Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

I know I had said that I was going to do my next posts about Lunia, and I should be a good person and keep to it, but I'm a bit sick of playing it at the moment. So, I'm going to pretend that I didn't promise that.

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut was released in 2003 and is an enhanced port for the Gamecube and was originally released in 1998 for the Dreamcast.  It is also now available for download for Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network.

In the game, you start out as playing Sonic and you have to stop Eggman from reviving Chaos and taking over the world. Simple enough, it seems. Except that every time Chaos gets a Chaos Emerald (see the connection there???). But, not only do you get to play as Sonic, you also get to play as Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Big, and E-102 Gamma as they also try and reach their own goals. Throughout the story, they all go back in time, at least once, and learn a little about Chaos and how he came about through a girl echidna named Tikal.

The voice acting in the game isn't the best. At all. In fact, I had to change it from English to Japanese with English subtitles. And the expressions are over exaggerated. And sometimes the music isn't the best. But the story is good enough. The real reason I play it? Two words: Chao. Gardens.

A Chao is a tiny creature with an teardrop shaped head and a tiny blue body. In the game, there are three gardens that you can unlock where you can raise these creatures. They have stats that you can increase by giving them animals that you collect during the stages. But, when giving an animal that, let's say, increases swimming, it may decrease another stat. The chao will also take on physical traits of the animal, like growing bunny ears or getting a peacock tail. And, when they get older, they can turn in to a neutral chao, hero chao, or dark chao. Though, that depends on how they are treated or what food they are given to eat. But, this part of the game can give me hours of entertainment.

The game itself isn't that long, but you are also able to redo stages and find new things. So, the replay value to this game is pretty high. So, if you don't mind some older graphics and bad voice acting, I'd say try it.