Sonic Adventure 2 Reviews

Sonic Adventure 2 is a classic 3D platformer with gameplay that has a healthy balance of satisfying speed and challenging platforming. The music and storytelling is very well done and each level has different “missions” that encourage the player to replay each level to complete. This game also has the famous Chao Garden that can get quite addicting. Highly recommend this game!

Love this game. Been playing it for years. The only frustrating parts are some of the lost chao locations, the kart racing minigames, and having to get all 180 emblems in A rank to get the secret level.

Truthfully, this game is a mixed bag that i recommend but not highly. Starting with the positives of this game, the storyline is arguably one of the best storylines in gaming and is certainly the best story in the entire franchise that still holds up today. It is well written and has some great characterization with Shadow and Eggman. The soundtrack is also really good with live and learn being a certified banger and I like the fact that this game uses genres as a form of character motif rather than a traditional lietmotif. For example, Sonic has hard rock, Shadow has grunge and Knuckles has rap. However, this game has some glaring flaws, firstly, the gameplay does not hold up, for example, the homing attack, a simple ability that should be easily done is practically impossible, making stages like metal harbour a challenge to do. Rouge and Knuckles also control poorly making their stages extremely long and difficult. In particular, the stage known as security hall is absurdly difficult, combining Rouge's shitty controls with a short time limit. There were only a select few stages I enjoyed and the game takes a while to complete. I will not deny this games impact on the sonic franchise, something i respect it for, and the story and soundtrack are still peak, but this game honestly hasn't aged well in the gameplay department, so I will give it a 6/10. i am also aware that the PC port isn't the definitive SA2 experience.

This is my favorite game in the series & in general! I grew up playing it on the GameCube. I loved it then and I love it even more now! 10/10! I would recommend this game to anyone who loves Sonic and anyone who wants to get into the series!

Thought running this game would be easier than its predecessor...Boy was I SO wrong. Semi-Constant freezing and having to limit my monitor to 60hz is bad enough, but now even with borderless gaming enabled my game still has problems tabbing out sometimes. The game itself is good so far, but the port its binded with is so horrible to work around.

Fun game, The music is better than in 1 but apart from that, everything else is better in SA 1. Also the port is kinda bad. Still fun tho.

Played the living piss outta this on Gamecube as a kid. Just as fun now as it was then and the camera controls are just as infuriating as I remember.

I'm kind of sad giving this a negative review because I love Sonic Adventure 2 and I do think it still holds up in a lot of aspects, but holy cow the port is giving me trouble. Crashes randomly sometimes, has issues with frame/refresh rate speeding up the game, doesn't have good controller support without getting a custom Steam Input map and can't ever alt tab out of fullscreen. To finish talking about the negatives, the Tails/Eggman missions are very slow and most of the bosses are kinda too easy or repetitive. A lot of people criticize the story and voice acting but I think it serves its purpose, basically just being a reason to have these different levels for you to play. Now for the good, I will give SEGA a lot of credit for not doing the Nintendo thing and actually putting their games back into the market for a reasonable, affordable price. Besides, replaying this long after my childhood of hours and hours of SA2, it does still have unique and entertaining gameplay. The Sonic/Shadow and Knuckles/Rouge levels are pretty much all pretty fun and the Chao Garden is still one of the greatest "side-games" ever made. It creates such a nice gameplay loop while also having this really fun aesthetic of "oh I was running from an army truck but gimme a second since I need to check on the kids real quick". So, should you play SA2 at this day and age? Kinda, a lot of things are still fun, the soundtrack slaps and there is some nostalgia to enjoy... But do I recommend getting this version? Only if you're desperate.

The controls are finicky, the voice acting is terrible, and I can't get past an E on the first level... 10/10 Greatest game ever made! <3

This game is garbage, but it's MY garbage I first played this game when I was probably 8 years old, and I've loved it ever since I've played it every year for the past 10 years. And I'm 28. Is the story good? No Are the animations good? No Is it a well put together game that functions as intended? No Do the controls make sense? No But despite all that, it's FUN. IT'S SO MUCH FUN, AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I WOULD DIE FOR MY CHAO. PUMPKIN HILL 4EVER. I KNOW THE WORDS TO ALL THE SONGS. WHY ISN'T THERE A TRUE GLITCHLESS CATEGORY FOR SPEEDRUNNING? GET THE BATTLE DLC, LOOK 4 BIG THE CAT. SONIC DX IS GARBAGE TOO BUT I LOVE IT JUST AS MUCH. SONIC4LYFE