Reviews from

in the past


how'd they get away with making shadow fuck so hard

every level in this game is either a huge hit or a large miss, no in between

used to think this game was overrated, it's really good.

THIS GAME IS A CLASSIC. IF YOU'RE A SONIC FAN AND YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THIS, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

So far, this game is good but not as good as the brilliance of the original. I enjoy the variety in the main story, however there is too much Tails and Knuckles and not enough Sonic. However, I am only about half way through the game right now, so this could change.


It hasn't aged well. And maybe I'm too much of a noob since it was too hard for me at times.

Sonic Adventure 1 but without most of the charm. Sonic/Shadow stages are fun but wow does everyone else suck a log. I love how this game looks its gorgeous, but the story is bad and aside from the speed stages I had so little fun.

If I had abandoned the game after going for some A ranks and only completing the Hero side, I would have probably given it 2 stars. But coming back after months of not playing, something clicked. I get SA2 now.

Não foi divertido passar 46 minutos na fase do Knuckles

played before, but it's been so long that i don't remember much about the actual game ,,,,,,,

i’ve played like 3 fucking ports of this game (Dreamcast, GameCube and now PS3) and i STILL can’t get past that damn first boss fight

Ein Trip in die Kindheit. Eines der besseren 3D Sonic Games, die es auf dem Markt gibt, aber auch eines der schwereren. Ich war schon lange nicht mehr so nah dran mein Controller an die Wand zu werfen. Das Spiel hat viele Probleme, die mich heute mehr stören als damals. Kamera, Sprungverhalten, Leveldesign, Gegnerarten uvm haben echt gestört. Bosskämpfe waren eher Pain in the Ass als wirklich spaßig. Story ist tatsächlich interessant, wenn auch nichts besonderes. Ich mag, dass man die Helden und die Schurken-Seite spielt und die Level nicht nur recycled waren. Ich beschwere mich hier echt viel, weil für heutige Verhältnisse, das Spiel zu viele Probleme hat, aber wenn man bedenkt, dass das Spiel vor Ewigkeiten erschien, kann man nochmal ein Auge zudrücken. Bei meinem Durchgang habe ich komplett die Chao Welt außer Acht gelassen. Darauf hatte ich letztendlich auch keine Lust. Chao sind eigentlich nur kleine Haustiere, die man aufwerten kann und in kleine Minispiele verwenden kann. Ein weitere Aspekt, weshalb ich das Spiel auf der GameCube mochte war der Multiplayer Part. Auch den habe ich gar nicht berücksichtigt.
Allen in allem muss ich sagen, dass Sonic Adventure 2 ein gutes Spiel ist, dass im Vergleich zu heutigen Spielen nicht gut gealtert ist. Für den kleinen Nostalgie Trip lohnt sich das Spiel jedoch.
BTW War Shadow schon immer so edgy? xD

While I still find the Tails/Eggman stages to be a drag, I can't help but still absolutely love the hell out of this game. This game is the definition of cool. Sonic/Shadow stages are cool, the soundtrack on Knuckles/Rouge stages are cool. Shadow is the coolest.

Sonic Adventure 2, is without a shadow (heh) of a doubt, the pinnacle of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and easily the best game of the series.

I'll admit that nostalgia bias is coming through here, but every year I return to this game and I love it every single time without fail. I know all of the quotes, I have all of the levels memorized, every sound, every beep of the menu, every iconic song, its all engraved into my mind, and will be until the day I die.

Yes this game has some of that trademark Sonic jank to it, but what Sonic game doesn't? I love this game, I will always love this game.

Easily one of the best games in the series in terms of story and gameplay (sometimes).

One of, if not the best Sonic game out there, it is incredibly fun and I love every aspect of this game, the design of everything, characters, levels, soundtrack, mwuah chef kiss

It's a bit jank, but I think it's pretty neat.

