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June 24, 2022

Why Did Sonic Origins Turn Out Buggy?

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Reviewers of Sonic Origins, the highly anticipated remaster of the hog’s most classic titles, are not happy. While the overall presentation is nice, they’ve been pointing out the various glitches and bugs throughout the games that weren’t present in the originals. An outsider might ask how Sega could possibly mess this up, if all they had to do was dump some ROMs into a menu. The cynic would reply, “Sega always finds a way.” But there’s a bit more to it than that. For one thing, Sonic Origins is NOT a ROM dump. It’s a legit rebuild of Sonic 1, 2, 3 and Knuckles from the ground up, using the Sonic Mania engine. The developers of that engine, Headcannon, also created this remaster and says they are aware of the bugs, but that not every single one is their fault. Developer Simon Thomley says they “asked to do major fixes near submission,” but they were denied the opportunity because of “submission and approval rules.” So it sounds like bugs were

January 14, 2019

This Rejected Darkwing Duck Game Is Worthy Of The Hat And Mask

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Anyone remember Capcom’s Darkwing Duck video game? If you were an NES owner, you most likely do…Capcom worked wonders with Disney licenses back in the day. Recently, developer Headcannon pitched a sequel to the Darkwing game. Capcom still holds the rights, and they allowed a 2013 sequel to their DuckTales game, but unfortunately, they did not bite this time. You may know Headcannon for their work on Sonic Mania, regarded as the best Sonic of the last decade. Rather than letting all that work sit in a drawer, Headcannon decided to upload videos of their pitch demo. It features creative contributions from Aaron Sparrow and James Silvani, the respective writer and artist behind Boom Studios’ Darkwing Duck comic book (now sadly cancelled, but amazing while it lasted). There aren’t any voices, but similar to DuckTales Remastered, the goal was to re-hire as much of the original voice cast as possible, with the exception of Christine Cavanaugh who has the double excuse of being retired since 2002 and also dead. For