[DS] Sonic the Hedgehog RPG for the DS

The assorted RPGs starring Mario have all been quite good; I think the original Super Mario RPG really surprised everyone in how much it didn't suck. It's not impossible for this to actually be good. In fact, outsourcing the game to anybody but Sega is good news.

Even if the game is good, I do see one downside, though. Fifty internet dollars says that Bioware will just make up a whole new cast of characters, rather than draw on the series' already uncontrollably burgeoning cast. I feel sorry for the people who try to have favorite characters in the Sonic series.

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Originally Posted by Lacerta

People are going to bitch and moan either way probably since "OMG THIS ISN'T HOW SONIC IS SUPPOSED TO BE FU BIOWARE >=0!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Given that they've made two fighting games, a racing game, and a pinball game with Sonic in it, I think it'd be really hard to claim that anything deviating from the norm is "wrong".

I will note here, though, that part of what makes the various Mario RPGs feel appropriate is tone and gameplay. It's only appropriate that an RPG starring a platform hero be more action based than the usual model (or how the usual model used to go, anyway ). Will Bioware actually make the game play like something, well, Sonicy?

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Originally Posted by Kuhazan

I think Namco Tales Studio would be a better choice for a fast paced RPG game (that won't involve boring turn based battles) anyhow the only way to do a large scale Sonic game is to have a world 2X the size of Zelda Twilight Princess and just make it a really long Sonic Adventure game where you only play as Sonic...

Wouldn't that make it not an RPG, but just a really long action-platformer?

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Originally Posted by Kuhazan

Does Sonic + RPG make any sense? I mean what are they going to do? "Sonic lost his running shoes (Again!) ... he thinks Dr.Robotnik took them... but he's not certain."

The question here is would that make games like Kingdom Hearts and Brave Fencer Musashi not Action RPGs... but instead really long action platformer games...

Mario + RPG doesn't make any sense either, and yet those all worked. Heck, the original Mario RPG's storyline had a rather complex undertone to it that didn't clash at all with the source material.

Sonic Adventure is strictly an action platformer, and your suggestion of a really long Sonic Adventure in a Twilight Princess-sized world would still be just an action platformer, so I'm not sure where you're drawing these parallels.

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I would call that a fair point, but I'm struggling to think of examples besides the two Kingdom Hearts games, and those had more than just menus and stats to differentiate themselves from platformers. You couldn't even really call Oblivion a FPS with RPG elements tacked on.

Also, if you want to catch up, there's four other Mario RPGs out there too. Paper Mario is a bit too old, but the sequel is on Gamecube (and therefore playable on Wii), and the Mario and Luigi games are for GBA and DS.

I was speaking idiomatically.