Sonic Origins Reviews

Wow such memories with sonic, I love this series, all great games and fun time killer, love the music too

It's a Sonic Collection, what can I say? If you play on PC you can just play the fan made revamps of the games.its decent enough to play on modern cnosoles but it isn't really anything special :/ 4/10

Definitely not the best way to play these games, but if you don't want to go through the hassle to set up any emulators or fan-mods, I'd say this is easiest way to play. The price tag is pretty steep for what you're getting though. Without the Plus expansion, you are essentially getting 4, hour-long games for 30 dollars, with a couple of new characters slapped on to the older ones, which also wasn't included on the game's launch. With the Plus expansion, you spend an extra 10 dollars to unlock Amy in all 4 of the games, and get a couple new challenges for each game. While Amy is fun, she is essentially Sonic with a new hammer charge attack, along with taking his routes through the levels in Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Speaking of the challenges, they are fun, but don't add that much to the games as they mostly entail small parts of existing levels with a gimmick added to them, such as killing a certain type of enemy a number of times. With Plus there is about 15 challenges per game and most don't take over a minute to complete. After 100% the game, I would not suggest picking this game up at full price and even at 16 dollars with Plus on sale it might not be worth it unless you really enjoy the classics.

Actually kinda like this collection, it's got a pretty UI, animations, museum with concept arts and classic sonic songs and also animated videos/cutscenes of origins and sonic mania. Some fun modes like missions and boss rushes i really liked, and tbh i never encountered any of the performance issues really, even when having opera open in the background. And while yes anniversary mode does make every single one of the game almost too easy you don't necessarily have to play it, there's an option for a more classical feel in terms of mechanics and aesthetics in every title.

Game is alright; as nice as widescreen and playable Knuckles is, I just find it not worth the money when you can emulate the games for free. DLC is not worth it; Amy Rose and Game Gear ports for $10 is wild, and the Game Gear ports kinda suck. Still has issues that needs to be fixed. For that price there should be no issues. just wait until it's like 2 dollars on sale or something

Best way to play the old Sonics but remember to visit the forum page to get the original music packs as some of the original music was removed from the game. Just wish they would remaster the Game Gear versions of Sonic and add the Master System versions to it along with the 32X Knuckles Chaotix and the Genesis version of Sonic Spinball.

This game is just wow. It's a great way to experience all the games from the classic Sonic era. The challenges are fun and it's nice that you can choose between an anniversary mode and a "classic" mode. I'll explain why the brackets later. The story mode also adds opening and ending animated cutscenes that tie the story nicely. You can also play other characters that weren't in the games originally (Tails in Sonic 1 and Sonic CD, etc.) You can also play as Amy, but she'll cost you 10 bucks, as well as Knuckles in CD, as both are locked behind the Plus upgrade. There are some issues tho. First off the physic engine is not the same as the actual classic games as these are a port. This leads to some part of the game not running as smoothly as they were intended to. Also the soundtrack from Sonic 3 & Knuckles was changed (likely due to copyright issues with the Micheal Jackson company) and the prototype OST was used, however the audio quality feels lower and more compressed compared to the other 3 games. Coming to the classic mode, the main issue with is that they're not the actual classic games from the Megadrive, but rather a cropped version of the anniversary mode with the lives system added back (since they've been replaced by the coin system in anniversary mode, an in-game value that allows you to retry special stages or buy items from the museum, and you got infinite lives). Therefore the physic remains the same as well as all the issues it brings. The mirror mode is nice as well as the boss rush. Another complaint I have is that the character selection screen could have been better, you're given the choice of selecting a character and a few teams (Sonic and Tails and Tails with Amy or Knuckles), having the ability to simply choose if you wanted to play solo or duo and make you choose WHO you want your duo to be formed by (like Knuckles and Amy for example) would have been much better. Also SEGA, removing the original classic games from Steam to force people into buying this collection was a scummy move. All and all, I still think this is the best possible way to experience the original classics, and apart from some flaws (nitpicks or majors) this is a very enjoyable game. Anyone looking for a good side-scrolling platform should buy this. Also for the love of God SEGA, please release a Knuckles' Chaotix remastered for PC. I don't even care if you do as a separate game from Origins, just give us the chance of playing it.

If hard to swallow pills were a video game, they'd be Sonic origins+. The pros: All 4 games in widescreen on PC for the first time Extra characters in games where they weren't before Enough bonus content to be reasonably considered "extra content" The mission mode is cool Animated cut-scenes are pretty neat The cons: EXTREMELY HIGH price tag for whats offered DLC locks such nessecary addons such as extra music exclusively in the music select mode, letterboxes for the 4:3 classic mode, and animation in the main menu Plus pack only exists to sell the dlc additions in a better value with amy added on, VERDICT: on sale, maybe?

Gotta go fast! My new favorite way to play the original 4 games. Would have been nice to include Sonic 3D but I'm still happy with the new features they packed into it. The cut scenes were a nice addition, and the game looked pretty sharp on my 4K TV!

Price tag is extremely steep in my opinion, but the Origins mode content and those fun cutscenes are a lot of fun. The ports themselves are... Fine. The wide screen support is cool, not sure it's worth messing up the physics and everything but it's really not THAT bad. it's not unplayable at least. I do wish we got some other cool classic Sonic games though. Chaotix is basically lost media at this point, but we definitely needed another way to play CD. My other big issue with this compilation is that they pulled all the other versions of these games from Steam when it was released, and that's inexcusable. Don't buy it. Go google the ROMs and cutscenes instead.