Shh, don’t tell Dan, Kyle, and Dave I’m here. I’m still not ready to officially come back to the website but I just got Sonic Chronicles today and figured I’d give you all my first impressions. So far the game seems good but it seems as though that Bioware has fallen into the same thing with this Sonic game that previous titles have. No I’m talking about bottomless pits as they’re kind of hard to have in an RPG (but I haven’t beaten the first chapter yet so only time will tell). I am talking about how right away there is some impossibly hard boss (ala Shadow the Hedgehog anyone?) Seriously, I had to reset my game because I spent a frigging hour on that damned Swatbot (awesome inclusion btw Bioware but aren’t you afraid some rabid game only fanboy is going to flame you for it) and it just kept kicking my ass thrice times over. So I went back and decided to boost Sonic and Amy up to like level 5 before I fight it again (just as a heads up for others who have just started I read on a forum somewhere of enemies called something like Swatbots MK II or something to that effect and they totally just roflolpw3n level 7 characters and I guess they’re in Metropolis when you visit it in Chapter 1). So yeah way to go Bioware for releasing yet another impossibly hard Sonic game (because Zero Gravity for the Wii and Secret Rings weren’t bad enough). Sonic’s gotta be cursed or something. It’s Bioware. They’re supposed to make good games! Though I’m not saying it’s bad just impossible there’s a difference. So Green Hill Zone is amazing and that’s all I can really say. After I finished playing for the night I decided to surf the interwebs to confirm some of my thoughts I’ve had reading while I was following Chronicles before its release as well as some questions I started asking myself while playing the little bit I did. I guess I know Sonic games too well as all my suspicions were correct. I’m not going to mention these in this post as they are major spoilers. However when I eventually come back to the website after I post why I was gone I’ll tell you the spoilers as most people will have it beat by then, me not being one of those people. What I will tell you from what I read is be nice to Amy and it apparently doesn’t matter if you’re a jerk to anyone else. My impressions so far is that it’s a good game probably the best game I’ve played since Sonic Advance 3, though Rush isn’t too it’s just filled with way too many bottomless pits for me! All right before I leave again let me just leave you with one last thing I’ve read which I’m sure many of you all ready know and if you didn’t know this I think you can still read as I don’t believe it’s much of a spoiler (especially if you visit Sonic Stadium on a regular basis). I guess the ending is a cliffhanger and ends with “To be continued” Bioware is all ready writing the script for the sequel and just need the green light from Sega and from what I’ve read the way they leave the game it totally voids the “continuity” that Bioware tried so hard to put in and explain. Oh well only time what will happen. Personally I don’t think it matters as this game is supposed to take place after every other game, did you not pay attention to the opening sequence? If I ever beat it I’ll give a full review as I progress I will give more reviews but the next one will not be until I officially come back to the site. Until then my friends.
-Jay
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