Top Ten Reasons Why Sonic Adventure 2 is Awful

Whether it is the original Dreamcast version, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, or Sonic Adventure 2 HD, Sonic Adventure 2 is a hateful video game for the most part despite awesome Japanese voice acting, fun gameplay as the animals, very great controls and a strong story. Here is why.

Compare Sonic Adventure 2 to Super Mario Sunshine, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Pac-Man World 2, Metal Gear Solid 2 and all other video games that can rival this crappy, unfair game.

Sonic himself sounds annoying, miscast and a bit like a bad-tempered black girl (interestingly enough).
The Top Ten
1 Eggman's mustache was fake

It's true! Omochao told us himself, and it breaks my heart that any game could have the audacity to give Eggman a fake mustache! Phooey on you, Sonic Adventure 2!

2 Treasure Hunting and Mech Stages suck

Actually, I can get used to these stages. I meant to name this list "Top 10 Reasons Why Sonic Adventure 2 Is Overrated". It's not awful. It is a mixed bag for me, though. It has graphics that are a mix of what you normally see on the N64 and the original Super Monkey Ball's environments, which is an awesome mix. It has a powerful soundtrack, but some singing voices from Crush 40 (partially)/Kay Hanley/especially Nikki Gregoroff are ear-piercing. Its story and gameplay are a mixed bag of energetic motivations and unreasonably off aspects. Because of this, I must give Sonic Adventure 2 a 3/5 instead of 5/5 stars, which I would give SEGA Sonic the Hedgehog/Knuckles' Chaotix/Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (& Knuckles).

The Mech stages can be enjoyed, but I hate the Knuckles and Rouge stages.

I hate treasure hunting!

3 Its English voice acting is annoying!

All characters except maybe Sonic and Tails are horribly miscast and the sound editing is all over the place. The music hardly ever matches what's happening on screen and usually makes the underacted, whispered dialogue impossible to hear.

I don't think the voice acting is why SA2 is horrible, but it was still pretty bad. I will take the 4-kids voice actors over these voice actors any day, especially for knuckles and Eggman! (although Rouge would probably be the exception)

Adventure cast is the absolute worse. Eggman was pretty much the only decent one and Sonic's voice is a war crime.

The cutting off is good if Sonic does it.

4 The character designs are awful and no better than their Classic Sonic designs

Classic Sonic character designs rock! Modern Sonic character designs are okay.

5 Poor controls

Mostly on running stages, afraid to even try anything other than run and jump and even those don't always do what you expect, paths that force you in a certain direction often with springs or boosters involved send you off cliffs or into walls, homing attack sometimes just dances around an enemy rather than hitting it (especially annoying when it costs you a golden beetle), rails are ungodly and trying to hop between them is hopeless often sending you flying in some squagonal direction. Trying to A rank every mission is a horribly cruel punishment I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy.

Speed stages have messed up Homing ranges, letting you lock on to stuff behind you but not above. Mech stages are unnecessarily long and repetitive. Hunting levels really let you know how bad the camera is, along with Knuckles/Rouge sometimes just letting go of a wall for no reason.

6 Its Sonic X Adaptions

Sonic X is okay. But the Sonic X adaption doesn't hidner the game itself! Argument invalid in my opinion!

7 The cutscenes in general and characters' lines

Well, if you want a cinematic Video gaming experience. Check out uncharted! In my opinion at least!

I'm gonna have to agree. The cutscenes look unfinished and buggy.

No, it's a fact. Uncharted is 3D gaming heaven, like Metal Gear!

8 The soundtrack has very bad singing and causes people to dislike Classic Sonic soundtracks

It doesn't CAUSE people to dislike classic sonic soundtracks! I haven't seen people saying that modern sonic isbetter than classic sonic in any way shape or form! If anything, it's the other way around! Not a lot of people are fond of 3d sonic games! I honestly love the original green hill zone theme!

I put this here mainly because of My Sweet Passion.

This isn't even a Classic Sonic game.

"My Sweet Passion" has a great melody, but MONSTROUS lyrics. It makes Amy Rose look insane!

9 I cannot play as Big the Cat

Big sucks. His story in SA1 was a polar opposite to the only good story of Sonics

I mean seriously!

10 The characters' attitudes

Sonic is cocky. That's all I care about

There is no such thing as "bad user"

The Contenders
11 Amy Rose ruined the whole game

I wouldn't even consider this a modern sonic game! I'm surprised you do!
You say Mario Kart: Super Circuit is a classic Mario Kart game, not aModern Mario Kart game. That game was released in 2001.
You say that this game is modern, yet it iwas realeased in 2001, the same year as super circuit, a game that you think is classic and not modern.
The original Sonic Adventure was even released before 2001! Yet you say that Sonic Adventure is a modern sonic game!

