Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Is a Kart Racing Spectacle That Celebrates Sega’s History

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Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo

because your post was viewtiful

 

[aquova]

That's fair! They updated it a week after release to fix the rubberbanding AI and allow skipping the tutorial. But I think Ring Racers as a game concept is going to be love/hate for most people. It took me like 9-10 cups into the singleplayer before the mechanics really clicked. If you're in it for the pick up and play mayhem, you'll probably still prefer Kart. I can say that Ring Racers is leaps and bounds a better experience once you surpass the learning curve, but not everyone has the time or desire to invest doing so. And that's fine.

Oh! Important to note that I spent my first ~80 hours exclusively in singleplayer. They said they wanted to make a huge solo experience and boy did they deliver. There's so much to do there that even now I've barely touched multiplayer. But I feel like I would have bounced off the game had I jumped online immediately. It'd be hard to get better at the game with no idea what's going on. And on that note, I think the online manual does a better job explaining things than the ingame tutorial. Though the lore is still cute.

Maybe I should give it another try. I'll admit that I was a big fan of SRB2Kart, so I was shocked how different the game felt, and I never really got accustomed to it. I can't recall how far I ended up getting, but if they've changed some of the rubberbanding, I'll take another look at it.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Is the roster from All-Star Racing there? I don't care that much about all Sonic characters and non-Sega stuff to be honest.

I want to see the older Sega IPs before anything else.

No. Currently there’s barely any other SEGA characters. It is a Sonic game so Sonic majority is kinda expected tbh.

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I think that CrossWorld needing Miku to be popular just proves how Sonic has fallen as a gaming icon for the mainstream public. Even in Japan he's not that popular compared to the rest of the world.

I don’t think it’s that deep. SEGA puts popular characters in as DLC quite often. Persona 5 Royal alone was full of nods to other SMT entries down to SMT 1’s Kichijoji, not to mention Metaphor or the HD Etrian Odyssey remasters having SMT portraits. The same just happened to Crossworlds. Joker, Ichiban, and Miku are currently popular characters associated with SEGA. Steve is an interesting choice though, makes me wonder if DLC will just be other franchises or if they’ll actually lock in and add SEGA franchises. Low key, it’d be funny if they add in Dragon Quest for Ichiban.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

No. Currently there’s barely any other SEGA characters. It is a Sonic game so Sonic majority is kinda expected tbh.

Then I'm not that interested in this game.

 

[Sunnyside]

Excited for this!

Call me crazy, but I like the Sonic racing games a lot more than Mario Kart. They feel far more about technical skill than rubberbanding and RNG, which is what kills Mario Kart for me.


God bless the Sonic fanbase. I had no idea this existed, but it looks awesome. Going to give this a go in a bit.

Oh you will LOVE Ring Racers if what you want is racing with technical skill. They specifically set out to make a kart racer with a ton of interlocking mechanics and a large solo campaign. I think they succeeded.

 

[DrunkGecko]

I'm gonna be honest here, I'm gonna be getting this game because of Hatsune Miku.

Same and also rouge the ICONIC bat

 

[SBLAST91]

Deffo a buy on sale game for me.

Sorry but I prefer Mario Kart to keep the "Mario-ness" intact and not become just another crossover franchise like Smash Bros.

Even if Crossworlds feels like its crossovers are catering to me heavily, I am feeling burnout from the constant crossovers we have been getting in the games industry.

 

[C-MS]

If they change Chadzuma Kiryu for Kasuga IchiBro instead of having both, I will have mixed feelings about this.

Also use that Treasure IPs goddamn it! Give us Red or Blue from Gunstar Heroes! Give me back Dynamite Headdy even if is just a Kart character!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Deffo a buy on sale game for me.


Even if Crossworlds feels like its crossovers are catering to me heavily, I am feeling burnout from the constant crossovers we have been getting in the games industry.

The MCU and its consequences on pop-culture where every universes have to be interconnected in a way or another regardless of cohesion.

 

[Sunnyside]

Good point, crossover fatigue is real. Why make cohesive experiences when you can just slap a random pop culture icon on it and rake in all the money. Nickelodeon is only in CrossWorlds because some executive decided it'd be an easy sales booster. And they're right. It's blatant pandering and to me it all comes across as incredibly cynical. Have some artistic integrity. Let games stand on their own.