Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
The game initially focuses on the events surrounding the kidnapping of Knuckles and the disappearance of the Chaos Emeralds after the defeat of Doctor Eggman, before moving on to follow the cast of characters…
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is a platform developed by BioWare, released 25 September 2008 on Nintendo DS.
What Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is a platform game developed by BioWare and released in 2008. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is a 2008 role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Sega for the Nintendo DS. It is a part of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and is its only RPG entry. Sonic Chronicles initially focuses on the events surrounding the kidnapping of Knuckles and the disappearance of the Chaos Emeralds after the defeat of Doctor Eggman, before moving on to follow the cast of characters across two dimensions as they encounter a new ally, Shade the Echidna, and seek to stop the invasion of their world by Ix, the leader of Shade's tribe, the Nocturnus. The game is mainly played using the DS stylus, with players either exploring the overworld, or attacking…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is the 200th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Unleashed in 2008. Its critic score of 73 is 2 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood launched on 25 September 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut and World of Goo. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Dead Space, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, World of Goo.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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