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.:Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood:.

Yes, that's right. For those that haven't heard, this is the title of the Sonic RPG that BioWare is developing apparently.

On the forums I'm on, people have posted that a magazine called 'Nintendo Power' has a 7 page article on the game. Whilst the basic info about the article was shown on the forums, Scans weren't available. This is the Febuary Issue, which apparently isn't out yet? Well, I was wondering if anyone could get some scans when it is out. I'm really interested in this game :P

info that was able to be supplied-

"-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, Knuckles, Amy, 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"

enjoy :P remember, if you can get hold of the scans at some point, please lemme have a look ;)


Cover here-> [link]

Scans of some screenies (credit to momogirl12345 on livejournal for scannage)->
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Seen scans of the Article now. That shillouetted character on the front cover's name is Shade, and she's got a cool outfit XD

Article Scans (thanks to *stivthermal for hosting them)->
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Remember, if anyone ever gets new information on this game, please let me know, since I'm trying to collect it all together :)

Edit- 15/2/2008- Four page preview in the UK's Official Nintendo Magazine. Mostly what we've seen already, but has a tiny little bit on the battle system.

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Edit- 16/2/2008- New interview on IGN. Few new screenshots too I think.

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Edit- 20/2/2008- Sega are apperently gonna let us, the fans, vote on the name of the enemy race in the game, from the 3rd March to the 14th March at Sega City :P

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Edit- 29/2/2008- A preview thingy over at CVG.

WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILER-[link]

Edit- 5/3/2008- Go vote on the name of the alien race!

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Edit- 21/3/2008- the enemy race's name is now the Zoah

Also, temp website thingy here- [link]

Edit- 23/3/2008- Blue Ridge zone screenshots up on Sonic Cult [link]

Edit- 12/4/2008- The Sonic Stadium posted up new scans from Game Informer and EGM, which mention the return of the Chao Gardens and some talk about the conversation trees.

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scans-
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Edit- 16/4/2008- New screenshots over on IGN. I hope to Chaos that Amy is kidding O_o -> [link]
An interview video on GameTrailers. Which mainly repeats things we already know. And makes the mistake of saying 'Fall 2007' instead of '2008'. Someone got tounge tied there XD -> [link]
And a preview type thing from GoNintendo, they don't seem too impressed at the moment, but it's still early stages to judge from -> [link]

Edit- 20/4/2008- Fact sheet thing, which is like, a summary type thing you'd see on the back of a game box XD Yeah.-> [link]

Edit- 3/5/2008- New developer interview video, with some in game footage. Unfortunately it's in French, so I can't understand any more words than 'Sonic', so if anyone could translate it'd be awesome :3 -> [link]

Edit- 17/5/2008- Kotaku got a hands-on of a portion of the game it seems, so here's their latest views and a picture of the boxart-> [link]

Edit- 4/6/2008- New trailer over at IGN, pretty funky animated comicbook style :P GO LOOK!-> [link]

Edit- 7/6/2008- Okay, so we all knew that there was an area like the Green or the Emerald Hill, but the fact is, that the game starts in THE Green Hill Zone. Yes. Zone. The ZONES ARE BACK. Whoo XD Okay, that may just be nostalgia making me happy there, but yay anyway :D-> [link]

Edit- 9/6/2008- new preview by NGamer. Cheer for Chao! Lol. Also, apparently E-123 Omega and Shade are playable too.-> [link]

Edit- 21/6/2008- couple of new pieces over at Sonic stadium and at N-Europe.-> [link] [link]

Edit- 24/6/2008- New website with a pseudo-DS style interface. ie- a glimpse of how the 'town' areas will play, complete with some music :P -> [link]

Edit- 15/7/2008- A few new screens. The inventory style reminds me of some of the RPGs I've played before, so at least I won't be too confused XD -> [link]

Edit- 16/7/2008- Thanks =SHADOWPRIME. Okay, here's some Chronicles gameplay demo-> [link]

I spent most of the time laughing at the fact that the guy demoing it sucked, but it looks pretty cool :P 25 hours for a Sonic game? Not bad at all.

Edit- 19/7/2008- The game that'll be available to play at SoS will be Sonic Chronicles apparently.

Limited gameplay per person since there'll only be one pod to play it on, but it's a nice treat.

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Edit- 2/8/2008- New trailer for the game. A short thingy again-> [link]

Edit- 5/9/2008- New interview thing, short interview/trailer. Briefly goes over a couple of points. -> [link]

Also, just noticed that the website has been updated with some story info and some Chao info.




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wooow!!! sounds sooooo cool!!!!!!!!

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OK, I admit that the idea of all-stylus control and any comparison at all to Elite Beat make me more than a bit worried, but this sounds absolutely fantastic! Other than that, I honestly can't see a single thing wrong with this idea. Except maybe the character list, but then I'm just an anal oldschool purist about that stuff. XD

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Yes I liked that name when I first heard it, nice to know its confirmed =D oh WOAH, that cover art looks sweeeet, and the story sounds interesting, I guess they are trying to fix up all the plotholes from the sounds of things.

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I just hope they don't rush it like Sonic Team have a habit of doing. Please Bioware, live up to your reputation! XD

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I like Elite Beat Agents, so I think using some sort of tapping method for a special attack's a good thing myself XD heehee

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Lol, to be honest I couldn't care if the game just made new plotholes. As long as it's good to play (being easily impressed like me tends to help XD) I'll like it XD But yes, I think Sega did the right thing from giving this to Bioware to develop, it seems outside companies have more idea what to do with Sonic than Sega themselves :/ Depressing fact, but it must be said. Sega keep trying too hard to please all the fans, but that only makes them fail at impressing people. They should find their niche and build upon it in future :P

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Well from the screenshots it looks fun to play, I think that even if the gameplay turns out to be subpar(even though since its bioware, I think that isn't the possibility) I would just enjoy the art direction of this game, this looks to be one of the most well thought out sonic games in a looooong while, so I guess it is true now that other developers seem to have a better time dealing with sonic than sega do, heck DIMPS, Nintendo, Bioware, they all seem to be doing a great job, I agree with you Sega should find their niche.

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oh, I've heard about it and seeing i love rpg's, this Sonic game might be good (fingers crossed) :)
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I'm really liking the art in the game myself (and seeing as I'm a Final Fantasy fan, those city scenes remind me of Midgar XD), so I'd buy it for the stone loops and city in the same game XD lol.

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Yeah, I love RPGs, and this is looking really good to me :3

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