Question: What IS Sonic Adventure 3? I see fans ask for it all the time, but frankly I don't know what it is. What would an appropriate Sonic Adventure 3 be to you? Does it have to be called Sonic Adventure 3 to fit that criteria?Nobody wanted the game to be a pseudo-reboot in a world with no connection to the previous games, have a ugly redesigned Eggman who looks overly realistic, include a relationship between Sonic and a human that completely undermines the point of Amy, or have a painfully stupid time travel plot. SA2's story found the perfect balance between serious and silly, but 06 took it way too far.
I'm genuinely curious. I mean like, Nintendo make (at least) three different brands of Mario games now: 2D side-scrollers, 3D-linear, and 3D-open. To some people, Mario Odyssey is Mario 64 3, as per the gameplay similarities and escalation between 64, Sunshine, and then Odyssey. Nintendo essentially consider it as such:
If a similar graph was made for Sonic, I would lump the two categories of 3D Sonic as such:
3D Adventure:
Sonic Adventure 1
Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic '06
3D Boost:
Sonic Unleashed
Sonic Colors
Sonic Generations
Sonic Forces
The only outlier is Sonic Heroes, as it is very different from the Adventure games that preceded it in gameplay and tone; I guess Heroes and Shadow could be lumped together as a weird, tonally inconsistent phase in Sonic's weird life, haha.
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