Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a game that uses the D-pad and one button - when your one button doesn't work, you'd think you'd try the only other thing on the controller. Let's give him two paragraphs and see if he can figure it out.įirst, it's incredibly simple to get past. But I can absolutely chastise you all for ever struggling with the thing. Those aren't really questions I'm equipped to answer. What is the barrel? What does it stand for? And why? My own feelings about the barrel are complex. People enjoy the ' actually, Sonic was never good, actually' line. It creates a nice sort of 'myth' and gives people another reason to dump on the series. The thing with Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s Carnival Night Zone barrel is that a lot of people on the internet like to exaggerate how difficult it is to figure out and traverse.