Translation of the SBK German Trailer

By
Tristan Oliver
– February 13, 2009

Details on Boss Fights, and Why a Psychologist?

If you haven’t looked at our previous story recently, we’ve updated it with a working YouTube link to the Gameone preview of Sonic and the Black Knight.  The video is out of Germany, and if you haven’t seen it, you may want to before looking at the text below.

What follows is a translation from that interview, with great thanks from our German news partner Spindash.de, and in particular Fish, who translated the German for us.

The translation explains why Gameone talked to a psychologist for the interview–they were mocking Sonic’s identity crisis.  It also elaborates on how the boss battles will go.  There will, apparently, be a mix of swordplay and QTE events.  Overall, don’t let the video deceive you–Gameone is not very optimistic about SBK’s chances of success.

Take a look for yourself below, and stay with TSSZ News as we bring you more SBK information as it comes in.

What happened to Sonic? The Super Star is in a crisis, the last games were really absurd (you’ll see some parody-covers to Sonic and the seven dwarfs, Sonic at the Pony Camp) and Sega wants with Black Knight to tie in with the old success. The story let you assumes that the game is a delusion were a mutatedKing Arthur terrorizes the country.

Sonic? Middle Age? King Arthur? Have all the bad games driven Sonic into madness? We want to know what’s wrong with him and asked one of the most popular psychologists.

“Sonic may stepped into the crisis as he had the feeling he is more then just a blue hedgehog. He wants to step up and thinks ‘I belong to the Knights of the Round Table’ and he gets a boost.” (It’s a german pun here, the original is ‘tierischer auftrieb’ which means animal boost aka ego boost’)

Not enough with this Sonic calls now to the arms too. It’s a blade with the name Caliburn and also talks with him. This sudden violence may be a surprise for fans but it’s psychologically explainable.

“He is not just a hedgehog with spines, he must also show that he can defend himself with weapons, which is something dangerous… well you can’t just go over him.”

The next part is a quick overview for the game which is for the most part not interesting or something new for the community (if you ever played Secret Rings). But: The negative points are the quick time events according the both MTV guys because you have to stop during the running and solve quick time events. One other point is collection stupid fruits and to ‘show
off’ (don’t ask me what this means, maybe some in-game Currency?)

The psychologist says that collecting stuff refers to “Look, I’m rich…well, I have power! Being a cutie alone is not enough for Sonic, he wants to be accepted and with the collecting stuff he can say “I’m rich, I’m bright, I’m beautiful.”

The Boss-fights are a mix off Wii-swinging (‘Wiimote-Gefuchtel’, popular german insider word for swinging the remote like a noob) and Quick Time Events. The Boss fights won’t win a award for being original but they’re a refreshing difference from the rest of the game. Completely different is the multiplayer-mode too but it’s very imprecise and dull and it doesn’t make
any fun. Overall it doesn’t look good for our Sonic.

If characters like Sonic have the feeling to grab the attention they want, they really will do anything to get them. A downfall in the mass is, for a character like Sonic, unimaginable. He must be on top, he must be better and faster as everyone and even when it’s the fastest knight from the round table.

Looks like that the game is just mediocre again, unless will change before the release. Sonic and the Black Knight looks like fun but isn’t, because of the design-slashes (“Design-Schnitzern”, some kind of weird german word-combination, I think it means bad gameplay design) and a laughable story. It seems that Sonic has forgotten why the people liked
him so much.

The bad is, if people like him are running for years on this idea, he doesn’t know how he can be and maybe he should feel how he was a long time ago. It’s important to let him be the hedgehog as he was designed and to take a break to regenerate himself.

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