holy shit this game
>>335112191
I wanted to like it really bad, part of me still wants to give it another shot in good faith.
>>335112191
Brought it for 3 dollars and I still regretted it
This game looked like autism incarnate.
>>335115046
I downloaded for free and still regretted it.
>>335112191
Awesome isn't it? I thought it was. Last Sonic game with the extended cast doing something and an actual plot.
>>335115139
explain
>>335115046
>>335115179
>tfw got this for Christmas five years ago
>>335112191
Sonic as an RPG. It had potential. They fucked it up.
>>335112191
>It's time for our Japanese as fuck character from our Japanese as fuck franchise to have his own RPG on a handheld. Who shall we outsource to?
>Bioware, known for their D&D mouse clicking simulators! Perfect!
Holy fucking shit, how do you fuck up this hard?
remember the part where there was a hamfisted Romance subplot because Amy pretended to have a Boyfriend and Sonic wanted to cuck him?
>>335117791
Sonic had a sex drive in this?
>>335115246
wtf nigger
Eggman technically wins in this game.
Post sonic 3 midi
>>335117183
>Sonic as an RPG
wait wait what? I thought this was gotta go fast simulator number 695. Is it like Paper Mario, 4-person turn based or what?
Really tempted to put this on my R4 just to see if its as bad as you faggots claim it is.
>>335118961
do it, bob your head to some great tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpglqYeQBc
>>335112191
Greatest OST of all time
>>335119092
Gotta love that Sonic music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0VokApxgD8
>>335119092
B-Big Arm?
>>335119232
D-diamond Dust?
What happened to you guys?
>>335115139
It pushed bad fanfic tier a lot of the time, but not enough to really stand out for it relative to the other lower tier rpgs out there.
>>335118953
You know how the Mario & Luigi RPGs have you actively input during an attack to execute it? It was like that but executing attacks were like playing a really slow version of Elite Beat Agents.
>>335119092
>>335119232
This game is probably the best example of wasted potential in all of vidya.
Think about it:a Sonic RPG. That sounds fucking rad, and look how it turned out.
>>335119232
>>335118961
>Play spastic random notes in the same key/scale the original songs were witten in with shit tier renditions of said songs in midi
instruments
>Call them new songs when they're actually shitty remixes
Fuck bioware man
>>335112191
I liked the lore
I wish they made a sequel that wasnt shit just to expand on the lore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBokasoVPVQ
>>335119586
I've read that they lost the rights to the music that was actually going to be in the game like 3 days before it launched, so they had to slap some Midis together real fast.
>>335118841
yeah what a twist, I loved it
>>335119682
That would actually explain quite a lot
>>335119092
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>>335119668
>playing all these at once
Fuck.
>>335115246
>>335119092
>>335119232
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn2YxjPxnuk&index=4&list=PL8B96B299D0F8EB1C
Same composer.
What the fuck happened?
>>335118961
I had and couldn't be arsed to finish it. Not worth it anon.
>>335112191
I had this pre-ordered and I only played up to the swamp before I gave up entirely
>>335119818
>Laughing my ass off from how bad it is
>>335119668
holy shit. this cant be real. that fucking quality. please tell me they didnt released the game like this
>>335120264They did.
>>335119640
Same. Also enjoyed the humot of it
To bad we wont get to see more of Shade
>>335120264
You know what fucking SUCKS?
The SAME composer made this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARy1oZ1wfhs
IN THE SAME FUCKING GAME.
I will never understand Chronicles.
>>335119682
Bullshit fucking excuse. 3 days before launch means stores already got the game but can't sell it because street date.
>>335119682
>>335120385
They didn't, and these midis were available on vgmusic years before this game released.
>>335120385
>>335120510
well considering I read it on this website that makes sense then.
>>335119092
this entire soundtrack was probably written over a 2 day period
>There are people who actually like this game unironically
>>335120919
>mfw I did
I genuinely enjoyed the gameplay and the story and I though the music wasn't that badI also finished the game 5 times
>>335119092
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyDc1H0GrPw
I want to know why someone would do that to such a good track
>>335120354
The only good song in this game
>>335121115
You are a true masochist. Good job.
>>335119818
This is truly euphoric
>>335119092
>>335121192
w-why is this allowed
I haven't played it, but Clement made it look fucking awful. Is it as bad as he showed it off to be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYB8nGP_HtE
>>335121602
Thanks, I really wanted to 100% it
>>335121845
>mfw this nigger got hacked by lizard squad
>>335112191
I actually enjoyed it
>>335118961
I have the physical copy of this, and I played it to completion. It's average, if you replaced the music with something that isn't shitty MIDI music with tinny xylophones as the instruments. With the music, it's terrible, if hilarious, because it's boring, has no impact, and generally makes the game worse.
I think one of the main problems, aside from the music, was that the framerate tanked due to the DS hardware being shit, which made the battles so much slower than they should of been. If it was ported onto the 3DS, then I think it'd run much better. which would help make the battles more tolerable. Not that this shit should be ported, the story is average, and the game looked like shit most of the time.
