[General Discussion] Sonic the Hedgehog - Mediocre Madness!!!

Originally Posted by Grubdog

Let me share my experience with Sonic Adventure 2, I tried to like it, I tried really hard to like it. I wanted to like it. It's Sonic! My favourite games as a kid were all Sonic games. My excitement didn't last long.

The game is horrible. An absolutely terrible abortion of awkward camera angles, horrible level design, twitchy unpolished controls, tons of glitches, and the pace is completely random. While the Sonic levels are passable, those Knuckles and Tails levels (sadly two thirds of the game) are HORRIBLE. The knuckles "FIND THE RANDOMLY PLACED EMERALDS" stages have to be the worst levels in any videogame i've ever played in my entire life, and some guy rapping about emeralds to a generic beat in the background doesn't help. Actually, I challenge someone to name a worse game. I'll play it, and list at least 5 reasons why it's better than the Knuckles levels in SA2.

Superman 64? Mortal Kombat Trilogies: Sub-Zero? Bebe's Kids? Name just ONE reason why these are better than the Knuckles levels, and I'll concede the point.

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Note: I haven't played Sonic Adventure 1, is it any better than 2? Fundamentally the same but more bearable? Less bearable? I think it would better by default if it doesn't have stupid Knuckles and Tails levels. I'll try it one day, but I wont dare touch Sonic Heroes or Shadow. (well, maybe I will for comedy's sake)

I haven't played it either, but I heard... lessee... it's pretty much got the same camera control as EVERY OTHER 3D SONIC GAME, got the shooting, and has the emerald-search stages... although I dunno if they were any more or less bearable than SA2's.

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Also, they need to drop all these pointless characters and the story shit, the attempt at a story in any Sonic game is always horrible, they shouldn't even bother, nobody cares.

QFT. <3

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I've only played the Sonic Advance games briefly, but they were ok, nothing special though. Sonic Rush is awesome, it still doesn't touch the old Mega Drive Sonics but it doesn't try to, it's different, it has even more of a focus on speed than platforming, it all just flows so well, and while I didn't like the music at first, it's grown on me and goes well with the game. More folks need to get Sonic Rush to ensure a sequel, i'd buy Sonic Rush 2 in a heartbeat.

I can't comment much on those, since I don't have a DS (although I did enter a contest to win a DS Lite from the Japan launch off of a blog site... >_> <_<), but the Advance games were forgettable, IMO. I didn't like 'em much at all.

Jam it back in, in the dark.