Sonic Origins: 3D Edition

== Introduction ==
Sonic Origins: 3D Edition is a Sonic video game collection released by SEGA on June 23, 2023 and developed by Sonic Team and is a collection containing Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes, with Sonic '06 as a DLC and the three Sonic Advance games as extra games, with the menu music composed by Jun Senoue. The game cost 39.99$ with the DLC being 4.99$
== Featured Games ==
The games featured in this collection are:
* Sonic Adventure, which is a port of the Dreamcast version featuring 4K-supported widescreen and a smooth 60 FPS, Amy, Gamma and Big being optional, a ranking system and an option to switch between the Dreamcast and DX Models, with upscaled intros
* Sonic Adventure 2, which is a port of the 2012 re-release, but with a few refinements with the cutscenes, and the addition of online support in Battle Mode
* Sonic Heroes, which is a port of the original GameCube version featuring 4K widescreen support for the first time with a few refinements, you could complete one team's story only and move on to the final battle, all of CGI cutscenes are also upscaled and online support in the 2P mode.
* Sonic '06, which is the only game in this collection to not include any new changes except the loading screens being shorter and some of the glitches being fixed
== Modes/Features ==
=== Anniversary Mode ===
Anniversary Mode basically behaves the same way as in the normal Sonic Origins, you can play through each game individually, there is a new currency called "coins" that can be used in the Chao Garden in SA1/SA2 to make your chao egg hatch quicker, and in the classroom of the Chao Kindergarten where you can skip the lesson and in the Special Stages of Sonic Heroes to restart them, it can also be used to unlock certain levels in mission mode.
=== Classic Mode ===
Classic Mode removes the coin feature and gives you lives, however, unlike Sonic Origins, the games are still in 16:9 widescreen but they don't feature their extras like the Chao Garden or the 2P/Battle Modes and all of the campaigns in each game should be played.
=== Story Mode ===
Story Mode basically has all the features in Anniversary Mode, except the lack of any extras or the Chao Garden and some new cutscenes to connect the games together, with an SA2 prequel cutscene and a Sonic Heroes prequel cutscene, and a special cutscene at the end as well, and all the campaigns in each game also should be played.
=== Mission Mode ===
Mission Mode features bite-sized versions levels of each game with a main objective, mainly using a gimmick within the level or using a move in the moveset to clear the level, in Sonic Adventure, there's missions for Sonic, Tails, Amy and Gamma, In Sonic Adventure 2, there's missions for Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and Eggman. In Sonic Heroes, there's missions for only Team Sonic and Team Chaotix
=== Mirror Mode ===
Mirror Mode is all the games but flipped, and is only unlockable via completing them in either Anniversary Mode, Classic Mode or Story Mode and uses a level select screen instead to play the stages.
=== Gallery ===
The gallery is pretty self-explanatory, as music that plays during it is completely new composition, you can take a look at the numerous concept arts for each game featured in the collection except Sonic '06, there's also a zooming feature
=== Extras ===
The extras in this collection are a bunch of promotional or behind the scenes videos or short animations with a few TV show episodes, all of them also upscaled and remastered:
* Sonic Adventure behind the scenes video
* Sonic Heroes US Commercial
* Sonic '06 Reveal Trailer
* Sonic Unleashed Launch Trailer
* Sonic Forces Launch Trailer
* Sonic Frontiers Reveal Trailer
* Team Sonic Racing Overdrive, Part 1 and 2
* Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps, Part 1 and 2
* Sonic X Episodes "Chaos Control Freaks", "Cracking Knuckles" and "Pure Chaos" (Both Japanese and English versions available with no translation of the Japanese version)
* Sonic Boom Episodes "The Sidekick", "Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Days?", "Translate This", "Eggheads", "Tommy Thunder: Method Actor" and "Blackout"
=== DLC Content ===
The only DLC released as of now is a Sonic '06 expansion to the collection. The game has it's own menu separate from the rest of the collection and it isn't tweaked.
== Development ==
The collection started development around the release of the main Sonic Origins, SEGA made a brand new dev team tasked at porting Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes to next-generation systems, after they were complete, they were intergrated inside the 3D Sonic Origins, which the menu is directly ripped from the main Sonic Origins with the exception of a brand new menu theme and the lack of 3D islands, and Sonic Team was tasked to make the mission mode, the mirror mode and port over Sonic '06 as DLC. SEGA also struck a partnership with TMS and Technicolor to include a few episodes of Sonic X and Sonic Boom into the collection respectively. The game's development was very straight-forward, there was no issues within the development team except the 1-year development cycle. So the game did come out with a few bugs, but not as much as in the main Sonic Origins.
== Release ==
The game was announced Fall 2022 alongside the release of Sonic Prime's first season, however not many info was known about it outside that the game would include Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes, unlockable DLC with Sonic '06, new animated cutscenes and extras and a release date of June 23, 2023. Later, more details would come out late May 2023, then the game would release on June 23, 2023 with new episodes of Sonic Speed Strats, covering the story of each game, each game included individually and the other extras.
== Reception ==
The game was majorly well-received, and did better than the main Sonic Origins in terms of reception. IGN gave the collection an 8/10 calling it a "must-buy" for fans of the 3D games, the main compliments that this collection gets are an accessible version of Sonic Heroes and Sonic '06, many game elements being optional, the "fun" extras, the added mission mode and mirror mode, and the game's price being "worth it" without "cash-graby" DLCs. But there was some criticisms for the game however, like the retracing of the main menu and a few glitches that weren't in the original versions.
== Trivia ==
* This is the first time Sonic Heroes got re-released since a re-release of the Sonic PC Collection.
* This is the first time Sonic Adventure and Sonic Heroes were released in widescreen and in 4K.
* This is the first time Sonic Adventure's Dreamcast version got re-released.
* This is the first re-release of Sonic '06.
* This is the first and only Sonic game to release in 2023
* The game features some never before seen concept art.
* The JP version of Sonic X included in the collection sometimes has inaccurate subtitles in English, to remove any sensitive content.