Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Coming Sep. 25, 2025

The Sonic series keeps finding new and exciting ways to be trashy and I'm not sure how I keep being surprised.

That said if it's some silly season pass stuff I can skip then I guess that's fine. I'll take my + - NiGHTS and Tangle   and ignore this, lol.

 

With the way people are getting pressed I'd have thought it was a mainline game doing this and not some arcade racer that means nothing at all... it's *in the damn name* for crying out loud.

If this was somehow supposed to be Sonic Drift 3 or Sonic R 2 I'd understand wanting things to be cohesively stuck as close to Sonic/SEGA IPs as possible but the game name (and the main gimmick) clearly point to room for liberty here

 

I was pretty convinced the CrossWorlds were referring to the way you cross worlds together mid-stage. The Sonic name actually made me think we were sticking pretty closely to the Sonic cast, with trailers hinting a little bit of Sega characters sprinkling in.

I don't think anyone was expecting (or even really wanting) this. I definitely wasn't, lmao. But if it makes you happy then I guess that's fine. I just hope + - Nickelodeon stuff   isn't smattered all over the cover, marketing or any story / single player campaign. That'd be a real bummer to me.

 

It seems like nobody here remembers the tweet implying Among Us stuff would be coming to the game.

 

kind of baffled by this crossover but I guess popular thing + other popular thing = mucho moolah $$$

 

It's got people talking about the game.

What I'd really like to see is some even dumber cross over promotions. Bring back the console exclusives to really piss everyone off. I want Mii. I want Senua. I want Astro Bot. I want it all!

 

SEGA already said there's going to be... SEGA characters, so...

 

Looking back on it I now blame that initial tweet from Sega promising the "elite Sega racing team" and "Sega's greatest action racing game ever" for setting up my hopes unusually high. When you invoke that kind of language and history about it from announcement and then pull this it just looks objectively dumb.

Not everything needs to look like a VRChat or Gmod server, that's not what themed kart racers are really there for. But obviously Sega have other ideas and you can't say they aren't fully committing to the lowest common denominator bit. For me at least that means I'll probably just get the game on sale and avoid online.

Right now that basically just looks like + - Nights   from the leaks. By this point I doubt we'll get much more than the titles already slated for their own revivals as well, let alone genuinely cool stuff like the Daytona Hornet that turns into a Dreamcast controller boat that turns into an After Burner jet. Having said that, if they do an OutRun not-Ferrari red car I may shut up.

TLDR; When they said "Everybody Super Sonic racing!" in the song I did not want them to actually take it to heart

 

Non zero and honestly potentially 99 percent potential. If I had to guess they're modeling the game in the same way as super monkey ball banana rumble which is just a game with Online aspects applied and crazy character skins... Like among us!

 

Opinions in the fanbase never find new ways to baffle me.

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I, and I assume everyone else, read "elite Sega racing team" as "oh, that means the game will have tight gameplay and arcade sensibilities." I cannot fathom how anyone could assume "elite Sega racing team" must also mean there will be no SpongeBob Squarepants in the game as crossover DLC specifically.

I cannot comprehend being genuinely upset about the Sonic racing game having characters that aren't from Sonic that one would actually think the game is worse. Oh no! They're trying to make the game sell better while not compromising anything about the game!

No, well, I can understand if it was really cheap or lazy, but no, we have the characters, we have vehicles and items, we have whole new tracks. They are making an Avatar: The Last Airbender track where you bend the elements to make shortcuts. They aren't just going "let's just make the Air Temple", or whatever, they want to make you feel like you're playing something actually related to Avatar.

That is sick as hell. I can grasp that someone may disagree that it's sick, but I cannot grasp that anyone thinks it's somehow beneath Sonic.

It reminds me of people who lose their minds when a swordfighter or anime-style character gets into Super Smash Bros., though not nearly as silly or bad.

 

No, this is a weird crossover, I'm sorry.

I'm sure there's a lot of synergy between Sonic and

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SpongeBob unironically, and even TMNT to an extent

, but this is way WAY too extra. I said it before, but if this was going to happen either way, I wish it happened way after the game dropped, not (presumably) on initial release. I don't know what's worse, if these characters are part of the main roster from the get go, or they have an on disc DLC planned.

We've had way weirder crossovers, we had Danica Patrick yes, but I would've liked that era kinda stayed back then, especially now that this series it's getting it's footing and reintroducing itself and its extended world and characters to the public conscious. This might be me getting overwhelemd with all that is happening with Sonic Blitz and how SEGA is handling this series, but this really feels like they're debasing themselves.

