Sonic RPG Has A Name (And Screenshots)

Well, it's official. The Sonic RPG now has a full title. Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.
On the plus side, it's an RPG for the Nintendo DS, my favorite handheld. And it's being developed by RPG gods Bioware. And it looks like a relatively normal top-down perspective with battle scenes that look to have some kind of tapping action going on with the on-screen button prompts, which is different. On the minus side, I can't remember the last Sonic game I enjoyed, and it stars the entire motley crew. Some of those characters are pretty jank.
But if you're curious, there's more screenshots after the jump!








To be fair, Sonic's handheld adventures have been consistently excellent. All three Sonic Advance games, SOnic Rush and Rush Adventure, even Sonic Battle were all very good. If only Sonic's console titles were as good as his portable ones.
OMG I love Sonic Battle, I can't believe they haven't tried to cash in on a console version ala Super Smash Brother's style. Oh and i really didn't care for the boat level of Sonic Rush Adventure, but i love Marine :D
Another Sonic game, another 'new character' to be added to the already ridiculously-enormous cast list. I mean fuck, do we even need 'Blaze' and 'Silver', really? I wonder what it's going to be this time, a ritalin-popping monkey cyborg? Fuck.