4/5 ★ – BarrelOregon's review of Sonic Origins.

Right now this is the best official ways to play the first 4 classic sonic games. They all run smooth as butter, the drop dash is really cool, and the additional features are all really neat. If you want a convenient way to play all the classic sonic games and you don’t have them, then definitely go for them. However there are little things that make it less than perfect. For one, you can’t play as Knuckles in CD for some stupid reason, and you can only pair sonic and tails in sonic 2 and 3. It couldn’t have been that hard to implement so I don’t know why they didn’t. Another thing that bugs me is that unlike the mobile ports of sonic 1 and 2, you can’t play an existing save with all your emeralds so you can play the game again to try to get more. Again, no reason why that couldn’t be implemented. Of course, the elephant in the room, the game uses the PC music for Carnival Night, Ice Cap, and Launch base. I know they couldn’t for legal reasons, but I personally hate the prototype music for those stages. Pc players could potentially mod them back in, but I got the switch version since I can already play updated versions on my PC. These are all little things however that I can see them adding in an update or something. While I hate the “patch it later” mentality, they are just cool additions rather than game breaking bugs. If you don’t have access to the classic sonic games and you have the bucks to spare, I’d say get it. This is the gold standard that all collections should be held to.