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And on another note, this mainly being a Viacom/Nickelodeon crossover is jarring, and the inclusion of Aang is borderline offensive to me. Yes I know people love Avatar, and I don't think it's a bad show or anything, but Aang feels egregiously out of place. That kid has no business around here.
The only way I can make sense of this crossover is that Paramount told them they have to promote other IPs before they can use Movie Sonic stuff

 

It's a leak, we're not supposed to see any of this. It's not an official part of the marketing. While I'm damn sure that + - SpongeBob   will be announced at SGF, the rest of the content are absolutely supposed to be shown later and won't release until way later.

It's also not on-disc DLC; that's when the DLC is already fully made in the game and the purchase is just a ticket to turn it on. DLC is always made in advance because it also follows a release schedule, especially if it's part of a season pass. None of this is weird or heinous, you're usually just not, ahem, privileged to see critical and significant in-development details like this (Sega really needs to hire a plumber).

I cannot fathom how this is "debasing" themselves. I do not get how

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SpongeBob or TMNT

is somehow beneath Sonic. There's a lot of weird bias towards cartoons, like Sonic isn't one himself. Even the crossover makes sense because

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Paramount owns the Sonic movie rights, Sonic gave them a billion dollar franchise and is probably helping fund the game. If Sonic is "debasing" himself, it was when the movie rights were sold to Paramount, but no one complains about the movies existing and ironically being the reason why we have a new Sonic racing game at all.

Minecraft is funny, though. That's inexplicable lol.

 

Not really "genuinely upset" over it, just disappointed. And not hugely surprised either - if they hadn't built the game up like that with the outright announcement that the Initial D team are involved (who again have pulled off unusual collaborations and crossovers in their game without them seeming so tacky!), I doubt these leaks would've really even seemed odd or registered much with me at all. I know I'm not alone in thinking this as well.

 

I mean, this was announced as "Sonic Racing Crossworlds", not "Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing And Some More", and I think the more outlandish crossovers made sense for the game that was already marketed as being full of them. We're seeing behind the curtain, sure, but part of that also includes the stuff we're not seeing, namely, Sonic and SEGA content. We know some amount of SEGA is in the game, but look at how much Sonic stuff is being left on the table! Again! It's not as bad as TSR, but is it so much to ask that this game which is apparently going to be packed full of DLC tracks and characters not have a bunch of that potential spent on stuff that has nothing to do with Sonic? Even if the game gets more from success, it's only gonna last so long before they reboot it all again with the next racing game in a few years.

 

I think you are alone in this very particular mindset.

I don't understand what the dev team has to do with crossovers? They don't decide this. Sega does. It wouldn't matter who made the game because no one at Sega is going to go "Sonic is too good for + - SpongeBob Squarepants!   "

The Initial D team means, though, that it'll be some good ass DLC.

All of the core Sonic characters are in and then some, and apparently + - Tangle and Whisper   are DLC, and there are still empty slots for the base game if the 28 character roster is still to be believed (I can't wait for them all to be the Deadly Six lol).

It's not an either or. If there were no crossover characters, we'd probably just have less DLC and fewer characters. If Nintendo didn't get the rights for Sora, you wouldn't get Geno instead, Ultimate's DLC would just stop at Kazuya.

 

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I don't think these franchises are beneath Sonic, I was just expecting a more Sonic focused game with some Sega stuff added on the side, with weird DLCs after the game established itself with that audience.
Not all out corporate partnership party game.

 

That's exactly what you're getting though??

 

Look man, I saw something I shouldn't have.
I admitted some of this is me being overwhelmed, but my argument stands, this partnership is happening way too soon.

 

There is a reason why companies spread this information out. It was not supposed to be presented in this way, where it's just all of it and everything.

If this wasn't leaked, we'd probably have, like, a little tease in a trailer after the full base roster is announced and shown, and then around release we'd see it.

It seems like a lot, but we probably wouldn't even hear about the + - Avatar DLC   until a few months after the game comes out.

Hell, this probably screwed over + - Nickelodeon too   .

 

I didn't say it was an "either or". The point stands that there is very little stopping them from adding a large amount to the cast and supplementing that with whatever other crossovers they want, but they're burning us with just the most obvious choices and a load of advertisements anyway. This "you're just ungrateful" tone isn't going to change that, or get you anywhere good rhetorically.