Sonic Origins has been on sale for several days now. This collection of all classic Sonic titles includes the original Sega Megadrive title along with Sonic CD, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles, all remastered with high definition widescreen graphics.
The Sonic CD remaster was developed years ago by Christian Whitehead, while the Sonic and Sonic 2 remasters were developed by him together with Headcannon Games, being some of the main responsible for the development of the successful Sonic Mania. For this occasion, they have been in charge of remastering Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. However, Headcannon Games have already made it clear that they are not at all happy with the state of this collection, for which they blame Sega directly.
As explained by one of the main ringleaders of the study, the team had to work in a hurry and in an accelerated manner, given Sega’s demands, without being able to polish the game properly and without being able to correct numerous bugs they were aware of. in the case of Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Not only that, but it seems that Sega, in compiling all the games in this new collection format, would have introduced problems and bugs that were not present in the remasters that Headcannon Games delivered to them, which “has been frustrating,” as they have commented.
A real shame that the result of this collection could have been marred by haste and poor management by Sega, in addition to having been able to promote future collaborations with Headcannon Games for a hypothetical Sonic Mania 2, after the huge success of the original title.