Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

[DarkwingChuck]

The new issue of Nintendo Power has a 7 page cover story on BioWare's DS Sonic RPG. Thanks to NeoGAF poster giggas those of us who don't have the mag can still find out the info.

-Cover Story with nice artwork
-In game graphics have a water color look, all hand drawn
-4 party members at a time
-Each character can do certain things ex: Tails can float over things (standard stuff)
-11 party members total - 7 known are Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow, Big the Cat
-Control done fully with stylus - think Hourglass
-Able to split party into teams at certain moments
-Rings are used as currency
-No random battles, see enemies on the field
-Turn based battles, choose commands for everyone in your party before they actually follow through. Want battles to be fast paced
-Elite Beat Agents style special attacks
-Team attacks (like Chrono Trigger)
-"Fatigue Points" instead of MP
-Choose which attributes to increase when you level up
-Purchase and level special attacks
-Bits of story - Sonic's 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 - first takes place in standard Sonic areas. 2nd takes place in a darker world
-Remixed classic tunes
-"fully animated cut scenes"
-simple dialogue trees
-Side quests

Hopefully there'll be full page scans of the story soon.

[Magus]

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Awesome. Sounds good so far.

This will be the first issue of Nintendo Power I buy in years.

[josh]

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yay


I wish I had more to say, but I just don't

[Magus]

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Which is why Sega loaned the spawn of their loins to a much more capable company!

[Ms. Porkchop]

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That's scary.

[Duel]

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Can't wait to see how this turns out.

[goldgecko4]

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Funny, isn't it? That when Sonic is developed by compaines other than Sega, the game, more often than not, id better than anything Sega puts out? I mean, look at SSBB, not a Sonic game, but here they make him cooler and more useful than he's been in years. Not to mention both of the Sonic Rush games on the DS. And now that Bioware's got it's teeth in him? Game over man.

[Kefka Jr.]

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Chaos Emeralds!

I remember those!

[DarkwingChuck]

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Screens posted at Jeux-France

[BeeZee]

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That first screenshot looks really good.

WTF.

[Duel]

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Dang, the backgrounds are nice.

[Kefka Jr.]

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That's concept art, right?

Looks NEATO

[Denmo]

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Finally, graphics in a Sonic game that I can look forward to.

[John Mora]

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Sonic has been ruined for me by furries and the fact that all the games sucked anyway.

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[Duel]

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Soooooonic Heroeeeeees!

Sooooonic heroeeeeees!

OOOOOAAAHHHHHHHH!