Everything Wrong With Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood in Almost 50 Minutes 

There is an AMAZING group of devoted fans of this game that have been working on a Reimagining of this game and you should totally go follow them. They post frequent updates and it's shaping up to be so much better than the original: twitter.com/SonicChrRI

Charriii5: “I doubt that anyone’s FIRST Sonic game was Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.” Me: *Awkwardly raises hand*

Amy:*gets knocked out* Sonic: *runs over* Sonic: Are u okay Amy: *wakes up* Amy: I hAvE a BoYfRiEnD Sonic:*knocks her out again*

45:16 I'm doing my part!

shadow telling sonic "this isn't about you" sounds like an angry ex

Does anyone else appreciate the fact that he draws each thumbnail instead of like just having a generic photo of the content it has? It makes it feel more unique y'know? That alone deserves a like

Amy is like that type of girl that would state "i have a BF" even when its not mentioned in school Btw love the voices for the characters, the female characters made me think of game grumps

Take a shot every time Tails asks you to save the game.

I love how in this game, Eggman had to be encouraged to repress his violent urges.

I like how every time a character gets hit, it makes a stock throw up sound used in old Newground animations

Monika: When that happens, don't forget to save your game! Tails: Are you challenging me?

Tbh you gotta admit the dialogue is one of the high points in this one, this is a game where you can ACTUALLY take Knuckles seriously, something that I missed since the Adventure days.

Shade and her clan: *Expands Sonic Adventure lore, tells about the origin of Emerl with potential of Shade to become a decent Shadow-like character in the series That one Archie ex-writer: "I'm about to end this girl's whole career"

Juan "Johnny" Ortiz: JESUS THIS MUSIC!

Ngl the “favorite color” question always cracks me up

45:16 Ok, I got ya.

Knuckles sounds like Jesse Mccree xD

"After this game's ending, the heroes all notice that Eggman is up to no good again, and Sonic agrees to head out by himself and stop him while the others recuperate, thus kicking off the events of Sonic Unleashed." -- My personal headcanon

"I doubt anyone's first Sonic game was Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood" This was my first Sonic game. It was the only Sonic game at the local rental.

I just wanted to say that I thought Amy making up the whole Dexter thing because she was mad Sonic never seemed to acknowledge the obvious “I have a crush on you, acknowledge me, dammit. Just reject or accept already.” behavior was hilarious. ESPECIALLY when Rouge teases her about her obvious lie.

Took me a whole minute to realize that there was someone else voicing Shade while I just thought that Charri’s female voice impression was just that damn good

"This is where the fun begins."

This is the game that made Ken Penders go all insane

I like how Amy looks like she is either cringing or just very disappointed all the time

I ADORE the attention to detail in how you voice act the characters. In EWW Battle, your Sonic was based on Drummond, in here and EWW Rivals, it's based on Griffin, and in EWW Colors DS, it's based on Smith. GENIUS!!!

My ultimate guilty pleasure game. I fucking love this game.

Tails: on our team, we avoid violence when we can, eggman Sonic battle: excuse me?

“That was the final boss? That’s the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen!” Dark Nebula: Allow me to introduce myself.

1:27 Tails: "A group of criminals called The Marauders took him." Me: "James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter??"

Oh man, I remember eagerly awaiting the sequel to this game. It- It could... still happen... right?

Fanbase: We want a Sonic RPG. SEGA: We have a Sonic RPG at home. Sonic RPG at home:

I'm sure there's a technical/logistical reason why they didn't, but it'd be cute if Tails kept his own "saves" and instead of telling the player to save, he was mentioning that he was making his own save. And then "Tail's Save" could just be a cute way of recontextualizing auto-save backups.

I'll never get tired of hearing Charriii's Eggman impression.

Cant believe no mention of hhow busted Cream the Rabbit is. Cream is an optional character, but is soooooo worth it. One of her abilities restores PP to the entire party, *including cream.* If you upgrade that ability enough, she gets more PP than she uses, so the 8PP cost isnt too bad. Also, one of the chaos you can randomly get is almost as overpowered as Cream. Ferox removes the touch screen prompts for POW moves, so you cant mess them up. Literally every character benefits from this, but Cream is the best choice, due to the above ability.

Missing sin: Salesman named Sal.

