Not sure, I would imagine USA, since isn't there legal complications relating to ownership of the Japanese soundtrack.
Buh? Legal complications? What's the story?
This might explain why Sonic Boom rather than Toot Toot Sonic Warrior in the latest Smash Bros.
I can't remember the details, but I think it's why in "Sonic Gems Collection" it has the USA soundtrack.
Something to do with someone other than Sega owning the rights to (parts of?) it I think.
I think that was just Sonic 1 & Sonic 2 that had that trouble, hence no tracks from those games are remixed for Smash Bros. or Sonic Chronicles. I don't think Sonic CD has any legal trouble involving either of the soundtracks.
Is any Sonic music in? (I am going to assume you work at Bioware by the way). That's kind of interesting though, how they let you use the characters but not the music. Different people designed both, I know, but still.
Yes, iirc there is some music (I think remixed) from Sonic CD, and Richard Jacques also did a few tracks for it.
Oh awesome. Sonic CD has some really incredible music, so that's not too bad then.
But is it Japanese or US Sonic CD?
(Mind you, I actually like the US soundtrack, which I think automatically excludes me from the Sonic fandom for all time)
This was used for the sonic screensaver on the same disk, as far as I know.
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood takes the franchise in a new and welcome direction, uprooting the titular anthropomorphic hedgehog and friends from their action-packed comfort zone and dropping them into a traditional-with-snazzy-modern-action-elements RPG environment that closely resembles -- and, really, outright apes -- Super NES classic Super Mario RPG and its handheld sequels, to great success.
From the few reviews I've read so far everyone seems to think the game is too easy, especially when you start to level up Cream and get access to her near limitless healing spells that makes it almost impossible to die in battle.
I think it was Eurogamer where I first read about the Cream healing thing. I may use Cream in the first play through and then not use her the second time just get my moneys worth.
Eurogamer thought it was mediocre as well, and their reviews are always really insightful and trustworthy.
Actually, no they didn't.
From their review: "Sonic Chronicles is undeniably a nice-looking game, and its slick presentation makes for an enticing experience to begin with. The longer you play, however, the more the cracks start to show, and what seemed like a potential minor classic is soon reduced to just "pretty good"."
7/10: "A seven in Eurogamer speak is something we greatly recommend you have a good look at before you buy, because you can bet many highly regarded games over the years have been awarded a seven. If you're a fan of the genre in question then there's a very good chance you'll get a lot out of it, and often you'll hear a game's vocal following doing their best to boost its chances. Conversely, many detractors will seek to kick it down even further. A seven suggests you're into the idea of the game you should still try and check it out - you might like it more than you think, or be able to forgive its less than brilliant visuals. Or maybe it looks good, but the camera issues were just unforgiving, or maybe the AI wasn't up to much.
Over the years, in gaming parlance, seven has become almost the real 'average' score, but this is nonsense that we wish was flushed out of the scoring system with many publications terrified of giving certain games - particularly those of a great significance backed by big ad campaigns - less than this mark. Often giving less than seven is deemed to be the point of no return, with this considered to be the psychological barrier at which point people decide to buy at or not. But we're resistant to the idea and believe seven equates to being a very good score, and one that should be given more credit. In Eurogamer's eyes, it's still a great game, but one that is likely to sport a few areas where the game is blatantly let down - to the detriment of its overall quality and enjoyment. "
In short, they thought it was a good game with a few flaws (primarily low difficulty). If you can overlook those flaws, it's a great game.
This game is totally awesome. If you just pick all of the responses that sound dickish.
It's like
Sonic The Hedgehog : Be An Asshole to All those Annoying Animal Friends
randombattle on
I never asked for this!
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AegeriTiny wee bacteriumsPlateau of LengRegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
I've heard this game is pretty terrible actually. I was looking forward to it, but I've not been encouraged by early reports. Is the dialogue truly as terrible as what some people have been telling me?
I've heard this game is pretty terrible actually. I was looking forward to it, but I've not been encouraged by early reports. Is the dialogue truly as terrible as what some people have been telling me?
Not at all. There was a little piece of dialog earlier in the game that made me chuckle, but generally I'd say it's average, not terrible.
EDIT: Seriously though, what were you expecting with a Sonic game, Shakespeare?
I've heard this game is pretty terrible actually. I was looking forward to it, but I've not been encouraged by early reports. Is the dialogue truly as terrible as what some people have been telling me?
Not at all. There was a little piece of dialog earlier in the game that made me chuckle, but generally I'd say it's average, not terrible.
EDIT: Seriously though, what were you expecting with a Sonic game, Shakespeare?
Well, Sonic games have taken a turn towards sort of complicated yet retarded stories that are illsuited for a Sonic game.
Well, I just got done with this a few hours ago. It was great, I'd give it about an 8/10.
