Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood for Nintendo DS Reviews by Gamers

Well this game is awesome. the graphics are great, its like reading a story book and playing it at the same time. The game play its pretty similar to that of sonic shuffle in a way and the legend of zelda ds. Is an awesome game and i highly recommend it to everyone.

When it came to light that Bioware (my number one fangirl company) was making an DS title, I was delighted- the DS is my main traveling time-waster. When I got this game, though, I was dissapointed. The story and dialogue were much as I expected; and the artwork was great.

However- and you knew this was coming- the combat is punishingly hard. The 'Pow' moves require a series of stylus interactions- not for extra, but to go off at all, in most cases. The timing is odd also- in one of the moves, one puts the stylus on a line, and follows the line at speed. BUT! Half the time, the mere act of putting the stylus to the touch-screen- in preparation to follow the line- will cause you to fail the move. All of this would be livable if the 'Pow' moves were entirely optional; but Bioware has made the combat difficult enough- especially in non-random encounters- that the special moves are necessary to success.

My only other complaint of the game is that, while exploring the world, the need to tap a button or an icon to jump or run a ring is anti-immersive. But it is a minor complaint. It is the impossible (to me) and punishing combat the breaks the game. I guess I'll have to give up my brag of owning and beating every Bioware game- I'm going to send this one back, barely started.