

Now that the feathery robotic fiend has escaped the Special Zone and developed time-travelling capabilities as a result, EGGATS promptly thrusts Sonic a century into the past rebels are fighting against the dictatorial rule of Doctor Ucano, the Sky Empire’s Director of Sciences who rose into power within a year before the events of the game. Sonic’s vacation quickly goes awry with him being relentlessly hunted down by a battered EGGATS-2013, the owl-like robot fought as the final boss in After the Sequel. Up in the heavens hangs the ruins of the Sky Empire a once thriving civilization that fell into ruin one hundred years ago after a mysterious accident destroyed its floating island city. Will you be the first to find out?”Ĭanonically taking place after the events of Sonic After the Sequel and Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Sonic Chrono Adventure sees the Blue Blur spend his well-earned downtime in an expansive region known as the South Lakes. With that in mind, does Sonic Chrono Adventure prove to be a happy and fruitful marriage for these two distinctive genres, or does it show signs of a troubled and incompatible relationship early on? STORY “After a terrible… ‘accident,’ it ended up like this, but nobody knows why. A union of Metroidvania and Sonic the Hedgehog isn’t something that hasn’t already been seen before within the series proper-see Tails Adventure for the Game Gear, or pick it up for yourselves on the Virtual Console for Nintendo 3DS-but it is a first seeing Sonic’s trademark high speed and platform-oriented gameplay within a genre that focuses on exploring an open world that reveals itself more to the player the more they advance through the game. Release Date: Decem/ v1.1 (Version Reviewed): February 23, 2014ĭaneluz returned later with Sonic After the Sequel, which improved upon every point BTS saw praise for, and the BTS trilogy was finally rounded off with a very different beast of a Sonic game through Sonic Chrono Adventure, Daneluz’s earnest attempt at a mashup of classic Sonic gameplay and the beloved Metroidvania genre after toying with the idea in Sonic Before the Sequel Aftermath.
