Amazing improvement on the Game-Gear game, it more fully realizes the aspects of the original that tried to do ambitious things for its 8-bit hardware. This remake keeps much of the original's level design, but smooths over the rough edges of the original with some Sonic 3 & Knuckles influence. Speaking of the Sonic 3 influence, all levels seamlessly transition to the next via a nice cutscene. The special stages are found in the same way as in Sonic 3 where there are big rings hidden in the levels, and the special levels themselves are unique and really fun. I love how if you fail a special level you can spend a life to retry them, the special stages are also not too difficult overall which I appreciate. I love the ability to swap between Sonic and Tails at any time, this makes exploration really fun, as you can swap to Tails and fly around to look for things like special stages. Overall, this remake blows the original out of the water and you should honestly just skip the original and play this instead, it's a joy to play.

Omg this might be the greatest Sonic fangame and one of the best Sonic game ever created !!
STT 16-Bit tried to replicate the greatness of Sonic 3 and Knuckles, and it succeeds perfectly at that !!
It takes the basic formula that was perfected by its predecessor and expands it with new ideas, levels, graphics, and gimmicks !
This should have been the Sonic Mania we all wanted, not a 40% remake with 60% new stuff ! (I really like Mania, but it doesn't feel like a sequel to a genesis Sonic, more of an in-between).

I played through this three times, with all three characters. It's honestly scary how accurate the level design is to Sonic the Hedgehog 3's philosophies and sense of progression. In a lot of ways, it doesn't just replicate the Genesis games--it improves upon them. Level mechanics are snappier and almost always keep you on the move, environments are vibrant, the music is immaculately catchy (shoutout to Tidal Plant 2), and it provides a way to play something of the same quality as the third game without taking up fourteen behemoth-sized zones to finish.

Sure, the physics are a little off (considering this is using the Flicky Engine), and certain floors didn't have collision during my playthroughs--but in spite these flaws, I see a man like Noah Copeland as someone who is willing to always watch for ways to continuously make improvements. Even if this game never gets all the patches it needs, you should do your inner childhood a favor and play it.

I love the high-concept-ness of this remake, emulating a “lost” 1995 Mega Drive sequel to 1994’s Sonic & Knuckles, right down to sticking to the console’s audiovisual limitations and retconning the story to work as a continuation of the Mega Drive timeline. In reality, the whole thing was made using Game Maker Studio 2, but it could have fooled me into thinking I was playing an actual unreleased Mega Drive game, especially when combined with a good ReShade CRT shader.

Unfortunately, one rather big flaw hurts the illusion: Input lag -- not only from the shaders, but from the game itself. I tried my best to keep up the illusion of being a kid again by rationalizing that this is simply a very late Mega Drive title that pushes the hardware to its limits, but at the end of the day the controls just feel not quite right.

Everything else is expertly crafted and totally on-point though, from the presentation to the level design. The remake even improves on some aspects of the Mega Drive games, for example by making Tails an actually useful companion in single player mode -- something not even Sonic Mania managed to do.

started at like 2 pm, finished at 6:45 pm (2 hours of downtime in that time or something)

really fucking good

I didn't see the point of a 16 bit remake of a gamegear game at first, but now I really see, with them making every level as vast and sprawling as the genesis games were themselves, just as high quality level design. Also amazing music (better than mania imo), nack is a playable character !!, and a lot of really fun little 'level gimmicks' the game adds that were not in an official sonic game before. Also one of the only kinds of special stages I actually really love.

Outstanding sonic game

30 Days of Sonic 2023
Day 6: Triple Trouble 16-bit

But ShinGen this isn't an official Sonic ga- shut up. This is the best Sonic game and I'm tired of pretending it isn't.

In my original review, I had addressed that there were two main issues I had with the game: the technical jank and the elevator setpiece of Atomic Destroyer Act 2. My other mutuals who played the game, meanwhile, criticised the length of the extended snowboarding setpiece in Robotnik Winter Act 2, citing it as 'mid-level cutscene' that breaks the pace of repeat playthroughs.

Well, the ring permeability issues didn't really get patched, but it seems Noah N. Copeland has listened to our prayers, because with the final update to the game, the snowboarding setpiece is now skippable via an option in the menu, and the elevator setpiece has been given its own checkpoints to reduce player frustration!

And with that, I can officially crown TT16 as, at the very least, the BEST 2D Sonic game. And yes, that includes 3K, albeit it is closer than you imagine.

Thank you once more, Noah N. Copeland, for your contributions to the Sonic community.

Final rating: 10/10

Well made fan game, but to me shows that while Triple Trouble was the best handheld game, that's not saying much even with a 3 & Knuckles makeover.

The music is OK, pretty unmemorable for the most part (by the super high Sonic standards).

The level design is fine but there's some gimmicks in the later levels that are rageworthy. I can tell some of them were inspired directly from the original game.

I appreciate Knuckles having unique level design similar to Sonic & Knuckles but I wish he was unlocked from the beginning.

The rewrite of fake Knuckles being Metal Sonic was a cool addition considering that Knuckles antagonizing Sonic right after being bros off of Sonic 3 & Knuckles made no sense.

I've played a few Sonic fan games in my day, and to be perfectly honest with you, I tend to find them all just okay. There are some made by some talented people, but they all typically pale in comparison to the actual Sega Genesis games. This is a fan remake of Sonic Triple Trouble originally for the Sega Game Gear, remade in the style of the more famous Genesis entries. This game is phenomenal. It could've been made at the time, or even released today by Sega. I have never been so impressed by any fan game as much as this. The music is remixed in a fantastic style, the physics are all accurate, the level design is very well done (I kept bracing myself for some of the bullshit Sonic has pulled in recent years, but it never happened). I'm going to even go so far as to say that it might even be a better game than Sonic Mania, or at the very least on par with it. I cannot recommend this game enough (can't beat free), and as far as I'm concerned, it's now up there with the original Sonic entries and Mania as canon 2D games.