$7.99Sonic Adventure DX Six heroes, one very fast story
Race through overlapping tales as six characters, chase loops at full speed and raise pets in a garden of your own.
Is Sonic Adventure DX worth it?
Sonic Adventure DX is worth it if…
- you want a fast 3D platformer with a proper story and six different playstyles
- you grew up on the Dreamcast era and want the real thing back
- you like games with a strong soundtrack and a modding scene that keeps them alive
- you enjoy raising odd little creatures while you are not saving the world
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Six characters, six ways through one disaster
Eggman's plan to feed the Chaos Emeralds to a monster he woke from the Master Emerald sends six heroes out in different directions. Sonic races through the action stages, Tails races Sonic, Knuckles hunts scattered Emerald shards, Amy gets kidnapped and fights her way out, and the robot E-102 Gamma slowly questions his orders. Each has their own levels, bosses and slice of the story, and the full picture only comes together when you have played them all. Sonic and Tails' stages are the standout: short, fast and built for speed, with shortcuts and skips for anyone who wants to push the timer. Not every style lands equally, and one purple cat's fishing trips divide players more than anything else in the game.
Adventure fields and a garden of little pets
Between the stages you wander open hub areas with no pressure: talk to the locals, poke into corners for secrets and watch the same places change as each character's story moves forward. Finding your way around can take some looking, but the fields give the game room to breathe between the sprints. Then there is the Chao Garden, a whole minigame where you breed and raise your own little Chao, feed them, and enter them in battles against other Chao. It is the kind of side mode that quietly eats hours, and this is where it started.
Do you need mods to play it?
How long is the game, and is there replay value?
A single character's story is short, but there are six of them, each with different levels and bosses, so a full run takes considerably longer. Every stage also has graded time-attack missions at increasing difficulty, and the top ranks demand real mastery of skips and shortcuts. Add the Chao Garden and you have reasons to come back long after the credits.
Is it family friendly?
Yes. It is a bright, cheerful game about cartoon animals fighting a round villain, with nothing scarier than a big monster made of water. Kids can enjoy the running and jumping, and adults get the speedrunning and the Chao breeding on top.
Can you play it solo?
It is a singleplayer game through and through. Every story, every race and every Chao battle is a one-player affair, which suits its structure: you switch between characters yourself as their stories interleave.
