Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Dec 21, 2021

  Starts off a little jank but still fun, but around the midway point the jank becomes overwhelming to the point of being torturous. The worst aspects are the collision (yes, even on Dreamcast stages); the weird physics that too often almost magnetically pull you towards walls (making you go slower); the tendency of spin-dashes to break the movement that the level designer intended for certain sections, often leading to deaths; and worst of all, the bloody camera. The camera is treated like a physical object, and therefore it gets stuck on geometry all the time. The angles that are chosen for it are often not well suited for estimating depth in a 3D platformer, leading to many deaths in bottomless pits. Despite all of that, the game is single-handedly saved by the other characters' shorter stories, which are for the most part better designed, most notably Amy's and E-102's campaigns. If you're masochistic enough to do repeated playthroughs, or go for 100%-ing the game, it's a lot more tolerable, and enjoyable, once you're acclimated to the jank and know how to work around it, and time trials in Sonic games are always fun. You need to have a bit of a Stockholm syndrome thing going on to enjoy many of the games in the series. So if you only plan to play this game once, and don't plan on doing any of the extras, this game is total garbage, avoid it. This release is a bad port of a port of a port of a port. Dreamcast (original) -> Gamecube -> Windows -> Xbox 360 -> Windows again. Downgrade to the original Windows port from 2004 using the [url=https://sadxmodinstaller.unreliable.network/]SADX Mod Installer[/url], or get that release instead [i]somehow[/i] and install that on top of it. Pretty sure the 2004 port has better compatibility with Wine / Proton, too, not to mention that the Mod Installer comes with fixes for most of the issues that that port had. Other mods that I used in addition to everything that comes with the Mod Installer: [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/cats/2130]Additional controller prompts[/url], for DualShock 3 button prompts [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/14804]Minor Palette Fixes[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/304634]Active Mouths[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/313900]Character Select No Question Mark[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/361585]High-poly event Egg Carrier[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/sounds/54160]Uncut Soundtracks[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/sounds/40537]Perfect Chaos Music Swap[/url] Mods for the non-Dreamcast themed playthrough: [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/9538]GameCube Textures[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/14803]GameCube Style Lighting[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/290728]DX Characters Refined[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/248045]DC Textures for DX Characters[/url] [url=https://gamebanana.com/mods/336533]DX-consistent models[/url] P.S. The differences between the Dreamcast versions and the DX ports are mostly visual, the game doesn't magically play better on a Dreamcast. If anything, the 30 FPS lock makes it considerably worse.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 15, 2022

  Has Knuckles Automatically a good game.
• gamedeal user

  May 5, 2022

  soinc
• gamedeal user

  May 16, 2022

  I highly, highly recommend you download the Dreamcast Conversion mod before playing. The visuals of the game are butchered on this version by default, but the mod fixes almost all of those issues, DRAMATICALLY improving the visuals, and even adding great quality of life features. Even if there are aspects you prefer from the DX version, such as the new character models, you can choose to keep them in, creating a personalized setup to your specific tastes.
• gamedeal user

  May 26, 2022

  better than porn
• gamedeal user

  Jun 2, 2022

  "sonic had a rough transition into 3d" my ass, they got it right the first time
• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2022

  Sonic Adventure DX was a very bold step by SEGA to give a Sonic game a different gameplay style, at least for the time, currently you have sonic games of many formats and styles. Check out gameplay of this game AND ALSO Sonic Adventure 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-L5LsjgfU As befits a typical Sonic game, the whole game seems to be built on speed. The adventure fields, for example, have a very open structure and the various action stages also have many long straight and sometimes winding parts where a lot of speed can be made. This is immediately an important difference, because the constant switching between the various characters always meant that only the stages of Sonic really had a lot of speed, and therefore carried that typical Sonic feel with them. However, if you play as Sonic or Tails in this game, then all the action stages are real roller coasters with very few stops in between. The same goes for Amy and Knuckles to some extent, although their stages seem to be a little less built for it. So they have to have more of the open adventure fields.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 18, 2022

  gamma's story carries the whole game
• gamedeal user

  Nov 12, 2022

  Though its character animations, dialogues and voice acting are so bad they're hilarious by today's standards, Sonic Adventure DX is still a well rounded platformer with a reasonable amount of content and challenge. For this reason, this game is an easy recommendation, especially at this price.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 12, 2022

  Its a tradition to beat this once a year. Been doing it since 2017. If you dont fall through the shuttle loop on Sonic Act 1 before the killer whale chase, you didnt Sonic hard enough