Sonic Origins is Not Finished

*You can skip cutscenes with B, and roll locking after spindash was in the originals, my bad.

The stage was set for Sonic Origins to house the definitive versions of Sonic's classic endeavors. And while the core of each game remains intact, not all is as it seems.

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[LiamTriforce]

"Losing Ice Cap is really giving fans a hard time"

Hah, I caught that. Also, great video.

[livelongandtroll]

"This should've been an easy home run..." is Sega's whole career after the early 2000s.

[fruitpunh]

Sonic not shouting “yes” while getting an extra life makes this unbuyable

Edit: y’all I just bought the game

[mobius]

It's insane how, when you compare this to Sonic Mega Collection, how much more love there seems to be in the Mega Collection than here. Attention to details, etc. It's just. . .odd how lack luster Origins is. I agree 100% with bickuribox12 in that it's a good entry point for people to play the games (or again), and I certainly enjoyed playing through them, but the museum, the lack of options, and so on, just made the experience shallow and surreal in a way.

[SomethingSimpler]

I'm convinced that Amy was supposed to be playable. All of the animations suggest that she was supposed to be there with the other playable characters. She would have also been a super interesting addition if they kept her Advance 1 mechanics.

[BetweenTheLyons]

I feel bad for the team from HeadCannon that worked on this. They kept begging Sega for more time but were denied repeatedly. They have offered to fix many bugs and continue working on the game but it seems Sega doesn't care. It's no wonder they were reusing assets wherever possible considering how much time Sega gave them to port these mobile versions.

[SOFTDRINKTV]

I'm very impressed by this video's script. You somehow manage to sound upbeat and positive while criticizing a game, resulting in a nice vibe. This is something I've struggled with

[BlueFizzle]

8:12 -- Your absolutely raw delivery of *"TURN IT OFF"* has been living rent free in my head for a good while now

[DesignDoc]

Cutscenes can be skipped but you gotta press the B button for some reason.

[sparksshepherd]

Also, a thing that upsets me the most is the whole "New Playable Characters" and what's depicted in the new animations. In the final animation Amy is shown as someone capable of using her hammer to destroy spike pits and enemies keeping up with Knuckles, yet she's not even unlockable. It would've been such a nice and welcome addition, yet here we are.

[LostSoulSilver]

It's incredible that EVEN TO THIS DAY sega still goes out of their way to make things worse for no reason

[GUNUFofficial]

WELCOME TO SONIC TEAM, WE MAKE GAMES I THINK?

[b-mansly]

If I had a nickel for every time Sega released a game without it being necessarily done or to the satisfaction of fans, I'd have at least a couple rolls of nickels.

[bruh-qxqi]

I genuinely want to slap everyone at sega and give them a wake up call, this is ridiculous. All because they NEEDED it out on sonics anniversary. If origins got a little more time in development, and if the developers didn’t make everything locked behind a stupid ass paywall, we could have had a gem on our hands. Give it up for SEGA everyone!!!

[ethon]

"Mods have already fixed this"
It really goes to show how Sega doesn't even *try* to figure out what we want, so we have to tell them ourselves

[MseryXLII]

“Losing ice cap is a hard time”

I see what you did there.

[ShockInazuma]

What confused me oddly is the ending cutscene of this game makes me feel like Amy WAS supposed to be playable, but as you said, Sega… Sega.

Also, I found out in Sonic 2, if you get 50 rings, complete a special stage, then restart the act… you can go into that same checkpoint and get another chaos emerald. Meaning you can get all emeralds as early as THE FIRST ACT OF EMERALD HILL ZONE.

[TheOneAndOnLEE.]

8:27 “…but losing Ice Cap is really giving fans a hard time.”

I see what you did there

[thestabbybrit]

Seems a lot of people are unaware of this, but there are extra options in the cheat screens. By performing the level select on Sonic 1 you CAN play as Sonic & Tails, as well as adding Sonic 3 powerups to the game and adding a 7th Chaos Emerald (with a truly frustrating bonus stage!)

However, we really should not have to use a level select to get these options... And I haven't checked the other games yet.

[NisYT]

So glad you’re finally getting the props you deserve and I think this is only the start been watching you for years now. Keep this up!!!