Sonic Adventure 2

THE BAD:
Dr. Eggman and Tails levels
Rouge and Knuckles levels
Music
Characters

SUMMARY:
Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Mario. During the Sega Dreamcast, Playstation, and Nintendo 64 years, these three mascots battled it out for a few years. Mario finished in 1st place, followed by Sonic in 2nd place, and Crash in 3rd place. All of Mario's Adventure games were amazing. Only the first three Crash Bandicoot games were amazing. And what about Sonic? His first three Sonic games for the Sega Genesis were amazing. All of his spin-off games were horrible. All of his Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Sega CD, and Sega Saturn games were ordinary, and did not have that great Sonic feel to them. He got even worse when he branched off to Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.

Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Sonic the Hedghog 3, were the games that first brought me to like Sonic as much as Mario and Crash Bandicoot. Then, I played Sonic Adventure for the Sega Dreamcast. It is my absolute favorite Sonic game. The levels were beautiful, and dream-like. This game brought the meaning of "Dreamcast," because this game is truely a dream. The translation was done much better too. His first level, Emerald Coast, was just beautiful. I could play that level again and again. It had that Sonic feel. It was the only 3D Sonic game that got it right. It became 3D just like Mario did. Emerald Coast is more than one could ask for, for a 3D Sonic game. This is the same for Green Hill zone in Sonic Adventure 2, and (to some degree) the first level in Sonic Adventure 2.

What happened to Sonic Adventure 2? The first level of Sonic Adventure 2 is amazing. Everything about it is so beautiful, and perfect. The music in the first level was from some stupid Rock band song. It didn't have it's own, original music, with its own, original charm. Another thing that bugged me was the the robotic characters. They were ugly. They were supposed to be animal robots. Not ugly, humanoid robots. And that's all it was. Ugly, humanoid robots, and a few other, ugly robots.

Although the rock band music in Sonic's first level was descent, the rock band music in his other levels were horrible. There was nothing charming, or original about them. When I got those running shoes, the real Sonic music would kick in, and I would temporarily experience a true Sonic game, with ass-kicking music, but the minute the running shoes wore off, and the music stopped, the hidious music came back. The music in Shadows levels are nothing.

Besides the music, and horrible enemies, I loved Sonic's and Shadow's levels. Now, this is where I started to hate the game. The horrible Tails's, and Eggman's levels. Why do they call him Eggman? He is not Eggman, he is Doctor Robotnik. His arms are too long. He looks different than his Genesis days, just like Sonic. I don't mind Sonic's new look, but Eggman just looks weird. Anyways, Eggman's and Tails's levels were boring, repetitive, and felt like chores. They were horrible, and meaningless. I didn't pay for this game to play horrible, pointless games like this. It's aweful. They aren't even fast, and they ride these stupid, robotic machines. I hate that. I want to play as Tails, not his machine. I want to fly with Tails, not jump around with his stupid machine. Dr. Robotnik should not be a playable character. The only characters that should be playable are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Shadow. I hate Amy. She does not belong in the game.

The translation is horrible. The characters act too childish. Don't get me started with Tail's voice. It's as if Sonic baby sits Tails. Sonic acts more like a teen, like Shadow. Tails acts more like a child. Knuckles acts more like an adult. Eggman acts like an idiot. Amy acts like a little girl. Big the Cat acts like he's extremely stupid. And who the **** is that robot character? No. Get him away. He doesn't belong here. Rouge acts like a hooker, and looks like one too. What happened Sega? Why did you have to dilute the extreme fun of Sonic and Shadow's levels with these useless ones?

The worst levels are Rouge's and Knuckles. I get depressed just writing about them. They are boring, and stupid. I hate the rap in Knuckles levels. They are aweful. Why can't Tails and Knuckles play Sonic and Shadow's levels? Why do those other characters exist? WTF are those childish Chaos things? Why is the music and translation so bad? This is what ruined the other Sonic games. Sonic Adventure 2 is the second best 3D sonic game. I don't even like Knuckles that much. They should have stuck with Sonic, make Tails more mature, and believe it or not, but I kind of like Shadow. He's the only, cool, new character.

If you plan on buying this game, plan on enjoying 1/3 of it. I really, really, really hated Rouge's, and Knuckles levels. I also hated Tails's, and Eggman's levels. Some of Shadow's levels were bland, like some of Sonic's. The music is horrid. The story line is bad. You cannot call this a Sonic game. It's too oridinary. Where's the magic that was in Sonic the Hedgehog 2? Where's the creativity that was in Sonic the Hedgehog? Where's the puzzles that were in Sonic the Hedgehog 3? Where is the beauty that was in Sonic Adventure.

This is a joke. After playing the wonderful Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy and Sonic Adventure, this game is nothing. What is up with the skater music and skater themes, especially in the first level? What is up with the black music, probably being sung by a white person, in Knuckles hidious levels? WTF is Pumpkin Mountain? WTF are those stupid Chaos things doing in this game. Chaos Kindergarden? WTF. That's so childish. This isn't Sonic.

Shadow isn't the only fake hedgehog in this game. Sonic is too. No wonder older people, who used to play good games like Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and Sonic the Hedgehog, went towards those awful shooting games, with nothing innovating, nothing inspiring, no beauty, no maturity, instead of mascots like Sonic. It's because of games like Sonic Adventure 2. It's because of games like Pac-Man World 3. It's because of games like Jak 2. These games are not necessarily bad, but they are considered childish, not because they are, but because of many stupid, boring things like Knuckles missions. Because older people find them boring, they assume it is childish, because they don't enjoy it. When I first played Sonic Adventure, I was inspired by the sheer fantastic sceneries, and happy, bright colors, with lushous green grass. When I played Sonic Adventure 2, it was depressing. Tail's and Eggman's levels were rather depressing, and too easy, and repetetive. Tails and Knuckles levels were childish, and so annoying. They have no replay value. Also, you cannot grow skills on such levels. You cannot have skills in the Eggman and Tails levels, because they are too easy, and you cannot have skills in the Rouge and Knuckles levels, because the stupid gems or keys are always placed on random spots.

