Sonic Origins has seen a large amount of criticism since launch, including from HeadCannon games who helped work on the product, due to the quality of the game versions and introducing new errors, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and other issues. One more name who has spoken out is Xanman, creator of BetterOrigins, a mod for the PC version of the game which had the goal of fixing numerous issues and improving the quality. However, after going through the game’s files, Xanman has decided to halt work on the mod entirely.
“Hey, so we decided to stop the development of this project,”
“After really digging into the files for this game, it’s become way clearer that this game is absolute s***. We’ve fixed enough where the game is a bit more serviceable but really, especially without scripts, there’s not a whole lot we can ‘fix’ without just redoing sprites.”
“MAYBE I’ll come back to this in the future, when script editing becomes a thing. But for now, screw this game.”
This is not a good sign for the game’s future, but hopefully, Sega can turn things around.