20 LAZIEST Video Game Re-Releases They Thought You'd Buy

8. Sonic Colors: Ultimate

One of the all-timer games for the Nintendo Wii, Sonic Colors took most of what was wrong with cornerstone title Sonic Unleashed and threw it out. Playing solely as Sonic, we got to experience the ideal blend of classic side-scrolling action and modern 3D gaming, while taking on the kind of tough-as-nails challenges one didn’t usually associate with the family-friendly Wii console.

And, as part of the franchise’s 30th anniversary celebrations came Sonic Colors: Ultimate, for the Switch, Windows, PS4 and Xbox One. But rather than being developed and overseen by SEGA’s Sonic Team, as we might have expected, it was instead farmed out to Blind Squirrel Games. Who? you may ask. Who indeed.

Colors: Ultimate had a fresh soundtrack and revamped visuals, but when it came to the nuts and bolts of the development, it skidded off the edge. Developed from the Wii version, it somehow released with innumerable bugs and technical issues not present in the original, the cutscenes were upscaled using AI, and the load times were unacceptable.

Granted, it’s SEGA’s initial laziness that gave us what followed, but it’s difficult to lay the blame for this useless re-release far beyond Blind Squirrel’s door.