[DS] Sonic the Hedgehog RPG for the DS

Part of me has always wanted Sonic RPG, though that part of me wanted the Satam animated universe instead.

If it has Amy etc in it, and it will likely will, its gonna take some really good writers to make it work.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Not to mention from what I've heard, the best Sonic games were developed in the US.

No doubt there are great JP developers, but both Sega and Square had been sucking latly.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I think using the SATAM characters would be a better idea, the concept, story, and characters can work in an RPG setting. A modern one at least. Not to mention each character has a combat archetype that actually functions, whereas in the Japan cast, we have 3 goddamn hedgehogs that just about offers similar ablities, a theif, flyer, digger, some lil girl with a hammer, and a bunny... And Chaos.

Its stuff that fans of satam dream of, where we already have a setting, a fighting for their freedom rebellion story (which I know has been done in FF7, but its better than the crap Sega JP did, and it technically came first since the show was in 1994), and each character contributes something in battle. Sonic is speed, Sally has brains and can hack, Bunny is the tank and main heavy duty attacker and much cooler than Cream, Tails has flying support, Rotor has mechanic support. if the show went on Knuckles was suppose to appear as well, along with Tails helping out in hacking and techs with Sally as he grows.

They also have other guest characters as well. Whether in a typical JRPG or Bioware's style, this concept works alot better than Amy hitting things with a giant hammer...

But hey, this is all prob just me.

Thing is, if this RPG is meant to have a more serious tone, the Satam universe fits. If its trying to go for more comedic and light hearted like the Mario ones, by all means use the Japan characters.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeesh, the more I think of Shadow's back story the more typical kiddie anime archetypes all the characters are. Hell even Knuckles was reduced to the gullible and abrasive idiot in the anime. And Sonic instead of the speedster with the attitude is reduced to a brooding more stoic hero, and the attitude only pops up when he taunts his enemies(especially Knuckles when hes being gullible again.) And he's kinda lazy too, always taking naps, where as in Satam they made a point that he never takes naps cause he's hardly tired. Oh, and the bratty 12 year old love interest makes Rinoa look like a strong indepent non -clingy woman.

At least Rouge was cool.

Still the trouble with working on those characters is that they're too much like the archetypes, and there's only so much development you can do. I mean god, if I see another Eggman teams up with Sonic cause the world is in more shit than he can handle... Ergh. If more season of the anime are being made, is gonna repeat itself over and over again with this sort of plot, along with mindless kid's anime filler in between.

It would take alot of work for the DS game to break out of it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Hence my suggestion (and many others) of using the Satam characters, cause I can see it working in a western approach, cause, well, its written by Westerners and the characters are much better and have flexliblity in further development. The Satam version isn't just about chillidogs you know :P.

I wanna see Sally again.

I mean, just look at a character like Amy, would Sega let them develop her into a competant fighter and indepedent woman? That's like asking them to change Minnie Mouse into Buffy the Vampire slayer type. Not even the guys are Square change her that drastically, I doubt Bioware can. Satam however can develop their characters even under the rating limations or the original character archetype limit.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Are you sure you didn't mix up Satam with the Adventures series? Cause the adventures one is Tex Avery style light hearted stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_t...ies_.282007.29

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?