Sonic Adventure 2

This game is amazing, even though some levels are bad, it showed me how to live and learn, hanging on the edge of tomorrow. live and learn, from the works of yesterday. live and learn, if you beg or if you borrow. live and learn, you may never find your way.

Can't believe Midnight Love was in the finale for the Sonic 3 movie , so sick. 10/10 game too. Amazing mod community.

best sonic game created. sega plz create a chao garden only game plz plz and ty!

the levels, music and style are iconic

What's not to love about a classic Sonic game? Plus the Choa World is packed with fun stuff.

Right let me explain. In my opinion on one hand you have got some of the best sonic gameplay ever! On the other we have got shitty jank knuckes digging and tails mechs .8/10

a scary shadow plushie with bloody eyes appeared on my bed after I played the secret XTRA-DARK story with Shadow.exe, Rouge.exe, and Eggman.exe

My childhood game that got me in the Sonic fanbase, and my favourite game in the franchise. Yes, I'm biased as hell for saying that, but I don't give a fuck. I love this game so much. While the Steam port of the game is extremely buggy and unpolished, we have mods to fix all the issues Sega put in the game, so no worries about a dysfunctional port of a Dreamcast classic. If you love 3D platformers but want to be tested with how fast you can complete each level, this game is for you.

As good as I remember, which is pretty amazing for a 22 year old game. It's famously touchy, but I still highly recommend it. Definitely install mods for the best experience.

One of best Sonic game out there. Even though this game is twenty years game.

I've come to make an announcement..!

I wouldn't call it the best Sonic game but it is pretty good once you get over some mildly annoying maps. Radical Highway and Biolizard rock af

this sgame iss the best game ever created by man kind this game has shadow rogue and knuckles thiis gamre is the best video game in allllllllllllll of exstince

really fun but i recommend getting the sonic adventure mod manager (which also has a game launcher as part of it) as i've heard the game can freeze often if you don't have that. the treasure hunt stages are annoying but i'm bad at them so that's mainly just a skill issue. Hope to get all A ranks someday but that'll take a long while.
If you're coming here after watching Sonic 3 in theaters like i was, you should totally play this game it's great

yes is fun and the story in sa2 is a masterpiece and the chao garden you can just sink hours into seriously look at my hours

Even without mods this version of the game is crazy good, but I'd still suggest doing your research and getting SA Mod Manager for the betterment of this game's true colors. SA2 Render Fix and Cutscene Revamp ALONE elevate this game so much. Still wish there was an auto-installer modpack like there is for SA1 though...

I had to make the config files by myself.
I must launch it directly through the executable, launcher won't work.
I can't play in fullscreen.
Half of the controls do not work on keyboard.

Great compatibility with modern computers.

Sonic Adventure 2 is like thee most epic game ever!

I highly recommend everyone to buy this game and buy it for a friend to bring joy to their lives

Like, okay, I don’t even know how to explain it but this game just scratches my brain in a way nothing else does or ever has. It’s like, structured chaos. It's messy as hell but also really predictable once you learn it and my brain loves that shit.

"Good for it stuff" checklist:
✅ Running the same level over and over just to get the S-rank because I physically cannot accept an A. (I have to play levels in multiples of 2 or it feels wrong.)
✅ Knowing every single map layout like it’s burned into my soul.
✅ Quoting the voice acting unironically in normal conversation ("I'll make you eat those words!") and then realizing people have no idea what I'm talking about. Then getting sad because they really should.
✅ Chao Garden. Just. Chao Garden.
✅ Carefully breeding Chaos like I'm a scientist making a new species of god. Also, I name them based on very specific niche references that no one else understands.
✅ The music? Insane. Actually dope and based. Like why does "Escape from the City” go that hard???
A “must listen to it on a loop at least three times a day” type track
✅ Accidentally getting emotionally attached to a blue rat and his edgy doppelgänger.
✅ Experiencing a full-on existential crisis when I realize I've spent more time in the Chao Garden than in actual human relationships. Then deciding that's fine, actually.
✅ Thinking about my breakup while speedrunning Green Forest like it's somehow gonna fix my life.
✅ Wanting to be over it already but also realizing no one will ever love me like I love this game.
✅ Rewatching Sonic cutscenes for comfort because eye contact with real people is too confusing.
✅ The horrible Rouge treasure hunting levels activating my fight-or-flight response but feeling obligated to 100% them anyway because unfinished games make brain and body go *brrrrr*

Now, the "imperfections"...
Like yeah, okay, I know, the frickin camera... okay yeah, the camera is absolutely my worst enemy and Rouge's treasure hunting levels make me want to cry. But honestly? None of that matters because I've just accepted the flaws and jank and I love the game anyway. It’s part of the experience and it's part of understanding what love is. The game being held together with duct tape and Sonic the Hedgehog themed hopes and dreams is literally why I love it.

