You know what, Sonic Adventure 2 can absolutely go by the motto "Does it's job". Is it better than the first game? Yeah. Is it funner than the first game? At points, yeah. Is it considered more interesting than the first game? Sure. Do I like it more than the first game? At points, absolutely not.
The Action stages are much better so now that Sonic and Shadow's stages are playable, their sections might just be the best. The Hunt stages are just as good as the last game, albeit held way back by the radar only focusing on one target at a time in order, forcing a lot more blindly scowering through the level multiple times to find individual fragments/keys. The Mech stages might be the worst because a ton of the time you're slowly trodding through the entire level while a high pitched sound is screaming in your ears as you try and not die by various different enemies.
Overall, it's better than most of SA1, but it's really not too hard to beat SA1 in quality of stage design, objectives, the implementation of Big the Cat, and plot. But yeah they sure did it with this one.
The Action stages are much better so now that Sonic and Shadow's stages are playable, their sections might just be the best. The Hunt stages are just as good as the last game, albeit held way back by the radar only focusing on one target at a time in order, forcing a lot more blindly scowering through the level multiple times to find individual fragments/keys. The Mech stages might be the worst because a ton of the time you're slowly trodding through the entire level while a high pitched sound is screaming in your ears as you try and not die by various different enemies.
Overall, it's better than most of SA1, but it's really not too hard to beat SA1 in quality of stage design, objectives, the implementation of Big the Cat, and plot. But yeah they sure did it with this one.