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Mystic Monkey wrote: Sonic and the Journey to the West

I've actually had this idea since S&tSR. The World Rings are replaced with the "Pearls of Wisdom" which function exactly the same way as the World Rings. Each pearl is 7.5 cm (approximately 3 in) in diameter, each with a different colour and when held a chinese symbol glows on them such as 望, 悲, 怒, 憝, 悰, 娛 and 要

Regular pearls from S&tSR can still appear in the game as usual collection for the Soul Gauge. The game is set in "Ancient Chun-nan" though the level select is rather linear to represent the pilgrim Xuanzang traveled. I still like this idea of mine, but given World Rings are established present in both S&tSR and S&tBK (though they were merely collectibles in S&tBK) the Pearls of Wisdom may need to be dropped, unless the Pearls of Wisdom are a transformed state of the World Rings. However the mission scrolls and world books from S&tSR makes a definite return given Journey to the West is about getting scriptures.

Maybe chracaters and events from other Four Great Classical Novels appear in the stories as well. It be nice to bring them all together than just concentrate on Journey to the West.