SEGA is billing its upcoming Sonic Racing CrossWorlds as a fair and balanced racing game taking a slight dig at Mario Kart World. Sonic series producer Takashi Iizuka recently sat down with Games Radar to chat about how the team balanced the game to make it both fair and fun. Iizuka says that one thing the team did is that they removed any items that were “stressful” for players and also rather importantly removed anything that allowed people to come from behind and win all the time. Here’s what he said:
“They wanted to make sure the racing itself without any items was fair and fun,” Iizuka says. “The dev team really took things down to the base level, and wanted to have that fun, competitive racing mechanic.” Vehicle and course design came first, and only once the devs had nailed the racing experience did they build it out by adding items.
But those items weren’t set in stone, even after they eventually made it to the game. Iizuka says that the team did “a lot of playtests,” and “anything that was very stressful for players, anything that always allowed people to come back from behind and win all the time needed to be removed from the concept.”
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Sega seem to be very passionate about this game, I hope it sells well, hard to tell considering that Nintendo just dropped an amazing Mario kart game
I wouldn’t call it amazing considering how mixed on the game(for a Mario kart game anyway) everyone seems to be doesn’t help it got a lower score than Mario kart 8 deluxe
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe let’s you turn off items if you like if you want to play the game more competitively.
He literally didn’t mention Mario kart once, you Nintendo fans are just really insecure
Pot calling kettle black much? 🤣
Are you that insecure you can’t cope with two kart racing games being compared to one another?
Are you an idiot? It’s in the first sentence.