Sonic Adventure 2 HD - Green Hill Zone (A-Rank & Casual Run)

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• published: 16 Oct 2012
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Now that Sonic Adventure 2 HD came out on PSN, I think it's time to put this up. After getting all 180 Emblems in any version of SA2, you unlock a 3D version of Green Hill Zone. Honestly, the level looks pretty horrid even for its time. As I said in my original GHZ video (here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ycymywGv7c), it looks as if they didn't put effort into it. It looks almost like a crappy debug stage. But getting this felt nice after putting hours into the game. Added a "casual" run at the end because many people complained in my old video that they wanted to hear the stage music more. Anyway, A-ranking this is easy. Just basically kill all the enemies you come across while snagging the Invincibility capsules. A-Ranking this does nothing, this is just a small bonus stage with no missions or anything. It doesn't even keep track if you A-rank it like the others. Unlocking this stage is just for bragging rights really. What do you need to do to get all the Emblems? You need to A-Rank every stage and all their missions (each stage has 5 missions). You also need to win all the Chao races (requires you to raise a Chao that can do Hero and Chao races), win all Chao Karate difficulties, beat Boss mode on all 3 options, and beat Kart Racing on all 3 options. What really makes it time consuming is Chao raising. Lastly, a lot of people wonder about the differences in this game from the Dreamcast & Gamecube versions. This one is essentially the same exact game as the Gamecube port. They didn't really add content or fix anything as of right now. They did put all the gameplay scenes in HD, though. Some of the cutscenes are not in HD, though, for some reason. They make you pay for DLC to get 2 player stuff & Chao Karate, which you'll need to buy if you want to 100% the game. It's not too bad, because it means the game is still $13 total, which is still pretty cheap. They also added Scoreboard rankings for your Mission 1 scores for every level. They also didn't fix the voice problem with music in cutscenes (music is still too loud in cutscenes). For Chao stuff, they didn't fix the infinite drive glitch (thank god!), so you can save some time with Chao raising. They unfortunately did not give you an alternative to the old Gameboy Advance transfers to make Chao Raising easier and such. The Gameboy thing in Chao Gardens now only let you say Goodbye to Chao. That's about it I believe. Is it worth it getting this if you already own it? I still say yes. I also think the PS3 controller generally works pretty well with the game. The analog stick being so sensitive makes some things a little tricky, but easy to adapt to still. If you need a guide for getting A-Ranks, here you go: http://bizkit047.blogspot.com/2011/10/sonic-adventure-2-battle-rank-faq.html Follow me on Twitch to support me: http://www.twitch.tv/Bizkit047 http://www.bizkit.me