"You decided to go away for a while. Not me" I never realized it but that might be a reference to Wild Canyon's lyrics. "This is Knuckles, and I'm back. I've been away for a while"

Sometimes I honestly forget Charriii is doing almost ALL of these voices. His acting is that good.

The strangest thing about this game is that they put an ‘s’ at the end of ‘chronicles’ like this game was going to be so great that it would start a new series. Clearly that went well.

5 sins in 30 seconds, this is gonna be fantastic

I gotta admit, though, having the characters themselves saying the credits of the game is really endearing to me. Can't say I've seen a game do that before.

I'm surprised he went threw this without talking about the ken penders law suit that littering lead to the Archie sonic comic having a continuity Purge before They were ended and then IDW picked it up for a reboot I'm not kidding

This game's biggest sin was starting the Ken Penders shitshow that cancelled the Archie comics.

Rouge: Nice job taking out those enemies, Omega! Omega: SHUT UP, BABY! I KNOW IT!

42:38 easily one of my all time favorite lines from Charriii. The delivery is so fucking good.

Charii: "I doubt anyone's first sonic game was sonic chronicles" Me whos first sonic game was sonic chronicles: 👁👄👁

"Scnorft" Best freaking spelling of that sound ever.

this games amy in a nutshell:dont talk to me dont even think about talking to me dont even think about doing anything to me i have a boyfriend if you ask me a question i will mention my boyfriend at least once dont flirt with sonic and ask why if i have a boyfriend because i will make a obvious lie on why you shouldnt flirt with sonic

8:16 is literally the only part I can't stop laughing about

18:34 You know what makes this even worse? Blue Ridge Zone is Bridge Zone, which means Sonic's been there. Also Bridge Zone is connected to Green Hill and Tails remembers Green Hill in this game.

Hot take: I actually like this game. Finished it, like, 3 or 4 times back in the day.

33:21 You're really not going to sin this? "We don't fear the Zoah and their energy weapons." "We do fear the Zoah's secret energy weapon."

I hope that the group doing a reimagining don't have any issues with legal stuff, especially since Shade got axed due to a certain high horsed "artist"-

Poor Shade she will (likely) never appear in another game or any form of Sonic media thanks to Ken throwing a hissy fit and Sega's mandates. Yet another character that just got thrown away while most of the remaining cast are either cheerleaders, one-dimensional and/or flanderized.

19:28 Fun Fact: my first Sonic game was "Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood", followed by "Sonic Rush"

I'll say this about this (abysmal) game; the characterization of the respective characters was pretty good compared to the usual.

Shade is the girl who's actually a 4000 year-old demon lord from an alternative dimension in this anime.

I feel no shame for enjoying this game

It's soundtrack comes to mind first for me even though I don't mind it

Some days I wonder: is this game even real? It feels like a fever dream. It's like a bizarre flash game where they aged up the characters and made them use dark humor and innuendos. And then I check to see that yes, it was real. And then I cry.

"That's awfully convenient" capitalized by the picture related to the comment being Sonic winking at the player. Bravo, Bioware.

Somewhere in the world, Ken Penders is fuming.

If charriii is doing tails, and tails sounds like Miss Piggy, *HE MUST BE MISS PIGGY IN DISGUISE*

If only we had a sonic rpg that played like the Mario and Luigi rpg’s

"PIck up all the rings you missed again." What a great motivator to replay the game again.

"I doubt anyone's FIRST sonic game was Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood" hahaha, yeah, definitely not my first sonic game

The biggest sin of this game is that Shade never appeared ever again any other games after this.

I think this game needs a sequel, or at least another proper Sonic RPG.

Fun fact: in the spanish translation, the snarky response in the tutorial is Sonic yelling that he doesn't want Amy to feel better.

