People seem to be going crazy over the Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood RPG for DS announcement so I thought you guys would appreciate some further details on the game. Well here they are straight from the latest Nintendo Power issue:
- Water Colour hand drawn graphical style.
- 4 party members.
- Character specific abilities.
- 11 party members total.
- Known Characters: Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Shadow, Big the Cat.
- Full stylus control.
- Split team at certain moments.
- Rings = money.
- No random battles, enemies can be seen.
- Turn-based fighting. Attack selections for all characters before the animations continue.
- Special attacks play out like Elite Beat Agents.
- Team attacks.
- “Fatigue Points” instead of MP.
- Ability to choose which attributes you level up.
- Purchase/level special attacks.
- 2 acts: Sonic-themed areas and darker worlds.
- Remixed classic tunes.
- Fully animated cut scenes.
- Simple dialogue trees.
- Side quests
Plot
Sonic is on vacation from defeating Eggman 2 years ago. He then gets a call from Tails saying that Knuckles has been kidnapped by a group called the Marauders, and that 6 chaos emeralds are missing. Eggman is not the main villain but Bioware wants to make him a creditable bad guy again so expect an appearance from him sometime throughout the game. Something about a “twist” between Eggman and Sonic which goes back to the earlier games.