Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

This is exactly the kind of game I want out of Sonic: ambitious, story-driven, characterized, serious, with fun gameplay to boot. The story involving the Nocturnus Clan and their relations to Knuckles as well as the whole world after their imprisonment over 4,000 years ago, the amazingly done character dynamics pulled off between Sonic and co., a massive number of side quests for you to do, game exclusive characters on top of a big playable roster, kickass music, it all adds up to make an almost alien experience for the blue blur. Not as in it's a great experience (countless Sonic games pull that off), but rather how fittingly well Sonic works in an RPG format. It is truly unfortunate that Ken Penders pettily decided to threaten legal action over certain similar themes between the Nocturnus Clan and his work, thus making a sequel very unlikely to happen, at least in the foreseeable future. Long and short of it, if you like Sonic for the serious stories and characterization as well as just enjoy RPGs in general, then this game is a must play for you.

Sonic Chronicles. The first Sonic RPG game. Exclusively made for DS, it seems to be at least a little inspired by the Mario RPG series. Chronicles is actually a pretty good game. It has a wide selection of available characters, each with their own special movesets and types, that reflect their personalities and abilities seen in other Sonic games. Many of the abilities also use the DS touchpad pretty well. The story tries to be something more, but ends up a pretty standard story. However, the exploring sections are weak in comparison to the battles, as the worlds all have pretty similar layouts and overall designs, and felt uselessly long. Despite this, it's a game that has a lot of potential.

The story was okay. I appreciate the option to choose responses and chao. I enjoy some of the humor including omega and meat bags. I probably laughed more than I should have. The idea of the making is pretty original. This game introduces Shade who I think should at least become a supporting character in future games or episodes of Sonic. Also, the cliffhanger got me pretty convinced there was gonna be a sequel but sadly, there isn't, although if there was I would buy it. I've gotta admit, enemies can be really irritating. The games a bit too linear, resetting pow moves when replaying ****, and multiplayer options stink. Looking back, I don't know why I replayed the game so many times, but I guess I'll give them that. It was a decent rpg game. Though I wouldn't recommend it. There are better Sonic/rpg's out there.

I was hyped when I first heard about a Sonic RPG. I thought it would be pretty cool, especially since it was being made by Bioware. but I had NO IDEA it would come out in this form. the story is probably one of the worst in the Sonic series. it feels like Bioware wanted to take a really bad Sonic fan fiction and turn it into a game. Heck, I’ve read Sonic fan fictions that I thought were miles better than this plot. the gameplay is very bland in this title. you constantly have to use the stylus in the game and it feels unnatural for a Sonic game. the combat can be downright annoying at times. the way the combat In this game is handled is seriously terrible, as you can't really plan what to do. when an attack or defense command is hit, that character must do that for each remaining turn, where items and POW moves take up one slot at a time. this makes the game seriously unbalanced with gameplay. the graphics are terrible. the character models look really clustered up, and don't fit in well with a 2D environment. the soundtrack is the absolute worst in the series, and worst part about the game. each track sounds distorted and annoying, and sounds like a terrible collection of 16-bit music. Overall, what can I say about Sonic Chronicles- the story sounds like poorly written fan fiction, the gameplay is unbalanced and unnatural, and the soundtrack will want you to turn off the game.

Who in Sega really said "Let's make an RPG of Sonic" you know the guy who's entire point in the games is going fast, the idea can still be cool if the story and gameplay is quite decent but this is Sega we are talking about so like always they found a way to **** it up somehow, confusing and dumb story, trash combat that is just not fun at all, the ost manages to become THE worst Sonic soundtrack of all time, Chronicles is so bad even the soundtrack is and absolute dumpster fire