Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

I'm not really a Sonic fan or anything, was only looking for a "Mario Kart" type game for PC, but this game is WAY MORE than that. So damn amazing!

Pros + Acceptable optimization. No ridiculous character select screen load times here (i'm looking at you, Guilty Gear Strive and Tekken 8) + Decent button layout for a kart racer. + Simple character balance that suits racing playstyles of different kinds ++ Any game with playable Big the Cat and Blaze in the same game are positives + I can put a Five Guys decal on every single custom car + Seamless cross-play Mids ~ I love hovering over Ichiban just to hear his themesong ~ Super Sonic in single player is a cool idea but there's almost no point ~ With the huge swath of non-Sonic characters being added it's kinda just a Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing game again with much more Sonic characters. Not that I'm complaining. Cons - Let me get this out of the way: It's REDICULOUS to lock any character behind pre-order FOMO forever; and Werehog is an example of this. Let me purchase the character; eventually at least! - No voice acting for any of the DLC. Why? Were they worried about the amount of dubbing required in languages other than Japanese and English?? - Dodonpa ticket system is very grindy. The method for unlocking the weird techno robot skins for each base roster character is not worth it compared to unlocking kart parts. - The game's choice for player 1's controller is confusing sometimes for couch multiplayer. I think the player that controls the menu should always be the one that presses start first. - They told the press they wouldn't add items like the Blue Shell that would trash 1st place leads but they added TWO. I'm not entirely against these things but it's something like this that puts this game at risk of producing situations often seen in Mario Kart Wii. - Expensive As for new characters I'd like to see in this game, I have many; but if I had to choose one it'd be Chaos Zero. I mean, how humiliating would it be to be defeated by a "big drip?!"