Honestly I liked this game, what I didn’t like was the complete disregard of an actual ending and openly letting nothing come of it

“Marauders” is actually the nickname that Tails and the others gave the Nocturnus Clan, because...well...I guess they just didn’t know what else to call them at the time. In their minds, it’s probably just a temporary nickname until they find out what they’re actually called. Edit: Also, since Tikal basically lives in the Master Emerald, it’s entirely possible that she’s the one who told Knuckles about the story of his ancestors’s war with the Nocturnus Clan, but I admit, this is just me speculating. I mean, she was around back then when it all happened, so she would definitely know how it all played out. I mean, let’s face it: Knuckles’s family is gone and the only ones who were around back then during the war are Emerl, Chaos and Tikal herself. Emerl fought in the war, but he lost his memory several times over and he’s been destroyed and rebuilt as Gemerl, so he definitely doesn’t remember anything about back then, so, he wouldn’t be able to tell Knuckles anything. Chaos, on the other hand, does remember the war, but he’s antisocial and mute, not to mention that he probably dislikes Echidnas (except for Tikal, obviously), so he probably wouldn’t care enough to tell Knuckles about it. Tikal, however, not only remembers the war, but she actually trusts Knuckles and his friends, so she’s the only one who would actually want to tell Knuckles about the past and whatnot. So, yeah, it had to have been Tikal who told Knuckles about the Nocturnus Clan, because there’s nobody else who could’ve done so or even wanted to do so.

20:51 "We try to avoid violence when we can Eggman" left me wheezing 🤣

"Stop reminding me, I'll save when I'm ready."

Honestly she story itself doesn't sound that bad really, they may have gotten a sequel if they understood hoe to code a battle and puzzles

Tbh, this game needs a sequel. I simply don't like that they left on a cliffhanger like that...

46:59 You can *hear* the big ol' smile on charrii's face here i love it- its fucking adorable

“Finally a worthy opponent” *is literally killed in one round of combat*

Me sees the title: Also me: Ah shit here we go again

Ah yes, the return of "Eggmans Robots"

I think in the Voxai Colony puzzle you have to hit the switches when the floor flashes once, and do nothing if it flashes twice. That sounds incredibly obvious on paper, but in practice it's confusing. On a side note, I had no idea Tails had that many save reminders. It seems most of them are programmed to not appear if you have saved recently. He's obsessed.

This felt like the closest we've ever gotten to a game with an archie storyline, I honestly enjoyed it. Too bad we'll never see a sequel. If it's one thing I feel that this game got right, it was the dialogue. It was just very interesting seeing all of the different dialogue options with the other characters, would have been cool to see it voiced. I'd love to see something similar some day.

Part of me really wamt them try making an rpg again. However considering Sega seems to be struggling just to make a sonic game that performs well, i wont hold my breath.

"Please my furry friends. After You! Ha ha ha ha!!!" That line made me laugh more then it should of. 😂👍

How i knew shade was gonna be a playable character: All playable characters, regardless of what side theyre on in The battle sequences all have a sleeping pose, Where as other enemies when hit only get the Debuff icon above their modle

I love how Charriii5 used a Brooklyn accent for the construction workers

been waiting a while for this one, thanks Charrii. Also it's Big Arm not Doomsday Zone.

The idea of having the characters praising the people that made the game started off cute and charming at first, but went on for so long that it turned into an annoying circlejerk.

I like the Southern accent you used for Knuckles! Makes his cowboy hat make more sense

Funfact : when i got the mission for bringing back the boy to his family , i didn't bring him back and i was with him in space

I think everyone didn’t ask u to do this , yet u did. Mad respect

I actually like this game, shame that we never got a sequel because EA got greedy and purchased BioWare.

Knuckles: My mind is strong. I'm not worried. Chariii5: *heavy scnorft* Also Knuckles: Gets mind-controlled anyway

4:17 if sonic x was canon to this, I guarantee you he would’ve said GREEN in a heart beat

10:16 Wait I do have a question since he mentioned that there wasn’t voice acting, is he doing the VA himself (with others for different characters ofc) because if so he should have added vocals for sarcasm Let it go, let it go, let it go Nope can’t let it go, DING

*Looks at Duration* F-F-F-Fif-Fif-Fif-FIFTY MINUTES!?

40:36 "listen to how you've massacred my boy" describes...most of the music in this game. The one I found most annoying was the massacre of Genesis Diamond Dust for the city

Amy did the whole "I have a boyfriend" thing before it was a meme

45:16 Done

I assume you did the voice overs for most of the characters. They were pretty good, i think Sonic, Robotnik and Knuckles sounded pretty close to how they do in the games the most. You do a pretty good Dr Robotnik. Is it just me that gets annoyed when they refer to super sonic as a separate person. It probably is.

I’m surprised that you didn’t add a sin for every time that Amy mentioned she had a boyfriend

26:13 All that's missing is for Omega to say "bite my shiny metal a$$" here.