What's the verdict on SA2, originally meant to be the FINAL Sonic game and the Dreamcast's swansong title from SEGA?
What's the verdict on SA2, originally meant to be the FINAL Sonic game and the Dreamcast's swansong title from SEGA?
What's the verdict on SA2, originally meant to be the FINAL Sonic game and the Dreamcast's swansong title from SEGA?
My 9th birthday was in January 2002 and my parents got me this game. I played it in the morning before school, eggman stage, and it was the most hype experience of my life at that point. I had soccer practice indoors that evening (indoors bc winter) and I was still hopped up on the iron gate music. When we were dribbling back and forth for warm ups, I was so excited about SA2 that I lost control of the ball and ran headfirst into the wall, chipping my front tooth. All because I had an autistic freak out about how awesome playing as the bad guys in SA2 was.
To answer your question, SA2 is objectively better than the first sonic adventure but I still prefer SA1 for the atmosphere and design. Still a great game and some of the most fun I’ve had playing a video game
I had a similar experience but I was 12 at the time. This game just hit all the right buttons for the preteen audience, I was so hype that it was all I played for like 6 months.
I was around the same age (but GC ver), and same. I played an entire summer on GC getting all emblems, playing with Chao, etc. What a summer that was
>SA2 is objectively better than the first sonic adventure but I still prefer SA1 for the atmosphere and design
This is exactly how I feel like. SA2 is a better game but while I'm fully aware that SA1 is janky as frick and that the face animations look like a fricking joke, I still prefer it because of how soulful it is.
And I'm saying that having played SA2 first.
10/10, best game of all time
I hate almost everything about it. I don't like the first Adventure much either, though.
It's a good game
>originally meant to be the FINAL Sonic game
lol, lmao even
I grew up with Adventure 2 Battle.
Then I played Adventure 1 later as a teen on Xbox 360.
And at the time I thought SA1 was worse, but after replaying both to completion recently. SA1 is by far the better game. Its more ambitious and the Sonic stages are better than in SA2.
This was me, although it wasn't that much later for me to play SA1 as I managed to track down a copy of DX a few years later. I replayed them all about 5 years ago and while there'll always be a special place in my heart for SA2, I enjoyed SA1 more.
Adventure 1 had the accuracy but not the precision. Adventure 2 had the precision but not the accuracy. You determine which is more desirable.
What's the primary source on "it was supposed to be the final Sonic game"? Because there were OTHER Sonic games being created at the exact same time, and other media too. It seems like misconception because of the Dreamcast with no actual reality.
The only thing I can think of is that it was in development before Okawa bailed them out, so they may have thought they were screwed and might not even be able to finish Advance. No real clue though.
They realized the Dreamcast is dead so they ported it to a slightly less dead console. It's the best 3D Sonic but still mediocre
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I notice that it really comes down to if you grew up with the game or not when it comes to how much you put the game on a pedestal. As someone that grew up with Sonic since I was a baby SA2 was actually one of the last mainline Sonic games I played and personally? I think SA1 controls better. The Sonic/Shadow stages are pretty fun and the Tails/Eggman stages are playable, but the Knuckles/Rouge treasure hunting stages were god awful compared to SA1's ones. Pretty great soundtrack though, but that's a given.
anything that was created as a swan song is destined to be beautiful.
see also: R-Type: Final
>anything that was created as a swan song is destined to be beautiful.
Sonic wasn't a swan song. So I guess that explains it's quality.
>factually wrong
>moronic opinion
>"explains it is quality"
>Factually wrong
Prove it (you can't).
Like another anon said, Sonic Advance was already in production by the time Sega knew the Dreamcast was on its way out.
>originally meant to be the FINAL Sonic game
No, it wasn't. You're a blabbering moron.
SA2 DC or GC?
The only way I could endure this turd of a game is by playing it high as shit on weed.
I remember posting pics of buds and a copy of the game and posted on Ganker for angry reactions, kek
The only thing worthwhile about SA2 is the Trial version. Too linear compared to SA1, less "adventurous".
I'll bite, what's special about the Trial version aside from Sonic's shoes?
Pic related made me laugh, they tried to make it a swan song where they kill Lara off and they allegedly made a point to not tell the publishers so when they found out it was too late to change anything. AoD was already being looked at though so the whole thing just seemed pointless.
I was 15or 16 when it came to Gamecube, I had fun and beat the game but some things about it made me cringe. I think I was a little too old for the target audience. I wasn’t motivated to 100% it
Even tho I grew up with a NES, SNES, and Genesis, and I liked playing Sonic 2, 3, & Knuckles (frick Spinball), I abandoned Sonic until I played the SA2 demo disc that came with Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast (I literally got a Dreamcast JUST to play PSO, even though I had never heard of Phantasy Star before, an article on PSO made it the must-have title of my teenage years). Holy shit, after what an awful experience I had playing Sonic Adventure in Burger King demo stations, everything about the demo was just fricking phenomenal. I HAD TO GET SONIC ADVENTURE 2. Been unfortunately a massive Sonic homosexual ever since, but SA2 is still my favourite Sonic game of all time even though I am bored to tears with Tails and Robotnik's mech stages. But originally, the fact that you were even playing as Robotnik as a main story character was something I had never seen before besides in Super Mario RPG.
Out of interest, did you try SA1 again after SA2? Did you like it?
Yes and kind of. I like the ideas but they didn't age well at all. I can only find myself replaying Sonic, Tails, and Gamma's levels. A shame that Tails and Robotnik didn't play more like Gamma in SA2.
I want to like it and even have a lot of nostalgia for it as I was in middle school when I got it, but I don't feel like it aged well. it controls very awkwardly and the platforming isn't very satisfying. the chao garden is very epic and detailed if you want to really get into it though.
There's barely Sonic in it. You play as everyone except Sonic. The story isn't interesting at all. The two paths are essentially the same and don't add anything to the game, making it longer for no reason. The music is good and the visuals are peak y2k which I love. It's probably the best 3D Sonic game, but not a good game overall.
I love it, and it's leagues better than the first one, which is pretty awful imo.
It fricking sucked. Only zoomer babies liked it.
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was the first Sonic game I ever played and I loved it to bits. I remember getting so frustrated trying to hunt down more "cool" Sonic stuff. SATAM and the comics were too drastically different, Heroes tone was embarrassing, SADX felt really dated and Sonic X had Chris Thorndyke which is enough reason to find it disgusting. I then got into Sonic Mega Collection and started liking the 2D games more anyway. I started buying the Advanced series and just abandoned the 3D stuff because it never again hit the same tone as SA2. Thanks for reading my blog.
Best Sonic game, and better than any Mario