Terrible sound quality aside. This is a solid RPG that any sonic OR RPG fanatic should definatley check out.
.Sharp graphics.
.Awesome artworks.
.Great storyline.
.Awesome JRPG styled gameplay.
.Many characters,all sharing their own backstory.
.Quite long.
.Nice music.
Bad Stuff:
.Terrible sound quality.
.Some dumb sound effects.
.Waaaaaaaaaaaay too easy bosses.
.Sonic's eyes.
As I said. This is a great RPG but like most games, it has it's share of flaws.
First I'll get over the game's biggest flaw, sound quality. It's just plain terrible. It's hard to describe it's sound quality, but listen to this-it's just baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
The sound effects are easy to describe though, but the sound effects are irrelevent and bad to. I HATE the sound effect of when enemies get knocked out/die. It goes like "Boioioioing!" and it makes a solid RPG sound like a goofy, cartoon game. Other bad sound effects include enemies making random farting and burping noises, one of Amy's POW moves e.t.c.
The bosses in this game are waaaaaaaaaaaay too easy as said before. Eventually a boss will just be made of one enemy who uses just basic attacks and has 600HP. Meanwhile a normal battle will contain about 4 enemies using special, hard to dodge attacks and have about 350HP each. Now, what do you think would be harder?
Now, I'll go onto the good things that makes this a great experience. The first is the great graphics. Apart from the bug eyes on characters, the graphics are exceptional for a DS game. The artworks though is where this game really shines. You should see for yourself, I think there the best artworks to ever be in a sonic game!
The storyline is another standing point of this game. The story is highly gripping and (SPOILERS!) has a cliffhanger ending, leaving you just wanting more. You even get to choose what Sonic says in most conversation, so you can either listen to what people have to say and learn more storyline, speed past conversation, be nice or even be a complete jerk to others! (which is what I did to Amy on my first playthrough).
The gameplay is nice too. It's like a traditional JRPG style gameplay with some twists, one of these being a Sonic RPG! The other twist is POW moves. These are special attacks where you must do 3 types of touch screen minigames in order to conduct the attack better. You must also use the touch screen to avoid enemy attacks.
I could go on, so here's the summing up:
Graphics: Their exeptional for a DS game, expecially the artworks! 9/10
Sound: As I said, unfortunatley, it's terrible. =( 2/10
Music: It's very nice, but sound quality does bring it down a bit. 7/10
Story: Probably the most highly engaging storyline in a Sonic game yet, and you get to choose what Sonic says! 9/10
Gameplay: It sure does get repetitive, but that's to be expected. It's solid JRPG style gameplay. 8.5/10
Overall: It's highly reccommended, but due to low sound quality and how many others have hated this game, you might want to rent it first. 8/10