The story was pretty good, but the writing was just fantastic. I think Robotnik might be my favorite game character so far this year, he really showed that Bioware was making these characters interesting. I couldn't belive the ending
Seriously Bioware? A cliffhanger? AAAAGH
The music was alright, I didn't like most of it but there are a few great tracks (
Okay, so i've been playing this for 4 or 5 hours and here are my only complaints so far
The music is pretty much shit (except for the battle themes which are kinda catchy)
WAAAAAY too much backtracking in the first few hours of gameplay
Messing up the EBA style POW attacks have too harsh of a penalty
and the numbers in battles almost seem random sometimes..I know there's speed and defense type of modes being activated by the enemies, but it would be nice if it were a bit more clear on what's going on
So yeah, other than those things, great game so far.
This game is totally awesome. If you just pick all of the responses that sound dickish.
It's like
Sonic The Hedgehog : Be An Asshole to All those Annoying Animal Friends
If any game gives me dialouge options it's clear they want me to be a dick and I am happy to oblige.
Sonic can be a giant asshole in this and it's glorious. The only way he could be more of a jerk to people is if every dialogue option was replaced with YOU'RE TOO SLOWWWW!!!
Telling Tails to shut his mouth and stop reminding me to save is great.
This game is totally awesome. If you just pick all of the responses that sound dickish.
It's like
Sonic The Hedgehog : Be An Asshole to All those Annoying Animal Friends
If any game gives me dialouge options it's clear they want me to be a dick and I am happy to oblige.
Sonic can be a giant asshole in this and it's glorious. The only way he could be more of a jerk to people is if every dialogue option was replaced with YOU'RE TOO SLOWWWW!!!
Telling Tails to shut his mouth and stop reminding me to save is great.
So far my favorite line is him saying that Amy doesn't deserve to be happy ever.
It seems only Ian Flynn can write good Sonic stories nowadays with Archie Sonic the Hedgehog being evidence.
I always feel proud having met Ian online years before he ever started at archie. Hell I bet I'm one of the only people here who even knows of his original sonic comic series, Other-M =P
And I'm really torn on this. I love sonic, but I'm on a bit of an RPG burn-out as it is. That mixed with the average reviews and yah -_-
Just a reminder that this becomes available for request tonight on Goozex. I'll be hovering my cursor at midnight to try and get a decent place in line.
What time zone's midnight do they update the game lists? I've got a good amount of points left and I wouldn't mind being high up in the queue for this game.
What time zone's midnight do they update the game lists? I've got a good amount of points left and I wouldn't mind being high up in the queue for this game.
I'm really bad with time zones, but I'm in Pacific Time which is GMT -8, and it happens for me at 11pm, if that helps.
What time zone's midnight do they update the game lists? I've got a good amount of points left and I wouldn't mind being high up in the queue for this game.
I'm really bad with time zones, but I'm in Pacific Time which is GMT -8, and it happens for me at 11pm, if that helps.
I'm in the same time zone so that's easy to calculate.
I may just be starting to get paranoid, but it's been a while and I'm starting to think that it may be 10pm instead of 11pm. Worth a check at that time anyways.
This game is totally awesome. If you just pick all of the responses that sound dickish.
It's like
Sonic The Hedgehog : Be An Asshole to All those Annoying Animal Friends
If any game gives me dialouge options it's clear they want me to be a dick and I am happy to oblige.
Sonic can be a giant asshole in this and it's glorious. The only way he could be more of a jerk to people is if every dialogue option was replaced with YOU'RE TOO SLOWWWW!!!
Telling Tails to shut his mouth and stop reminding me to save is great.
So far my favorite line is him saying that Amy doesn't deserve to be happy ever.
I suddenly have an urge to buy this game.
-SPI- on
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WhiteZinfandelYour insidesLet me show you themRegistered Userregular
This game is totally awesome. If you just pick all of the responses that sound dickish.
It's like
Sonic The Hedgehog : Be An Asshole to All those Annoying Animal Friends
If any game gives me dialouge options it's clear they want me to be a dick and I am happy to oblige.
Sonic can be a giant asshole in this and it's glorious. The only way he could be more of a jerk to people is if every dialogue option was replaced with YOU'RE TOO SLOWWWW!!!
Telling Tails to shut his mouth and stop reminding me to save is great.
So far my favorite line is him saying that Amy doesn't deserve to be happy ever.
I suddenly have an urge to buy this game.
I suddenly have the urge to buy this game and steal my brother's DS next time I'm at his apartment.
This game is totally awesome. If you just pick all of the responses that sound dickish.
It's like
Sonic The Hedgehog : Be An Asshole to All those Annoying Animal Friends
If any game gives me dialouge options it's clear they want me to be a dick and I am happy to oblige.
Sonic can be a giant asshole in this and it's glorious. The only way he could be more of a jerk to people is if every dialogue option was replaced with YOU'RE TOO SLOWWWW!!!
Telling Tails to shut his mouth and stop reminding me to save is great.
So far my favorite line is him saying that Amy doesn't deserve to be happy ever.
I suddenly have an urge to buy this game.
I suddenly have the urge to buy this game and steal my brother's DS next time I'm at his apartment.
It's totally worth it just to be a complete asshole to Tails and Amy.
