Sonic Racing CrossWorlds is shaping up to be an excellent racing title, but one thing that is a little jarring is that the DLC characters like Joker etc won’t be voiced. The game has numerous interactions between its cast of characters like Sonic and Tails. Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka says that the reason the additional characters aren’t voiced is mainly to easily facilitate the approval process for said DLC characters.
There has been some talk regarding certain DLC characters not having voices in-game currently. Even just playing on the demo, there was an instance of them not having a voice. Is there any reason behind this? And also, will you potentially add updates in the future to add voices if there’s enough fan outcry for it?
Iizuka: In this game, there’s a lot of interactions between characters, so if we include voices for the guest characters, that will mean a lot of interaction between them and Sega characters. The scope of the review that we’ll have to ask the external companies will become very large. We didn’t want to make it difficult for the external company. So that’s, I guess, the reason why we decided not to be.
