It's not easy for a big developer known for making family-friendly platformers to go and suddenly learn how to create a role-playing game. Nintendo knew this when it farmed out Super Mario RPG to Square all the way back in 1996, and that legacy carries on this year with Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. For this DS RPG, Sega has employed the aid of one of the biggest names in the genre: Mass Effect developer BioWare. To see how this unlikely Japanese-Canadian alliance is working out, GameSpot played through the first few hours of a nearly complete version of Sonic Chronicles.
Despite the fame and popularity of both the studio and the IP in question, not everyone knows that Bioware developed a Sonic RPG prior to them being acquired by EA, Sonic Chronicles for the Nintendo DS, and it was recently detailed in a DidYouKnowGaming video that both Bioware and SEGA were down for a sequel, but it was ultimately canceled for a surprising reason: SEGA was sued for copyright infringement
to be fair tho, the rpg for the DS was a mess.
touchscreen-only was not a good way to make a game like this.
I wish Sega got together with Square and made a Sonic RPG for the Genesis I would have played that.
Just because the first one sucked, doesn't mean Sega should abandon the idea of a Sonic RPG.
BioWare has hit a rough patch following the release of Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem. However, the company has released many acclaimed games over the decades. With many being beloved titles still heralded as some of the video games ever made. Here are the top 5 best BioWare games of all time.
