy-Turvy | High-Speed Hijinks 2 | Rescue the Animals! | Espio: Way of the Ninja | High-Speed Hijinks (Classic) | Underwater Challenge | Rouge: The Temptress | Trick Island | Surf, Sea, and Sand | Terror From the Deep | Goal Post Juggle | Vector: Through the Storm | Flame Shield Challenge | Ring Time Challenge 2 | Power Stomp Challenge | Switcheroo | Blaze: Piercing the Flames | Four-way Cannon Cavalcade | High-Rise Balloon Climb | Dash Ring 1-2-3 (Classic) | Charmy: Don't Bug Me! | One Ring Challenge 2 | Barrel Ring Bonus | Rooftop Rail Grind | Endless Boost | Vector: Pick Up the Beat | With Your Powers Combined | Goal Post Juggle 2 | Chase After Blaze | Rescue the Animals 2! | Cart Challenge | Charmy: High in the Sky | Action Master | Orange Rocket, Blast Off!
Enemies
Aero-Cannon * | Butterdroid ** | Buzz Bomber | Buzzer | Chopper | Cop Speeder * | Crabmeat | Crawl ** | Dragonfly ** | Flapper ** | Egg Chaser * | Egg Diver ** | Egg Fighter * | Egg Fighter: Sword * | Egg Launcher (H) * | Egg Launcher (H+V) * | Egg Launcher (V) * | Egg Pawn | Egg Pawn (spear) | Eggrobo * | Giant Chopper * | Gold Beetle ** | Grabber * | Gun Beetle * | Gun Hunter | Iblis's Minions (Iblis Biter , Iblis Taker , Iblis Worm )* | Kiki ** | Klagen ** | Madmole ** | Mono Beetle | Moto Bug | Mushmeanie ** | Newtron | Rhinotank ** | Sandworm * | Spinner | Spiny * | Sprinkler * | Sweeper ** | Thunder Spinner
Bosses
Console/PC*
Metal Sonic | Death Egg Robot | Shadow the Hedgehog | Perfect Chaos | Silver the Hedgehog | Egg Dragoon | Time Eater
Nintendo 3DS**
Metal Sonic | Big Arm | Shadow the Hedgehog | Biolizard | Silver the Hedgehog | Egg Emperor | Time Eater
Moves/ Techniques
Playable characters
Air Boost | Bound Jump * | Crouch | Double Jump * | Drift * | Freestyle Tricks * | Grind Step | Grinding | Homing Attack | Hop | Jump Dash | Kick boost | Lightspeed Dash * | Mid-Air Dash * | Quick Step * | Boost | Slide | Skydiving * | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Stomp | Super Sonic Boost | Super Sonic Missile | Super Sonic Spinning | Wall Jump
NPCs
Chaos Spear | Drill Attack * | Fire Beam * | Heart Effect * | Ice Wave * | Meteor Smash * | Ninja Arts: Camouflage * | Propeller Flying * | Psychic Knife | Restraint Trap | Ring Spark Field | Sun Burst | V. Maximum Overdrive Attack | Warping arm attack | Whirlwind *
Color Powers
Cyan Laser ** | Orange Rocket * | Pink Spikes * | Red Burst **
Skills*
Aqua Shield | Flame Shield | Thunder Shield | Twin Spin Attack | Invincible Start | Shield | Power Sneakers | Long Spin Dash | Treasure Scanner | Homing Attack | Hercules Muscles | Breath Holder | Boardmaster | Ring Time | Blast Off | Speed Up | Direct Jump | Power Stomp | Quick Slide | Acceleration | Smasher Bonus | Ring Energy Bonus | Boost Gauge Up | Serial Homing | Auto-Gauge | Gauge Rebooter | Trick Mastery | Endless Boost | Power Brake | Sure-Footed | Safety Net | Last Chance | 10-Second Rings | Athleticism | Time Break | Super Sonic | Sega Genesis Controller
Gimmicks and obstacles
Balloon | Barrel | Big Balloon | Bomb | Bonus Bell * | Bottomless pit | Bumper | Cannon | Cart | Cloud * | Conveyor Belt ** | Crusher | Dash Panel | Dash Rail | Dash Ring | Dimensional Bomb | Explosion Trap | Fan | Flipper | Four-way Cannon * | Gear Platform | Gondola * | GUN Military Truck * | Hanging Bell * | Heart bomb * | Helicopter * | High-speed warp tube | Horizontal Bar | Iron ball | Jump Panel (plate) | Jump Panel (ramp) | Kao | Laser field | Meteorite | Movable box | Mushroom ** | Pole Elevator | Prism ** | Propeller | Propeller Spring | Pulley | Rainbow Ring | Rocket | Route Signal * | Seed Propeller ** | Seesaw | Slot machine | Spring | Spring Catapult | Spring Pole | Spike Trap | Spinning Top | Spinning Platform | Spotlight | Switch | Trap Spring | Trick Jump Panel | Wall Jump Block | Warp Point | Wide spring | Zip Line
Objects
Air Bubble | Boss Gate | Boss Gate Key * | Buoy | Capsule | Chaos Emerald | Container (Case , Spike Block , Steel Container , Unbreakable Container , Wooden Container ) | Crank | Energy Core | Goal Ring | Information Pod * | Item Box (1-Up , Aqua Shield *, Flame Shield *, Invincible , Magnetic Shield **, Power Sneakers *, Skateboard *, Super Ring , Thunder Shield ) | Medal | Mega Mack * | Musical note * | Red Star Ring * | Ring | Snowboard | Sphere ** | Star Post | Stomping Shoes ** | Time Bonus | Wisp Capsule
English voice actors
Roger Craig Smith (Sonic ) | Mike Pollock (Eggman ) | Kate Higgins (Tails ) | Travis Willingham (Knuckles ) | Cindy Robinson (Amy ) | Kirk Thornton (Shadow ) | Quinton Flynn (Silver ) | Laura Bailey (Omochao , Blaze ) | Karen Strassman (Rouge ) | Michelle Ruff (Cream ) | Keith Silverstein (Vector ) | Troy Baker (Espio ) | Colleen O'Shaughnessey (Charmy )
Japanese voice actors
Junichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Ryo Hirohashi (Tails (Modern)) | Takuto Yoshinaga (Tails (Classic)) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Koji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Daisuke Ono (Silver ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Kenta Miyake (Vector ) | Yuuki Masuda (Espio ) | Youko Teppozuka (Charmy ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao )
Music
Songs
Back 2 Back | Escape from the City * | Vengeance is Mine ** | You're My Hero
Albums
Blue Blur: Sonic Generations Original Soundtrack | Sonic Generations: 20 Years of Sonic Music | History of the 1st Stage Original Soundtrack Blue Edition | History of the 1st Stage Original Soundtrack White Edition
Other
Sonic's birthday | Boost Gauge | Chao in Space | Collection Room | Combo * | Corkscrew loop | Death Egg Robot * | Egg Dragoon * | Egg Gun | Egg Mobile | Egg Spear | Havok * | Health Gauge ** | Lair of the Time Eater | Miles Electric | Orca | Perfect Bonus | Rank | Skill Shop * | Sonic Generations (manga) | Sonic Generations of Skate | Statue Room * | Time Attack | Tornado-1 | Totem Pole | White Space | Winding Tunnel | Wisp Gauge **
*Console/PC version only **Nintendo 3DS version only