“This Incredibly fast blue hedgehog has set out for a new open world adventure”In a world where peace used to thrive like blossoming flowers in the sunlight...a dark evil is about to be relinquished once again! As we look back in history we learn a lot about different cultures, each having gone corrupt at some point in time which leads to their inevitable downfall. But even with the destruction of a once well-known tribe, a new and innocent city will be in danger/peril because of this unknown monster that had already once terminated a land. Fortunately for this city simply known as “Station Square” the darkness perishing blue hedgehog Sonic was laying around searching for new adventures has come just in the nick of time and meets face to face with the creature named Chaos from ancient tales. Soon afterwards we see that the mechanical (or in many peoples case “mentally insane” Doctor Robotnik is behind the monsters appearance, although this still being unknown to Sonic for the time being. Will Station Square end up in another cataclysm like many years ago or shall justice shine just like our hedgehog’s blue quills, let’s find out in this adventure of a review!
Graphics: 9 out of 10
I’m very pleased with this remake of Sonic Adventure on the Gamecube because I feel that they changed the looks of the characters for the best. The areas inside the games themselves though haven’t changed all that much from the original Dreamcast release though...whether it be the forest & ancient like area of Mystic Ruins, through the peaceful & residential area of Station Square, to even the futuristic mechanically engineered aircraft known as the egg carrier you’ll surely enjoy running through each of these zones on your play through of this game. I’ve also heard & I’m not sure if this is true or not...but; I’ve heard that this version has more glitches than the original release, however I’ve never encountered any differences from the original and remade version of Sonic Adventure although even if this was true I’d still say that most of the glitches are due to playing around with the scenery and not actually falling through the ground type glitches. Now take a look at my score you may have noticed I put a 9 out of 10 even though I’ve been praising this games visuals fairly and judicially well the main reason why I dropped the score from a 10 out of 10 to this score is because if you were to take a look at the Game Review Submission page it says clearly “game's graphics should be compared to other games on the system” even though this is a remake & port of a Dreamcast game *shakes head* I still must judge this game based on other games release for the Gamecube, meaning that this game definitely isn’t going to compare to a lot of games on this system so I have to bump the score down to a 9 out of 10 for graphics.....one last thing though when you go to fight E-105 Zeta during the game take a good look at his body as if you look/analyze closely then you notice that he actually has Sega Dreamcast consoles on him, a pretty nice easter egg you did there Sega! Ok now I promise we can move on.
Sound: 10 out of 10
.......Do I really even have to describe how AWESOME the music is inside not only Sonic Adventure but its sequel as well? Already I loved the original 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog games music, but when this game came out I was literally like a new era of favorite video game songs was born for me. Not only did it introduce the Crush 40 band into the series, but a great emotional atmosphere with each different song that was heard during your perilous journey, one of my most favorite melodies being the E-102 Gamma character’s theme as once you actually play his story and learn more about himself...the theme then starts to have a sadder and darker tone than what was to be expected. One theme I know that many people discuss when others bring up this game in question is the level Twinkle Park and its music inside the stage as it is actually a remix from an earlier Sonic game, and I mean a lot earlier than this game...still can’t make a guess? Alright then the answer is that the music in the stage is a remix of Panic Puppet Zone from Sonic 3D Blast on the Sega Genesis, pretty cool right...however most people don’t talk about other music being remixed from other Sonic Games such as: Green Grove Zone = Windy Valley (Air part) and even the similarities between Emerald Coast & Spring Stadium. I should probably stop this rambling about the music though as you’re all probably getting sick & tired of it so let’s move onto the voices. Now I believe that the voice off all the characters in the game fit everyone perfectly especially Sonic & Knuckles to even Robotnik’s (no pun intended) voice actor with 2 of my most favorite lines being 1. – “Don’t tell me you let him trick you again” “*Knuckles* and you weren’t?” “Way to go Knucklehead!” with my second being this line due to the fact that I goes with my belief that the Doctor’s name isn’t Eggman...here it is “Hey look it’s a giant talking egg” “Silence, I am Dr. Robotnik...the most intelligent scientist in the WORLD!” I know his full name is Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik but still I think of that as a nick-name and not his actual name, ugh I’m rambling again and yes it’s a bad habit of mine I know...anyway I believe with the amazing music & great voice acting that this game deserves a perfect 10 out of 10 rating.
Addictiveness: 8 out of 10
I’m willing to admit that Sonic Adventure is one my top 5 favorite list for the Sonic series because of many reasons, however; I must look at faults that I see with some gameplay elements with the first off being mostly everyone agreement that Big’s action stages weren’t really all that entertaining or great either also I still find it strange how he dies when his catch meter gets too high? It could be that maybe his rod breaks from all the pressure...still though I mean seriously you die because your fishing rod is broken ...that’s like Sonic dying because his slick kicks feel off while he was running. Now this next part dealing with Knuckles doesn’t actually deal with his action stages as I do enjoy the treasure hunting segments both from this game plus the sequel’s, the only thing I don’t like in this version compared to the sequel is that you have to press both A and B at the right time to dig into the ground whereas in Adventure 2 you just have to jump and press B to dig into the ground. What really makes this game addictive is how you have 6 people (technically 7 if you include Super Sonic) to play during the duration of this game along with the fact that they all have their own story as well but their stories also intertwine/connect with most of the other characters story too. Now let’s say for a moment you finish the entire story mode due to this you’ll most likely assume that there’s nothing really left to do, well in actuality there are several things you can do such as earning all the emblems located inside stages which can unlock bonus game gear games for instance like: Sonic Spinball, Sonic Triple Trouble, or Tails Adventure. That’s not all though as in this game they have place known as the Chao Garden where you can raise all sorts of neat Chao characters which you can have compete in a race or take with you on your Gameboy Advance if you have a link cable that is, This garden/area is something that many Sonic fans would love to see a return of in newer games of the series and I’m also in agreement with that motion however; I know that this feature is something of the past and probably be coming back in any game again. Either way all in all I’d say this game has a lot to offer even with some minor problems that it may have leaving me to rate the addictiveness as an 8 out of 10.
