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#84 Sonic Adventure 2

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This makes the list for two reasons.

Reason #1 is City Escape, which is one of the best first levels ever. Mostly because of the song, yes. But some credit to its playfulness and surprises--snowboarding down concrete streets, grinding on stuff, running from a giant truck. It's just fun.

Reason #2 is all of the Knuckles stages. I think these stages are underrated and genius. They're intricate enough that you have to do a little bit of experimental problem solving to find the 3 emeralds to win, e.g. oh maybe I need to change the water level, or oh maybe I need to find a rocket that takes me 2000 feet upward. And since the placement is random, the replayability is much better than the other levels in the game.

I used to often find myself opening up my Sonic Adventure 2 file, just specifically to go re-play Aquatic Mine, Pumpkin Hill, and Meteor Herd, for no reason but to enjoy them. Or maybe I just wanted to hear the absurd Knuckles raps.

Also chao gardening is weird and good.

BEST LEVEL: Meteor Herd. It's so tall!! I love to go to the top, and do a Knuckles Digging Dive alllll the way to the bottom, straight into the dirt.