While on the topic of Sonic The Hedgehog, I must say this out loud, as I hope someone out there can relate:
So, you feet people.... i just dont get it. Except Sonic with his shoes off. I don’t know why, it just makes sense and I don’t want to unpack that.

Final thoughts:
If you like controlled chaos and hyperfixating on repetitive tasks for hours, congrats, you just found your new special interest.

I give this game 10/10, 5 Stars, and 7 Chaos Emeralds – Please, buy this game and enjoy spending "would lose the rest of my life” hours in the Chao Garden. Happy gaming, gamers.

get the mods SA2 input controls by Shaddatic for SDL support and modernized controls & HedgePanel if you have troubles with Sonic and Shadow's controls

once you do that it's arguably the best sonic game ever made, even without the mods. you can play it vanilla and experience the same greatness I did with my partner and it was awesome. I love this game. I have no nostalgia bias towards it and I fell in love with it very much and am still grinding out those rings for my Chao Garden. I also love the 2 player battle modes and everything they have to offer in terms of replayability and general fun.

I love Sonic but this game feels scientifically designed to an atomic level to be the most irritating game in existence. Nothing about this game to me was even slightly enjoyable apart from the soundtrack. The first level is pretty good, everything past that is the gaming equivalent of pulling teeth.

the sonic and shadow stages are really fun with good replay value
the others... not so much, especially rouge's stages
if you're fine with putting up with a little bullshit its a fun game

This port is absolute ass but with mods the game is great

Definitivamente um dos melhores jogos da franquia, pra quem já acompanha ela há um bom tempo é um dos jogos que eu recomendaria jogar mas de mente aberta a outros estilos de gameplay, porquê o foco não é 100% no Sonic.

Pra pessoas novas na franquia eu recomendaria jogos como:

Sonic X Shadow Generations

Sonic Mania

Sonic Frontiers

Sonic Colors Ultimate

História 10/10

Gameplay:7/10

Música:10000/10

Dificuldade:7/10

Consistência:6/10

Polimento de Bugs:9/10

It's cool that you can play either the good guys or the bad guys but this creates some crazy inconsistency in the plots.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
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☐ 10

Shadow the Hedgehog is my favorite sonic character ever, and possibly one of the greatest fictional characters of all time. Thus, I decided I wanted to play this game to see where it all started. To put it lightly, this has been the worst experience of my entire life. This game was so awful to play I almost smashed my head into the wall about 80 times and nearly broke my entire desk. Just watch a playthrough on Youtube and save yourself the pain and suffering that this god awful masterpiece brought a pour soul like me.

It's kind of difficult to play, but my brother and I had a lot of fun.

Please use the mod manager, the port by itself isn't the best but with the mod manager it is the best port of the game.

This game is the pinnacle of style in sonic games and I would love to see this kind of style replicated or surpassed in future installments, overall an amazing experience, been a fan of the series for a while and this game holds a special place for me. Very few bugs and crashes (still holds up to this day), also shadow is peak.

I first played this game back in April of 2022, I didn't have any high expectations coming into this game mainly because growing up I never really cared for Sonic that much as a kid, I was more into Nintendo games and because growing up on the Pre-Sonic Movie Era of the internet meant you were already pre-opposed to Sonic as both a character and a franchise, but as I got older and started playing different games outside of what I was use to, I thought of perhaps giving this game a try, nevertheless I was hooked. This game is a lotta fun, the sonic/shadow and tails/eggman stages are the main highlights of the game with all the sick stunts you can pull off in the game as sonic or shadow and the amount of destruction you can pull of as Tails/Eggman hits all the right places. The knuckles/rouge stages i can live without since they were the only parts of the game that actually irritated me, cos your required to find the master emerald pieces in a specific order which is just irritating to deal with (the soundtrack does make up for it though.)

