a sequel focused on the Mega CD add-on, shifting to shorter, exploration focused levels with a new time travel gimmick ... traveling sign plate - there are both future and past plates scattered ...

Sonic Origins compiles ... released over the past quarter-century. This compilation features Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Sonic CD – and Sega has remastered all of them.

So, yeah, we’ve had plenty of Sonic compilations before. But Origins — out on June 23 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC — still feels special. Play ...

But while Yuji Naka was over in the US of A making that, Sonic’s designer Naoto Oshima was in Japan making Sonic CD--call it Sonic ... then return to the past and set things straight.