Okayu and Korone Race Godzilla and Pac-Man Courses as Sonic Racing Season 2 Opens

HOLOLIVE — Hololive’s Nekomata Okayu and Inugami Korone played Sega’s Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds together on Nov. 4, the day the game’s Season 2 content launched. Korone ran the opening slide presentation, and Okayu called her the game’s Sonic ambassador. The two then raced each other in the new one-on-one duel mode. Both streamed it under the hashtag #おかころ.

On the slides, Korone said the paid Season 2 pass began that day with Godzilla as its first collaboration download. It plans six paid collaborations and eight free ones in all, with Evangelion, Persona and the Final Fantasy VII Remake series due later. She also said the day’s free update added Bayonetta, unlocked through the duel mode, and raised the gadget slots from six to seven.

“Let’s go all out, and I mean it.” — Nekomata Okayu and Inugami Korone, before their first duel

The first duels used Godzilla machines on a Godzilla course. Neither could drift at first, until they found it worked on the R1 button. The pair later switched to Mothra and King Ghidorah machines. Korone set a song from her Sonic collaboration as the race music through the game’s jukebox, and the two recalled the live concert they had done with Sonic. Later races took them through a Mega Man course, SpongeBob’s Bikini Bottom and a Pac-Man course whose rings were yellow Pac-Man shapes.

A running bit had each of them claiming to be far down the order. In one race Korone found out the leader’s real position when the character with a crown showed up first on the minimap. The two said they would cross the line hand in hand, then accused each other of lying. Okayu said it was her first time with the game, and viewers wrote that they were waiting for Korone to be added as a playable character. Korone said it would feel presumptuous to ask for that herself, so she would wait quietly.

Okayu said she enjoyed racing through so many worlds. Korone said the heavily reworked courses and the attacks thrown at the racers made the game immersive. They hoped Sega would keep adding courses and characters, told viewers they could set their own favorite songs from the jukebox, and signed off.