I will warn you, this game can be finicky at times when it comes to glitches, I've personally never encountered any game breaking bugs throughout any of my play-throughs outside of the occasional wall clip. But if you don't want to deal with that sort of thing then I would recommend this video by BlazeHedgehog on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHt5PP3abfE

But overall, this game was a blast and I would recommend people try it and ignore the hate bandwagon around this game because lets be honest: a lot of the hate surrounding this game gets is mostly from people who get their opinions from YouTube Media Reviewers rather than forming their own (*coughcough*Projared*coughcough*) or people who played the butchered and un-optimized Gamecube/future ports outside of the og sega dreamcast version when they were kids and based their hatred around it. (Of course the game's gonna suffer being ported over to a Nintendo console because Nintendo's systems are not designed with high fidelity in mind, which is why every Nintendo port of a game is always the worst version regardless of game!)

Anyways I'll leave it at that, it's getting late so I'mma sign off! Sonic Adventure 2 is the best sonic game and I'm tired of pretending that it's not. See ya.

the most goated sonic game. dark story on top!!!

this is most deffinetly a Sonic Adventure and deffinetly deserves a rating of 2 on a scale of 2

at first when i saw this gaes a few years ago i thought this game was stupid but when i started playing it, i underestimated this game. This game is actually awesome so play now.

Literally my all time favorite game. I bought this game for Gamecube and spent hours of my childhood on it. The Chao Garden is fantastic and I wish there were modern games that could hold my attention like this one can. Everytime I don't know what to play next, I always come back to this game. Working on my 2nd 100% run now and it's still just as fun as it was when I was 13.

Sonic adventure 2 is PEAK!! It's even better than sonic adventure! This time the story is darker and more serious, with shadow and rouge first appearing in this game. Now there's only 2 stories (hero and dark) with 3 characters each, but the gameplay has been more refined. There's also a "last story" just like the previous game.


The hero story literally starts with sonic jumping out of a helicopter (i'm not joking) and it immediately hits you with one of the best songs in this game, "escape from the city". You play as sonic, tails, and knuckles in this part of the game.

Sonic's moveset in adventure 2 has been expanded a little, but there's not much difference in his gameplay compared to adventure 1. Sonic is even more fun to control than he was in the previous game.
Tails is now in a mech...? But honestly, the mech gameplay in this game is lots of fun, and way better than his stages from the previous game. It's not as quick as E-102's stages from the previous game, but honestly, that's fine.
Knuckles' gameplay is also mostly the same, but the difference is that the emerald radar can now only detect 1 emerald at a time, which is such a bad change. His stages also got bigger, so it'll take even longer to find all the emeralds.


The dark story starts with Dr. eggman breaking into a G.U.N base. You play as newcomers shadow, a dark hedgehog & sonic's rival in this game, and rouge, a bat thief who loves emeralds for some reason.
You also play as the doctor himself, Dr. eggman, who was the main villain in previous games.

shadow doesn't play much different from sonic in this game, but he does have some cool powers like chaos control, which can let him teleport. (You can only see him do that in cutscenes, though.)
Eggman is also in a mech like tails, but it at least makes more sense here, since eggman is always piloting some type of machinery in other sonic games. His gameplay is pretty much the same as tails.
Rouge's gameplay is the same as knuckles, so more emerald collecting...


Outside of the main story, there's a LOT of content here. There's medals (or emblems, however you call them), an improved chao garden, and even a slightly limited kart racing mode!
The graphics definitely aged better compared to adventure 1, and there's less glitches and bugs in this game as well.

This is one of my favorite sonic games ever, and while it isn't perfect, it'll still leave you wanting more. If you liked sonic adventure, then you'll have a great time with its sequel! 9/10!

man,this is amazing(im playing with mods that upgrade the game btw) i highly or definitely reccomend if you're a long time sonic fan,and its amazing to see the golden age of sonic the hedgehog.

I don't care if this game is 23 years old, I love it. I did have to download a mod manager to fix some bugs, but it made the experience way better

I played this game way back in the day when I was kid back on the Nintendo Gamecube It was a blast back then and I'm glad I was able to play it again. The nostalgia is real with this one, the soundtrack takes me back to when things were better when there wasn't anything to worry about just getting home from school grabbing a bowl of cereal and sitting in front of the tv. God I wish I could go back to those days. To those of us who had those fond childhood memories this is the perfect injection of nostalgia to bring back those vibes.

