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Here's a new trailer for the Sega/BioWare collaboration Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. The above video demonstrates how combat looks in this DS roleplayer, and as you can see, it mostly looks brightly colored.

What I will never understand is why, just because it's a DS trailer, we have to have the game footage squashed into a tiny square to accommodate a pretend touch screen. I think, so many years into the DS' life cycle, we all know what one looks like by now. Way too many DS trailers do this and it's ridiculous. 

Still, I'm looking forward to Dark Brotherhood, if only out of curiosity.


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Secret Cow's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 09:26
Secret Cow
Looks neat. I've been replaying Mario RPG, and that gives me hope for this game.

I think one of the reasons for using the DS screen format in trailers is because DS graphics tend to look really bad if you stretch them to fill a full 640 x 480. By keeping the gameplay video small, it tends to look sharper and closer to what you'll actually experience. In this trailer I didn't mind the DS being there, so much as how it kept floating around. It made it hard to pay attention to the game.
eternalplayer2345's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 09:26
eternalplayer2345
Maybe it would look crap blown up? If I remember my super game boy correctly game boy + tv = meh
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 10:05
MechaMonkey
Make them feel your POW moves!
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 10:37
Cheeburga
I will chronicle your sonic.
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 11:38
mistic
POW! POW! feel my awesome POW-moves!!!


I'm more intrigued then i ever was about this game now :)
silverboot's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 13:34
silverboot
hmmmmm... I recognize that screen tapping... lets open the old memory vaults here...
AGENTS ARE GOOOOO!!!
ah, there it is. yep, the combat system is like Elite Beat Agents. Which is really good. I was worried about it being turn-based, which would be a mixed bag for a Sonic game.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/24/2008 09:09
Holyetheline
What's up with "The Dark Brotherhood" subtitle? It sounds so gay/lame.
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2008 12:46
Dexter345
The battle system kind of looks like Elite Beat Agents. Which is awesome.
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