Ranking EVERY Stage in Sonic Adventure DX 

Amy is almost entirely saved by just how fun hammer flips are though

Red Mountain is being severely underrated here. It is a fantastic Sonic stage, arguably his best imo, making the best use of his spin dash throughout both the 1st and 2nd acts. Gamma's is also probably his best stage outside of Hot Shelter. It's still short but feels a bit longer than all the previous stages

I never realized the RNG part of Amy's final level, I have played this game several times through and must have always got it on the first try🤷‍♂️ crazy luck there

There's only one thing I think you missed, the flashback version of the Mystic Ruins. I loved running around in that area as a kid, and still really enjoy how beautiful and colourful it is as an adult

I love the quotes of the chars after every ranking

This is amazing! I miss Sonic Adventure DX. The casino and most of the music are my favorite to listen to when I need to calm down. I love this game, and it makes me wanna cry lol

Emerald coast is incredible- to the point that the Coast area in Sonic06 feels like an insult to it compared to it when you realize how many places that were supposed to be references lol

fun fact, pleasure castle(twinkle park act 2 theme) is also a 3d blast remix, but of an unused track for knuckles’s special stage

Favourite part in sonic adventure dx is hands down going from twinkle park to speed highway and just the sunset/nighttime vibes of station square is very relaxing. The egg carrier theme is so chill and unique. I agree that beta mk2 theme is amazing, one of my favourite tracks in the game. I also really like lost world, very atmospheric soundtrack and level design is cool.

you actually CAN beat the cannon by doing absolutely nothing, it destroys itself after some time for some reason also, chaos 6 being a semi-final boss for sonic but being a final boss with stuff that makes it slightly harder might be a reference to Sonic & Knuckles' Mecha Sonic fight in Knuckles' route.

i like gamma’s final egg because of how many secrets are in it with it being a fast way of getting many rings

51:13 This is the first time I ever heard of this and I played this game since childhood, got my mind blown right here.

Sonic Adventure is so special to me. Ive tried to get into SA2 multiple times through the years, but it just doesn't hit the same. I got both the year they launched on Dreamcast. The way SA captured me is just next level. I play through DX once a year since 2007. The memories of the SDU chao, my first play through over the course of like 2 days, the fascination with the Chao Garden because i was in the era of pokemon and keychain virtual pets. Every time i play it im back to my childhood, and I appreciate it; flaws and all. I've been subbed a good while now and enjoy it all, but videos full of SA1 hype like this hit different for me, lol.

Since you’re knowledgeable on the speed game, I propose chaos 4 should go in omega tier for being a randomly generated thorn in the side of every Sonic’s story runner regardless of skill!

Gamma is my favourite character so even when playing through the easy levels he was a joy given how much I enjoyed the gameplay style, so ofcourse I completely agree with the placement of his final boss fight! Gamma's theme and Beta's battle theme are the best parts of the OST to me, and definitely elevate his story even further.

Idk if anyone has already said this yet, but the things the planes in Icecap drop can hurt you

top 5 stages are all big stages. there all s rank

To be fair I read that Sonic Adventures development was rushed so that could explain why some of the stages are really basic or too easy. Like the boss fights. Otherwise they would have made all the stages like lost world emerald coast etc

Seeing a tier list for probably my fav or 2nd fav sonic game is pretty cool. Keep up the good work!

