You still give a crap about Sonic? Good for you. You will be happy about this news then: Sega has confirmed that the Sonic RPG announced for the Nintendo DS, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, will be released this year. Sega has been careful to trickle new information very slowly on this one, but that's something for Sonic enthusiasts to look forward to. There are some new screenshots as well, which you can find in the gallery.
I liked Sonic a lot when Sonic the Hedgehog came out, and I actually played several of the entries in the series after that. It was after realizing the that series currently has FIFTY TWO entries (including collections, spin-offs and the handheld titles) that I started to truly resent the Sonic phenomenon. No one character needs that many games about them, no matter how amazing their ring-gathering skills might be. Sorry, Sonic fans. It's just the way I feel.
My love for the DS is unparalled however, so I'm flirting with the idea of checking this out because its on that console and also because it has an RPG theme. I may have to take horse tranquilizers to keep my Sonic rage within, but I'll do my best.
[Via VideoGamer -- thanks, Adam]
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10:51 AM on 02.19.2008
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Sonic is as dead as an stone to me...
Sorry I have to go vomit.
"It was after realizing the that series currently has FIFTY TWO entries (including collections, spin-offs and the handheld titles) that I started to truly resent the Sonic phenomenon. No one character needs that many games about them, no matter how amazing their ring-gathering skills might be."... Um... Mario? Over 200? But most of them are good?
I honestly want to be proven wrong and eat those words, but I doubt it will happen.
seriously i remember a time when sonic was all about running at high speeds... then we got stuff like racing on riders, riding motorcycles and using guns, playing tennis, running at the speed of a fat plumber... and now what looks to be a turn based RPG that will have little to nothing to do with sonic's speed...
Y'know, i'm fine with them making an RPG, but it should be an RPG in the sense that it has a strong story, NOT in the sense of classic turn based combat; like Bioshock, an RPG for story NOT gameplay... It might be really great if they did a good job with the story
and y'knwo it can be done... i mean sure we got crap like Sonic X, but anyone remember Sonic SatAM from way back in the day, with the freedom fighters and all that? ah ya... now that was a good cartoon show... that really takes me back
I'll NOT pirate this if it comes to DS, and see how it is.
Let's see lucas; joint project between, at the time, easily two of the most respected gaming companies at the time. No, most people thought it would suck.
Face it, you can't compare this to Mario RPG. Mario was and still is synonymous with the phrase "good games" while Sonic is far from it.
Seriously guys, EVERY recent Sonic game sucking? Its only been 2-3 years since Sonic Rush.
Probably the best Sonic titles to come out in recent years were the GBA ones... and that's because they were basically extensions of the original games.
But your argument didn't really address my question. Who would have expected Mario RPG to be so awesome then? Square-Enix wasn't as big of a name, they only had at most six Final Fantasy games to their name then. They had a lot of similarities. Mario RPG came out of left field, as it were. And it was the heyday of the Nintendo vs SEGA wars.