BioWare’s DS RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood was all the time meant to be the primary entry in a collection, nevertheless, the sequel by no means got here to gentle as a consequence of quite a few causes, together with BioWare being bought by Electronic Arts.
Now, nevertheless, Did You Know Gaming has uncovered some never-before-revealed story particulars in regards to the deliberate Sonic Chronicles 2. In a chat with former lead designer at BioWare Miles Holmes (who’s now at Warp Digital), new particulars have been shared about what the Mass Effect studio’s plans have been for the second recreation.
Sonic Chronicles — which launched on the DS in 2008 — infamously ended on a cliffhanger which sees Eggman having taken over the world and rebuilding it in his picture. These threads have been left dangling for over 15 years, and the follow-up was meant to instantly decide up the free threads and go straight from there.
Holmes (within the video on the backside of the article) talks about a number of the ’80s film inspirations, from Back to the Future 2 — “and it’s now Eggman’s world, proper? So that’s a bit of of a Back to the Future 2 kinda vibe” — to Terminator 2, like “if you get to see [where] Kyle Reece is from”. With all the residents captured by Eggman and his robots, Sonic and his pals would want to navigate this recreated world:
“Part of that might’ve been the enjoyable of attending to go to well-known world landmarks and seeing them remade on this Eggman-style, so going to Paris and seeing Eggman’s gear everywhere in the Eiffel Tower, form of watching down with an enormous eye or one thing like that…”
Initially, the sequel would begin with Sonic and his pals crashing onto Earth after the occasions of the primary recreation and being separated from each other. Each celebration would then have to construct up its ranks by discovering and saving others when ultimately everybody could be reunited and staff up. Your aim was to construct up a sufficiently big military to storm Eggman’s base.
Things do not go easily, in fact, with Argus — the mega god solely talked about in Sonic Chronicles — exhibiting up. This forces Sonic and Eggman to hitch forces. Defeating Argus cracks open the Twilight Cage and frees everybody who has been trapped inside there for generations. Argus had been trapping these omnipotent tribes within the Twilight Cage due to a prophecy he was instructed — though this turned out to be a trick. Holmes says:
“It was mainly a manipulation — so we’re left with this notion of: Who’s this oracle, this trickster god that bought him to do that within the first place?
Because clearly, he needed all this to occur, he needed Argus defeated, and now with him out of the best way, the longer query that might’ve been used over the collection is: okay, so we have defeated this one god, however now there’s this different god that is made all this stuff occur. Why did he try this, what was it for, and can it will definitely threaten us?”
So this ending was much less of a cliffhanger and extra of a teaser for the long run, an ending that might’ve been extra passable for followers. BioWare would’ve tapped out at two video games, leaving the torch behind for one more studio to choose up. But not even a second recreation was made.
We’ve talked about that EA’s buy of BioWare might have affected issues, however Ken Penders — a former author over at Archie Comics who labored on the Sonic Comics — believed many characters within the RPG intently resembled the Dark Legion echidna characters within the comics, amongst different issues, which he had claimed copyright for. Penders has said that if Sega wish to pay him for the rights to these characters, he is joyful to debate it with the corporate.
So we might by no means see one other Sonic Chronicles recreation, or perhaps a rerelease, however this new info sheds a light-weight on what might’ve been. And hey, now that Sega has purchased Atlus, maybe we are able to get a model new Sonic RPG in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later…
You can watch Did You Know Gaming’s full video under, and tell us whether or not you needed to see a sequel within the feedback!
