Sega has released another round of fixes for Sonic Origins, its disappointing collection of classic Sonic platformers, this time taking aim at Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s troublesome Tails AI.
Sonic Origins was, to put it politely, a bit of a mess when it launched earlier this year, and was plagued with enough presentational and technical issues – as extensively documented by Digital Foundry’s John Linneman – that its developer hit out at publisher Sega, saying it “very unhappy” at the state it had been launched in.
Since then, Sega has been working to fix some of the game’s more egregious problems, and its latest patch – officially known as update 1.04 – leads with an attempt to remedy an widely reported AI issue that would repeatedly cause Tails to goes off-screen in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, unable to rejoin the action.