I loved Sonic Adventure 1 and have replayed it so many times. The levels were pretty great and the small open world was fun to go around and find the hidden power ups.
Sonic adventure 2 was painful to get through. I hated almost every level. The only ones I enjoyed were the Sonic and shadow levels, but they did not feel well designed. So many times, enemies would just drop from the sky on you without any chance to doge them.
Hunting for the emerald pieces was so boring and tedious. I hated those stages. There was one time where I restarted and luckily found them all right near the start.
The tails levels were OK, but it felt a bit clunky to control. I think that was by design, but I didn’t care for it.
I played both of these games as a kid on the Dreamcast, so it’s not like I’m nostalgic for one and not the other.
I just replaced SA1 and loved it, playing SA2 reminded me of hating it as a kid.
Do you share my opinion? If not, what do you think of this game?
Sonic Adventure 2’s problem is that it didn’t have enough speed character stages. iirc, the dark side story only had three shadow stages and that’s it, the rest were either the “meh” eggman stages or the god awful emerald shard stages.
The hero side story wasn’t as bad since it had more sonic stages, but only barely.
I can go back to SA1 quite a bit, because despite the jankiness, the stages are really fun and you can tackle them in many different ways like you could with the Genesis games.