Sonic Origins Will Feature ‘Adapted’ Sonic 3&K Music, Likely Not Originals

[Slash]

5 hours ago, Monkey Destruction Switch said:

This is pretty sad and disappointing. Ice Cap Zone is one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard from a video game, and the other copyright-unfriendly tracks are good too. I was already not interested in Sonic Origins for various reasons, but adding another reason to the pile is not pleasant

Not to mention the other Ice Cap are so generic sounding.

"Wheeee! Generic Winter Wonderland! Wheeeeeeeee!"

I prefer the frozen wasteland vibe of the original...

[TheOcelot]

It's a shame the original released music for CN, IC & LB had to be replaced, but if this was the only way to allow for a new release of 3K then I'm happy with this change.

In terms of preference; I prefer the Proto tracks for Carnival Night, released tracks for Ice Cap & Launch Base. Not that there counterparts are bad-they're good compositions. LB act1's Proto music is the only piece which isn't a good fit for that act IMO.

[JezMM]

Well it's a relief to have it confirmed one way or another.  Carnival Night is no biggie, I don't feel the music affects the mood of that stage.  Ice Cap is kinda sucky - I like the original just as well but it does totally change the mood of the stage from what I mostly played (Sonic Mega Collection here).  Launch Base fits somewhere between the two of these extremes for me - the original's chilled out atmosphere was so cool and unusual for a final stage - but seeing as Origins forces you to play locked on (naturally, as intended), that weird context would be gone anyway so somehow that makes the change less meaningful for me.  And the original still sounds fairly "unusually upbeat for an Eggman Base stage" in a similar way to the Mega Drive version.

Jun Senoue feels right too.  I get where people are coming from with the modern master of classic music Tee Lopes, but Jun was literally involved in the original soundtrack.  Sonic 4 had it's ups and downs musically, but he has existing music to start from here so I don't see any of the concerns with that soundtrack happening.

I hope the original Sonic 3 ending theme makes it in either as cut-scene music or just the music player, and definitely hoping we get the full Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles ending medley.

[PickleBrows]

I think Ice Cap is the only one I'll truly be gutted to lose only because there's such a tonal difference between the beta and final tracks.

Absolutely the right decision to make though VS having to awkwardly pretend S3K doesn't exist and never re-release it. 

Having Jun back for the replacement songs does help make this feel more authentic. Most of the beta tracks are bangers as 16 bit tunes so I'm excited to hear his "final" versions.

And obviously PC players will have a music mod available within the first week anyway.

[Sonicka]

So we're actually now looking at Jun remastering the Prototype tracks then? I'm not so against as they do still sound very nostalgically sonic-y (which might sound weird to say... but I never grew up playing with those BGM's very much). It's certainly going to be difficult to playing Ice Cap now though, that was a real stunner back in the day (and still is). 
 

1 hour ago, JezMM said:

Jun Senoue feels right too.  I get where people are coming from with the modern master of classic music Tee Lopes, but Jun was literally involved in the original soundtrack.  Sonic 4 had it's ups and downs musically, but he has existing music to start from here so I don't see any of the concerns with that soundtrack happening.

I hope the original Sonic 3 ending theme makes it in either as cut-scene music or just the music player, and definitely hoping we get the full Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles ending medley.

That's a good point. I tend by proxy to associate Jun with the modern era and forget he worked on this title originally.

I love his modern stuff of course, but Sonic 4 left a very sweet & sour taste in my mouth musically. That could just be due to the attempt to make it sound "mega-drivey-yet-modern" and it failing to do so IMO - but the cues were certainly memorable and hum worthy (especially part II). 

I do agree on the ending themes, although with the other tracks seemingly out of the picture I have a feeling the original S3 ending track may not even make the sound test. But here's hoping! 

[Jango]

We were not gonna get Sonic 3's staff credits music (Stranger in Moscow) anyways because you can't play Sonic 3 alone anymore, heh. They dodged that one pretty easily. I really like that track tho'. 

But yeah, the biggest hit will be the Ice Cap tracks for sure. I love me some Carnival Night proto (Act 2 especially) and Launch Base is just so weirdly good... That song is so bizarre, because it sounds like a kid imagining what a military base would sound like, it has a childish vibe. I don't know, I love it. But the MD version is as good I'd say. 

By the way... The timing of this video:

Buxer said he and Michael did one cue together, all the others were his own creations. Granted Buxer was part of "MJ's team" at the time... So yeah, I guess even with that new information, it's still a complicated situation to sort for SEGA.

[Blue Blood]

@Jango Actually, that's a good point about the credits music. It's not thought about it. Now that you mention it though, I hope that they go the extra effort to create a new credits medley that includes all 12 zones rather than just the S&K half. 

 

[ShinyGems]

2 hours ago, Blue Blood said:

@Jango Actually, that's a good point about the credits music. It's not thought about it. Now that you mention it though, I hope that they go the extra effort to create a new credits medley that includes all 12 zones rather than just the S&K half. 

 

Funny, I made a status update about it, mainly about this.

This is apparently prototype music for Sonic 3 and Knuckles. It is missing some levels, but add them all into this medley and it would be great to see.