Sonic Origins came out yesterday, but we can’t say that it’s happy with everyone right now. Many fans lament the absence of original music, replaced by versions far from being on the level, but the players and players are not the only ones unhappy here. Simon Thomleyone of the developers in charge of the project at Headcannon Gameswho was particularly responsible for sonic 3also took to Twitter to express his sadness about the state of the compilation.
Problems between the studio and Sega?
This is frustrating. I won’t lie and say that there weren’t issues in what we gave to Sega, but what is in Origins is also not what we turned in. Integration introduced some wild bugs that conventional logic would have one believe were our responsibility- a lot of them aren’t.
—Stealth (@HCStealth) June 24, 2022
In several tweets, he affirms that the work which the studio returned to Sega is not really that which one finds today in the trade, the fault with many bugs :
“ It’s frustrating. I’m not going to lie and say there weren’t any issues in what we gave Sega, but what’s in Origins isn’t what we gave back either. many of them are not. Integrating into the build brought a lot of wild bugs that might imply it was our fault – but many aren’t. »
No delay granted
He later claims that the team initially ran out of time, and that even if his team made mistakes, everything is not to be blamed on the studio. It should be remembered that if Headcannon Games developed this remaster, it was given to Sega for the final compilation, and this is where the problem would come from according to Simon Thomley:
” We requested to make major corrections before submission, but were not allowed due to submission and approval rules. We asked about the delays and repeatedly but were told they weren’t possible. We offered to come back for fixes and updates after release – we don’t know if that will happen yet. »
He thinks that these kinds of statements could affect the rest of the relationship between the studio and Sega, but at least the community is now aware of what happened during development. We will now wait to see how Sega will react and if the problems highlighted will be corrected, but Sonic Origins is definitely a compilation that does more than good for the publisher’s image.