From here, turn left and you should see a set of stairs, a 10 ring capsule, and black lifts.
After the railing, you will hit a speed booster that sends you up a ramp. The best method here is to jump up, then do the bounce attack onto them, giving you enough speed to grind down quickly, then do a homing jump to the next railing, continuing your speed. Again, kill the enemy, then do the somersault attack into the boxes, busting them.įrom there you come to a set of stairs going down. After that section you land in front of two wooden boxes blocking your path, with another enemy to your left. Busting it reveals a switch which will cause 16 rings to appear. If you go to the left, you have a wall in which you can run alongside picking up around 26 rings. Destroy him with a homing attack, then continue on. Go up them and you should run into an enemy. If you hit this one correctly, it should launch you onto a trolley car with a Shield item on top.Īfter passing the trolley, you are on your feet. The third ramp is right after the quick left then right turn. When going into the turns, make sure that go to the outside, then cut inside as you go through the turn. After hitting that ramp, you continue down, turning twice before coming upon your next ramp. The first is straight ahead, to your left. There are three ramps before you set off on foot. Morgan Troper is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon.Name: City Escape Character: Sonic Upgrade: Magic GloveĪ Ranks: 1st Mission: 18000 2nd Mission: 1:20 3rd Mission: 2:30 4th Mission: 18000 5th Mission: 19000ġst Mission- Escape from the military pursuit! City Escape starts out with Sonic on his board going down the street. For a video game, that's a pretty impressive feat. The music in Sonic Adventure 2 made me feel cool at a point in my life when that was all that mattered. And while it may sound grandiose, it was also something of a gateway: As a prepubescent youth with only a passive interest in contemporary popular music, this was my first extended exposure to anything in the vicinity of punk or hip-hop-and if drunkenly bonding with strangers over the merits of "Escape from the City" is any indication, my experience isn't unique. Sonic Adventure 2's soundtrack represents the perfect amount of zeitgeist pandering. Sega has a long history of making-or attempting to make-games that feel "current." This is both the company's defining trait and ultimate undoing it gave them a competitive edge in the '90s when a game starring Michael Jackson didn't seem totally insane and terms like "Blast Processing" and "Xtreme" carried a semblance of cachet, but it's also resulted in some horrible miscalculations. (The version which appeared in the first Sonic Adventure boasts the iconic line "You can call me Knuckles / Unlike Sonic, I don't chuckle.") It should be noted that, despite contributing some of the game's most noteworthy performances in "Unknown From M.E." and Knuckles' level music, rapper Hunnid-P claims to have received no royalties and "little acknowledgment from Sega" for his work. (Granted, "I know that your lucky color is that cool shade of blue / Won't mind painting myself blue for you" wouldn't seem out of place on Blonde on Blonde.) One of Sonic Adventure 2's most memorable non-rock moments is Knuckles the Echidna's " Unknown From M.E.," a hilariously literal hip-hop track that is equally adored and derided by fans. Heroine and Sonic mega fan Amy Rose gets the faux-funk of " My Sweet Passion," which features the soundtrack's most inscrutable set of lyrics. Tails "Miles" Prower-Sonic's insecure, scientifically-minded sidekick-gets "Believe In Myself", a self-affirming Bangles sendup made "modern" by Senoue's chugging guitar. These character themes highlight the scope of both games' soundtracks. It's a song cherished by so many that some have even fought to have it replace the Star-Spangled Banner as the United States' national anthem. But to a generation of gamers who came of age in the late '90s and early '00s-especially those who were reared on primordial, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"-esque meme culture- Sonic Adventure 2's "Escape from the City" is an epochal anthem.
To '80s kids, that's probably still the case. Pop culture pundits will tell you that the quintessential piece of video game music is the theme to 1985's Super Mario Bros. I am also about to beat Sonic Adventure 2 for the first time in over a decade, and have been forced to reconcile my nostalgia with the harsh reality that it is not a terrific game: The controls are frustrating, the "treasure-hunting" levels dramatically upset the game's pace and the Doomsday plot reads like a Bob Books Armageddon. At the time of writing this, I am unemployed and addicted to Postmates.
Fifteen years later, and my early, illustrious English education has clearly paid off.
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