Sega gets Hatsune Miku in their racing game, a character known for literally singing. Yet she is mute in this game. Same with the other 3rd party cross over characters. What's the point of having them there?

>>713489758 (OP)
HATSUNE MIKU

>>713489758 (OP)
Would you prefer an assortment of thirty random sonic enemies?

>>713489758 (OP)
>Yet she is mute in this game
this is wrong tho?

>>713489758 (OP)
She literally speaks in the trailer, the doomposting for this game is crazy most of the characters voices in the dlc probably haven't been added yet and since she's coming out when the game launches it makes sense.
https://youtu.be/3_xAuG3JfIg?si=aLLliGDEr3wvQ0-r&t=36

>>713490569
False equivalence. I'm fine with less Sonic characters, I just don't like the crossover characters having literally mo voices at all. Not even throwaway lines.

>>713490994
That hi was cute...even if that's all it is

>>713489758 (OP)
Vocaloid Kart Racer
Entire OST is every single song on Future Tone
Sections of the track turn into a rhythm game and at the end of the section, how well you did determines how much boost you get

>>713489758 (OP)
SEGA has the license to Miku, so I don't think she's the same.

>>713491085
I know nothing, but they're probably just saving money on voice actors. If that's right the option of Miku with voice never existed, it was either voiceless Miku or Catakiller Jr.

>>713490994
Didn't Iizuka say there would be no dialogue for collaboration characters though? I remember the context being them technically talking about interactions between the main roster and the DLC, but if he just flat out said no dialogue for collaboration characters, that seems like Miku, Ichiban, Joker and other DLC will have no voices at all. At least while their racing.

>>713489758 (OP)
>she does speak in the trailer
>sega owns miku (even though they haven't done shit since mega mix)
>I don't know how licensing works with a fucking music program but it's probably sure as hell cheaper than a voice actor
either this is bait or you're a faggot, probably both

>INB4 entire lobbies are full of miku and they end up making a vocaloid racing game

She cute.

>>713489758 (OP)
some say that the voice acting is expensive for the third party charcters because unions or something like that.

But Hatsune Miku is a software that should not be hard to pay the rights for.

>>713491727
He meant interactive dialogue with the cast. He didn't say they're not gonna have any voice lines.

>>713491769
Imagine if this ends up being the canary in the coalmine that causes the industry to shift towards putting cute girls in vidya again

>>713491769
Would be unironically kino
They basically have acceptable modern models anyways from mega mix, just need to design a few karts and tracks
music licensing would be a nightmare though

>>713491905
I hope that's the case. We already know Spongebob has no voice lines, so the thought that it could be the same for the other characters, even though Miku Ichiban and Joker are SEGA owned, isn't too far gone.

>>713491085
>I'm fine with less Sonic characters
>he said, while talking about SONIC Team Racing

What's the fucking point of Paramount strong-arming Sega into giving Nickelodeon three seperate dlc packs dedicated to their characters but they won't even let those characters have any voice acting?

>>713491727
He specifically said the dlc characters wouldn't interact with the Sonic characters or have Rivals, he never out right said they wouldn't have voices, everyone just ran with the characters are mute by seeing all the early footage of characters not expected to be in the game until damn near November-December like Ichiban and Spongbob.

>>713492797
I think it's this bit that gets me and others. He may have meant something else, but it's just an interesting way to answer the question he was asked.

https://mynintendonews.com/2025/06/11/sega-says-no-interactions-with-base-roster-and-collaboration-characters-in-sonic-racing-crossworlds/#comments

>>713493248
Sorry for the link directing to comments.

https://mynintendonews.com/2025/06/11/sega-says-no-interactions-with-base-roster-and-collaboration-characters-in-sonic-racing-crossworlds/

>>713492547
NTA but I'd also be fine with less Sonic characters if they were focusing more on classic Sega characters. This whole Sonic-in-a-car thing is just a lame compromise to compete with Mario Kart anyway, might as well give us more characters who don't already run as fast as a car.

They really should just go back to it being Sega all-stars.

>>713492371
Spongebob could have a voice, but they probably haven't added the voice lines to him yet, that's the 2nd wave of the Season Pass after the Minecraft DLC and is a while away from releasing post launch, I'm just going to wait until we see maybe Joker footage who will probably be added in October before I judge the characters not having voices.
>>713493248
Yeah, its weird the way he answered which mostly sounds like he saying theirs no dialogue of the dlc characters talking directly to the Sonic characters, which means they would just have grunts and stuff.

>>713493481
We're getting a lot of Sega characters for free every month

>>713493627
Yeah, but I'm hoping for more characters from like the dreamcast or saturn or genesis era and less these latecomers that are just in the promote recent releases. Persona and Yakuza have far better games in their own series to represent than Persona 5 and Yakuza 7/8.

>>713489758 (OP)
She literally talks in her reveal trailer though.

>>713493248
consider that he didn't actually say that, but rather "chingu chongu bingu bongu"
maybe it's a shit translation

>>713492547
The only Sonic characters I care about are the following:

Sonic
Tails
Knuckles
Amy
Robotnik
Rouge
Blaze
Cream
Silver
Shadow

The end. Maybe throw in Infinite, Metal Sonic and Mecha Sonic or something as free DLC and Big the Cat as a joke character and Froggy but there really aren't a lot of Sonic characters I care much about. I'd love to see Sonic racing against Vectorman, the main character from Gunstar Heroes, characters from Phantasy Star, any of the Streets of Rage cast, even Ecco the Dolphin driving around in a cart would be interesting to me. Throw in Kiryu and Majima from Yakuza. I like that Joker and Ichiban and Miku are there since I liked the All Stars part of Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing Transformed like I liked the rest of the game. I just want to see them as fleshed out as they can be and having no voices for them wouldn't be very fun for me.

>>713494383
You don't like the Chaotix or Omega?

>>713493627
don't forget if the game does well we're 100% getting a 2nd Sega pass

>>713494974
All 4 can be free dlc. Maybe Omega is alright just to break up the hedgehog overload, but otherwise I really don't care about them enough. Not to say others don't, just not me personally and I never really have.

>>713493978
We're guaranteed to get characters, like Beat, BD Joe, a Streets of Rage rep, Joe Musashi, a Virtua Fighter rep and a Golden Axe Rep due to all of them being revived and getting a new game over the next 5 years. NiGHTS was also leaed to get an event so they're probably in too

i really hope we get a puyo puyo rep

>>713494383
>Sonic
>Tails
>Knuckles
>Amy
>Robotnik
ftfy
everyone else besides those have extreme deviantart OC donut steel feel and nobody gives a shit about them except sonic autists
the actual pure sonic game (team sonic racing) fucking sucked ass and that's why they are back to doing guests, because people actually care about those