Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

• water color/hand drawn graphical style
• 4 party members
• character specific abilities
• 11 party members total
• Characters known thus far: Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Shadow, Big the Cat
• Full stylus control
• split team at certain moments
• rings = money
• no random battles, enemies can be seen
• turn-based fighting. Make attack selections for all characters before the animations continue
• special attacks play out like Elite Beat Agents
• team attacks
• “Fatigue Points” instead of MP
• ability to choose which attributes you level up
• purchase/level special attacks
• Rough story breakdown: Sonic is on vacation from defeating Eggman 2 years ago. Gets a call from Tails that Knuckles has been kidnapped by a group called the Marauders, and that 6 chaos emeralds are missing. Eggman not the main villain. But Bioware wants to make him a creditable bad guy again. Something about a “twist” between Eggman and Sonic that goes back to the earlier games.
• 2 acts: Sonic-themed areas and darker worlds
• Remixed classic tunes
• “fully animated cut scenes”
• simple dialogue trees
• Side quests
  

This post was last modified: 01-12-2008 08:29 AM by Snakey.

sounds ... different

i can't make any conclusion about the game. yes it's sonic an RPG, so signs put to crap, but it's BioWare doing it, so signs point to awesome. who really thought a Mario RPG would be any good, but Mario RPG: LotSS was one of the greatest RPGs of its time and is still an awesome RPG

at first i thought this was going to be an absolute no buy, but the further into development it gets, the more intrigued i am ...

Looks pretty...interesting.

Considering the last awesome Sonic game was Sonic Rush (the sequel is okay despite what it does to frustrate you), the blue blur might actually get a second wind.

pics didn't really affect me. still the same conflicted view of it

Hmmmmm, I'm not sure about this. It looks interesting, but I'm not usually a big fan of Sonic games. So I will have to wait and see.

By the way, nice post.

Same. Can't wait to try this game out.

*melts*

bioware just made love in my head.

O_O eww. I wounldn't say they've "made love in my head" but it's exciting.

The only Sonic game I seem to like is Sonic Rush, even though it can become boring after a while. I really want to buy Sonic Rush Adventure but I can't afford it.

Does you know if it's any good?

I'm always wary of strange spin-offs, but then again Mario RPG and the Paper Mario games were great, and it is being made by Bioware, so perhaps this could be just the game the Sonic franchise needs.