The semi-new game Sonic Chronicles: the Dark brotherhood, its a fine game, but did it live up to the Hap? Read on to see
Well, overall think Sonic Chronicles is a great game. It's got Semi-good graphics for a handheld game, it has a pretty good plot to it. Though, I saw a few things that weren't so "way past cool".
For example, all the music(besides the fight sequence music) is sub-par.Some of the songs are remixes of classic Sonic songs, though, they are horrible and sound almost 8-bit. Also, after hearing the music loop over and over is very annoying.
The fight sequences are a semi-new look on RPG style battles, but after a while the tediousness of sliding the stylus onto a bunch of dots appearing one after another, I got sick of the fights. When you start the game, and you use your first "POW" move, it seems kind of neat to have to actually DO something besides enter a command and your character responds and lays a beating on the enemy. At FIRST this is fun, but later on when you begin to obtain more advanced "POW" moves, it becomes VERY tedious sliding the stylus around pointlessly.
Also, another thing I hate about the game(slight spoilers for those of you who have not beat the game yet) is when, after you beat the game, it starts you over from the beginning. The only fun thing about this is the fact that you have your level raised to the level it was when you beat the game. Also, you have to buy your "POW" moves again, which is a pain.
(one more flaw) after you collect all of the rings in Zones you have no way purchasing ANYTHING from the shop(s) unless the enemies you fight flea VERY OFTEN and you have uber ring-gathering skills.
Okay, now for some good things(thank God)
One of the good points of SCTDB, is the graphics -mainly the backgrounds- they are pretty good for a DS game. The Backgrounds also add a "classic" Sonic game feel to it.
Also, the fight sequences have great music, it's uber EPIC. Also, the fights also -even though you have to slide the stylus tediously- are fun to watch, the characters animations are superb(for the most part).
Also, when you flea a fight, you have to dodge items and etc., this is a nice feature, considering all the people who run away from every fight, so as not to take damage(I could understand this if you were low on health but come on!)
Well, I suppose this review is done, thank you for reading, over all, I give this game an 8.5 out of ten.