Sonic Origins Plus will add 12 Game Gear games and playable Amy Rose
UPDATE: Sega has officially announced the expanded collection
The anticipated Sonic Origins Plus will reportedly be released in June.
An as-yet unannounced game titled Sonic Origins Plus was given a rating in South Korea last month, sparking discussion as to what it may actually entail.
Now, according to a report on ComicBook.com which has since been deleted (but covered by GoNintendo before it was), Sonic Origins Plus will be an updated version of Sonic Origins with new games and features.
Update
Sega has officially announced Sonic Origins Plus for release on June 23, 2023.
“Sonic Origins Plus will be available as an all-in-one bundle that includes the Sonic Origins base game and the Plus Expansion Pack, featuring 12 Sonic Game Gear titles, playable Knuckles in Sonic CD, and for the first time ever: Amy Rose as a playable character in Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic CD!
“This pack also includes previously released add-on content: Extreme Missions, Mirror Mode, new character animations, and additional backgrounds and music. The premium physical edition will also include a 20-page artbook and a reversible coversheet that pays homage to the classic 1990s era of Sonic.”
The report claims that Plus will be available as a $9.99 digital upgrade for owners of Sonic Origins, as well as a $39.99 bundle containing Sonic Origins and Plus, available both physically and digitally (the standard version of Sonic Origins didn’t get a physical release).
The Plus upgrade will reportedly contain all 12 Sonic games released on the Game Gear, which would therefore mean the following:
- Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
- Sonic Chaos (1993)
- Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine (1993)
- Sonic Drift (1994)
- Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball (1994)
- Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble (1994)
- Sonic Drift 2 (1995)
- Tails’ Skypatrol (1995)
- Tails Adventure (1995)
- Sonic Labyrinth (1995)
- Sonic Blast (1996)
The upgrade will also reportedly add Amy Rose as a playable character in the compilation’s existing games – Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, 3 and Sonic CD – as well as making Knuckles playable in Sonic CD.
It will also include all previously released Sonic Origins DLC, and the physical edition is said to include a 20-page artbook.
Further reading
Sonic remaster developer says he’s ‘very unhappy about the state’ of Sonic Origins
When Sonic Origins released in June 2022 it was accompanied by three DLC packs costing around $5, which included such features as new hard missions, extra music tracks and character animations on the main menu.
Players complained at the time that some of these features, particularly the main menu animations, should have been present in the base game.
Sonic Origins has faced multiple issues since its release. A prominent modder who was working on a large mod for the game even called it “absolute shit” and abandoned the project, saying that the modding process had made it clear to them that the game was in a poor state.
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