Sonic Origins was one of the most redundant re-releases (three Mega Drive/Genesis games and one Mega CD/SEGA CD game…).
We wrote earlier about Sonic Origins that the founder of Headcannon Games, the studio responsible for the remastering, was not at all happy with how badly SEGA ended up putting out a piece of work. We need to explain this: Sonic Origins contains four games. The first and second parts of Sonic were brought together by Christian Whitehead and Headcannon, while the remastering of Sonic CD was realized by Whitehead with his own Retro Engine. These were then developed and coded in-house by SEGA.
We wrote about the result that it is problematic to say the least. It’s been almost a month since then, and the Japanese publisher still has to silence its rightfully critical community to say that more bugs will be fixed! Katie Chrzanowski, social media manager for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise a On Twitter thanked us for our patience. The team has been listening to the players so far and they are still working on a lot of bug fixes, and as soon as they have more information, they will come back with some kind of official message.
So we don’t even know when that patch will be released, but there would be something to fix. In Sonic 3 & Knuckles, the collision detection is wrong, in all four games there are glitches around the sounds (which are excessively muted in some places), the frames are wrong in the case of widescreen resolutions, Tails’ artificial intelligence is strange.
A modder, Xanman, also initially worked on a large mod for Sonic Origins. THE BetterOrigins it would have fixed more bugs and errors… then it finally stopped it. He wrote that they were shutting down development on the project, as he had looked deep enough into the Sonic Origins files and came to the conclusion that the game was “absolute s_r”. So it could be quite a problem if they simply left it all behind.
The saddest thing is that because of Sonic Origins, the original games are no longer available on Steam, for example. Instead, here is the collection enriched with Denuvo. No comments.
Source: VGC
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