an improvement over the original in most areas, besides gameplay related areas which were the biggest blemish on rivals 1. level designs are still insultingly simplistic and mind-numbingly boring while the boss fights continue to drag on for way longer than any sonic boss should. the main story is decently fun on your first playthrough but i cannot imagine anyone being willing to replay it as every character (theres 8 of them) since its almost the exact same experience, just with different signature abilities, which dont really impact the game as much as you would think. overall, rivals 2 is a better game than its predecessor but that isnt saying much.

This side series is so interesting to me because it’s the most focus Silver had gotten since 06 and just completely contradicts 5 other games in this series. What a series Sonic is, man. Game is fine. More of Rivals 1. I was NOT about to play it 8 times so I did it once with each character off of each team and yeah it was decent. These games work and feel good they’re just nothing remarkable. Team combos are pretty interesting here, I liked Espio and Silver a LOT and Metal and Shadow is cool. Story is very funny though, considering only Silver and Shadow’s stories really matter at all, and Silver is the MC so if you wanna just play one story play his. Anyway, yeah, game is fine. Besides the Second Zone’s Boss good lord. It’s like a Superstars boss on PSP. It sucked. But, I’d run through one story at least, I’d say it’s worth it.