I don't understand how people think this is the substandard version of Sonic Adventure, because, in reality, it's not. Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut in my opinion is a solid remaster of the Dreamcast original. While the visuals have aged more than the ones on the Dreamcast, it is by no means an inferior product, unlike Sonic Colors Ultimate. In fact, there are a few minor things that make DX a great experience

For one, we can now skip cutscenes with the Start button. That is huge because Sonic Adventure is by no means a short game, and some of the cutscenes are the same but with different character perspectives. There's also the new mission mode. After beating the game, there are 60 missions for you to complete. These missions range from carrying a person to their destination, popping balloons, etc. While I only played a few, I found the missions and the completion reward to be a little underwhelming. There's also the new Mini Game Collection. When you obtain a certain amount of emblem, you will unlock one of the Sonic Game Gear games, and there are 12 of them to unlock; a few that have never been released outside of the West until the GameCube era. While I didn't go for 100% (at least not yet), I love there's a reason to collect all 130 emblems instead of collecting them all just for bragging rights. Speaking of getting all the emblems, you will also unlock Metal Sonic as a playable character; and while it's cool that we got to see Metal in Adventure visuals, this reward feels a bit underwhelming in my eyes

I feel like people exaggerate when they point out the number of glitches DX has because I haven't encountered any of them throughout my playthrough. Maybe because I was playing the GameCube version and that has the least amount of glitches compared to the other ports from what I heard online, and sure there are some infamous ones (thanks Game Grumps), but it's not that bad

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut in my opinion is an overhated remaster. I feel like people underestimate this game focusing on the negatives rather than focusing on what's improved and added over the original. If you want to play Sonic Adventure, either one of these versions I've mentioned here is fine. Sonic Adventure is janky at times, but I love it anyway

Thank you Game Grumps for not only ruining the reputation of the remaster, but also ruining the reputation of Sonic Adventure itself