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

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.

[isaboll]

i like how the layout of the level is basically green hill zone from the original game in a 3d perspective

[appletart]

I've had this game for about thirteen years and never heard about this stage until now. Huh.

[supermariof]

Fans reactions to Green Hill in a nutshell


2001 = "Aw sweet! They recreated Green Hill Zone in 3D! Its even got all the sound effects!" :D


2011 = "Check out all these cool short cuts." :)


2017 = "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!?!?!?! >:(

[FukiMakai]

Sonic Generations before Sonic Generations....

[joemontag]

I didn't know this was a thing until the Game Grumps brought it up.

[anibala.moralessanchez]

So many years me and my sister playing this game as kids and we never knew this even existed until I heard about it today and had to check it out. Amazing. You won't find secrets like these in modern games that's for sure.

[A-Dubs]

For people saying the stage doesn't look so great, it's not supposed to be a serious stage. It's just a prize for A-ranking everything.

[miami]

It's crazy they put the development time into a level that so few of the players would ever achieve.

[Phantom-T]

Did you know? This is the version of GHZ used in the model of the stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, 4 3DS, and Ultimate!

[tomasgomez]

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 had the best gameplays of all 3D Sonics.

[gustavodasilva]

This piece of crap made me cry when I first got all the 180 emblems on my old Dreamcast. The reward surelly was worth every hour spent.

[nicholasvoyles]

this is technically green hill zone for the dreamcast era. If sega would have done a dreamcast era version of each level in sonic generations, they should have based it off this level.

[dominion]

I had this game for 7 years and still cant get 180 emblems

[Puffypoo]

I love how they made this for fun and to commemorate sonic’s 10th anniversary and now it’s become a sin to have a sonic game without green hill.

[JoeyAOMX]

Has someone ever wondered how creepy is green hill zone stage in the world of SA2?? I mean, you are in the real world with animals, people, technology, wutever, but then you get to a secret area, a secret island where the background just looks 16 bit, a lot of water falls and of course, a weird looking sea, grass tress and things... Finally, the island is only habited by robots, robots with the shape of animals, what the hell is that place?! Consider you are still in the realworld along with people, cars, and stuff.

[sapphirebulletbill]

I wish I could play this... just don't want to unlock it though...

[DarkLink.]

They put more effort into making the 2D level design work in 3D than the visual elements. As a bonus, I don't think it's a problem. The layout is fun too.

[SketchBookShortFilms]

It's definitely one of the best Sonic levels of all time. I'd say Generations is better designed overall concerning its levels but this and City Escape are awesome.

[sonicgenesisadventures]

that 1 min. and 30 sec. stage was totally worth EVERY SINGLE ELBEM

[ZeldasFinalFantasy]

This level was Gold back in my childhood. Good times