Sonic Origins Collection - General Thread

I somehow forgot about his incredible work with GG Aleste 3 alongside 3D OutRun, he’d be perfect for it. My apologies.

was just thinking Yuzo Koshiro because he worked on the theme music for the original Mini, and chibi-tech because her M2 original tracks have been fantastic.

EDIT: I just saw on Wikipedia that Manabu Namiki did the Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth rearrangements. Holy shit, those are incredible.

 

I don't think Manabu Namiki was involved in the recent Mini projects like Yuzo Koshiro was.The point is that anyone competent would be preferable than the crap we got in Origins. For Origins, if they were sticking with using indie guys for development, they had plenty of talent to pick.

Me? Big fan of Savaged Regime.

 

I'll also vouch preemptively for Manabu Namiki, though I might play it safer with Yuzo Koshiro. I definitely loved what Namiki could do in the past (see Battle Garegga for something Mega Drive-esque, yet fantastic), and that includes his time with Basiscape, but it's been so long that I'm not sure if he still has that energy anymore, not from what I've heard from really small projects, anyway. I should check out GG Aleste 3 myself, now that it's been brought up.

Koshiro, on the other hand, I know can still work magic with FM synth. In fact, I remember talking with friends about how I'm honestly shocked that he's never considered for any classic Sonic tunes. Like, ever. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't he make medleys for the Mega Drive/CD minis? How is it SEGA is aware enough to contract him for those and yet classic Sonic synth always falls into the hands of Senoue? There is no justice.

At the very least, Naofumi Hataya. I'm never sure if he's a full time employee at SEGA or what, but he seems underutilized. I know he was on Sonic Forces, and I assume a lot of people were take-it-or-leave-it on those, but I wonder if it's really any worse than Senoue, especially if he isn't pigeonholed.

Also, seeing Chimpo's post right now, I'd vouch for Savaged Regime as well, though I may prefer John "Joy" Tay just a little more if we're veering into the indyish space.

 

I was under the impression that it wasn't just the music itself, it was modifying the original ROM to do it that was causing them legal trouble (after all, the unmodified S3 and S&K ROMs were purchasable on Steam for years). The Origins S3&K is not a ROMhack, and uses not a single line of code from the original ROM, so they sidestepped it that way.

 

In fairness, I'm not sure the "hundreds of unmodified ROMs uploaded to the workshop for free" Genesis emulator on Steam is the best metric for measuring legality in this department.

 

I played Sonic Origins for the first time yesterday! Amy in S3&K. There were a couple moments in Sandopolis where I thought I should maybe not have been crushed, but otherwise everything felt like it was recreated flawlessly. The Launch Base Zone music sounded different but otherwise I didn't notice any changes there either. The new sprites looked great, and being able to spend coins to retry the bonus stages made all the difference, probably the first time I've ever gotten all the super emeralds.