Let's all take of the nostalgia goggles for a minute here and give this game a fair analysis. I'm willing to say that there's a lot about this game that is really good. Almost everything, to be exact. Almost. So why is this game bad? One reason. The controls. The controls are so god awful, that they make the game pretty much unplayable. The N64 controller was not meant to play shooters. If you want to play this game in all it's glory, download the keyboard and mouse patch for it. Then you'll probably be able to play it the way all the nostalgia-blind people remember it.
This game is **** you're not nostalgia-blind. I went into this game pretty much blind, and I heard how good it was from both sides. So here is my analysis of how much of this game I was actually able to sit through. -The dubbing and animation of this game is god awful. You could say it's because it's dubbed to Japanese, but this is a remake. There is no excuse. -The voice acting is even worse. There was no effort put into it, and it is cringey at best. (Fun fact: Sega mailed the voice actors their lines with absolutely no context, so yes, it is not just an opinion that the voice acting is bad) -The controls are so weird. If you want to interact with something in any game ever, what do you press? You press A. In Sonic Adventure, you press X. Why. Not to mention, if you try to interact with something, and you're not brushing up against it, X will also make you do an impossible to control spindash, that can't be canceled, and will put you 30 miles away. -The camera is so horrible. If you are fighting a boss (which are also boring and incredibly tedious in this game), the game might decide to lock you in a camera angle that cant be changed and is impossible to see with. Also, the triggers change the camera. That's okay, right? Wrong. The camera controls are inverted, and can't be changed. -The levels are mediocre at best. The action stages are apparently the good part of this game, but unfortunately, that's only 1/6th of this game. Also, in those stages, sonic is impossible to control, he magnetizes to the walls, and there are countless glitches that will do nothing but make you lose lives. In the remake. And I'm not even gonna start with Big the Cat... -All in all, don't buy this game. I mean, I emulated this game (on Dolphin, probably the most fluent, functional emulator in existence), and I'm still disappointing.