Play it if you want to, and you'll find a battle system that's hampered by the framerate, a shitty story with an cliff-hanger ending that actually seems slightly interesting (in that it hadn't been done aside from the SATAM), Bioware shilling themselves at the very end, and some of the worst official Sonic remixes your ears will ever hear.
>>335120354
I guess he just couldn't be assed or he was rushed by his boss for whatever reason
>>335122398
Why would they hack Clement of all people?
>>335112191
>be a huge Mario AND Sonic fan since childhood
>never partook in the Nintendo vs Sega debates of yore
>Mario RPG is favorite game of all time
>always gettign tons of great Mario RPGs
>always thought "Dude, Sonic needs himself an RPG! They'de got plenty of characters"
>THAT SHIT gets announced
>heart flutters, totally ignoring that Bioware was making it
>try to not follow it too much to really build the hype, it's a dream come true after all
>finally play the game
>that green hill zone "music"
I died a little those next three days. I tried to like it... I wanted to so bad...
>>335117047
Why does he have socks?
>>335112191
>>335119092
>>335119232
>>335124110
>ignoring that Bioware was making it
At the time, Bioware was still good. There was no reason to expect the game would turn out the way it did.What happened is by coming into contact with Sega, Sega passed the curse of bad games onto Bioware. Bioware games started getting worse and Sega games started getting better.
>>335124470
Bioware stained my dream with it's shit.
![IMG_20160422_114525000_HDR[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/aNNTfm6.jpg "IMG_20160422_114525000_HDR[1].jpg")
>>335121937
mah bruh
>>335112191
The story behind the creation of this game. It can be attributed to a handful of factors. One was EA getting them, the second was Ken Pender's lawsuit against Sony for using his characters in this game, which fucked with the future of this game as a series, and also Archie's stance with Sega was also damaged as a result. Third was the huge cuts in budget thanks to the lawsuit, which basically had the game miss out on having a soundtrack (all songs in the game were actually meant to be placeholders, not to be used at all), and huge world sections were also not added. Gameplay suffered because a lot of the mechanics also were beta phase.
To sum it up, Bioware was forced to not complete this game, to the point that it would've been cancelled. But Sega just went and publish it anyways. This is the product we all have now.
>>335125776
Whoops, meant to say Penders suing Sega. Not Sony.
>>335125776
so Sue happy americans strike agian?
when japanese do that to themselves they usually just think of it as a complement
sega has had a bad run with western partner ship
this game, gearbox and An Aliens game, the GOOD Aliens game barely covering it budget over a year the last sonic series has had mixed reactions, good tv 3dcg series, bad game
>>335112191
It have a quality soundtrack.
https://youtu.be/lrpglqYeQBc
>>335119092
>>335119515
>>335124227
everytime. it is amazing how fucking terrible this is.
>>335124191
Looks like casts
>>335123809
Fuck if i know,i guess he rather progressivehe supported ninja team then they refused to release for beach volleyball 5 in the west and he said the doesn't like then people make rape jokes,or it could be just a stupid prank he pulled.These things are usually resolved rather quickly i think he get his channel back with in a weak or so!
>>335119232
>>335119092
>>335119092
>>335119941
They stole MIDIs off the Internet.
No, seriously. It was reported not too long after the game came out and was easily tracked because one of the tracks had the exact same sequence (it was incorrect) as one found on a popular midi hosting site.
The whole game was doomed from the start since Bioware farmed it out to their rookie team in Australia, I believe.
>>335128853
I heard it was because the composer bailed out at the last minute and took his songs with him, so they had to turn to the internet.
Sega owns the rights to those songs anyway, so they just took what they could grab.
>>335112191
>mfw getting to the rock alien planet
>>335129261
True, what they did was not illegal or wrong. Just really shitty.
I just remember that the gameplay only video trailers of the game (none of the ones with flying text or additional graphical elements) had no sound in them whatsoever. Three of them came out like that completely mute and it's really unusual.
It's a shame since a Sonic RPG of sorts can work, narratively. Chronicles though had a story that struck VERY close to the Dark Legion arc in the Sonic comics (hi, Penders) that tried to force narratives instead of just writing to the characters' strengths (Omega = HK47), had a god awful soundtrack, and tried to mimic Elite Beat Agents for a battle system of all things and utterly failed.
You'd think a faster battle system ala a Golden Sun or a Skies of Arcadia would have been considered. I believe it already had an ATB system.
>>335125776
FUCKING PENDERS! What a fucking hack.
![latest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/duQmiiq.jpg "latest[1].jpg")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPu21-sIwGI
>>335124191
>>335128092
Apparently it was burned and orphaned in a brush fire.
>>335129684
This one isn't too bad.
>>335129561
>True, what they did was not illegal or wrong
Depends on if MIDI conversions meet the threshold of originality.
Listen to them side-by-side. It's painful but at the same time, it makes me better appreciate how good the music in the games can actually be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Qkjon2joc
>>335119941
the saturn/PC soundtrack of that games is pure gold man.
>>335129532
>going through Charybdis's lair
>relaying through Nocturne in general