Story: 10 out of 10
Just like I said in my intro, you’ve ventured into a once peaceful town to eradicate this new found-evil from the past....yeah no confusion there haha. Our furry blue friend undergoes a battle with this water-like beast in the hopes of figuring some answers but sadly ending up flat on his quills, soon afterwards he encounters Dr. Robotnik during his adventure into Mystic Ruins in which both Knuckles & Sonic find out that Robotnik is the one who’s controlling that creature in order to take over Station Square for the obvious reason of making his own empire! Too bad our blue hero of hedgehog justice still has a long journey ahead of him in which he’ll meet old friend as well as some new enemies like E-102 Gamma, whom as I described above has his own story and reason for fighting. If you enjoy a nice & intriguing storyline then you won’t regret picking up this game which leads me to give the story a perfect 10 out of 10.
Depth: 9 out of 10
As I’ve said plus shown many times in this review that there are many things to do when playing this game: between play each characters unique story, visiting all the area’s, collecting all the emblems, to even finding some nice secrets inside this game...in fact why not talk about those in well more “depth” *once again no pun intended*. To start it off let’s talk about something very interesting that happens if you manage to collect every single emblem, which is being able to play as Metal Sonic in trial mode (works in both stages and bosses) however he does
replace Sonic in that feature though. Secondly are 3 special Chao eggs that can be found during your play-through of the game and these Chao eggs can’t be found again like other eggs so beware of this fact before you go crazy looking for these eggs...alright anyway there is a gold, silver, and black/dark Chao egg hidden in places around the 3 different adventure fields. First and foremost is the easiest one to find but also requires something before you can take it, the egg is inside a shop on a pedestal which you can take off however; by doing so you’ll initiate the doors to lock down preventing you from going outside & what you have to do is go to where you first fought against chaos with Sonic and grab a rock found there then travel back to where the egg is and switch the egg with the rock and bam there you have your golden egg. The silver egg is located in mystic ruins all you have to do with this one is jump down into the little swamp area right around where you fought Knuckles and push the block switch in to push the silver egg out into the water. Finally the black/dark egg can be found by hitting the middle switch in the confinement center in the Egg Carrier and the dark egg will be there for you to pick up. I think before we end this segment off I should say one more thing dealing with the fact that you can also find some optional power-ups for certain characters (not everyone has the same amount of special power-ups) Sonic = Crystal Ring, Tails = Jet Ankle, Knuckles = Fighting Gloves, Amy = Long Hammer, Big = Power Rod + lure upgrade, Gamma = Laser Blaster. So as you can see from the several things I’ve posted that there are many things to find and unlock in this game, the funny thing is that I didn’t even name all of them either...why not well because that’s for you to find out and for me to give the depth a 9 out of 10 score.
Difficulty: 8 out of 10
There’s been a lot of misconception on my part about the difficulty in this game because I’ve never had any problems with glitches which this remake is supposed to have more glitches than the original? So this part of my review could be true to some and false to others so please pardon me for any error’s that I may state here. Just like some of my other reviews like: “Link to the Past, Sonic 3, and Resident Evil 2” this game doesn’t use cheap tricks against you like random enemy placement or some kind of unfair difficulty. The only thing I dislike about playing this game is if I play Sonic Adventure 2 & go back to this game I must remember that I have to charge up my spin attack before I can use my light dash move, compared to Sonic Adventure 2 where you just press B around a trail of rings. The only level I can say that might be hard to figure out is the Casino Level for the fact that you must have exactly 400 rings in order to get the chaos emerald found in the vault, the thing I like to do to make things easier is going to the NIGHTS pinball table getting about 80-90 rings and then losing all 3 balls so that way we get to enter the trash area of the casino which has loads of rings to collect making it easily to get 400 rings quickly...just a little tip I think would be nice to let you readers know . There are some glitches you can do on purpose like playing Amy in Emerald Coast or Knuckles in Twinkle Park but each of them do require some kind of trick and I quite frankly don’t know how to do it so...phooey, besides I’ve gotta put this review to a rest now so let’s give the difficulty a 8 out of 10 rating which I think is fair.
This prelude to an apocalypse has been revealed, it now only up to you if you can stop this terrible tragedy from happening. Only your power with everlasting energy can neutralize the power used by the ancient evil that faces itself in front of you, will you let Station Square be saved or lost? Either way this is one adventure of Sonic’s that you won’t ever forget & will always remain a keepsake to opening your heart filled with memories. It’s time we finish this adventure....time with finish...THIS SONIC ADVENTURE REVIEW!
*Dashes towards Perfect Chaos* -
- Sonic57Tm (Erick Davis)
Graphics
9 Sound
10 Addictive
8 Depth
9 Story
10 Difficulty
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