Blog:A review of Sonic Origins Collection I made that got rejected by GameFAQs.

Here's a review of Sonic Origins Collection that I tried to post on GameFAQs, but got rejected because it has swearing in it. I will also be talking about other half-assed video game remasters in this review. I haven't played the game yet, but I just had to get this word out. Fuck GameFAQs and fuck censorship. Enjoy the review.

As the title of this review says, I have not played the game yet, but I would like to say this: Sonic Origins Collection is nothing short of a generic nostalgic cash grab on the Sega Genesis era that we've seen a million times already. Given that this was announced during the Sonic Central livestream that commemorated the blue speedster's 30th anniversary, they missed the opportunity to include other Sonic games like Sonic Spinball, Sonic 3D Blast (the Saturn port), the Sonic Advance trilogy, any of the Master System or Game Gear games, or even stuff that has not been re-released like Knuckles Chaotix, Sega Sonic Arcade, and even Sonic The Hedgehog Pocket Adventure. Hell, even the unfinished prototype of Sonic X-Treme would have been a nice addition to this collection. Even some of Sonic Team and Yuji Naka's other projects like Girl's Garden, Phantasy Star, Ristar, Nights Into Dreams, and ChuChu Rocket wouldn't look out of place here. Maybe include Rad Mobile, a 1991 racing game by Sega that has Sonic's earliest known video game appearance in the form of a keychain, and it would make sense to include it because the name of the game is Sonic Origins Collection. The name implies that we get to uncover Sonic's origins in the video game world. But no, all we get is the Genesis games released for the 90 millionth time and plagued with bugs and glitches.

Wow, it seems like every overhyped video game collection these days is always doomed to fail in one way or another, starting with Silent Hill HD Collection, which only included the 2nd and 3rd games, was riddled with glitches galore, and Konami was giving away free games in exchange for Silent Hill HD Collection. Super Mario 3D All Stars gave us a remaster of Super Mario 64 that's based on the Shindou version, a port of Super Mario Sunshine with emulation issues, a port of Super Mario Galaxy with uncanny motion controls, forgetting to include Super Mario Galaxy 2, the limited physical and digital run, and being charged at full price. The "Definitive" GTA Trilogy gave us ports of the PS2 games with noticeable bugs, glitches and graphical errors, occasional game save corruptions, not including the other GTA trilogy (Vice City Stories, Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars), and the games just using the code from the smartphone versions. The N64 and Sega Genesis game library included with the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack gave us a lackluster game selection at launch, some emulation issues here and there with the N64 games, the selection of Genesis games being inferior to what's available on Sega Genesis Classics, which was released on the same platform but has a bigger selection of games and is yours to keep forever, and the fact that you get a yearly bill of $50 for this half-assed experience. I'm already convinced that Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece Collection on the Switch only exists as a joke, mainly because the game needs to be cloud streamed, akin to Google Stadia. Frame drops and bugs galore come with this insult of a collection that will set you back $90, all for a collection of games that included a bunch of unneeded bells and whistles, not to mention the inability to play the game online which is quite ironic because the Switch's main selling point is that it can play console quality games on the go. Kingdom Hearts III should be able to run on the Switch without cloud streaming because the system is able to run complex games that not even the PS Vita could handle, like Doom Eternal and Mortal Kombat 11. Also Nier Automata and Persona 5 Royal are being ported to the Switch later this year, so there is no excuse for this dick move. But the biggest slap to the face was that Kingdom Hearts and it's sequel were cloud streamed, which wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that those games were made for hardware that is '''3 CONSOLE GENERATIONS OLD!!!!! SO WHAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT OF HAVING THOSE GAMES CLOUD STREAMED AS WELL?!!!!!''' But of course, Square Enix is trying desperately to keep their secrets under wraps and as of the writing of this review, Square Enix has not done anything about this.

If all of the examples of shitty game compilations are not living proof that Sonic Origins Collection was doomed to fail, then nothing is. They all get overhyped and then the final product ends up being a broken mess, far from what gamers have fantasized. In my opinion, Super Mario 3D All Stars being announced 2 weeks and a day before launch should have been a bright red flag, and look what came out of it. An unpolished and lackluster mess that was given an arbitrarily limited physical and digital release. The Kingdom Hearts collection on Switch was announced several months before the release, which was enough time for Square Enix will rethink their decision about making the games cloud streamed, especially after the backlash they received following its controversial announcement. But no, they chose to release it in this state. Sonic Origins Collection was announced one year and a month prior to its release, which was more than enough time for Sega to make any last minute additions and touch ups to this game. But the final product clearly shows they spent little to no time making any improvements to this game and decided to fix it up after release, akin to Pokemon Sword and Shield. If something like the Metal Gear Solid games were to be re-released in a compilation (of course I'm not talking about the MGS collection that already exists on PS3), the mistakes made by those video game remasters don't give me much hope that it will be good, let alone stable.

So there you have it, my first impressions with Sonic Origins Collection, and they didn't require me to play the game. Some of you reading this review probably have a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, SEGA will make some improvements with Sonic Origins Collection. It happened with No Man's Sky, so there is no reason it shouldn't happen here. But as of writing this review, no new game changing updates have been announced, let alone are in the works. Good day to you all.