>>31583231Dude turn down the Nosalgia-vision goggles a tad.
I loved RSE and Sonic Adventure, but you're giving them way too much credit. All of that magic and adventure was just you being a kid who wasn't very critical of your gaming experiences.
Both of those games had plenty of flaws, the only truly impressive "secrets" in gen 3 were the Regis and Mirage Island, the latter being something that most people will never encounter anyway, and there really wasn't much content once you got there.
Sonic Adventure's storyline was fucking shit, it was predictable as fuck, quite a few characters such as Tails/Big/Amy were completely worthless to the story, they were really just plot devices to boost others stories, Tails to Sonic and Amy to E-102. Plenty of shit made absolutely no sense and it was riddled with plot holes. And goddamn that lip syncing, should have just scrapped it and left the characters mouths closed. They really didn't put any effort into Tails level design, such a shame.
E-102 definitely had the strongest story, and it was actually fairly good, but it's just when you compare it to standard Sonic story-telling/the rest of Sonic Adventure's story it seems like gold- but it's really just bronze or silver at best.