taken from neogaf. 

• Nintendo Power Cover Story with nice artwork
• In game graphics have a water color look, all hand drawn
• 4 party members at a time
• Each character can do certain things ex: Tails can float over things (standard stuff)
• 11 party members total - 8 known are Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Shadow, Big the Cat
• Control done fully with stylus - think Hourglass
• Able to split party into teams at certain moments
• Rings are used as currency
• No random battles, see enemies on the field
• Turn based battles, choose commands for everyone in your party before they actually follow through. Want battles to be fast paced
• Elite Beat Agents type special attacks
• Team attacks (like Chrono Trigger)
• "Fatigue Points" instead of MP
• Choose which attributes to increase when you level up
• Purchase and level special attacks
• Bits of story - Sonic's on vacation from defeating Eggman 2 years ago. Gets a call from Tails that Knuckles has been kidnapped by a group called the Marauders, and that 6 chaos emeralds are missing. Eggman not the main villain. But Bioware wants to make him a creditable bad guy again. Something about a "twist" between Eggman and Sonic that goes back to the earlier games.
• 2 acts - first takes place in standard Sonic areas. 2nd takes place in a darker world
• Remixed clasic tunes
• "fully animated cut scenes"
• simple dialogue trees
• Side quests

this game sounds great :) the ds has a nice year ahead of it.

Im iffy still.

Sonic RPG? This is make or break for sonic. lol

It's Bioware. The chances of the game being bad are tiny.

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Sounds good, especially the turn-based combat and hand drawn looks.

Happy they'll at least mention Robotnik.

Rings are currency, a shame about that. I was hoping they could still take basically 2 hits, but you could input timed commands to dodge/recover/activate a shield.

Elite Beat Agent style input? COOL!

Awesome stuff.

Sonic games on DS=instant win.

i can't wait to see some screenshots. the supposed water colour artstyle has me interested :)

can even bioware make a good sonic game?

HAvent been this excited over a sonic game since sonic adventure for dreamcast

 Well, Sonic on the GBA + DS ranged from decent to good.

So, Sonic + DS + Bioware = ZOMG