The launch of the multigame compilation Sonic Origins is right around the corner, but today veteran fans are gobsmacked by a piece of news that hit them like a smooth criminal. The original soundtrack for Sonic 3 & Knuckles won’t be featured in the game.
Sonic the Hedgehog social media manager Katie Chrzanowski confirmed the tidbit in a post-Summer Game Fest livestream on Thursday. She said that the soundtrack from the classic Sonic game is being reproduced by none other than Sonic music composer and Crush 40 guitarist Jun Senoue.
“While unfortunately we can’t use all of the original sounds from the Sega Genesis version of the game, Jun Senoue has been working really hard to adapt the original music that was composed in 1993 for Origins,” Chrzanowski said. “He’s going so far as reproducing it, with the same sound chip from the Sega Genesis, and using his own digital audio tape collection to make this as faithful to the originals as possible.”
New: @SEGA's @KatieChrz on Sonic 3 & Knuckles' partially adapted soundtrack in #SonicOrigins:
Read more on digitaltrends.com