I may just be starting to get paranoid, but it's been a while and I'm starting to think that it may be 10pm instead of 11pm. Worth a check at that time anyways.
Paranoia, while it may occasionally destroy ya, certainly does comes in handy once in a while. The request time did turn out to start at 10pm Pacific. It's a shame that I fumbled around like a moron for a couple of minutes though and wound up 9th. I want to abuse Sonic's friends, too!:twisted:
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Hm. Well, weirder things have happened.
Shame, though. The Japanese soundtrack is awesome.
I never asked for this!
http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3170205
I think that was just Sonic 1 & Sonic 2 that had that trouble, hence no tracks from those games are remixed for Smash Bros. or Sonic Chronicles. I don't think Sonic CD has any legal trouble involving either of the soundtracks.
This was used for the sonic screensaver on the same disk, as far as I know.
From the article-
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood takes the franchise in a new and welcome direction, uprooting the titular anthropomorphic hedgehog and friends from their action-packed comfort zone and dropping them into a traditional-with-snazzy-modern-action-elements RPG environment that closely resembles -- and, really, outright apes -- Super NES classic Super Mario RPG and its handheld sequels, to great success.
I guess I'm sold.
Cream is apparently what Toadstool was in SMRPG.
Interesting.
The shitty site with shitty reviews doesn't like it, and the better site with better reviews does?
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Actually, no they didn't.
From their review: "Sonic Chronicles is undeniably a nice-looking game, and its slick presentation makes for an enticing experience to begin with. The longer you play, however, the more the cracks start to show, and what seemed like a potential minor classic is soon reduced to just "pretty good"."
7/10: "A seven in Eurogamer speak is something we greatly recommend you have a good look at before you buy, because you can bet many highly regarded games over the years have been awarded a seven. If you're a fan of the genre in question then there's a very good chance you'll get a lot out of it, and often you'll hear a game's vocal following doing their best to boost its chances. Conversely, many detractors will seek to kick it down even further. A seven suggests you're into the idea of the game you should still try and check it out - you might like it more than you think, or be able to forgive its less than brilliant visuals. Or maybe it looks good, but the camera issues were just unforgiving, or maybe the AI wasn't up to much.
Over the years, in gaming parlance, seven has become almost the real 'average' score, but this is nonsense that we wish was flushed out of the scoring system with many publications terrified of giving certain games - particularly those of a great significance backed by big ad campaigns - less than this mark. Often giving less than seven is deemed to be the point of no return, with this considered to be the psychological barrier at which point people decide to buy at or not. But we're resistant to the idea and believe seven equates to being a very good score, and one that should be given more credit. In Eurogamer's eyes, it's still a great game, but one that is likely to sport a few areas where the game is blatantly let down - to the detriment of its overall quality and enjoyment. "
In short, they thought it was a good game with a few flaws (primarily low difficulty). If you can overlook those flaws, it's a great game.
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May we hear this now?
I'm not very far into the game, but this is pretty much how I feel right now.
It's like
Sonic The Hedgehog : Be An Asshole to All those Annoying Animal Friends
I never asked for this!
Not at all. There was a little piece of dialog earlier in the game that made me chuckle, but generally I'd say it's average, not terrible.
EDIT: Seriously though, what were you expecting with a Sonic game, Shakespeare?
Uhhh...soon, it's still in "post"
Well, Sonic games have taken a turn towards sort of complicated yet retarded stories that are illsuited for a Sonic game.
The story was pretty good, but the writing was just fantastic. I think Robotnik might be my favorite game character so far this year, he really showed that Bioware was making these characters interesting. I couldn't belive the ending
The music was alright, I didn't like most of it but there are a few great tracks (
All in all, I really wouldn't mind a sequel.
The music is pretty much shit (except for the battle themes which are kinda catchy)
WAAAAAY too much backtracking in the first few hours of gameplay
Messing up the EBA style POW attacks have too harsh of a penalty
and the numbers in battles almost seem random sometimes..I know there's speed and defense type of modes being activated by the enemies, but it would be nice if it were a bit more clear on what's going on
So yeah, other than those things, great game so far.
If any game gives me dialouge options it's clear they want me to be a dick and I am happy to oblige.
Sonic can be a giant asshole in this and it's glorious. The only way he could be more of a jerk to people is if every dialogue option was replaced with YOU'RE TOO SLOWWWW!!!
Telling Tails to shut his mouth and stop reminding me to save is great.
I never asked for this!
Right, it's up now.
I always feel proud having met Ian online years before he ever started at archie. Hell I bet I'm one of the only people here who even knows of his original sonic comic series, Other-M =P
And I'm really torn on this. I love sonic, but I'm on a bit of an RPG burn-out as it is. That mixed with the average reviews and yah -_-
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I'm really bad with time zones, but I'm in Pacific Time which is GMT -8, and it happens for me at 11pm, if that helps.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/idolninja
I'm in the same time zone so that's easy to calculate.
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I suddenly have the urge to buy this game and steal my brother's DS next time I'm at his apartment.
I never asked for this!
It's 1 AM EDT by the way.
Also, 3rd.
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