#Let's play Sonic Adventure 2

[slavhew]

28/01/2024

stars don't twinkle moon doesn't shine

big thanks to @nahrgles for finishing this for me after i hit a wall with colors bg and effects- chromatic aberration blew my fkn mind

pre edit transparent version under cut because i spent too much time cleaning it loll

#sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic #shadow the hedgehog #shadow #sonic adventure 2 #sa2 #admin draws #fanart #not intended as ship theyre kinda just There but like if ya wanna tag it i aint stopping you #never played sa2 myself but ive been insane about these two for saur long now and thats like half the reason i even finished this #finished sonic generations though and i replayed this fight like three times omgfgghgh its so fun. i love them so much #those who follow my main blog mightve seen the piece by a long deactivated artist that inspired this #queue spat it out just around the time i finished this #sitting down to complete a piece that i dont finish in one sitting is rare let alone 2 (it took 3) and im pretty happy with it #still not ttoooottally happy but you just gotta let mistakes be and not ruin ur perception of a thing thats on the whole. pretty good #ive still got a bg3 wip in the works but i might have to doodle these 2 for sanity rather than sitting down after a long day #of studying infectious diseases for a final. and then making myself work on something ive wrung of most of its initial creative dopamine #MORNING EDIT WOW. THAT TRAILER HUH. 20 YEARS OF SHADOW RETROSPECTIVE HOW WE FEELING. #BC I KNOW IM ON CLOUD NINE NOW

[skypevevo]

me: i never want kids i did my time being forced to parent my younger siblings my partner and i will be childless forever

also me: loads up sonic adventure 2 every night so gf and i can play Child Raising Simulator together (chao garden)

#chao garden is the real reason we all play sa2 let’s be real #sonic adventure 2

[egg-emperor]

why does Adventure era Eggman actually kinda feel super underrated these days? like I really don't see anyone talk about SA2 Eggman outside of memes anymore and not really him in Adventure at all in actual fandom discussions. despite how many people do absolutely agree that he's great, it doesn't seem to be done so as actively anymore

anyway man I love Adventure era Eggman as a whole with all my heart. I love all of both classic and modern Eggman but that's the golden era for me with him being the diabolical badass in more hands on roles than other games, especially SA2. and all his catastrophic evil and how terrifying and threatening he was... god it's so beautiful 🥰

he hasn't stopped being as amazing, entertaining, threatening and evil since but that was a time it felt like it was focused on and given the focus and spotlight it really deserves and I hope we get close to that again. the high stakes, intense moments, and hands on badassery as he physically gets a piece of the action is Eggman at his absolute peak! 💜💕

#my annual replays are def coming up soon i can feel it #if you haven't played any of them yet or haven't in a long time PLEASE DO and let the peak Eggman bring you joy 💜 #dr eggman #eggman #dr robotnik #dr. eggman #sonic adventure #sonic adventure 2 #my post

[amber-angel]

People who post longplays of old nostalgic video games, thank you for all the work you've done to pull me out of my depression spirals

#stupid flighty bullshit #i used to watch my brother play on his gamecube so something about those games are just weirdly soothing to me #like the music from the chao garden in sonic adventure 2 #makes me think about how my brother would never let me pet the chao but also calms me down for some reason

[scarletkr07]

MY GRANDMA GAVE ME A BRAND NEW TV IM GONNA WATCH ALL THE VHS TAPES MY MOM HAS IN OUR HOUSE

I do not c a r e that the movies can be streamed on Disney and such

THE FEELING IS LIKE NO OTHER TO WATCH AND HOLD THE TAPE

And likely it is that not many others would ever experience such a thing in this day and time

#scarlet babbles #before i left with it #my eldest brother #let me play sonic adventure 2 #on it with his gamecube

[miinos]

sometimes I think abt how... when one of my close elementary school friends were set to move out of state rlly far, I gave him a bunch of comic books and a dinosaur toy as a parting gift. because I knew I would never be able to see or talk to him again. and I just think... does he still have the books? the dinosaur? does he know I still think about him when I see transformers and toy dinos in the bookstore? idk.

#i know deep down my three friends from elementary school probably don't think abt me. we've been seperate longer then we knew each othef #but man! I think abt them a lot #the little ways they shaped me and my interests. the gifts I gave them. the gifts they gave me and I still have to this day. #AND. ON A SIMILAR TOPIC... MY OLD NEIGHBOR... #the only person in my lite section that shared my interests. she let me play sonic rush adventure on her ds. #she played her oboe for me and some others through her window when she couldn't go outside ☹️ #I still have the game cart she let me borrow before she moved away. I could never return it to her in time! #it's supersonic warriors 2. that little cart shaped who I am when it comes to fighting games #aghhh #I AM A MOSIAC OF EVERYONE I'VE EVER LOVED. CHOKING AND THROWING UP. GOODNIGHT

[buttonmashingbitches]

Watch "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Pt1" on YouTube

#let's play #bmb #youtube #button mashing bitches #sonic the hedgehog #button mashin' bitches #button mashin bitches #sonic adventure 2 #sa2

[arcsin27]

I think the only sonic game I’ve ever played is sonic advance 3 and a bit of the original ported to gba.

I don’t know how to play sonic. I don’t even know what this game is about. What is going on. Send help.

#self promo #my youtube channel #sonic #sth #sonic adventure 2 #sa2 #let’s play #Youtube

[demonlordcosnime]

lets play sonic adventure 2 extra

#youtube #lets play #sonic adventure 2 #extra #chao garden #hero garden #dark garden #cute #moe #chao #cliche #funny #gameplay #gamergirl #gaming #youtube channel #cosnime

[crossflux]

Can this idiot escape the city!?

