Sonic Rush was one of the most fun Sonic games I ever actually played all the way through, so naturally I was super excited for the sequel. Whenever Rush Adventure did what Rush did, it was pretty much just as good. The levels were fun, the movement was great, and the OST was amazing! So why didn't I rank it as high as the original?

Because of everything that wasn't like Rush. I'm probably gonna sound like one of those "ah the first game is always way better" losers but I do think that some of the new mechanics and gameplay portions just aren't nearly as fun as the main gameplay and drag down the experience a bit. Sailing is fun at first, but quickly becomes super boring and repetitive even with the game's attempts to diversify it once in a while, and goooood was collecting the Chaos Emeralds utterly and completely painful to do. Collecting materials wasn't all that bad but it felt to me more like forcing you to replay levels every now and then than an actual cool new addition to the gameplay loop. Just not a lot of fun going on in between the main levels, which is really unfortunate.