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Sonic Adventure 1 vs Sonic Adventure 2?
- Thread starter CharlesAznable
- Start date
It's hard for me to compare them because they both have huge strengths and huge flaws in different ways. Adventure 2 has a more engaging story, I like the soundtrack more, and the animation is a vast improvement over Adventure 1's flapping mouths and canned animations, but I've come to prefer Adventure 1 over the years as the actual gameplay is much better. The mech and treasure hunting stages that make up 2/3rds of the SA2 experience are just slow, tedious, and awful compared to the Gamma and Knuckles stages in the first game.
No. No it wasn't.
SA2 wasn't brown and dull.
SA2 wasn't rejected by the fan community when it was released.
SA2 didn't have boring lifeless levels with nothing in them.
SA2 isn't one of the Sonic games that people tell you to skip when playing the series.
SA2 is loved, flaws and all, by Sonic fans.
Really bad comparison here. Respect why you might not like SA2 but this analogy doesn't work.
SA2 overall, but that first level of SA1 is iconic, and is the best of both of them
They're both pretty terrible games to play now though
They're both pretty terrible games to play now though
Adventure 2 has its merits and probably has the more polished gameplay, but Adventure 1 is more memorable and charming across the board and has by far the better soundtrack, so it's Adventure 1 for me.
SA2 has better levels and presentation (and Chao Garden), but SA1 has significantly better controls and I like its style of having several stories that cross each other, and there being hub worlds and such, over SA2 having only two stories and both being extremely linear. SA2's missions beyond the main story ones are also very tedious honestly, especially Knuckles' and Rouge's.
It will only ever be SA3 if everything about the game wasn't a shadow of its former self with SA1 + 2.
The game had so much potential, if they were given more time to refine it and cut out some of the weird/shitty sections. Would have been something decent, even with the Silver stages.
If they ever go back to the Adventure formula, i hope they focus on making Sonic control well for a 3D platformer (SA2 did this perfectly) and have open ended design from SA1.
They could still keep the faster gameplay from Unleashed/Generations as mach speed sections through a temporary Boost power up (which can act like the Speed Shoes from previous games).
To answer the OP, I picked SA1, although SA2 did refine the speed stages considerably.
Sonic Adventure 1 is a better overall package, but Sonic Adventure 2 has a MUCH better Chao Garden and the Sonic/Shadow levels are seriously really fun to play. Sonic is especially good, and the combination of his bounce attack and grind rails make it feel like a full-on parkour game where you try to get from point A to point B both as fast AND as stylishly as possible. There's whole sections of levels where you can effectively play "the floor is lava". It's a shame we never got anything like that ever again.
Don't make me choose :(
I'd probably say SA2 was more polished in terms of the gameplay system in general and I spent many hours with friends in the multiplayer portion.
However, I really dug the Adventure vs Action Stage dynamic in SA1. It was fun to just kind of explore even though it's was very easy to grind your progress to a halt because you couldn't figure out where the f**k to go. The larger forest area in the Mystic Ruins and the deck of the Egg Carrier over worlds were fun to just mess around and try to do ridiculous feats in.
I've probably memorized those games enough to put up a decent leader board time at this point but they're very easy for me to go back and revisit unlike other games from my childhood, silly story aside. It was probably the only game Shadow had decent characterization before they realized they didn't know what to do with him anymore as an anti-hero.
I'd probably say SA2 was more polished in terms of the gameplay system in general and I spent many hours with friends in the multiplayer portion.
However, I really dug the Adventure vs Action Stage dynamic in SA1. It was fun to just kind of explore even though it's was very easy to grind your progress to a halt because you couldn't figure out where the f**k to go. The larger forest area in the Mystic Ruins and the deck of the Egg Carrier over worlds were fun to just mess around and try to do ridiculous feats in.
I've probably memorized those games enough to put up a decent leader board time at this point but they're very easy for me to go back and revisit unlike other games from my childhood, silly story aside. It was probably the only game Shadow had decent characterization before they realized they didn't know what to do with him anymore as an anti-hero.
Both are horrible, but SA2 is way better.
I played them for hundreds of hours back on the Gamecube days haha.
I played them for hundreds of hours back on the Gamecube days haha.
