Dr. Eggman, Zavok & Metal Sonic Confirmed Playable In Team Sonic Racing

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1. Did Eggman find another conch?

   1. I’m afraid not. In the Japanese version of Lost World, Eggman said that the conch he had was the only one that existed.

      1. Really? I remember him declaring that he’ll find another conch in the ending.

         1. The dialog in the Japanese version is different than what Pontac and Graff wrote. In that version, Eggman said that his conch was the only one. I guess it just depends on which one you accept as canon.

         2. Dude. Zavok literally died.

      2. Well the conch was never destroyed Sonic just kicked it far away. Eggman could have just found that one again.

2. Yet again, Zavok appears! And something tells me that this time, it’s not a digitally-created clone of him.

3. Z is for Zavok, the last character in the world I thought would be showing up here. Why not Chaos, Infinite or maybe Mephiles?

4. To tell you the truth, Zavok is a horrible choice. The Deadly Six were horrible villains. I would have preferred Infinite because at least his theme song is cool.

   And that folks is all 15 characters. No Cream, no Espio, no Charmy and no Infinite. This makes the character roster feel incomplete.

   1. No Rouges either, which isn’t so much a missed opportunity as it is blind ignorance to their own creation.

   2. Agreed. I will be waiting to purchase this on sale because of all of these glaring omissions. Zavok the Bowser clone just is too forgettable.

   3. What a miserable unfun cast that has Iizuka/Sonic Team written all over it, if Sumo called the shots you’d probably see some fun exciting picks but nope all boring and sterile just like the game itself

5. How is Zavok even alive?

   1. It’s the same power that keeps Freeza alive. MasakoX did a really in-depth analysis on this effect and it was quite compel-MARKETING!

      1. but people like Freeza.
         Nobody likes Zavok.

6. Zavok, honey, I know you were the only lasting spurt of inspiration to come out of Sonic Lost World, but it’s really time that you went home. You went to the Olympics, you got a callback for Forces and you and Zazz had your moments to shine in the spotlight, but that’s enough now. Go home and be a familyman to your brothers and sister. And call Jet back in on your way out.

7. Where is the demand for that Zavok character? Who gets hyped over that? Why not have a memorable badnik like Motobug? Mario Kart has been famous for having random enemies like koopas and lakitus playable. Why does this game look so vapid and lifeless compared to Mario Kart 8, this is like a funny inverse of the old Genesis commercial where Super Mario Kart was compared to Sonic 2.
   Is there going to be a bright spot for the series this year? If Iizuka wasn’t lying then Mania should affect it so are are we going to see proof of that or just a meh sorta sequel to AST, a bad movie with a decent probability of a tie-in game being rushed in for it AKA the nasty one two punch that makes Sega West PR lose sleep at night.

   1. This sadly sounds like a very realistic outcome. I can’t wait for 2019 to end for the blue blur. I just hate seeing Sumo Digital’s creativity stifled by SEGA’s brain-dead bureaucracy. The result is a significant amount of lost potential from all the good things from ASRT Sumo could have improved upon in TSR. Crash Team Racing, a port no less, looks far more interesting to say the least.

      1. When you realize 2019 just started…

8. Why do they keep reviving the shitty Lost World cast tho? It honestly makes no sense. There is so much else to work with in the universe they’ve created, yet they chose a character who is boring and forgettable, comes from a poor-selling game, has extremely poor recognition among fans who didn’t buy that one game, and – perhaps worst of all – is designed in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VISUAL STYLE from the rest of the cast?

   Not only does it make no sense from a marketing standpoint, but it makes no sense from a canonical perspective, and visually it’s a terrible decision considering that Zavok has one of the most boring and generically cartoony designs in the entire series.

   I probably won’t be picking this game up until Fall with how things are going, so this doesn’t really bother me personally, but man this really sucks some life out of the game. After they revealed Big the Cat and the Chao as racers I was starting to think this game would have some life and personality and celebrate the high point of the series. With this addition, and with the removal of Cream, it feels like these decisions are just not well-thought-out at all. I won’t say that they’re necessarily stupid decisions, but they are wrong decisions for the success of the company and the success of the franchise, and something tells me they made these casting decisions with a lot of haste.

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