As a collection first and foremost I would say that Sonic Origins does the job well enough and does it with a little bit style. The presentation is slick and there’s obviously so much love put into this, from the animated cutscenes to the 3D modeled islands showcasing where each game takes place, it’s content packed, and a lot of the enhancements to the classic games themselves are nice (widescreen support, full sprite rotation, new animations and new sprites entirely with Super Sonic’s case). Mission mode has some extra bite size challenges to tackle, not spectacularly made but it’s there to fill the collection with more stuff to do and it gets the job done. I will say without having played many of the fanmade classic game enhancements I’d say this is the definitive way to play these games…but it ain’t perfect. For one the delisting of the original games on steam is pretty awful but the game is also riddled with technical issues from what I’ve been seeing, especially related to performance on PC thanks to Denuvo. I haven’t experienced anything negative myself mind you, my experience has been flawless, but I can only speak for myself. Honestly though I think my biggest issue is that it’s only a collection of Sonic 1 2 3&K and CD, games we’ve seen get rereleased time and time and time again. As awful as Knuckles Chaotix is why not release that game? It hasn’t been rereleased anywhere and is basically stuck on the 32X atm. Where’s some game gear support or more saturn sonic games? Heck where’s stuff that hasn’t even been seen in the US like Segasonic? This collection could’ve been so much more than what it is, but I guess they were just really focused on bringing us these 4 games and nothing else. It’s fine but like, you know, not super exciting. $40 is a bit too steep so I’d still wait for a price drop. It has some extra DLC where you get…more music, uh…you can zoom in on the 3D modeled islands…yeah don’t get the DLC lmao

I have no strong opinions on the new 3&K music. Launch Base’s new track is kinda catchy tho ngl