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Comments from the head of Sonic Team point to a likely return for Team Sonic Racing's Dodon Pa

They aren't Dodone with him yet
by rawmeatcowboy
24 May 2019
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Dodon Pa is a brand-new character created for Team Sonic Racing. Was the character created to fill a one-and-done role in the Sonic universe? According to Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka, it seems that Dodon Pa will return in the future.

“Of course, Team Sonic Racing is a game that we want to bring to market, but we’re also interested in the future and maybe in future, bringing more racing games to market. And the question that would pop up then – it actually popped up for Team Sonic Racing and it will continue to pop up – is, who’s going to be putting on all these racing events?

We didn’t have an answer to that question in the beginning [of Team Sonic Racing’s development], so we needed to create a character that would facilitate all these races happening, and allow the races to be a part of the world and storytelling. That was the whole starting point for the development of Dodon Pa as a character.

That’s also why I asked Uekawa-san to design Dodon Pa – a character that could deliver that to the product and we could keep in the universe as [someone who would be there] any time we needed there to be a racing event. He’s going to be the character we can use as the Master of Ceremonies.”

Thanks to Lars for the heads up!

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