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Sonic and the Black Knight is part of a "Sonic Storybook" series that started with Secret Rings. This one's more of an "Arthurian" setting, and you get to swing a sword with the wiimote.

Before you diss it, remember that everybody screamed that Secret Rings was going to "ruin Sonic", too. And it didn't. They screamed it about Sonic 360. Sonic 360, while being a cruddy game, didn't ruin the series. Just because they try something new with a Sonic game doesn't mean that the franchise is ruined. After all, everybody wants something new to be done with the Sonic series. And when they try something new, the fans scream about how they hate it (and then like it afterwards).

After all, if Sonic 360 did nothing else, it gave us Silver. *hearts Silver*

Now I'm tempted to draw Shadow with armor and a black, eeeevil mask ... with his hair sticking out from behind it very obviously. And a LIGHTSABER. Because that would ROCK.

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More details!

-”On the audio side, veteran composer Jen Senoue is taking a smiliar approach, injecting familiar Sonic themes with a Celtic flavor.”

-”Each stage has multiple branching paths and searching for townsfolk and treasure chests provides an element of exploration that recalls Sonic’s early Genesis days.”

-”the camera will occasionally pan to a side-scrolling perspective for a quick dose of classic 2-D action”

-SBK Bringing back the skill system from Secret Rings, but they’re trying not to have the skill system interfere with the game’s tempo this time around.

-The mission structure also returns but the developers hope to make it less arduous.

-”And there will be no dinosaur eggs!”


I'm really excited about that Celtic-flavor Sonic music up there.