Reminder: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Tangle & Whisper Free DLC Pack Out Now

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@TheSaneInsanity
What’s niche about that? Sounds like they’re approaching shoved down throats territory.

Will they be voiced? Please Sega! You just got voices for them!

@ParrakerriRush Nope, the voice actors are only for the podcast, they have no budget for DLC voice acting. Won't be even patched, as confirmed by Iizuka.

I'm more excited for them than the entire season pass since I don't give a lick about Minecraft or Nick stuff. Tangle and Whisper are great characters and I highly recommend reading or listening to audio dubs of the IDW comics on YouTube.

Not sure about the rest of you, but I prefer playing as Sonic characters in my Sonic game.

Utterly bizarre and incredibly niche. Like Frobisher turning up in an actual Doctor Who episode.

People are really out here complaining about FREE characters who are pretty likeable in their comics, and seeing Sonic Team reach in to expanded territory. Nintendo Life is a bunch of bootlicking nintendo worshippers who piss and moan when SEGA does anything good, just for the sake of poopooing on any of Nintendo's rivals. Objectively, Mario Kart World < Sonic Cross Worlds.

Wow, Sonic characters as new content for the Sonic game!

Shame they got voice actors for them, for the first time ever, for a podcast since they are comic characters, and their first game appearance has then silent!

@Paychi In one of the previous articles, someone got a lot of likes complaining about the crossover aspect, saying that the characters were out of place or something.

I wish I had replied to it. First of all, that's a weird double-standard, because Super Smash Bros. has been doing this for years, and three of the characters were even in Smash previously, and their inclusions were highly anticipated. And second, they did the crossover aspect in this game because fans were disappointed by other Sega franchises being dropped when they made Team Sonic Racing. So it came across as someone not knowing what they were talking about, or not even knowing the All-Stars games existed? We don't even get the damn courses or voice clips, let us have the Persona and Yakuza rep we wanted since the last game. (And to play as NiGHTS and monkey boy AiAi again.)

Sorry, IDK why I even typed this. The moment to has long passed. I guess I just wanted to vent.

@Paychi I like Sonic Crossworlds more than Mario Kart, but people desperately need to stop claiming their opinion is objectively correct.

So none of the DLC characters so far have been voiced right? Not even the SEGA ones where they could reuse old voice clips?

@OdnetninAges
It's a bit different. Smash Bros is entirely about gaming and video game characters. Every character in Smash is from a video game.

Sonic Racing adding SpongeBob and TMNT just feels out of left field and doesn't fit at least to me. I have no issue with the Sega characters like Joker and AiAi but the Nick characters are genuinely out of place here because unlike Pac-Man and Mega Man, they have very little to do with Sonic at all.

No voices is a terrible move. I somewhat understood some characters like SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star not having voices because it might be difficult to get the actors, but CHARACTERS YOU OWN? AND HAVE VOICES FOR? ONE OF THEM BEING A PRE-ORDER BONUS!? get outta here with that

I've read a couple of IDW issues on the kindle app, I've never liked these characters, they tick too many of the wrong boxes.

They should've stuck with Tangle instead of trying to shove another one down fans' throats, Whisper especially feels poorly designed as there's too much of a resemblance between Splatoon.

I wish Iizuka or whoever approves of these decisions (like putting SpongeBob in the game) would cut the series some slack and think about the value the series has and the quality it should aspire to have.

Archie Sonic comic fans rolling in their graves right now

Whisper is very cute and it will be fun to put her in a Krabby Patty.

@nessisonett Frobisher doesn't seem too out of the question now we've had Beep the Meep!

@AlienX Wdym?

@Dogorilla True, the Meep also worked better than an awful lot of the villains they had with Gatwa so maybe the more out there stuff is the way forward. Makes me want to listen to The Holy Terror again, I love Frobisher.

I'll probably get the physical. Already had to delete a bunch of stuff to make room for RE9, so i sincerely appreciate them putting the base game on a cardridge.

@Lizuka Like what you just did?

@AlienX what are "the wrong boxes"? how do you judge characters so quick out of introductory comics? what on earth do you mean by the splatoon comparison???