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April 16th, 2008, 20:10
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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/phparvtpdam.jpg (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/04/15/ive-seen-and-played-biowares-sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/)Most seasoned gamers will be familiar with the practice of wearing out their A button as they skip through mountains of dialog in a game. It's a harsh truth that the majority of titles don't do dialog well to start with, and when there's enough wordage to fill a few phone books, playing can feel more and more like a chore.
Hopefully, Sonic Chronicles (http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/04/04/sonic-chronicles-website-releases-new-screens-showing-off-battle/) will prove the exception to the rule. Patrick Klepek of the MTV Multiplayer blog went hands-on with the title at the recent Nintendo Media Summit (http://www.dsfanboy.com/tag/nms08), and reported that the game -- as well as being "surprisingly dark" -- was packed with words: more than 50,000 of the buggers, in fact.
That's almost double the number of words you'd find in George Orwell's allegorical classic Animal Farm (30,210 (http://www.searchlit.org/novels/465.php)), and while we'd normally approach such a wordy game with caution (see: first paragraph), it's worth remembering that Sonic Chronicles is being crafted by BioWare, a studio that's fashioned some of the finest (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mass-effect) scripts (http://www.bioware.com/games/knights_old_republic/) in the business. Not only that, but Klepek assures us there'll be plenty of the branching dialog trees that are a BioWare staple. If it's engaging enough, maybe we will love Big the Cat (http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/03/13/you-will-love-big-the-cat/)! Now there's a sentence we never expected to write.
Gallery: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/)
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Hopefully, Sonic Chronicles (http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/04/04/sonic-chronicles-website-releases-new-screens-showing-off-battle/) will prove the exception to the rule. Patrick Klepek of the MTV Multiplayer blog went hands-on with the title at the recent Nintendo Media Summit (http://www.dsfanboy.com/tag/nms08), and reported that the game -- as well as being "surprisingly dark" -- was packed with words: more than 50,000 of the buggers, in fact.
That's almost double the number of words you'd find in George Orwell's allegorical classic Animal Farm (30,210 (http://www.searchlit.org/novels/465.php)), and while we'd normally approach such a wordy game with caution (see: first paragraph), it's worth remembering that Sonic Chronicles is being crafted by BioWare, a studio that's fashioned some of the finest (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mass-effect) scripts (http://www.bioware.com/games/knights_old_republic/) in the business. Not only that, but Klepek assures us there'll be plenty of the branching dialog trees that are a BioWare staple. If it's engaging enough, maybe we will love Big the Cat (http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/03/13/you-will-love-big-the-cat/)! Now there's a sentence we never expected to write.
Gallery: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/sonicchronicles_screenshot-5dfgisd8_007_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/753042/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/sonicchronicles_screenshot-5dfgisd8_006_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/753041/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/sonicchronicles_screenshot-5dfgisd8_004_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/753039/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/sonicchronicles_screenshot-5dfgisd8_003_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/753038/)http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.dsfanboy.com/media/2008/04/sonicchronicles_screenshot-5dfgisd8_002_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.dsfanboy.com/photos/sonic-chronicles-the-dark-brotherhood/753037/)
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