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Sonic rocks totally better then the old one. Sonic has been approved. The best selling Game Boy game ever. I mean for 2003 the graphics are 100% bright and shiny. 10+ will have a splended time with it 0-9 would kill the game. Game is so much better then Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh Dragon Ball Z ETC. The best of the best Game Boy games Sonic Advance 2 is the one for you.
If you have any concerns please write a review and I will respond. My 9 year old:Brudda hates it. Never believe people under 10!
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Like any other 2D Sonic game, this game does offer a huge amount of fun, with colorful levels and jazzy music. But the last 3 stages are so damn hard you'll just be chucking your Nintendo against the wall in a fit of rage.
There are too many traps and stingers in each level. For a game that sort of promotes itself on being the fastest platformer out there it is quite cruel to send you straight into enemy, losing all your rings and leaving you powerless to do anything about it. The levels do seem a bit expansive as well and lack that tight, punchy feel of the Mega Drive/Genesis games.
In this game you can play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and a new character called Cream, who is a rabbit. Strangely enough, Sonic is the blandest character of the lot in this game as he has no useful powers. I ended up getting the furthest with Tails since he has the ability to go airbourne. The last boss is simply impossible and the game is not rewarding enough to take all 4 characters this far.
But hey, if you can get it cheap then give it a go. Maybe I'm just really rubbish at it.
Graphics A
Sound B
Gameplay B+
Lasting Appeal C+
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I reccommend this game. It rocks in the car. It rocks in the hall. SONIC Advance 2 is a world hit 10+ will like it I am 11 so thats why I say 10+ 5 year olds will get frusterated since it would be too hard for them to enjoy. 4-9 would say it is boring but anyone Kid-Adult would be very pleased with Sonic The Hedgehog, Cream The Rabbit, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose my little bro says this game is boring he is 9. 10+ buy it now before they sell out.
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I loved the first one.
what happened?
the music is okay...
the controls are fine. those are the only good things.
sometimes very frustrating.
can't go to chao garden UNTILL you beat the game WITH all 7 chaos emeralds.
it's part of "completing the game"
and you can never unlock anything new just by beating the game alone, you NEED all 7 chaos emeralds.
sometimes this game runs slow too.
and very VERY frustrating when beating a boss because you never get 1 ups because their so hard to get.
so you get about 3-4 tries on a boss. seems like enough? nope.
i've also gotten stuck on a very VERY hard level, and after a month or two i finally beat the level.
DO NOT BUY! use your money on something worth while like Sonic Advance 1, or Super Mario Advance 2 Super Mario World. Just don't buy this cheaply made peace of junk!
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I'll start by pointing out that I have not played the other Sonic Advance games, so I don't know how this compares. I do know how it compares to the old Genesis games though, and that is negatively.
But forget that for a second - what are the good parts of this game? For starters, the graphics are pretty sweet. The redesigned character animations are very visually appealing. Sonic rips across the screen in a way more similar to his 3D counterpart than the old 16-bit hedgehog. The sprites have an anime kick to them that is fitting to the modern Sonic persona.
Also, some of the level designs are very nice from both a graphic and gameplay standpoint. Gameplay elements from the 3D platformers have been nicely integreted IE grind rails, and in some places the level designs use these elements quite creatively. The use of anti-gravity on Egg Utopia, while nothing new to the Sonic level vocabulary, manages to maintain a sense of speed and awe throughout. In conjunction with the level designs, some of the badniks are actually fairly clever. I was surprised to find some of their behavior wasn't a simple rehash of the tried and true genesis baddies.
On the subject of level designs, though, the trap designs are hideous (some so badly designed as to be almost 100% unavoidable.) The balance between tricky traps and keeping up the speed of the game completely lacks subtelty. The Sky Canyon stage contains some of the worst use of pitfalls in a platformer I've ever seen. You have to perform some pretty rediculous button wizadry to pass it as Sonic, the only main character without the ability to fly.
Also, while we're on character designs, let's talk about Cream the Rabbit for a second. She's useless. She contains almost no unique gameplay elements and is basically a shorter, less versitile version of Tails. The only truly unique aspect of Cream is the use of Cheese (horrible pun, by the way) who is too slow on the draw to be of any use in a game that puts so much emphasis on speed. Cheese does however make the boss battles obscenely easy.
The boss battles at first are a credit to this game - the running battle gimmick does make some of the fights pretty tricky, and they're certainly more engaging than the fights Sonic Adventure had to offer. However the game relies on the gimmick too much, and by the end of the game I'm pretty sick of it. What happened to boss fights that are all different? That use the environment and circumstance to dictate the gaming style? On a similar note, the final boss battle is horrid. I won't reveal why but it is both far too easy and frustratingly difficult in a way that isn't good.
Even for a game series that gets by on only the faintest hint of a plot, this game's story is nonexistant. The Genesis games used intentional changes in setting, mood-appropriate music and suggestive boss battles to drive an implied story. Your imagination just had to fill in the blanks. Here the story is literally: run to the right, beat Robotnik. It's not a convincing motivator.
I could nitpick a number of other little things, like the grade B techno soundtrack or the ludicrous "starting line" at the beginning of every stage, but the main point is that this is a bit of a disappointment for a veteran of the Genesis classics. Yes it has brought speed back to the Sonic series, but it's a shallow sort of speed. It totally lacks the wonder and mystery of the classic games as well as their sense of exploration and discovery. I can remember every step of the old games but most of these levels are simple - and sometimes frustrating - one-way rollercoaster rides. Most of the undeserved criticisms leveled at vintage Sonic can unfortunately be applied here. It's a nice little taste of nostalgia for those of us who miss the hog's career peak, but it's no Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
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