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#16. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (Gamecube, 2001)
I spent so much time playing this game when it came out theres no way it couldnt be this high. At the time, I loved this game and it was the first time in ages I would get to play a new Sonic game-I was going to love it no matter what, and I did. I think objectively this game is pretty bad- especially the camera and controls (but so were a lotof games at the time), and its just horrendously silly. But I goddamn love it so much. Theres no denying, imo anyway, this game is a blast. From the butt rock of Crush 40 to the Knuckles raps to that early 00s AWESOME energy it has to I mean the goddamn voice acting and mixing. I dont want to say its one of those so bad its good games (like Sonic 06, which is legit terrible but its funny bad) because I do think this game actually IS good, but only on a personal level.



I love the Light and Dark story splits that meet up at the end, I love the Sonic/Shadow action stages and how COOL and BADASS they try to make them, especially Shadow, the Sonic/Shadow stages themselves are the most fun of the bunch, and the 5 different missions per stage provide some variety. I love actually getting all 180 emblems in the game, a thing I did back in the day, and A-Ranking them all in order to unlock Green Hill Zone in 3D, the pinnacle of geeking out s a dumb young teenager for me to be able to play that in 3D. I love the emerald stages- I thought it was innovative gameplay to use the clues to find where the emeralds are hidden like a treasure hunt. I think these days this doesnt sound like fun game design, but man I loved doing it. The Tails/Robotnik (Eggman?!) stages are nothing special but theyre ok. I love the goddamn Crush 40 butt rock. Escape from the City, It Doesnt Matter, and especially Live & Learn remain cool in spite of how overcool they were trying to be. It works so well. I can legitimately still enjoy those songs without irony. Hanging on the edge of tomorrow indeed. I saw Jun Senuoe in concert at Magfest a few years ago (without the Crush 40 vocals) and they were still incredible, playing the instrumental tracks from Adventure 1 and 2 (Metal Harbor kicks). I cant believe Shadow actually says IM THE COOLEST during his boss fight. And look man, that final boss fight Is so goddamn dumb and stupid and epic, I mean it is kind of epic. And hilarious. And I love it.



The Knuckles raps are so goddamn good in the same way. Yeah Rouge shes sexy and smooth. Death chamber Death chamber Death chamber. I know that its here I can sense it in my feet. It sure beats fighting with the foes all the time. THIS IS KNUCKLES AND IM BACK. What makes this game so good is its try-hard style, it makes it timeless and remains a blast to think about all the things that made it awesome to Sonic-loving stupid early nerd teenager.

My friend and I also played the multiplayer for a goddamn long time. Like a REALLY long time. Because this game keeps track of your multiplayer record, I had made sure to only play the multiplayer against him to keep our record pure and intact (I'd play w/o a memory card on the rare occasion I was playing vs someone else). I forget what the record is but it's something like 380-290 or something like that. Almost always playing on random (which chooses a random game mode and characters). I don't see him too often these days because he lives overseas now, but when I do see him, we'd still always make sure to play. I'd @JonPen1416 here, but I think his GFaqs account might be gone. We know that multiplayer as inside and out as its possible to know.

And finally, the story and voice acting. Now THIS is so bad its good. I really cant add anything to it. Its perfect. I wouldnt change it or anything about this g-ILLMAKEYOUEATTHOSEWORDS-ame at all. Faker.



One story I want to tell is when this game came out, my friend and I loved it of course. In one of our classes, we had to write essays as part of exams in that history course, like one of those scantron essays with multiple pages, but we knew our teacher never read anything beyond the first page. So for the 2nd page and on, he simply wrote the entire plot of Sonic Adventure 2, but substituted out Character names for things we were learning about. So, for example, here is an excerpt or two (it's still in my possession):

The Articles of confederation were flawed because you needed 9 of the 13 states to agree on a matter and if it was major you needed all 13. This almost never happened. The Constitution escaped from it and went on a journey. Then Democracy and Republicanism met and fought over an emerald. Then the Declaration of Independence appeared and stole it. Democracy broke it and it had to be rebuilt. We learn that the Dec. of Indp. Traveled to a military retreat and freed the Articles of Confederation" (later) "There, Democracy crashed and the ideals were thrown into space, so Democracy went to get them. The Treaty of Paris helped guide the Constitution through the Bicameral Legislature where they met the Articles, the Declaration of Independence, and Republicanism. The States Constitution was caught by the D.o.I. and Constitution had to give it up. Then the Constitution stopped the world from being destroyed for now, but the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation still had to stop the Senate from crashing into the world. They did it, and the Articles sacrificed itself to save the Constitution and the others.

He got an 82.

Next up: A full-blown remake of an arguably good (not imo), but a roughly designed and brutal game to perfect it.

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