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When has Link been in an Arabian Night's storybook?

http://www.blueblur.org/2008/07/21/sonic...r-details/

Maybe this will give you some hope.

Secret Rings didn't take place in a european-themed medieval world, Nitro. It took place in an Arabian fairy tale book.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/892/892291p1...Sid=892291
From what I can gather, this is supposed to be a sequel (or a complement to) Secret Rings, a storybook series Sam said.
Though Unleashed was mentioned, I don't see how it would connect.

Also, I think gameplay will be diferent, even experimental, in the storybook series. Secret Rings tried a forward-dashing rails system. Sega saw their successes and took bits of it to make Unleashed. Now Black Knight will probably have another entirely different play style. Sega will probably use the experience from it when making Unleashed's sequel. If my guesses are indeed correct, it is actually a smart move on their part. They only face 2 critical and related problems, Unleashed's success and the fans' feelings about Sonic with a sword.

The bad side is that the plot probably won't be much different from Secret Rings.

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EDIT AFTER READING GARY'S LINK:
So they're making it like Unleashed, but 90% Rails with branching pathways.
The plot is almost identical to Secret Rings.
A sword spin when sonic jumps into a ball and stabbing a sword into a wall to slow a descent are both awesome and needed moves.
The idea of a talking sword is mediocre, but better than an invisible Sahra speaking to you).
items are a neat addition that make it more like an rpg.
Skills that don't impact the earlier portion of the game (Sonic going incredibly slow).
Multiple characters that play similarly with twists is good and thankfully optional.
I guess the chao elementals (which remind you it is still a Sonic game) are like power-ups in this game.
I'm pretty indifferent on missions...
The special guage is a good idea (and one that should be in Unleashed's werehog parts).
As was said near the end of the article, it looks like they realized what went wrong with Secret Rings and have made significant improvements.
You know, this could successfully tie together the main franchise and the storybook sequence.

Indeed.

And I believe that there was always a trilogy planned for the storybook series.

By the way, some professional gaming site tied with a Dutch gaming magazine translated storybook as comic book. Fucking retards.

Unknown Wrote:When has Link been in an Arabian Night's storybook?

Also Gary your link doesn't work.

Doesn't look like an Arabian Nights Storybook to me.
But whatever.

Well
It might be because I never played that Sonic game

Haha, fair enough.

GaryCXJk Wrote:By the way, some professional gaming site tied with a Dutch gaming magazine translated storybook as comic book. Fucking retards.

So I suppose this means that the cutscenes are going to be another comic book like standards just like secret rings.

God fucking damnit, I wonder why they can't just make it in a more movie cenima way like they did with most of the other 3-D games, they can put the game on a daul layered disc.

Also, I hope they add a way more better multiplayer mode, the party thing in secret rings was a rip-off.

Diogalesu Wrote:

GaryCXJk Wrote:By the way, some professional gaming site tied with a Dutch gaming magazine translated storybook as comic book. Fucking retards.

So I suppose this means that the cutscenes are going to be another comic book like standards just like secret rings.

God fucking damnit, I wonder why they can't just make it in a more movie cenima way like they did with most of the other 3-D games, they can put the game on a daul layered disc.

Also, I hope they add a way more better multiplayer mode, the party thing in secret rings was a rip-off.

What I meant with that is that they called a storybook a comic book.

If you're not a complete idiot you might have known a storybook != comic book.

GaryCXJk Wrote:

Diogalesu Wrote:

GaryCXJk Wrote:By the way, some professional gaming site tied with a Dutch gaming magazine translated storybook as comic book. Fucking retards.

So I suppose this means that the cutscenes are going to be another comic book like standards just like secret rings.

God fucking damnit, I wonder why they can't just make it in a more movie cenima way like they did with most of the other 3-D games, they can put the game on a daul layered disc.

Also, I hope they add a way more better multiplayer mode, the party thing in secret rings was a rip-off.

What I meant with that is that they called a storybook a comic book.

If you're not a complete idiot you might have known a storybook != comic book.

Ohhhh...

I thought you were assuming something about the game, but thats isn't going to change what I said ether, so yeah.... I did it wrong.....

But yeah SEGA is being stupid if there calling a story book a comic, don't story and comic books differ? (Well it's obvious they are different, considering comics are more like visual books wihle story books are varely visual, I pretty much awnsered my own qeustion)

Diogalesu Wrote:

GaryCXJk Wrote:

Diogalesu Wrote:

GaryCXJk Wrote:By the way, some professional gaming site tied with a Dutch gaming magazine translated storybook as comic book. Fucking retards.

So I suppose this means that the cutscenes are going to be another comic book like standards just like secret rings.

God fucking damnit, I wonder why they can't just make it in a more movie cenima way like they did with most of the other 3-D games, they can put the game on a daul layered disc.

Also, I hope they add a way more better multiplayer mode, the party thing in secret rings was a rip-off.

What I meant with that is that they called a storybook a comic book.

If you're not a complete idiot you might have known a storybook != comic book.

Ohhhh...

I thought you were assuming something about the game, but thats isn't going to change what I said ether, so yeah.... I did it wrong.....

But yeah SEGA is being stupid if there calling a story book a comic, don't story and comic books differ? (Well it's obvious they are different, considering comics are more like visual books wihle story books are varely visual, I pretty much awnsered my own qeustion)

Dude, do you suffer from retardation or something?

GaryCXJk Wrote:By the way, some professional gaming site tied with a Dutch gaming magazine translated storybook as comic book. Fucking retards.

GaryCXJk Wrote:professional gaming site tied with a Dutch gaming magazine

GaryCXJk Wrote:professional gaming site

Hahaha... wonder if they will do a book look like. I liked the change but I would prefer something similar to a cartoon with detailed pictures.

I'm hoping they improve upon the comic-style sequences by putting more (and better) animation into each cell.
Hopefully they won't use that same tattered page filter over every image. You couldn't see what what happening clearly in some of them.

So, I wonder what the Chaos Emeralds will be in this version. The world rings being the binding of the book in SR was a bit lame, so I hope they think it throuhg more.

Also, since Secret Rings was originally Wildfire, do you think this title will also cange before launch? My guess is that it will be "Sonic and the Secret [Insert_Chaos_Emerald_Replacements]."

The buzz-saw slash they mentioned when sonic jumps is probably paying homage to Sonic Extreme's promised Spin Jump Slash manuever.

GaryCXJk Wrote:Actually, in my opinion, bitching about people who bitch about the people bitching is hypocrite. They can express their opinions also. They can say "but you haven't played the game yet". Like you have an opinion, so do they. I for one still see great potential in this game. I want the Sonic franchise to actually evolve. I can understand people getting tired of the negativeness around Sonic. Like you have your over-reacting opinions, so do they. So don't bitch about them, if you are over-reacting yourself.

yes, this is an old post, so what? I haven't been on tsr for a while and now I'm replying to this

yes I admit, I over reacted a little... okay maybe a bit much, and I apologize for that. it just ticks me off to hear/read someone say that they think a game is going to suck based off of a cover of a magazine or a rumor.

if you don't take my apology seriously, then that's fine by me, your choice, I just want to make the fact that I'm sorry for over reacting clear, which I might have already...

and just for a quick joke: hypocrites know because hypocrites do