To see that there are some conceptual problems with Sonic Chronicle: The Dark Brotherhood is putting it lightly. Sonic has always been at his best when he runs very quickly in platforming levels, and everything that moves away from the formula ends up taking away from the experience. Fishing levels, silly animal friends, adventure stages... just let the poor guy run fast. That's what he does. Giving BioWare reign over a series that only works well with arcade-y action and asking them to turn into into an RPG may sound like a dream team, but it's nothing but a wasted opportunity.
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.
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Hmm well they were rather critical. I guess the DS just has to high of standard for RPGs now. Curse and a blessing. I'm still going to pick this one up though should at least entertain my Sonic fan and rpg fan in me