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KillRoy231 wrote: I'd say Sonic Adventure, coz it's got a fun story and good soundtrack, though playing as Knuckles and Big can be annoying due to having to seek the Emeralds as Knuckles and go fishing for Froggy as Big, but Sonic and Gamma's levels are fun, and Tails and Amy's levels are all right. (Yes as Amy you're being chased by an enemy you can't kill until the end of her story, but you can at least stun him)

The best sidescrolling one would be Sonic the Hedgehog 2, it's not overly difficult like the first one, Tails is in it, and it's got some cool levels to them (exception being Metropolis which is full of annoying enemies) Sonic Adventure is good because I think it was originally intended for the Seha Saturn, so when they were allowed to convert the project onto Dreamcast they were really allowed to splurge out and decided not to make the gameplay as platform and straightform as the classic era. So they added bumper-car racing, dog fights, treasure hunting, fishing, hedgehog hammer, snow/sandboarding and eye-candy to their fields and stages to make it so much more of a game.

Thats what I like about Dreamcast games, it was a 3D frontier for Sega games which were very creative with additional content because the programmers did not know what to do with the additional space. Shenmue a good example with various collectibles and sidetracking.

Sonic Adventure 2 was also a good game but if I had to complain about it, it sacrificed a lot of gameplay content it's predeccessor had in favour to concentrate more on story.