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Sonic Fans Love Sonic Origins

• Jacob Chambers
• June 19th, 2023

Sonic Origins Plus launches this week on Switch. It marks the first physical release of the collection and adds Amy as a playable character and 12 Game Gear titles to Sonic Origins.

As a result, copies have already been sold to eager fans, and some aren’t happy with Sega’s handling of certain aspects of the game. Some complaints seem valid, while others seem nit-picky. You decide.

Amy first. Like Sonic and Co., Amy can become Super Amy after collecting all seven Chaos Emeralds. Some have noted that Amy’s “Super” form only changes her color, not her sprite.

Worst outcome for Super Amy, she’s just a lighter pink, didn’t even stick her quills up pic.twitter.com/IhAGyux47J

— Person108 (@PersonthePerso2) June 16, 2023

Fair, right? Not quite… Sonic is the only character whose sprite changes when he becomes “Super,” as shown in the tweet below. All other characters, including Tails, Knuckles, Mighty, and Ray, only received a color change to indicate the power-up.

i agree it would be cool to see a unique design for super amy but those who are disappointed are only disappointed because they set their expectations too high. every classic character that isn't sonic has a form that's just a lighter colour, why should it be different for amy? pic.twitter.com/GBPbeFnk4d

— harley 🙂 (@whisperwoIf) June 17, 2023

Players are also unhappy with the character select screen, which we can understand. In the tweet below, the characters are lined up, including three Tails combinations.

WHY DIDN’T THEY FIX THIS?? IT’S SO MESSY
(grateful to play with Amy and tails tho🥰) pic.twitter.com/Y2FefKZpOM

— sonic origins plus brainrot (@errorickplus) June 17, 2023

“That’s fine.” It’s not a big deal, but Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic Mania have separate save slots for switching characters. It’s a better solution than Sonic Origins Plus, and it emphasizes that we can’t play Sonic and Amy together. Odd, huh?

Finally, fans dislike the new collection’s Game Gear sound. While passable, this new collection sounds different from the original Game Gear releases. Observe:

I'M seeing people say the game gear version always sounded like this here's a comparison between sonic the hedgehog on game gear and the sonic origins plus version they added some echo or reverb
its more noticeable when you wear headphones https://t.co/K48vSjhEMT pic.twitter.com/5QQq9wC0CR

— Wazy hemisphere super fan (@yipsigoon) June 17, 2023

Sounds echoy, right? It’s not terrible, but players of the original releases will notice the difference.

Sonic fans are picky. However, Sonic Origins Plus may not be the disaster some predict. When the game launches this week, we’ll know.