If you like Dragon Age, a former BioWare producer reveals that you should play this Sonic game

Mark Darrah, former executive producer of BioWare, has revealed an interesting detail about Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, an RPG of Sonic released in 2008. According to Darrah, the game uses the same dialogue system as Dragon Age: Origins, although adapted to work on the Nintendo DS console. “At its core, it’s the same stack of code,” Darrah commented, highlighting that, due to the order of release, one could argue that Dragon Age inherited part of its code from Sonic Chronicles.

The development team of Sonic Chronicles was surprisingly small, with fewer than 20 people, which, according to Darrah, gave a sense of “magic” to the project. This compact work environment allowed for closer collaboration and greater creativity in the development of the title, which remains one of Darrah’s favorites.

Was Mass Effect on the DS? It Almost Happened

However, the team did not stop there; they initially had plans to create a Mass Effect game for the same console. This project, which promised a first-person intergalactic hacking experience, was canceled due to the economic difficulties associated with launching games on the Nintendo DS platform.

In a broader context, it has been reported that BioWare has reduced its workforce to approximately 100 employees following recent layoffs related to the performance of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The situation has generated criticism, even from the developers of Baldur’s Gate 3, who questioned the effectiveness of these measures as a long-term solution. According to this developer, the layoffs are more of an immediate response to financial problems than an effective strategy to improve the situation in the company in the long term.

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