What is your opnion on the chao garden?

[HoneeyMoth]

I like the chao and feel free to tell everyone where the secret chao eggs are

[Tomberry Blue]

Chao garden was a cool idea, I like pet sims and I like chaos a lot. The problem, though, is raising a chao's stat for races takes too long without cheating and without something like the VMU or a GBA to do it outside of the game.

There anren't enough interactions you can do, just feed them gruit, animals and stuff like that. It's also a bit odd to have a pet sim side game taking about as long, if not longer, as the main game. I'm not one of those people who think Sonic games should only have Sonic and exactly one gameplay type but when I'm playing Sonic I want a platformer, not a pet sim or an RTS or whatever the hell.

[HoneeyMoth]

I can repect the opinon that it was not good this came from someone who gets board replaying final egg or speed highway but thanks for the comment

[Tomberry Blue]

Originally posted by Gamer_Guy9000:

I can repect the opinon that it was not good this came from someone who gets board replaying final egg or speed highway but thanks for the comment

I'm not saying it wasn't good, I'm saying you don't have nearly enough control and things to do in it and it's a big too ... big.

Other than that, I like it.

[Desko]

Imo it's hard to argue which Chao Garden is better. SADX's chao garden is more fleshed out but lacks the VMU features the original had that helped make the garden more immersive whilst also downgrading the Chao Race.

[Gnidex]

Chao Gardens are cool.
Locking content behind this grindfest (GameGear games in original DX, Metal Sonic) is not.

[Red]

I liked them when I played SA1 and 2 back when they came out on the Dreamcast but after having gotten the all the emblems in every version of these games except their Steam counterparts it's really tiring to raise a chao yet again in the Steam versions when I'm done with the entirely of the rest of the game long before my chao is even remotely OP, which means I cannot continue evolving the chao unless I just brainlessly replay the same stages over and over JUST to get animals.

At least in the Dreamcast days I replayed them because I wanted to explore the levels and see if I could find every ring in all of the SA2 ones (Which I found out was a stupid idea more than a decade later because there are rings out of bounds, impossible to reach) but nowadays I already know pretty much everything about these games so I no longer need to explore ♥♥♥♥.

[HoneeyMoth]

But i think over all i like sa2 chao garden

[Evill Bob]

I despise the Chao garden and the Chao with it, I usually skip ever going in both SADX and SA2. Even more than Big the Fat.

[Hermit]

I love the Chao garden, they kept the Adventure games fresh and I ended up mastering levels because of the time it took to raise Chao in achieve everything with them.

Sega could do so much more with them now, I would love to see them return.

[HoneeyMoth]

I think the sa1 chao garden was a thing but sa2 has a much better garden with death and life and evolution. while sa1 has it has... nothing oh oh gold silver and dark chao which were normal in sa2.

[Crystal Sharrd]

Secret Egg Locations:

Station Square: Antiques shop in city hall area. Requires rock from location of Chaos 0 boss fight.
Mystic Ruins: A ledge overlooking the pond. Press a nearby button to get.
Eggman Island: The Egg is on the EggCarrier, in one of the cells.

[HoneeyMoth]

thanks for blacking it out even if i had them all.

[Dark Redshift]

I thought it was cool as a kid, especially as in SA1 on Dreamcast it ties in with the story and SA2's one improved on that, despite Chaos and Tikal not appearing. (Chaos could even have spoken as your new guide if he ever did appear instead of Omochao) However, I found it bloody boring and could never stay patient with it for long:

Time only passes in the garden itself and it passes sooo slowly. Raising the Chao was cryptic and I really didn't know how to do it right, even with the SA2 tutorial.

It's worse on Dreamcast as in order to get unique seeds, toys and such, you had to either get them on the Chao Garden's original Black Market which was a website like Martian Buddy for the original Doom 3 as opposed to being in the game, and/or play Chao Adventure on the VMU outside the console. I haven't even started on that yet since getting Japanese GD ROMs for my physical Dreamcast.

The Chao races and Karate are basically the bonus stages from Rayman 2, which I hate (the bonus stages, not Rayman 2 itself). What really p.isses me off however is that the Chao garden is not optional in SA2 unlike SA1, as you have to win the events and unlock the other gardens as one part of the boring journey to unlock Green Hill without cheating, which ties for annoyance with the all A Rank requirement.

These were the main reasons I just cheat and use an 100% save file (Dreamcast and Xbox) or the mod loader (PC) to get Green Hill instead as I have no time nor patience for that just to get what should be an end of last story reward like getting all secrets in Tomb Raider 3 (which is much easier) to unlock its bonus level.

I don't mind it coming back in the Adventure remake and/or the 2006 remake if it stays optional only and does not contribute to emblems (adventure games) and gold coins/medals (New Sonic AKA Sonic 2006).

[mdesaleah]

Much better in Adventure 2, but still not something id do regularly. Emblems should also not be locked behind it, although there is a glitch you can do to speed it up significantly in both games.

[blizzard_R]

I really like it. It’s great if you want to take a break from the rest of the game and just chill for a bit. I do wish that there was more to do in the garden itself, though. Having to stay in the garden to make sure the chao evolve can get pretty boring.