These levels have received a MASSIVE downgrade from their Adventure 1 counterparts, in that game, if you were close to an emerald piece, no matter which one it was, the radar would let you know, in SA2, the radar only detects one emerald piece at a time, and this is where I raise the question: Who the hell thought that this was a good idea? Have you ever heard of the phrase: 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it', Sonic Team? All this does is extend the time spent in these levels tremendously, making them more tedious in the process, and to top it all off, most of these levels are so goddamn massive! So some of them might take you forever to beat. Then there's the hunting stages, taken by Knuckles and Rouge.

Also, the controls are clunky as all hell, yes, I understand that it's supposed to be like that, because they're in a mech, but these levels more often than not make you go through platforming sections which, due to how the mech controls, are incredibly hard to traverse to. Eggman, and it seems that they're worse with Tails, because of the crappy level design, and then there's the enemy placement, oh boy, the enemy placement is complete trash, there are many times where I'm just going through the level, when suddenly, an enemy jumps down, right in front of me, attacking ne, giving me absolutely zero time to react to it. The shooting stages, on the other hand, they're garbage, there's no way around it. Admittedly, they're actually pretty damn fun, like I said before, they do what the series does best, and that is high speed action. And last, but not least, the hunting stages, which have you hunting for either pieces of the Master Emerald, keys, or just plain ol' Chaos Emeralds.įirst, the speed stages, which Sonic and Shadow participate in. The shooting stages are about, well, shooting things on a big mech, they're like Gamma's stages in Sonic Adventure 1 but MUCH, MUCH worse, and I'll tell you why in a second.

The speed levels are about what the series does best high speed action with some platforming thrown into the mix. The game is split into 3 types of gameplay: Speed, shooting and hunting. I'm not really gonna cover story elements here, instead let's focus on the gameplay itself. This might be a very unpopular opinion, but I really don't like this game, and I'll tell you why:

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