The game is mostly a set of disconnected stages, but we rarely have a clear sense of how they’re connected and how they make up the larger world. Sonic Adventure always feels small and isolated because it has no sense of continuity. It actually intensifies Sonic Adventure’s sense of isolation and density, despite its reasonably large area size. It doesn’t make Sonic Adventure’s world feel larger, but smaller. What makes the Mystic Ruins peculiar is how it has a totally opposite effect on our experience of the space. After going through Emerald Coast and having a long, exhaustive conversation with Tails, we’re brought through Station Square’s train station into the “Mystic Ruins”, another one of the game’s Adventure Fields.