Personally, I'd rank Casinopolis lower. I would probably even make a distinction between the Sonic and Tails version. Sonic's Casinopolis is either two or three runs of the sewer level, which is not that interesting of a section to begin with, or a couple minutes of pinball, which I also find more tedious than fun. Sonic's version is E Rank for me. Tails gets to run through the sewer section once, which is better in my opinion, so I'd say that's a D Rank. Red Mountain is an A for me. I don't mind the relative lack of speed once in a while if the platforming is good, and Red Mountains platforming is really good. And the time limit mission for both Sonic and Gamma are just the right amount of challenge from what I remember. I am also a sucker for lava themes. Sonic's Final Egg is possibly my favorite level in the game. Both songs are amazing, with Act 2 probably my favorite level music in the game. Like I said before, I am fine with a smaller emphasis on Speed if the platforming is fun, and this stage delivers. Homing chains, moving platforms and risk/reward with some scary spin dash jumps (scary for a scrub like me anyways). My hot take is that I prefer Sand Hill to Ice Cap for Tails. Keeping up the gate combo to break the record was a good challenge, which is something you don't really need to do in Ice Cap (I played the DC version, so if this is different in DX, that's why). I also find the controls more responsive in Sand Hill, as the terrain feels more even. However, this might just be a placebo. 37:00 Helpful digging indicator? What do you mean? Is that a thing they added in the Battle version? Because I don't seem to have that in the DC version. Would have been mighty useful, I spent like one and a half minutes digging random spots around a crystal in Mad Space until finally hitting the one pixel with the emerald shard. 37:55 makes you wonder why the Echidnas even installed gravity walls if they could all just climb and glide around... I too was fairly neutral on Amy's Twinkle Park, but then I played the time limit mission. Holy heck. One of the hardest missions in the game, and it's made very frustrating by all the camera angle changes. Whenever those happen, the direction you hold on the stick relative to Amy's movement direction changes, so you end up loosing all your momentum. Especially annoying when you were about to use the running hammer attack to get speed, but instead you loose all speed and get stuck in a 3 second animation. Basically kills the whole run of that mission. Whoa, I don't agree with Amy's Hot Shelter in E tier. I really like this one! It's a simple 3D plaformer level, like something out of Super Mario 3D World, but has some setpieces like Zero breaking through the screens and platforming on machinery and gears. I like when plaformers contextualize the platforming in the setting, and this level does that exceptionally well. Also the music slaps. Big's Ice Cap sucks. It's my least favorite level. The 2000g mission is basically impossible. I spent upwards of an hour trying to catch the damn fish, only to get the glitch again and again. Big's missions and Chao Racing are the reason I don't see myself fully completing this game again any time soon. 53:38 I really, REALLY like shooting stuff with Gamma. His gameplay is largely carried by the viscera of blowing the bejesus out of everything in sight as well as racking up combos. A little simple, but for as short as his campaign is, I am all fine with turning of my lizard brain and just basking in the simple dopamine. Gamma also has the benefit of having the best time limit missions in the game, as you have to not only get to the end fast, but also juggle that with getting combos to keep the timer up. Sometimes you even have to finish with more time than you started with. It feels like a precursor to the ranking system, as this is the only time you have to meaningfully balance speed and secondary objectives (in this case combos). It makes for some fun "on the spot decision making" if that makes sense. 1:01:00 I do like this one. Yeah, it gets boring after 30 seconds, but it doesn't even last that long, so for a quick little minigame it's fun and cute at best or inoffensive at worst. Mystic Ruins is a B for me. What can I say, I'm a Metroid fan. I like areas with a ton of atmosphere. Overall, I don't disagree much. Some small disagreements here and there, but our views seem to largely line up. This was a well made video. Thank you!

9:50 Well at least we got Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games for that… kinda

NICE shadow bit that got a chucke out of me

Man, gamma's story end with that music always gets me

Station square should easily be a rank or s rank of possible. Imagine If it got a remake

Hello Fellow Canadian! i'm from Alberta Edmonton, Glad to run into fellow Canadians when YT gives me locals here and I Love to support them. You Big Time got a Sub from me Man :D

omg i love this video idea! some timestamp sections/titles would be helpful for breaking up into multiple watches (i say this mainly bc i was looking for the mission mode section from your short, but plan to watch the whole thing later)

1:02:06 I remember the egg somehow got glitched out of the room and at that moment I didn't had a rock either, so I was stuck and worried for awhile as a kid. Lol XD

This is such a great video!!! I agree other than Big is the BEST!

Definitely my favorite sonic game

i struggled more with perfect chaos than i did with the final hazard and i think that's so funny

The snowboard missions are ATROCIOUS, both Sonic's and Tail's. Ended my 100% run this past January at like 98.7% January. Feels so bad 😭

Amazing delightful 1 hour, thanks Choa! Worth the wait. By the way, what are your thougts on the song for The mystic ruins adventure? Those "KIREEEEEEA" have really annoyed the crap of me when playing the game

Can't wait

I had a very similar experience but with ice cap with big

Currently playing through the Adventure games for the first time. Just completed SA 1 a couple weeks ago, and am only about 10 Emblems from finishing SA 2. Your Chao guides really helped me out, so I wanna thank you for that! Let's see what you habe to say on these levels, and if my newcomers perspective differs from yours.

Red mountain got done so dirty 😭😭

I can see the effort you put into this video!

Sonic does fly a plane in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, during Tails' route. also the original Tornado was his!

I think you are the first person I've ever seen who not only likes, but actively enjoys egg viper 😂

Red mountain with knuckles walked so pumpkin hill could run

I actually really like sky deck, and that’s because you actually can go fast if you know what you’re doing

BIG SHOT

i LOVE CHAO

nice team sonic chao

Metal sonic for some reason gets all of sonics stages of not all the stages I forget how they handled his

Also, In Casinopolis There is Bottom Skip that Choa talks about, but there is also Up skip, that is easier and cooler Also, Tornado in the transformed for is faser and projectiles stay for longer and hit faster

So fun fact abour Mission 53... you can do the jumps *too well* and fly over the rings. I hate that so much.

