ONM says, “It’s a good time to be a Sonic fan.”
In the latest issue of Official Nintendo Magazine, they’ve shown off a lot of the upcoming games in 2009. On their site, they posted their views on the 2009 games that are also featured in their new issue.
Sonic & the Black Knight was one of the many 2009 games:
The story goes that a sorceress summons
Sonic to free King Arthur’s realm. See, Arthur’s been corrupted and
he’s gone a bit barmy, calling himself the Black Knight and generally
wrecking the joint. Sonic is told that his speed won’t be enough to
beat the Black Knight, so he’s given a sword to help him on his quest.
They go over almost everything that was said in Nintendo Power’s last issue; with how Sonic Team is trying make the mission simpler and less frustrating. Here are the key parts to their preview:
- Numbers of improvements have been made since last game
- Skill system returns and is now more balanced
- Sword play becomes more advance when battling bosses
- Will not be using Wii MotionPlus
- Cut-scene music by Richard Jacques
Black Knight is scheduled for a release around March of 09, and recently, SEGA of Japan announced an official release date for SBK. Japanese gamers can expect to receive their copy on March 12th, 2009.
And to wrap things up, here’s a new render of Sonic and his talking sword, Calibur.
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Talking sword named Calibur? There’s only one talking sword in my book: Saba, the White Ranger’s sword from Power Rangers. XD
Wow, that’s one kickass picture. If there’s one thing this game’s doing right is making Sonic look like he’s got attitude again.
Damn shame that it took posing with a talking sword to get that image back…
woooo
i see the same pic with mouth in the middle
and now sonic have mouth (“de lado”)
im so happyyy!!!!
Sonic is the BEST
yay!
Nice picture
Ala Old
Sounds intriguing, to say the least. We’ll see how they pull this one off..
i need a trailer soon DX
Sonic’s pose makes Prince Arthas the Lich King look a bit like a pansy(And I’m a WoW fan)
@ Slingerland-san: Ah, memories…^^
@ Okami-san: Desperate times call for desperate measures…
That is a pretty epic picture of Sonic and Caliber.
I love that picture. Anyway, good to hear that game is coming out soon. Just don’t rush it, because I’m actually putting my trust in this developement team.
The picture and info is awesome but why does the sword have to talk? That just makes it childish
Cool picture, Sonic got an awsome atitude!XD
And I’m soooo glad that they try to make the mission less frustrating. I haven’t finish all of the missions in secret rings yet, I know I suck but this missions “Chains of the Rings” is horrible and this no pearls stuff. They wasen’t frustrating missions in Unleashed so I hope they can make fun missions in this game too.
i love the desing for Calibur
is a cool sword for cool hedgehog
yay!
Desu
I never knew Calibur could talk… that sucks…..at least I don’t have a Wii
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Great, first you guys bitch about the Werehog, now a talking sword? Get over yourselves.
There have been talking swords before.
Soap Scum: I wasn’t complaining about it just asking if it was kind of childish and I loved the werehog
@Keydown-san: I wasn’t talking about you directly, I just meant the fan-base as a whole.
Soap Scum: But do you think its a little childish for the sword to talk also why do you put san after the names just curious
I’m with General. Who cares if Calibur talks? Could prove to be an interesting element of the game!
if it’s only three months till it comes out why is there only one trailer
When are we going to get a new trailer?
keydown that’s what i keep sayin
I couldn’t find were SEGA of Japan announced the date
COOOOOOOOL! XD NEW SONIC ADVENTURE IN 3 MONTHS ALREADY???? AWSOME! WOOOOO LONG LIVE SONIC!!!!
The Werehog was awesome. Loved the Egg Dragoon battle.
blueblur: This isn’t to be confused with the Adventure titles… -_-;
No he means a new sonic adventure as in sonic in a new journey
I agree with you Kits’Okami.
“Good time to be a Sonic fan?” Pretty crappy time if you ask me. It’s like we were shot a bunch of times with Sonic 06 and we tried to fix the mess by using paper towels.
I still don’t trust this game. Sonic with a sword… I’m going to need really good reviews to tell me otherwise. It’s just not Sonic, and while I know that Werehog is certainly not Sonic, in a way that was sort of a separate character, so the gimmick was kept aside. This game puts the crappy gimmick straight into Sonic’s gameplay.
Also Unleashed was beautiful and had a great soundtrack.
Oh, look. Blitz saw me. Cookie for Blitz. No cookie for Subz.
this game to me looks great! sonics finally got his attitude back. but i’m not going to judge this until i play the game.