Tried Sonic Before the Sequel (Sonic Before the Sequel Fixed Edition) and After the Sequel (Sonic After the Sequel Omega) a bit more and yeah, nice-looking but dull stages. Some other Sonic fan games I tried that sorta fell into the same camp were Sonic Axiom, Sonic Island, Sonic 3D in 2D, and Sonic Galactic; I think just about all of them except Galactic used the same sorta dated engine, which may not have been very good at doing interesting AI stuff, because they definitely fell down in that area.
Galacticās two stages arenāt super-exciting, they both end in a pretty decent boss fight though. (F4 for full screen.)
Other fan games I put even less time into 'cause they seemed less my thing were
Emerald Ties
Neo Sonic Fighters
Sonic 3 Chronicles
Sonic Advance 4 Advanced
Sonic Chaos
Sonic Chaos Remake
Sonic Chrono Adventure (640 weird) (Sonic Chrono Adventure - Download page)
Sonic Classic Saturn
Sonic Colors Demastered - poor performance, square levels
Sonic Drift 16 bit
Sonic Encore
Sonic Frenzy Adventure
Sonic Frost
Sonic Heroes Origins
Sonic Island 2
Sonic Outbound
Sonic Quantum Collision
Sonic Quest DX
Sonic SMS Remake 1-3
Sonic Time Twisted
Sonic Transitions (short)
Sonic vs Darkness TNR (also combat demo)
it was fucked up to see the mario movie constantly playing the in-game themes one after the other for the entire runtime just hitting the mario kart 8 menu music for fun when sonic had like 30 seconds of green hill piano at the end
i guess the biggest question is will shadow shoot a gun in this and will there be discourse about how him possibly not shooting a gun is anathema to fans who think itās a part of his growth as a character and how no fan favorite character gets to have personal growth anymore
I got a copyright claim on Sonic 1ās soundtrack in Sonic Originsāfrom Sony Brazil. None on 2 or 3ās (ah well Iām only about 2/3rds through 3). Supposedly for 3 they were able to port it for the first time in 11 years because they replaced a track or two that Michael Jackson had worked on.
Unfortunately, however, it turns out that this wasnāt what Naka meant at all. In a follow-up tweet, Naka clarifies that when he said āSEGA Official uses Michael Jacksonās musicā, he was referring to the official Sonic TikTok using an actual Michael Jackson song in one of its videos. Basically, he thought the use of Billie Jean in a TikTok was Segaās way of hinting that Sonic 3 did use Jacksonās work, and it would appear in Sonic Origins. It looks like Naka is just as confused as the rest of us.
According to that article, the closest to official confirmation was just Sega confirming that they couldnāt use all āthe original sounds,ā for an unspecified reason:
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