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Hate Mario Kart's Blue Shells? Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Won't Have Anything Like That

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Josh Coulson

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Kart World has been a hit launch game for the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch 2 and will undoubtedly be something millions of us are playing for years to come. It's far from perfect, though, and it sounds like kart racing competitor 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds 👍will intentionally try to improve on one of the areas of Mario Kart World players h🌺ave been complaining about most.

Legendary ꧋Sonic producer Takashi Iizuka spoke with about CrossWorlds, going into specific details about item use in the game. I'm sure there are some♔ of you out there who would prefer your kart racers without items, despite them being a cornerstone of the genre. Well, there was a period during the game's development where that was the case for CrossWorlds.

rosalina celebrating in mario kart world.

Mario Kart World Almost Didn't Include Two Mainstay Items That Have Been Series Staples Since The SNES

Mario Kart wouldn't have felt 🤪the same without them.

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To make sure CrossWorlds is competitive, the devs tested it without items to make sure it was balanced and fair. Only once that had been established were items then introd🍌uced, and even then, the idea of keeping the game as balan🀅ced as possible remained paramount.

Anything ෴that was very stressful for players, anything that al🧔ways allowed people to come back from behind and win all the time needed to be removed from the concept. - Takashi Iizuka

Mario Kart World Stressing You Out?

There's a Kart Racer For That, Or At Least There's Going To Be

sonic flanked by knuckles and shadow in sonic racing: crossworlds. — via Sega

If an item was deemed too powerful by the CrossWorlds team, as in something that would aid a player in propelling themselves to the front after falling way behind, it was scrapped. That presumably means we won't be getting the Sonic equivalent of ꧑blue shells and Bullet Bills in t✃he hedgehog's kart racer when it launches this September.

By the time CrossWorlds and its items, some of which we will presumably never know about, had been playtested over and over again, Iiszuka says the team at Sega settled on "the right amount of chaotic". With Mario Kart's lobbies doubled to up to 24 racers 💫in World, many would argue the new game has gone well beyond th🗹e right amount of chaotic.

Mario Kart World's item drops are so chaotic that two weeks in, the latest meta when playing onl🐼ine is to purposefully𒆙 fall to the back of the pack towards the end of the race. That way, you will be rewarded with some of the game's more powerful items that can then be used to propel you to the front just as the race is coming to an end. Between broken methods like that and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Kart Wo🐓rld not hꦕaving crossover characters, unlike CrossWorlds 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:which will get Minecraft Steve and Spo🌼ngeBob, Sonic might get one up over Mario later this year for the first time inꦦ decades.