I am not going to talk about the camera. It is bad. Enough said on that department.

The graphics are beautiful, but the sceneries are just too ugly, dark, and boring. Remeber Jak 2? Where is the beauty that was in Jak and Daxter? It's not there.

Why can't there be more games like Mario, Zelda, Crash Bandicoot, Donkey Kong, and Sonic's early years? Why can't 3D games be more like 2D games. I hate revisiting the same spots over and over again, collecting items. It's too repetetive. In 2D, slide scrolling games, there is one path, and one path only, which is fun, and you are always in new environments.

This is why I liked Sonic Adventure, because you go on one set path. You aren't all over the place like Knuckles and Rouge's levels, collecting items, revisiting the same areas over and over again. Walking around in circles like idiots. That's exactly what it has come to, and most 3D games suffered this. Some exceptions are Super Mario 64, and Zelda Ocarina, but Sonic and Crash are what more 3D games should be. Free-roaming games are too repetitive, and often times, you are revisiting the same area, again and again, collectin items and such. Could you imagine if you had to collect every single banana in Donkey Kong Country? That would have ruined the game. A set path is better, and funner. You see what is up ahead of you, and you use your skills to get past.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2. You are an utter let down.

The sad part is, 80% of video games are worse than Sonic Adventure 2. The thing about video games is that only a handful of 1% are amazing. 20% are okay. And the remaining 79% are awful.

I wish I could fix Sonic Adventure 2. I would immediatly. And I mean immediatley delete all of Tails's, Eggman's, Rouge's, and Knuckles levels. Immediately. Like, I wouldn't even be looking. I wouldn't even think twice. I wouldn't even play them one more time, before they are deleted from existence. I wouldn't even visualise scenes from the levels, before, as I, or after I delete them.

Next, I would delete all characters except Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, and Eggman.

Next, I would rename Eggman to Dr. Robotnik, and make him look like his original self. I would fix the translation, and all the glitches. I would replace all of the music. I would add more Sonic type levels. All characters, except Dr. Robotnik (he would be unplayable, and only appear as a boss), would be able to play all of the levels. You would have the option of playing Tails and Sonic at the same time (Tails would travel behind Sonic, as traditionally), or you could play Tails and Sonic by themselves. I would have to think about including Knuckles as a playable character, as well as Shadow. But if I included them, they would play the levels by themselves.

In Sonic Adventure 2, you had to make physical contact with the rings in order to get them. This is too awkward. When you are running too fast, collecting all of the rings is hard, if not, impossible. I would make Sonic pick up rings like Spyro picks up gems. It would be as if Sonic was a magnet, so that the rings come to Sonic, but only if Sonic was close enough. This would make things much easier, and less awkward.

The robots would all be replaced with animal robots, like traditionally. Notice that you have to repeat them level again in the other missions. How come you never had to repeat them in the 2D Sonics? Act 2 and Act 3 in the Genesis Sonic's didn't make you repeat Act 1, with a different mission. They were different levels, but looked identical. This should have been with all of the 3D Sonics. But, this was not the case.

There was so much potential wasted. 99% of video games could have had much more potential, but didn't, because they had to have gay things. All video games could have been much better, but the magic that once beheld video games in the past, is now gone. It seems like newer video games today exist, only because they have to. After every movie, a game of that movie is made, that only exists to boost sales of that movie. Every year, a new sports game, of the same sport, is made, just to change the title from NHL 2006 to NHL 2007. The video game industry has been fludded with crap. It always has been. But characters like Mario, Sonic, and Crash, were what games should have been. Sonic resembled that completeley, until it recently became no better than the flood of crap that the video industry has come to have.

I am still waiting for Sonic Adventure 2. In my book, it still hasn't arrived

When you grow up with real games like Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, you have reason to compare other games to these masterpieces. When you grow up with games like Tomb Raider, Gears of War, 007, Metal Gear Solid, and Resident Evil, which by no means has any inspiration, but mindless violence, hatred, and darkness, that's when you view the masterpieces as childish. Most of these people have never even played the masterpieces, yet assuming by the look of the cover of the game, decide that they are, and continue filling their minds with dirt.

This is why Nintendo doesn't have GTA and and other such games. Yet, Nintendo still isn't perfect, for having other M-rated games. Nintendo has innovation, and brilliance, without the violence and such. Nintendo didn't want to make games with violence, because they didn't want to fill people's minds with hatred and disgust. But no, you assholes out there decided that Nintendo was childish because of its limited M-rated games, and now the Wii is making more violent games just like the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. Sega also didn't want violent games, and this is why it failed, because people today have no imagination, and have their minds filled with senseless crap. However, Sonic was so powerful, that even those who have seen nothing but, and enjoyed nothing but violence, just couldn't escape the wonderous, happy environments Sonic had to offer. Sonic lost that power.

But Sonic Adventure 2? Green Hill Zone and the very first level is proof of what a true 3D Sonic game could have been. It had potential, but it was wasted on the stupidest levels (Tail's/Eggman's) (Knuckles/Rouge's).

It deserves what I gave it. Sure I would have loved this game if I never played Sonic Adventure. I would have rated it a 4/5. But after playing games that are so good, like Okami and Twilight Princess, most other games, including Sonic Adventure 2, are bad.