She’s a new option you can take or leave. So, as one would expect, Amy isn’t better.
The tradeoff is that I couldn’t seem to activate special abilities like the “fire dash” associated with the fire power-up in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 anymore, because the input that would normally activate those things was instead dedicated to Amy’s hammer. As far as I can tell, her only notable gameplay feature is that you can a press a button to make her swing her hammer around herself during jumps, adding a bit of extra range that makes it easier to hit enemies. Firstly, Amy Rose is a perfectly adequate, if perfectly forgettable addition to the game roster.
So I’ll just focus briefly on the new things. A Great Collection Gets a Little GreaterĮverything I said in my original review remains true, except that, as mentioned, the technical kinks have largely been ironed out (on PlayStation, at least). To offer a quick review, Sonic Origins Plus is a nice cherry on top of the original experience.
If we fast-forward to today, the lingering bugs have been ironed out, and the game has received an upgrade in the form of Sonic Origins Plus, which adds playable Amy Rose in all games, Knuckles in Sonic CD, and 12 emulated Game Gear games. Paired with some quality-of-life options to make the difficulty more manageable, Sonic Origins was just a great time, on PlayStation 5 at least. The game has a huge Museum of content to unlock simply by playing, as well as dozens of bite-sized and surprisingly fun “Missions.” This was all in addition to the games themselves that had been fully rebuilt for 16:9 aspect ratio (or classic 4:3 too, if you prefer), including Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic CD, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Sonic & Knuckles with playable Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles for most games. As I explained in my review last year, when Sonic Origins launched back in June 2022, it won me over in a way I was not expecting.
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