This game is like a 3 but chao garden brings this where it is. they need to bring that back

I really can't bring myself to say anything bad about this game, but a fact's a fact, it is quite janky at times. Other than that, you know the deal, this game fuckin' BANGS, gameplay-wise AND story-wise. Gotta say, character writing was also pretty good for a Sonic game, comparing it to other Sonic games. And should I even mention that the OST of the game is filled to the brim with bangers? Yeah, thats what I thought.

THE TOUGE LEVEL WITH FIVE MINUTE TIMER BE SO FR RN
other than that it was fine i love radical highway

An incredibly broken game, yet somehow this game would have been worse without the glitches and laughably bad audio design.

Sonic Adventure 2 is one of those games you can truly enjoy only as a kid.

I prefer to start by talking about the good points, and Sonic Adventure 2 has some great ones. You can play two different stories: one from the hero side, where you play as Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails, and one from the dark side, where you play as Eggman, Shadow, and Rouge. The mechanics of both sides are the same. Sonic and Shadow, Knuckles and Rouge, and Tails and Eggman share similar gameplay styles. This includes the type of missions they play; for example, Knuckles mission objectives are the same as Rouge. So, if you enjoy one character, you will find more content that fits your preferences.

I talked about the characters, but they wouldn't be the same without the great soundtrack this game has. You will enjoy Sonic's movements a lot more with the aesthetic the music provides because, you know, Sonic with a great rock sound is really fitting, or Knuckles with his weird hip-hop.

However, the game is incredibly awful to play. I completed all the stages in hero mode and I won't play it again in dark mode. The mechanics are really bad. The game design is on the same level as someone who developed a game mechanic in Unity Engine for the first time and tried to make a game about that. The movement is very clunky, and it feels unfair every time you get hit or fall off the maps because the movement is poorly designed. This game forces you to not play like Sonic would because if you play fast, you will fall off the map, and you are not going to have fun repeating the same thing. The camera movement is really bad, but I don't hate it because when the game was developed, camera wasn't as advanced as it's today. Tails levels are run-and-gun moments where it is almost impossible to die unless there is a bad game design concept, which happens a lot in this game. Knuckles levels are really great, and if you have any trouble, you can talk with the flying TV, which gives you a tip for the next emerald to collect.

If you are considering playing the PC port, the game needs to run at 60fps and is forced to use V-Sync. So, if you have a monitor with a refresh rate higher than 60Hz, you will need to cap the frame rate of the program or the monitor. In my case, I used the NVIDIA Control Panel to ensure the game doesn't exceed 60fps.


(I played this with mods just as a heads up. Mostly cosmetic ones to make it a little closer to the Dreamcast version, but still one or two gameplay tweaks I got for the sake of my own sanity.)

Feels pretty satisfying to finally have finished this. This was the big one in terms of all the Sonic games I always wanted to get to, but never did. It's not perfect, it's aged and janky, sometimes even frustrating, but it's still a whole lot of fun and its the origin of my favorite character in the series (and seemingly the basis of the next movie), so even if I didn't love it I owe a lot to Adventure 2. Both the Hero and Dark side stories have their strengths and weaknesses, like I prefer Eggman's mech stages to Tails', but I like Knuckles' treasure hunting more than Rouge's (Sonic and Shadow remain solid across the boards), so the two stories kinda even out in that way. Overall though I think I prefer Dark side since the story is a little more interesting there.

The story isn't great by any means and I won't be upset when the movie doesn't adapt it 1-to-1, but I think Sonic's approach to story in this area was something cool that made it stand out from others in its genre and I think the way these games and their extended media attatched us to these characters is one of the main reasons why the Sonic franchise has remained relevant even at its lowest. We love Sonic, we love these characters and we're always willing to give them another chance.

The gameplay really isn't perfect, but it wasn't nearly as intrusive as I expected it to be. Even the non-Sonic and Shadow stuff I didn't expect to enjoy I ended up having some actual fun with. I don't really have anything deep to say about any of it, I genuinely just think this is a fun and charming game elevated by a weird-ass story and I'm just happy to have finally experienced it all for myself. I'm even more excited for that new movie now than I already was.

slightly better overrated ass game