DS #2794: Sonic Chronicles Dark Brotherhood (USA)

[Novelsito]

Man. I've been waiting on this forever. For some unknown reason, I prefer to use (U) ROMs; I didn't expect to have to wait this long for it.

you didnt miss anything
probably the worst game of the year

 

[Ferrariman]

Man. I've been waiting on this forever. For some unknown reason, I prefer to use (U) ROMs; I didn't expect to have to wait this long for it.

you didnt miss anything
probably the worst game of the year

Uhhh...no.

 

[Delfin]

It's a decent game, but the beginning has a few quite frustrating game mechanics and which I haven't found out personally yet (since I haven't been playing much further than getting Big in my party) if they become better or not.

Spending 50-75% of the time seeing "miss" in a fight isn't fun, and the chasing concept when there's 4 party members is very frustrating too at times, there's no rhythm whatsoever to the jumping for the characters and you have less than half a sec to react to 2-4 jumps at once sometimes.. not even Ouendan is like that.

 

[kaisai]

europe saves work with this one? too lazy to try out. sori

yea, mine works just fine

 

[Schlupi]

Crappy game= no capture of my interest.

go play Mother 3 instead.

 

[Hadrian]

If this game is bad than I wanna know what you people deem is good! This was a very good RPG, much better than the drivel we've had recently.

This was different to these boring, samey, nerdy RPG's with the same old tired anime look that are always out now.

 

[ShadowXP]

If this game is bad than I wanna know what you people deem is good! This was a very good RPG, much better than the drivel we've had recently.

This was different to these boring, samey, nerdy RPG's with the same old tired anime look that are always out now.

I agree. It's good fun, haven't finished it yet but I'm enjoying it so far.

 

[Torte]

It's a Sonic game... that's why it's soooooo bad

 

[iNFiNiTY]

you didnt miss anything
probably the worst game of the year
QUOTE(Schlupi @ Oct 18 2008, 09:00 PM) Crappy game= no capture of my interest.

go play Mother 3 instead.

im willing to bet you both didnt even play the game. general opinion is that its good, by the media and people who actually played it. unless you have some constructive posts about why its bad how about you just not bother at all?

 

[Covarr]

you didnt miss anything
probably the worst game of the year
QUOTE(Schlupi @ Oct 18 2008, 09:00 PM) Crappy game= no capture of my interest.

go play Mother 3 instead.

im willing to bet you both didnt even play the game. general opinion is that its good, by the media and people who actually played it. unless you have some constructive posts about why its bad how about you just not bother at all?

Sonic Chronicles isn't just slow paced for a Sonic game, it's slower than most RPGs. The battles are slightly less deep than even the shallowest of RPGs, and the overworld puzzles require such complicated solutions as "you need to switch to Amy". The story is less exciting than the crap story in Sonic Rush Adventure, and you have to spend a lot of time wandering around just to find what happens next. A significant chunk of the game consists of going to places so that you can find out what other places you need to go to, like a giant fetch quest without the items to be fetched. The music stinks; they completely missed a brilliant opportunity to use the Green Hill Zone theme from Sonic 1 in Green Hill Zone, or the level complete theme used in virtually every Sonic game since Sonic 3 for completed battles (you'd think it'd be obvious, but they screwed it up), instead using throughout the entire game original music that ranges from sub par to genuinely atrocious.

This game is by no means bad on the same level as M&M Kart Racing, Ninjabread Man, or Anubis II, but it's not nearly as good as the many would have you think. The only things it even does tolerably well are done much better by other games. Basically, it's worth a play if you've already completed EVERY OTHER RPG EVER RELEASED and you need something to fill your time.

 

[iNFiNiTY]

Yeah you see thats a better post. about the music thing though, wouldn't green hill zone or any of the fast paced 16bit music be completely inappropriate for an RPG?

 

[flamesmaster]

this game is rubbish

 

[St_Zartan]

The internet doesn't have the diligence it once had. Remember years back when all we had were NES and SNES roms? And people had actually gone and translated games that you couldn't get outside of Japan. THAT was dedication. Today it's no longer like that, and personally I blame the media's invasion of the internet, the mainstreaming of the internet, and the persistence of puerile memes and the vandal mentality that has done for the internet what the religious imperialism of the dark ages did for the human race's progression overall.

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