Sonic Team Boss Really Wants To Make A New Sonic The Hedgehog RPG

Oh dear god not again!

Hmm.. The story could actually work with Ian Flynn there and the music would no doubt be a banger too, but the gameplay.. would probably be really, really bad (Forces) or mediocre (Lost World, Frontiers). You really can never tell with SEGA these days

It’s cool to see some series expanding to RPGs. I’d love to see a Kirby one soon as well! Idk how good Sonic Chronicles was, but I think a top-down RPG Sonic game would have some potential.

I'd be down for another attempt at a Sonic RPG. Dark Brotherhood was fun for what it was, but they could certainly do better. And at this point, that story should just stay dead as there's simply too much baggage associated with it.

I never finished the first one, but sure, I'd like to see a new one.

This dude is itching at the bit to derail things again just like he always does, the question now is are Sega dumb enough to let him get in the way of making an iterative sequel to Frontiers?

sweet! ive been thinking for years now that sonic would be great in some sort of action rpg gameplay, so im glad to hear that the head of sonic team might just feel the same way. If you crave sonic rpg goodness and dont wanna bother with the ds one (who can blame you), theres always the sonic robo blast 2 persona 3 mod! Fr, that mod slaps

@SalvorHardin i wouldnt worry about it too much, as rpgs in big franchises like this always end up as spinoffs. Nothing to be shaking your fists toward the sky about, at least

@epicgamner
I don’t mean the RPG it’s just another SA3 that he namedrops wanting do forever I mean his bizzare tendency to either toss out what works or replace it with a watered down facsimile. The RPG stat mechanics in Frontiers were bad enough and very poorly implemented I’d hate to see a sequel obsess even more over them.

I mean after Sonic Chronicles there is no other way to go but up so why not, I'd like to see them try to make an RPG again

Please use inspiration from the comics and/or The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog otherwise it will not be good!

If so, there better be a hot anime waifu that sonic has to save. AND there better be a kissing scene to make us all cringe

I mean, the sonic universe certainly has enough story material to work with to make one. Just depends if they, y’know, don’t completely butcher it

@SalvorHardin i guess we'll just have to wait and see, though i think by saying this he means a standalone game thats more rpg spinoff than mainline platformer. Also, i think the experience point system in frontiers was there to appeal to the love from the similar-ish system in unleashed

@PikminMarioKirby >"Kirby RPG"

Take my money!

Considering Sega owns Atlus, they absolutely should! Get Ian Flynn as writer, the Atlus team developing, and that's a recipe for success.

Sonic Chronicles was one of my favorite games as a kid, so I’m definitely down. Sonic definitely has the cast for a good RPG roster.

Yes please! We got sonic visual novel, now we need another sonic RPG. It would be awesome... probably.

If anyone could get it to work, it would be Atlus. Their style of flashy, turn-based combat would work well with Sonic.

Two things I'd like to bring up. 1) oh yes I remember that game existing. Never bought it but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious. 2) agreeing to let a YouTube channel interview you, huh? Desperate times, it seems

@N8tiveT3ch For that, I'm gonna punish you by reminding you that Sonic 06 is almost 20 years old and let you have your existential crisis.

Let it go man!!!!!

@Maubari They got 2 well respected RPG studios under their belt. I think expectations should be moderate at the very minimum and hyped at max.

The real question is if it's "on tone" enough that Sonic fans wanna play it, since slow turn based RPGs probably aren't a Sonic fan's typical bread and butter. Having a Kiryu style Like a Dragon RPG might work out if the combat is fast and the moveset encourages being stylish enough.

@ottoecamn That might be a bit too much for Flynn. We're talking an RPG here. From japan... Those get pretty big.

@Samalik I've already made my peace. We good. lol

@N8tiveT3ch I've certainly made my peace with it, in my headcanon the kiss is symbolic, in the same way the snap is in Thanos's gauntlet, or the eccentric laughter Mozart has in the Amadeus film.

I think it could work, but only with the right people involved. Sonic has a lot of potential to work outside of platformers, you just need to take the right approach to making it work.

Honestly a world where I can play the three main series of Mario rpg and sonics? Is great! Don’t have faith the game would be good though lol.

No Bioware this time, please

@Snatcher i mean that tends to be the deal with sega these days lol

@Samalik id take a sonic persona crossover tbh

When you say Sonic + RPG, I immediately think of the last time someone related to sonic worked with a publisher specialised in RPG, aka Squeenix. It didn't go well, so go with your RPG idea, but stick with Sega, don't involve SE.

@Rhaoulos It was Bioware who made Dark Brotherhood not Square... also that game had went through so much behind the scene drama with Ken Penders.

@Ryoth I think he meant Balan, though Yuji Naka had not been involved with Sonic for at least 15 years when Balan released.

Basically, they hired him as lead, kicked him off silently, Naka sued, Square responded by revealing he had sold shares based on info he wasn't supposed to have which is apparently illegal in Japan, so he got arrested. I think he's out now, but his social rep is like at 2%.

@ottoecamn Exactly. SEGA has the right RPG team to do a new Sonic RPG, even if they have to have Joker from Persona 5 guest star as a hidden playable character.

I actually have been wanting to see another Sonic RPG so I say go for it.

Sonic's speed makes him bad for an RPG. Sonics speed makes him bad for platformers. The first two Sonic & All stars Racing games are great though!

@epicgamner unfortunately ):

@Samalik not at all. Man knows about Sonic lore more than anyone. Knows how to create hype and emotional moments, and been proving himself the best for the job when writing sonic, and now that he wrote Frontiers and it got almost unanimous praise online for its story, I can't think of a better person for the job.

Frankly I don't really trust Sonic Team with making a good Sonic RPG.

Plus, Sega has been the owner of Atlus for a long time now, not to mention that they have RGG Studios. Use one of them to make a RPG game.

Hmmm.

Well, I loved Sonic Battle on GBA, which could be seen as having light RPG elements. The Frontiers RPG mechanics, and a lot of the game, was a bit broken though.

Sadly, I think whatever they come up with would pail against how Nintendo's recent Mario RPG game push. They have that so on point with the current direction of them.

@Ryoth Legend has it that Ken Penders still can’t sue SEGA & BioWare for Dark Brotherhood to this day.

Oh god YES PLEASE! I remember getting sonic chronicles as a reward for doing well in school and I absolutely loved it. And when I heard a couple years ago that ken penders essentially killed any chance for a sequel to resolve the cliffhanger because apparently any time a different studio tries to make echidnas he has to throw a temper tantrum cemented my disdain for him.
Also a group of fans are making a fan remake of chronicles so this a good chance for Sega to hire them.

@Samalik Wait, SEGA has RPG studios?? Which ones? This is news to me

@Maubari Atlus and RGG?

Really man? You never heard of either of these two?!?!?! Their games are always all over the news!

@ottoecamn I don't think it's absolutely unanimous, considering the constant referencing, but that was a step in the right direction.

But yeah, an RPG, while narratively on brand for Sonic, would probably be too narratively dense dense for the guy who's never wrote an RPG

@Samalik Of course I did, I just didn't think they were under SEGA's control. Odd.

@Samalik that's why I said ALMOST unanimous. People had criticisms which is fair, but the reception was widely positive

as for why I believe he could do it, He was in charge of writing the comics since 2006, and managed several stories happening in different points at once, he knows how to make world building and create a dense story with many moving parts.

I just want Sonic Chronicles 2... that's it.