I don't want to go out of my way to memorize the level design. Better hope and pray that it's not a bottomless pit, because there's no way of knowing unless you memorize the level design. In Windy Valley, Tails can soar so high up that the ground stops rendering, making it difficult to know where you're supposed to land. That said, Tails' flight is not so much finicky as much as it is overpowered to the point of it being detrimental to survival in many cases. Tails' stages also take place in the more linear sections of Sonic's stages, so I no longer have to look around and try to figure out where I'm going, which is helpful in a game about rolling around at the speed of sound. Luckily, the homing attack and spindash are replaced by flight and a tail slap attack, so I overall find Tails a lot easier to control. As such, his gameplay is rather similar to Sonic's in Sonic Adventure 1 but with a time limit attatched.

Tails' goal in his Sonic Adventure 1 stages is to beat Sonic in races. Giving a straight comparison of Tails between Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Adventure 2 is diffficult because the Tails in Sonic Adventure 2 was clearly designed after Gamma in Sonic Adventure 1 and not Tails. Which is weird, because you also have two action buttons that do the exact same thing, so you'd think that this problem shouldn't even be a thing.Īlso there's that one part in Pyramid Cave where you have to go to the right to grab a key and dodge a bunch of stuff that's stupid and shouldn't exist.īut overall, I enjoy the Sonic stages in Sonic Adventure 2 magnitudes more than the ones in Sonic Adventure 1. It suffers horribly from 'everything is on the same darn button' syndrome, leading to situations where you try to be cool and light dash, only for the game to think you want to somersault instead and so you somersault and come off as lame. I prefer 2's interpretation of Sonic levels, with the trick bonus system, opportunities to rack up points if you know what you're doing, a more stable and reliable homing attack, a spindash that's less uncontrollable, more abilities, more readable level design. Overall, there really isn't a Sonic Adventure Sonic stage I can legitimitely say I enjoy now. And this happens every time I play the level, even though I've been doing it for years. And while the levels in 1 are overall far more open, it's also easier for me to crawl to a hault getting though places like that stone snake water level where you have to find all the switches. Not a fan of 1's homing attack or spindash, they're a little bit too finicky for my taste. Hm.well, from my experience playing both recently, 1 definitely feels a lot more unstable and prone to glitching than 2 does, which doesn't make me that comfortable playing it.

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