Sonic Origins developer ‘very unhappy’ with Sega and the final version of the game

sonic origin It wasn’t too warmly received at launch. In addition to pulling the classic game off the shelves before Origins released, Sega has also been criticized by fans for slicing the compilation title into pieces via DLC.

Beyond that, we’re starting to see players discover some crazy glitches and bugs in the game. Just last night, Found a Twitch streamer You can effectively skip all “& Knuckles” parts of Sonic 3 & Knuckles by rebooting and heading to Hidden Palace. Uh.

But how does the game launch under these circumstances — after all, we’ve seen a lot of Sonic re-releases, and they’ve all turned out really well. a tweet

“I’m not going to lie and say that what we gave Sega was fine, but neither was what was in Origins what we turned in,” Tomley said in the post. “Integration introduces some common mistakes that traditional logic would consider our responsibility – many of which are not.

“With regards to origins, we were outsiders and created a separate project that was then debated into something completely different. We knew there would be a major time crunch going in, and we worked hard to fix it so it could even be made and released.”

Thomley conceded that the Headcannon team did make “some actual mistakes” as well as “some neglect, some rushjobs, some things we noticed but weren’t allowed to correct near the end” – but went on to point out that Sega’s development section brought in the Headcannon-provided More errors not in the build.

As a result, Headcannon requested some “significant fixes” for the release, but was told that action could not be taken due to the way the submission worked prior to the game’s release. According to Thomley, Headcannon “repeatedly” asked about the delay, but Sega wouldn’t budge.

“I’m very proud of how my team performed under such pressure, but each of us was very unhappy with the state of Origins and even the Sonic 3 components. We weren’t too excited about the state it was in before commit, but a lot of things went beyond Our control.”

So what happens next? Will we see some fixes and updates to the game? Maybe. Thomley didn’t completely shut out Sega, and opportunities for post-launch work were already on the table. “I’m willing to do more work under the right conditions; whether they’re willing to work with me again is a whole different matter,” he pointed out

Sonic Origins is now available on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, as well as on Switch and PC through the Epic Games Store and Steam.