Because it isn't actually a Modern Sonic game at all! It is a Dreamcast Sonic game. And Amy Rose should be voiced by Emily Deschanel and have very thick, feminine thighs/buttocks. What do you think, HeavyDonkeyKong?

Amy rose is awesome. I disagree with the list.

12 All the Crush 40 songs

Live and Learn isn't my favorite sonic the hedgehog song, but I still love Live and Learn!

What are you talking about? They were badass and teach you great life lessons!

Tony Harnell has an annoying singing voice! Fall Out Boy could've sang Fall Out Boy songs!

13 The story

Which I really am happy about in Sonic Adventure 2's story, a sad, emotional ending and seeing Dr. Eggman and Tails talk to each other like true family members, Sega could make Sonic Adventure 3!

How can anyone mistake Shadow for Sonic?! His spines go up, he had chest fur and COMPLETELY different boots. Even colour blindness isn't an excuse.

Would you like to check out this list, HeavyDonkeyKong? This game has a great story!

The story is epic and the ending is sad in my opinion!

14 The camera is terrible

Never before in a video game has the camera been so awfully uncooperative, it's got everything. Awkward angles, bad positioning. it gets stuck on things all the time, it doesn't give a decent sense of perception, it's badly angled half the time, shall I go on?

15 All the characters suck

Well, only Sonic and Shadows stages were good, but the other stages were WAY WORSE THAN THE WEREHOG STAGES (not that I even disliked the werehog at all to begin with)! Think Unleashed Night stages were too long? Well guess what, the same rule can apply to nearly every treasure hunting stage due to A) a nerfed radar that made A-ranking extremely frustrating rather than uniquely challenging, B) Most stages were WAY TO BIG (which explains A), and C) Unlike the Werehog stages, you can literally have no clue were to go! I am not even kidding when I say I even liked the werehog's HD Eggmanland portions better than any treasure hunting stages! As for the mechs, A) platforming is much more atrocious than most werehog platforming since the mechs control like crap and fall like rocks, B) enemy placement is so cheap that it literally caused me to die so many times just because the enemies made made me fall when I was helpless to see the enemies even coming until it was too late, and C) the mech ...more

Whoever made this list is an idiot. Shadow sucks? Prepare to die. Whoever made this list is once again a Mario lover and sonic hater. :sigh: and I thought those days were over...

Some of the Sonic Adventure 2 charactrs that are great are Shadow, Tails, Knuckles and Sonic. Sonic Adventure 2 characters that are too weak to be loved are Amy Rose, Dr. Eggman Nega and Big the Cat.

Shadow and Tails. Do they suck? You say that Sonic sounds like a bad tempered Black girl? No offense and all, but don't you think that thatsounds at least a little bit racist?

16 It's another ripoff of Super Mario 64

Ah, yes. Back in the days when I was too biased towards Super Mario 64 (N64). - The Ultimate Daredevil, partially regretting his near past

They are hardly alike. This game is more Linear aside from the Knuckles and Rouge levels.

Um not even close. Not even close

17 It overdoses on teen stereotypes
18 Stupid Characters

Are they really that stupid to believe that Shadow is Sonic? What is this, Super Mario Sunshine?

19 It's a Modern Sonic game

Who cares? Love both Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the hedgehog 2! Am I not aloud to love this game as well?

Well, nobody should be allowed to hate Sonic Adventure 2. I nearly died when MariotehPlumber gave Sonic Adventure 2 a -9000/10!

20 Horrid character lines

As well as some awesome ones in my opinion!

21 The glitches

The glitches causes unnessesary deathes and the collision sucks!

22 The Knuckles Stages are disorienting

And regardless of whenever you succeeded or not? I banished this game from my PS3 after I spent 3 hours trying to get even a shard of the master emerald. This makes nothing to the story.

23 Emblem hunting

It's so frustrating, especially when you're trying to get an A rank! I hate getting having to A rank every stage to get all of the emblems because it's such a pain in the ass. You have to kill a lot of enemies, collect a lot of rings, and go really fast. You have to do so many things which makes dying a huge deal because you have to do the whole stage all over again to not get an E rank since it just brings your points down to 0. Also, a lot of the point requirements can be very high, especially in stages like Metal Harbor and Eternal Engine. Doing so many things for emblems can very tiring and can make the pacing of the game very slow when you have to stop for a lot of points, or have to restart the same level over and over because you keep messing up. I like it when in newer Sonic games the amount of points you need are a lot smaller and you can still get them while going fast. I also like it when it is only based on speed like in Sonic Unleashed (Wii version) and Sonic Generations ...more

24 Shadow died at the end

He came back in Sonic Heroes, though.

25 The sign that says "SA2 is habit forming. DON'T TURN OFF!"

It is habit forming I played the Sonic levels over and over

Why is this even a thing?

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