#youtube #lets play #video game #sonic the hegehog #sonic adventure 2 #sonic adventure #sa2b #chao garden #shadow the hedgehog #dreamcast #gamecube #sega

[shygirl4991]

the end is here on my first time playing sonic adventure 2 lets see how this ends!

#youtube #shygirl4991 #twitch #lets play #sonic adventure battle 2 #sonic the hedgehog

[numberonewizardpuppy]

So if you grew up with Sonic Adventure 2 did it make you Anti-Authoritarian, a Furry, both, or neither?

#sonic adventure 2 #sonic adventure battle 2 #sonic says #all cops are bad #Youtube #lets play #gamecube #gamingcommunity

[smbhax]

Total Sonic n00b here and I smashed into cars at the beginning of Sonic Adventure 2: Trial on PS3--it's the free demo version of the PS3 version of Sonic Adventure 2--and was impressed by how Sonic's slightest touch sent them pinballing wildly down the street, setting off a chain carvalanche!

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic adventure 2 #trial version #game demo #ps3 #gameplay #lets play #oops #cars #car crashes #gaming #gaming videos #game #games #video game #video games #platformer #platformers #platform game #3d platformer #Youtube #3d platformers

[fununtitled]

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle - Rolling around🎶at the Speed of Sound - FunUntitled Let's Play

Aloha Hedgehog Lovers! 🎶Rolling around at the speed of Sound. Got places to go, gotta follow my Rainbow!🎶This was our childhood anthem so of course we had to play Sonic Adventure 2 Battle! This is the racing episode so of course we're playing as adorable hedgehogs!🦔

You can watch the entire Let’s Play video on our YouTube channel

#FunUntitled #Sonic #Sonic Adventure 2: Battle #video games #let's play video #youtuber #queue: pre-2023

[rebele0n]

A small sketch that basically shows what my dear old friend Saidren has been going through in Sonic Adventure 2. This might sound snappy, but FUCK KING BOOM BOO! (Sending love, Saidren)

#digital art #my art #artwork #art #artists on tumblr #king boom boo #sonic adventure 2 #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #SAIDREN LET'S CONTINUE PLAYING SA2 I NEED MORE #I WANT TO SCREAM POGGERS

[h-worksrambles]

Sonic X Shadow Generations fascinates me. Because it feels like something I shouldn’t be excited for. And yet I absolutely am.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Sonic Generations. It’s my third favourite game in the series and my favourite 3D Sonic game (with Sonic Adventure 2 in a close second). I’m very happy to see it getting a re release to expose it to new audiences, and playing it in 4K60fps on my PS5 is a very enticing. Likewise, I really like Shadow as a character and I’m excited to play as him again.

And yet, his new bonus campaign promises to basically be a bunch of nostalgic pandering for Shadow the Hedgehog, a game which I consider to be, simply put, crap. It was boring, dull, colourless and embarrassing trend chasing. And pretty much everything I hated about it is on display in this trailer.

We’ve got gritty, grey cityscapes, we’ve got the rather blah alien villain, Black Doom returning, we’ve got the looming return of the series’…bafflingly executed lore. In a word, Shadow was a pretty much everything I didn’t want Sonic to be shoved into a blender. I’ve given my thoughts on revisiting past excesses and failures for the sake of nostalgia. I wrote a whole thing about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and my fears that it would go overboard pandering to the 2000s spin offs (which I dislike a for lot of the same reasons as a lot of Sonic stuff from the mid 2000s). A faux attempt at maturity that sacrifices Sonic’s camp and colour, and lacks the writing competency to make its tone shift work is pretty much my worst case scenario for the series. And now we’re invoking that for nostalgia? Again, I should hate this.

So if I dislike Shadow the Hedgehog so much. If it really is so emblematic of Sonic’s worst excesses that I want it to leave behind in the 2000s…then why am I so damn hyped for this? Why am I not feeling the same dread as whenever VII Remake implicitly threatens to bring back Genesis?

I think it’s because of the specific relationship Sonic has had with its past for the last decade. So much of the stuff from that time period is material that Sega has seemed actively scared to touch again. Sometimes with good reason. But I think that’s why some material from that time has gained such a strong nostalgic cult following, and why they’re held up as such bastions of missed potential. There’s never been anything quite like Shadow or 06 since they came out with how safe Sega has subsequently played things. And in many respects, that’s a good thing. But I can see how it build a sense of mystique around them. It was kind of sad to see 2010s Sonic so…scared of itself. Terrified to invoke its own history but not really committed to a new direction either. And this is pretty much the exact opposite of that hesitancy.

Basically, the reason I react to seeing Westopolis or Black Doom with ‘holy shit let’s go!!!’ rather than ‘why, god, why?’ is because I genuinely never thought I would see them again after this long. It’s just exciting to see Sonic Team throw caution to the wind and embrace all the parts of their franchise. Even the parts I personally dislike. Plus, Sonic Generations is kind of the perfect game in which to reimagine that stuff and make it..actually good this time. This was the game that made Crisis City of all things into a banger level. The game that took Silver, one of the most notorious boss fights in the series, and gave him a kickass encounter.

If they can fix that, they can do anything.

Plus, the fact that the trailers already show all these trippy stage effects and anime af boss fights and set pieces tells me we’re not just gonna be running through the same drab washed out burning cities that made Shadow 2005 so boring. Again, there’s evidently an effort being made to rehabilitate and reimagine this stuff, not just repeat all the same mistakes. And that’s exciting.

So yeah, Sonic X Shadow Generations has somehow managed to get me genuinely excited for all the parts of the series I typically balk at. And that’s pretty impressive.

That said, if I see Mephiles again, I’m leaving.

#my unhinged ramblings about a cool remaster #sonic x shadow generations #sonic generations #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #basically a ramble about my love hate relationship with 2000s sonic