Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Since i read the latest Dungeon Crawler Carl Book, "Parade of Horribles" , I was in the mood a for kart racer and man my excitement when found this gem on sale. Runs beautiful on the steam deck and so refreshing that the file size is less than 30gb , the racing feels great and guest characters are fun .The season 2 character trailer released and has Godzilla and Evangelion so yeah they are throwing some heat on this game. So yeah i would recommend to anyone look for a a fun kart racer or just an overall fun game

This is genuinely the best kart racer I've ever played, though that could be because I come from playing Mario Kart 8 on the Switch which suffers from a lack of content if you play it long enough (or if you play it alone like I do because I don't pay for the stupid Online subscription). Crossworlds gives you so much more to do like challenging you to defeat every character in the roster with the rival system in the single-player mode, allowing you to pick a rival to race against with a customizable difficulty--which is a great way to build up your skills by gradually increasing the rival difficulty. Collecting the Donpa tickets also gives you something else to work for, like unlocking more vehicle customization options or more gadgets once you get later into the game. The vehicle customization is GREAT, too. The game allows you to change different vehicle parts (front, back and wheels specifically), as well as change their color, material, and add stickers. I love being able to drive in Spamton's Cungadero from Deltarune. You can also choose to gift your Donpa tickets to your favorite characters in the roster in order to receive character-themed rewards like titles, vehicle stickers and AI racer skins (which will give the character this kind of robotic ghost made of code type of look). But the friendship system is also where my complaints about the game start, unfortunately. The required amount of tickets you must gift in order to obtain the later rewards are ridiculous. I've been donating all of my tickets to Metal Sonic, and after obtaining his AI racer skin, he then wants about 6000+ Donpa tickets for the Stardust Speed Racer title. That amount of grinding will probably make me get sick of playing the game, which sucks. If they haven't lowered the requirements by now, then they probably never will. At least I know that Metal Sonic is the only character in the game that I'll be trying to obtain all of the friendship rewards for. This is a more personal gripe, but I wish that using the AI racer skins didn't remove all of their voicelines. They look cool but at the price of removing all of the character interactions you'll see throughout the race, including the unique dialogue between your selected character and your rival before the start of the first race. Speaking of that, the unique dialogue is also great and one of my favorite details in the game. Sadly Metal doesn't get to say anything in them (neither does Egg Pawn but I don't really care about them, we should have gotten Infinite or literally anyone else instead). I know being mute is part of his character but it would have been cool to see him get a voice like he does in the Neo Metal form in Sonic Heroes just for this game, like as a one-time non-canon thing where he gets to have a voice box just this once for the soul purpose of talking ♥♥♥♥. When the AI racers talk, they just make garbled computer noises similar to Metal and Egg Pawn. I wish that instead they could have rather just used the same voicelines but with a robotic filter over them so you'd still get the same interactions between characters. But in the end, I love this game, but the content maybe doesn't warrant the disgusting $70 price tag that it has. That's why I waited until a summer sale to bag this game for around $30 instead.

O jogo até tem uma vibe legal que lembra o Hot Wheels Extreme Racing do PS1, mas o preço não faz sentido. Na prática, você acha indie AA entregando muito mais. O visual é bem datado e sem muito polimento, a modelagem é fraca, as texturas deixam a desejar... somente a iluminação é bonita. parece um jogo feito nas pressas. Somando isso à falta de mecânicas e de inovação, vira só um jogo de corrida raso que falha muito em entregar algo que valha esse investimento todo. Eu recomendaria se fosse menos de 60 reais. Vc vai se divertir mais emulando um Mario kart qualquer.

probably the best racing game ive ever played. the build crafting is so beautifully done i love it so much

9/10- Sonic Racing Crossworlds is an incredibly competent kart racer and undoubtedly the king of the (quite barren) PC kart racer scene, but it comes with one glaring flaw, and it can be somewhat difficult to overlook. For starters, the core gameplay loop is about the best you'll find in a kart racer, and the rival system is a fantastic addition which will keep me coming back to SRC for more. The average race also seems much more competitive relative to the average kart racer, which I really appreciate. I also have to give Sonic Team kudos for making a game on UE5 that has zero performance issues. Even at 5K2K with max settings, I'm getting a rock solid 60 FPS with zero dips, even in split-screen multiplayer. On the subject of multiplayer, this might be where SRC really shines. You've got your standard Grand Prix mode, but the Racing Park provides some much needed variety, especially if you're playing multiplayer with someone who isn't well-versed in the kart racing genre. Most of my playtime to this point has come in multiplayer, and so far, I've had an absolute blast. Finally, the music is on-point, as one would expect for a Sonic game. Absolutely no complaints there. However, SRC has one serious flaw that's hard to overlook, and that is the fact that the DLC is basically glorified advertising. You could make a case for guest appearances from the likes of Mega Man and Pac-Man since they're legacy gaming franchises which have co-existed with Sega for decades at this point, but the appearance of Spongebob, Evangelion, Godzilla, Avatar, and TMNT all feel like a blatant cash grab on Sega's part when they have [i]so[/i] many legacy Sonic characters and other Sega franchises to pull from. The DLC characters having zero voice lines and not appearing in races unless being used by players only further contributes to the feeling that the DLC is basically one big cash grab for Sega. And just when I think I'm done with finding glorified advertisements in SRC, I come to find out that I can decorate my kart/hoverboard with decals from the likes of Razer, Puma, Dr. Squatch, Samsung, and other brands completely and totally unrelated to Sonic or Sega! I understand Sega needs to make money off of their games and that this isn't the first time they've allowed advertising in a Sonic game (see: Soap Shoes in Sonic Adventure 2), but this level of advertising truly detracts from the experience and deserves to be called out. All things considered, I still had a great time with SRC and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good kart racer on PC, but only at a discount. Despite the amount of content here and the quality of it, $90 for the deluxe edition with all DLC included is indefensible, especially when the execution of said DLC is so lackluster and is no more than glorified advertising in some cases. I just hope Sega does better in the future and gives us some very high quality DLC based on Sonic or other Sega franchises to offset the amount of DLC based on unrelated franchises/brands.

This game taught me how to feel.

esta muy roto muchas mecánicas y eso me encanta, ya que puedes modificar al estilo que mas te acomode, lo único que seria un pero es que a mi se me ve como pixelado, pero puede ser mi pc, si igual corre fluido xd