![]() These levels play much like the Sonic stages in the original Adventure – run around as a high-speed hedgehog, homing attack bad guys, abuse spin dash for the sake of speedrunning. Of these three (or four) types of stages, only one contains the slightest semblance of what one might call “fun”, those being the action stages. Oh, and the odd kart driving bit for god knows why. Sonic Adventure 2‘s stages are split in to three types: action (Sonic/Shadow), shooting (Tails/Eggman), and treasure hunting (Knuckles/Rouge). The question, then, is: eleven years later, can it keep it? So, being the fanatic little child I was, Sonic Adventure 2 earned a special, fuzzy, nostalgiatastic place in my heart. In fact, the sole reason I asked for a Dreamcast for Christmas in 2000 was so that I could play the original Adventure. ![]() It wasn’t my first exposure to the series that title goes to Sonic 2 on the Genesis, whose predecessor and sequels received a similarly obsessive amount of my attention. I was but a wee child when it first came out for the Dreamcast in 2001, and I spent a frightening number of hours engrossed in the game. Outside of the broader fanbase context, I – like many others – have my own personal relationship with SA2. So as I review Sega’s recent digital rerelease of Sonic Adventure 2 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, I feel it’s necessary to frame the game in context. And yet to others, the game symbolizes the start of everything that nearly killed the franchise forever. Because it was the first major Sonic title on a Nintendo platform, many people cite SA2 as their introduction to the franchise. To one part of the fanbase, it’s the pinnacle of Sonic. In a franchise like Sonic that has been on such a rollercoaster of quality for the past twenty years, Sonic Adventure 2 somehow sticks out in the franchise as possibly the most polarizing game in the series. If you’ve never played the game before, you’ve been warned.) The game is over a decade old and well-known amongst our readers, so we deemed it unnecessary to refrain from spoilers. (SPOILER WARNING: This review contains unmarked spoilers.
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