Status Jusfei Nov 8, 2020
Played the original Dreamcast version
- 1st Playthrough: Finished Hero Story
- 2nd Playthrough: Finished Dark Story & Last Story
Final thoughts: SA2 improves over SA1 in many ways with better (but still kinda jank) physics, better cutscenes / voice acting, and more iconic music. The ending is incredibly satisfying seeing all 6 chars work together. With all of the positives, …
Played the original Dreamcast version
- 1st Playthrough: Finished Hero Story
- 2nd Playthrough: Finished Dark Story & Last Story
Final thoughts: SA2 improves over SA1 in many ways with better (but still kinda jank) physics, better cutscenes / voice acting, and more iconic music. The ending is incredibly satisfying seeing all 6 chars work together. With all of the positives, I'd give this game a 4/5 stars.
BUT...
My god I found all of the Non-Sonic/Shadow gameplay to be rather unfun. In my opinion the Tails/Eggman stages drag out WAY too long compared to the SA1 Omega stages, and the required platforming is a bit too precise to not burn a lot of lives. The biggest gameplay culprit has to be the Knuckles / Rogue stages. They are WAY too big (especially the space levels). The 1-shard-at-a-time tracker just drags out the stages longer, and sometimes the shards are too hidden if you don't have a walkthrough. My finish time for Aquatic mine is like 20 minutes and I found it too frustrating!!!
The downsides are substantial enough to unfortunately lower my overall rating of this game to a 3/5 stars.