34:39 the future in there hands lol

So, Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast) rank: 1)Chaos 0. Rank-B rank. This is really good introduction to overall Sonic moveset, and this is really balanced boss fight overall. 2) Emerald coast (2:00 min A) A rank. Perfect first stage that teaches you about Sonic's gameplay. Have a Really good collision and not a lot of bugs. Also Whale scene. 3)Egg Hornet. D-rank. *homing attack intensively* 4)Windy Walley (3:00 min A) B rank. Pretty good stage overall. Windy path is a pretty cool gimmick, and there is a lot of shortcuts to speed everything up. 5)Casinopolis. (5:00 min A) B rank. Cool stage with impressive lighting feel of the real casino. For the Pinball section-it is alright. For the A rank go to the Sewers. 6)Ice Cap (4:00 min A) B-rank. Overall, every part of stage is skippable, but it isnt too hard to do this. Board controls with Sonic are alright, so no problem there. 7)Knuckles boss fight. C rank *OH NO* 8)Chaos 4. D rank. Okay boss, but gets boring after 1 fight. 9)Sky Chase 1. (Second emblem> 8000 points) B rank.I love this stage, it always feel so cool. Tornado controls okay, and there is not too much going on. 10)Twinkle Park (3:00 A) E-rank. WELCOME TO THE WORST STAGE IN THE GAME. Idea is cool, Skips are really hard, i hate this stage. 11)Speed Highway (2:30 A) A rank. As Sonic said: "It's time for some Supersonic speed!" Really fast stage with good music. I like it. 12)Red Mountain (3:00 A) B-rank. Speedrunning this stage is fun, but on the casual playthrough it can be frustrating. 13)Sky Chase 2 (Second emblem> 22 000 points) A rank. Asthetic is SOOO good.I love it 14)Sky Deck. (5:00 A). A rank. WELCOME TO ONE OF MY FAVORITE STAGES IN SA1. Music is good< skips are great, Segment are sooo cool, asthetic is beautiful. 15)Gamma fight. D rank *Mechanical noises intensifies* 16)Chaos 6. B ties. Okay boss, nothing to say. 17)Lost world. (4:30 A) B rank. I like this stage, but some things could be better. 18)Final Egg (4:30 A) A rank. The ultimate test. Design is really cool, and you dont need skips to get A rank in time. Music is also cool. One of my favorte stages. 19)Egg Viper. A rank. The Perfect Sonic boss. This fight is challenging and fun, i love it.

i love chao

Knuckles goes to Red Mountain too.

Lost World is my personal favorite. I hated it as a kid, but nowadays it’s an incredibly fun gauntlet.

I agree with your ranking on sky deck it’s just a really sucky stage

49:43 big went yippy

Well, time to play sadx for 10000th time

Are you kidding me!? A game that came out over 20 years ago, having played the crap out of SADX, I never knew you could pull the plug out in hot shelter and get to a secret area… I never knew that area existed until now Hahahahahaha

50:36 Shiny version of froggy

16:07 The honor of creating the most dangerous theme park in fiction goes to a certain villain in marvel comics.

SA2 Ranking Next?

My favorite Stage, Emerald Coast as Sonic. My least favorite Stage, Twinkle Park as Big.

Updated ranking now that i have watched the ranking and played the game again (also I played the superior dreamcast version) Worst Chaos 4 sonic (fuck this fight) Chaos 4 tails Chaos 4 Knuckles Big flashback (Softlocked my save file so this is the 4th worst) Gammas final egg Beta Bigs chaos 6 Knuckles lost world Gamma fight sonic Gamma fight tails Sonic fight knuckles Sonic fight gamma Knuckles fight sonic Knuckles fight tails Tails sky deck Gammas emerald coast Bigs twinkle park Bigs hot shelter Bigs emerald coast Chao garden (didn't like it in this game that much) Gamma flashback Sonic flashback Super sonic flashback Amy flashback Tails flashback Knuckles flashback 2 Knuckles flashback 1 Knuckles flashback 3 Mystic ruins Tails windy valley Sonics windy valley Amys twinkle park Chaos 2 Chaos 6 sonic Chaos 6 Knuckles Tails speed highway Sonics lost world (this 1 level is better than all of sonic lost world) Sonics casinoplis Tails casinoplis Sand hill Bigs ice cap Zero Amys final egg Sonics twinkle park Gammas windy valley Gammas red mountain Sonics ice cap Tails ice cap Sky chase 1 sonic Sky chase 1 tails Sky chase 2 sonic Sky chase 2 tails Knuckles speed highway Station Square Egg carrier Gammas hot shelter Amys hot shelter Perfect chaos Sonics emerald coast Beta mkll Knuckles casinoplis Sonics Sky deck Sonics red mountain Knuckles sky deck Sonics speed highway Best Ok well yes I know mine heavily contrasts against yours (Knuckles sky deck was E on yours but on mine its A) but hey each to their own and also yes I don't like the chao in this game (also on the dreamcast version you can make the chao's go extinct) mainly because how clunky it is like I almost killed mine 5 times trying to cradle it and going there as gamma is basically killing your choa well bye now

Emerald Coast's collision sucks in the Dreamcast version too, it's not just SADX.

