Sonic remaster dev says he’s ‘grateful’ to work on Sonic Origins Plus despite issues with previous release
One of the key developers involved in the remasters featured in Sonic Origins says he’s happy to have worked with Sega on its Sonic Origins Plus update, despite his previous unhappiness with the original product.
Sonic Origins was released in June 2022 and included remasters of Sonic, Sonic 3, Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Sonic CD, most of which were developed by Headcannon Games.
However, Sonic Origins itself was developed and compiled in-house at Sega using the remasters, and Headcannon developer Simon Thomley (aka Stealth) was not happy with the finished product.
At the time, Thomley complained about the game in a Twitter thread, saying: “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.”
Thomley also claimed that the Headcannon team “were outsiders creating a separate project that was then wrangled into something entirely different”, adding: “We knew going in that there would be a major time crunch and we worked ourselves into the ground to meet it.”
He concluded: “We offered to come back for post-release fixes and updates – we do not yet know if this is happening.”
It would appear that since then there has been a reconciliation, because Headcannon confirmed on Twitter today that it was involved in the creation of the new features being added to Sonic Origins Plus. Thomley then also posted another thread expressing his happiness that the ill will seemed to have been resolved.
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