I wish that there was an option to give a game a mixed review. This game is janky and I have raged hundreds of times. the only possible way to beat the last story is to get an extra lives glitch due to how hard it is. That's why beating the levels and the game is even more satisfying. the gameplay is alright, and the story is even better, but I am only giving this game a good review out of generosity. seriously, I can't tell you how many times I wanted to give up, and play Pizza tower instead to cleanse my pallet. if you rage a lot, don't get this game, but if you are a sonic fan, go right ahead.

i love this game so much, even with its flaws, it is amazing

peak game but sadly requires mods to get working

Sonic Adventure 2 is a fun, fast, and sometimes infruiating platformer, mainly due to enemies and jank-iness but the game surely is still charming. It has three types of levels: Action, with Sonic & Shadow. Treasure-Hunting, with Knuckles & Rouge, and Mech, with Tails & Eggman. Personally the action stages are the best, with me liking the treasure hunting and despising the mech levels, but it truly depends since levels vary, if you do like platformers and Sonic, I highly recommend you at least check out this game. 7.5/10

Melhor jogo que eu tenho na livraria definitavemente.
So o problema é que as fases da Rouge e do Knuckles são bem chatinhas
(OBS): Sou muito grato pela Green Forest ter explodido :)

I've loved this game ever since I bought it for my PS3.... actual banger. Sonic rocks my fucking socks off. I don't even care that the tails mech stages specifically can be such a bitch to complete or that basically all the space stages suck ass. Getting to play as super sonic/shadow in the finale kicks so much ass (also crush 40 my beloved). Bring back the chao garden! Preferably not a slog to grind though...

Amazing Sonic classic of my childhood. It's great with the Mayflash adapter if you grew up with it on Gamecube. Playing it on keyboard sucks ass but getting the adapter for my controllers was a major upgrade as I have a gamecube but I misplaced my physical copy of this game.

this game is amazing. Although the controls are kinda junky, if you have a console controller to connect to pc with, this game is playable and enjoyable. would recommend this to new sonic fans

Great game 100% buy the game NOW it feels fast and amazing the chao garden the mods although the the tails and eggman stages are great when it comes to wanting to get all the emblems but otherwise HOLY SHIT THE WAY THEY MOVE THE PHYSICS FEEL HORIBLE AND DO NOT POINT OUT THE SPELLING ERROR THE MECHS ARE BAD but everything else is good

fun but incredibly buggy. worth a try but maybe not for pc

Originally I was hesitant on buying Sonic Adventure 2 after friends and family were telling me that this game was "the worst game in the series", and I'm VERY glad I didn't listen to them. Overall, the game is very fun to play in both single player and multiplayer with my friends/family, and I can confidently say that the game is pretty re-playable with all the separate missions for each stage and the Chao garden.

Besides that, the game did take some getting used to at the start. I was slightly confused with the camera controls and I found the treasure hunting and mech stages pretty annoying. HOWEVER, after giving the game a couple hours I've found both types of stages to be pretty fun, and even prefer some treasure hunting levels to normal running levels (The mech stages are DEFINITELY the worst part of the game imo). The running stages were a blast straight from the get-go, with only maybe one or two stages that I disliked. It's a shame that there were so few of them in this game. These stages hone

Though I don't think its as necessary as Sonic Adventure, I think that its probably a good idea to get maybe one or two quality of life mods for the game, but you're also you're not really missing out if you don't either. It's really up to you!

If you like Sonic, and are willing to give the game a bit of time to prove itself, I'd say this game is most definitely one of the best you can get here on Steam! A solid 8.5/10!

This game is even more fucking frustrating than SA1, clunky platforming, janky camera, everything is fucking janky about it.

Shadow the Hedgehog. Need I say more?
Well yes. this is easily the buggiest release of the game, and sadly the only accesible way to play it for most people. Well what if I told you it can be the BEST way to play the game? Check out this spreadsheet*:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uk5U8jY_RPZF9m_gmPfSOfCngAOSAxy393dsQVPoOyQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0

There is an SA2 section available there. There's the Essential Catagory, which is what you need for the best experience without changing too much, the JP Voice Essential Catagory, which you will want to download as well if you prefer the Japanese Dub. There's Gameplay Tweaks, which Tweak some Elements maybe a bit too much, and I will personally not recommend using on your first playthrough, and the Customization Mods which are basically tiny Visual Tweaks you will either want or not want to download depending on Your personal prefrence.

*I am not responsible for the making of the Spreadsheet

Even in 2025 i consider this the perfect modern Sonic games. On top of amazing game mechanics; the ability to play all the characters on both sides gives it such an enriching feel.