I may be accused of wearing my nostalgia shades on this one but this is definitly my favorite sonic game.
Well basically the premise of this game is 6 campaigns: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, E102 Gamma, and the fan favorite Big the cat. Each one is very different from the other and I really honestly had fun with all of them and yes... even Big the Cats campaign. So now I'm going to talk about each campaign and my opinion on each. First we have Sonic the Hedgehogs: basically you got nine stages of some of the best level designs in Sonic history, All I can say is that the the first level on sonics campaign say it all about this game, its simply amazing the music, the graphics, the atmosphere is just perfect this may be the best Sonic level in the history of Sonic games. Basically all i can really say is that this campaign is the best in the game and it's hard to explain in words on how good this campaign is you will just have to play it for yourself. Next we have Tails: again this campaign is amazing, basically the premise is to beat Sonic in a race in each level, they are shorter versions of the levels you have already played, but they work well and I do enjoy replaying them and all I can say again is that Tails campaign is amazing. Next Knuckles: basically the premise on this one is too collect peieces of the Master Emerald, It's actually not bad, because there are only five levels of it so they didn't make it stale, Youve got a radar that will flash faster and change colors so you can find the Master Emerald peieces a little bit easier. for what it is, the Knuckles campain isn't bad. Next we have the Amy campaign: Well they aren't terrible but they aren't great you must run away from a robot named Zero and there are only three levels it's not bad, but again they are kind of boring and Amy is kind of hard to control but it's a short campaign so it's not bad. Next Big the cat: ughhh... Well actually it's not bad to be honest the premise is catching Froggy Bigs best freind, and you have to fish him out yeahhh.... well it's actually not bad if you know what you are doing, you find froggy and fish him out and you can beat his whole campaign within fourtyfive minutes, it's really not as bad as people make it out to be and to be honest I kind of liked it. Next E102 Gamma: again a really fun campain you go around destroying robots for more time to keep you going through the level. while the levels are not the best in the game the story is, I don't want give it away but I really liked it in this game.
So now that I talked about all the campaigns I will talk about the overall story, basically Eggman is back to his usual ways he wants to destroy the city and is collecting chaos emeralds to make a water monster named Chaos, to well... make chaos or in other words get the chaos emeralds to transform and seriously make chaos. So basically the premise of sonic and freinds campaigns is to collect the chaos emeralds. While I don't want to spoil much of the story I do want to spoil the end because there is one last campaign and I feel it neccesary to talk about it so Spoiler Alert. After you beat each campaign you will have to beat one last campaign and thats the Super Sonic campaign and yeah it's amazing. Basically Chaos defies Eggman and finds the last chaos emerald and becomes this huge monster and the only way to defeat him is for Sonic to transform into Super Sonic and thats when your final and best boss battle comes in. basically the premise is to fly towards Chaos whithout getting hit and too basically fly into him and make him explode, it's not too hard of a boss battle and it's not too easy either all I can say is its fun and that there isn't too much you can say about it, all I can say is play it.
So lets talk about the little things in this game for the Gamecube this game looks stunning and just really colerful and I just find it really beautiful on this game. The music is so amazing and makes this game so enjoyable and is just really good. The voice acting is well.. not bad but not great either, I mean for the time it came out it's acceptable so nothing too bad. Another thing I wanted to mention was the Chao garden basically there are these creature called chao and you can level them up by collecting rings to buy fruit or by destroying enemies and taking animals to the chao. There is not a whole lot too it but it still is really addicting and I really like it.
Overall I might be looking at this game thru my nostalgia shades, but I just truly love this game and this game made me love Sonic today, if you are a Sonic fan this game is a must have.