Sonic Chronicles details revealed
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Nintendo DS. Tagged with Sonic RPG.
We’ve seen a few gameplay screens for Bioware’s upcoming Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, but we haven’t really heard anything about the game. Well, IGN has interviewed with Mark Darrah, the game’s producer to help full us in.
Here’s a rundown of what was said:
- The game has been in development since 2006.
- The storyline follows Sonic after he’s defeated Eggman and gone away for vacation until Tails calls to tell him Knuckles has been kidnapped and the Chaos emeralds are disappearing.
- The game is split into two acts - the first one in Sonic’s world where Sonic and the others are trying to stop the Master Emerald from being stolen and the second where they to to a new dimension where they “must stop a new threat to Sonic’s World.”
- A few of the classic levels make a return like Green Hill Zone, Central City, Mystic Ruins and Blue Ridge Zone.
- It appears that the game will be controlled by the stylus only.
- So far, the playable characters are Sonic, Knuckles, Amy, Tails, Rouge the Bat and Big.
- Players can have four characters in a party at once and can combine their special attacks for more devastating damage.
Comments on this article
There have been 15 responses to this article.
Woah, I was just about to post this on the forum, good thing I checked the front page.
Aki-at
Posted February 15th, 2008 at 7:37 pm.
Classic levels such as Blue Ridge Zone… right.
Kogen
Posted February 15th, 2008 at 8:04 pm.
Yeah, I noticed that too.
Dr. SEGA Monkey
Posted February 15th, 2008 at 8:07 pm.
So basically, the party will consist of Any Four Characters Who Aren’t Big! Duly noted.
maxchain
Posted February 15th, 2008 at 8:14 pm.
“The game has been in development since 2006″
And these are the results…
City Hunter
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 5:52 am.
actually the article says:
Mark Darrah “Development began in 2006 when BioWare started looking into developing for handheld systems. The actual Sonic project came along later. Currently we’ve got a decent sized team with over thirty people.”
He just answered the question oddly.
ratix240sx
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 7:37 am.
Might become one of the best Sonic games EVA!
Regards-Alimn
alimn
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 9:13 am.
Classic stages… er… Central City was from Shadow the Hedgehog.
Angelo
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 9:25 am.
They didn’t say classic stages in the actual interview, they just said “locales”. And I still don’t know what the hell Blue Ridge Zone is.
@City Hunter: And the results are…um…pretty damn good so far?
nuckles87
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 11:06 am.
Nuckles, City Hunter claiming the results to be unimpressive is just as ludicrous as you claiming they’re “pretty damn good” seeing as we’ve only seen a handful of screens.
radrappy
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 12:15 pm.
And those screens have looked pretty good so far. Hardly call the claim “ludicrous”. Ludicrous would be saying the game is garunteed to play amazingly well. I’m just commenting on the beautiful backgrounds and solid character models.
nuckles87
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm.
taking out that damn sure does wonders though.
radrappy
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm.
This game is going to be so incredibly awesome. I can feel it.
Gimme gimme gimme.
Saphion
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pm.
“taking out that damn sure does wonders though”
Well, nuckles87/Nuckles/Nuckles87 does have a point though, turn based RPGs strongest points are their storylines and graphics with lush locations and good character models. So far this game has one of those.
Game is coming along nicely, despite being a Sonic fan though, think I’ll give it a miss, not much fan of turn-based RPGS (Only ever liked Phantasy Star, WildArms and Skies of Arcadia)
Aki-at
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 3:51 pm.
yeah but hopefully those portraits are indeed place holders. also, it was not implied that he was only referring to the visuals with his first statement. my mistake.
radrappy
Posted February 16th, 2008 at 4:03 pm.