1 HOUR ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

25:11 Music Name?

So, i ADORE Sky Deck onto the Dremacast. It is Really fun to do with Speedrun strategies, so it isn't bad. Stop hating it!

Sky chase has got to be my favorite sub game, chaos 4 is easily my favorite boss, it's such a long boss time which makes it the best boss. Knuckles sky deck is such a good stage because of how hellish that stage is, you only put the knuckles fight in B tier? Honestly I would have put it in A, it's really difficult and has a lot going for it, 'oh no" shows so much in that fight. Station square is really difficult because of those cars that run over you, super easy to die. Lost world is my least favorite boss fight, because of how slow it is for me, and it's really easy to die and i suck at the game. Chaos 0 is a very good chao garden though, there isnt too much about it and it's sort of like a tutorial that most people would find relaxing. I can agree with your hot shelter ranking for Amy, but its only because of the robot, there's actually a vent in the stage which bumps the ranking up a bit for me. (if you know you know) Twinkle circuit would make for such a fun multiplayer kart racing game, sonic riders but without the boards. 10.5/10

i found a way to get into final egg in just 4 moves, has anyone else figured this out?, also it seems you didn't read the manual, IT EXPLAINS YOU HAVE DO PRESS DOWN ON THE PAD TO HOOK THE LURE, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THINGS PEOPLE, and 1 last thing, for sub-games [except hedgehog hammer] you get an emblem just for playing them in-game, the 2nd is for high score, for hedgehog hammer in game i suggest going for 2000 points for the feather then 3000 for the long hammer which is Amy's secret item, it makes it easier to get the 2nd emblem playing it as a sub-game for the emblems, for the first you just need to hit a blue Sonic & let the time run, like the other sub-games you get an emblem just for playing, the 2nd emblem is high score with the exception of twinkle crircuit since every character can do that stage

I hate sonic's sky deck

2:25 Why did you jump on the loop?

You dissing red mountain ost and level fills my "wrong opinion of the day" quota

You didn't add a surprise S rank just for the Chao Garden to match the greatest of all Chao achieving that rank in at least one stat? smh

whats the chao mod you use

You're too hard on some of these levels Chaos 6 is so cool & fun to fight while also being personal for Big. Hedgehog Hammer is supposed to be a short & sweet minigame that you would constantly replay. Also there were the Event DLC Twinkle Circuit Tracks that were locked in the data for SADX. I always liked Sand Hill better than Ice Cap because of the branching paths & cool ruins rearranging themselves thing. Mystic Ruins has to be huge it holds entrances to half the game's stages. It's also too bad that you have no way of replaying the Knuckles fight other than starting new files & actually getting to that point again.

Wait was it sandwich is knuckles fav food?! 40:37

Why does this video have significantly less views? Sonic Adventure 2 is more loved i guess? Seems strange

Amy is more about her mr x i think

please use dreamcast conversion mod

What happend to metal sonic

You would have better talked about the original Sonic adcenture from dreamcast

Am i the Only one that didnt struggle to get into Final egg

i liked how you went about structuring the video by levels and characters. however, it was a bit annoying to watch. many inconsistencies in the way you evaluate them by gameplay, plot, aesthetic, and then the weird digressions about speedrunning skips. like you said, you're entitled to your opinion, but the delivery felt very negative for the sake of it. i appreciate any sonic content, but this one was off-putting for some reason.

9:55 so sonic riders just doesnt exist anymore

You sound exactly like mr Beast

Fun fact: during the knuckles fight you have a 1% chance to fight tails instead of Sonic and yes even tails says "OH NO!"

You sound like mr beast

Why does he sound like Mr beast

big wears his, common mistake. Big is a girl :)

Okay, but can you rank them according to Game Grumps quotes? Bc Chaos 4 would probably get bumped up bc of the classic but where Arin talks about macaroni for a looooong time

Hi

If you are gonna rank beta windy hill

I love amy's stages, i find them hard at times lol

Maybe avoid putting notes where the RU-vid subtitles are. I would like to know, where is your accent from ?