I played a lot of it back in the day and thoroughly enjoyed it, and I'm certainly not above admitting that it was kind of corny but I can appreciate corniness for its own sake

But I recently picked it back up and it's just not clicking for me anymore.

I feel like it's kind of a skill issue. Years ago I got pretty good at it, and so my memories of it are colored by that. But it's been well over a decade since I've played it, so I've lost all of those skills, and when your memories are of rolling around at the speed of sound, it feels pretty janky to be back at square 1 missing the timing of everything

I installed the first one on my Retropie since I had it when I started college. I've never played the second one why do people hate on it so much?

It is probably nostalgia, since I was also super young and loved Sonic Adventure DX, but I also really enjoyed my time with SA2. I was just replaying it recently, and it was still pretty fun.

Although, compared to the open world Sonic Adventure 1 (DX or not, not sure what is the difference), I can see why would people be disappointed. There is a lot missing if you compare SA 1 and 2.

Whole soundtrack is a banger. City Escape may be the best opening level ever. At the very least in terms of establishing tone.

It is corny but it’s still fun to play. Some of the new ones are really good too, like frontiers, which again is pretty corny but still fun. Not everything needs to be Elden ring