Topic: Kirby Air Riders

@FishyS

I hope you are right about Metroid. As for HAL's next title: Yeah they could be working on a new mainline Kirby, hopefully a 3D one.

Cool thing to point out: the Nintendo Today app has an interactive 3D model of the Warp Star available to view. It's neat rotating it around and seeing all the details.

@N00BiSH i saw! its really cool they put that up, i hope we get more looks like that at vehicles.

The only annoying thing about Air Riders at this point, outside of the unfortunate combination of only one City Trial map + costs more than Smash Ultimate, is that people might think I have played Mario Kart World or have a strong opinion about it at all when I say I am way more excited for this, and not the fact that I think only DS and 8 Deluxe live up to the hype Mario Kart gets as a series.

It could be the 3rd best Mario Kart of all time and not be as good as the original Kirby Air Ride tbh. I know its considered increasingly uncool to care too much about the quantity of content in a game, but I always found Mario Kart so limited most times. I don't constantly play the same courses just to do so in a game, I don't wanna play the same 16 or 32 tracks endlessly, for years, so I've always preferred other racing games that just have more going on (outside of the notable 2 exceptions I named). That type of multiplayer repetition I get more out of in shooters I guess. So I really can't state how important the checklist was in Air Ride and how much that made it worthwhile to not only replay levels but to give a reason to experiment with different vehicles that are honestly way more interesting than most vehicle options in most racing games.

It's more impressive when you realize Air Ride has 9 race tracks, and the average quality of them was probably not that great. (and unlike some people, I did actually put a lot of time into all three modes) And looking at the huge upgrade these new courses seem to have, could not be more excited, even before City Trial.

I wonder if the Star Allies Sparkler will feature as a Legendary Air Ride Machine.

@N00BiSH, some Star Allies representation would be cool, since I honestly like Star Allies better than Forgotten Land (both of them are amazing games though).

Apparently Kirby Air Riders is rated 12+ in Germany, which is higher than all the other Kirby games I looked at. It was also given a fear warning in UK, perhaps Dark Matter returns?

New preview!

@PikminMarioKirby Was not expecting the best machine in the original to be confirmed today. Glad to see the Wheelie Scooter return!

It's a bit weird seeing the Wheelie Bike flying away at the end of the race.

With that said, bring on the flying Wheelie Scooter.

We got a date for the second Air Riders Direct - October 23rd, this Thursday to be exact. Clocking in at about 60 minutes.

I went ahead and watched the second Direct. The gameplay still has yet to get me excited, but it's clear that the game is high-quality, even if it's not for me. This is gonna sound dumb, but if they sold the machine/character customization part as its own, 5 dollar spin-off, I'd buy that! 😂 As is, the I think I'll pass on this one, assuming I can't find a copy for under 40 bucks (not gonna happen lol) or I can find someone willing to lend me their VGC for it (more likely, since I know a few folks interested in snagging this).

Oh! I forgot to add this: say what you will about the price but those Skylanders: SwapForce Kirby Air Riders amiibo look cool!

Definitively excited to pick up this one eventually sometime after I get my Switch 2, especially after seeing all of the exciting features, both offline and online, and seeing that there is no dlc planned, which means I can get it physically (because I refuse to get a physical cartridge that has part of the game as digital dlc, I prefer to have an entire game as one format, which is why I still buy digital games sometimes).

It looks like Masahiro Sakurai has created another one for the history books.

Sakurai-san is just so pleasant to watch. After watching the Direct I am even more convinced of Kirby Air Riders. Looks like a fun racer with good content.

What a lovely Direct from the loveliest man in the industry. You've got to appreciate his honesty: "you can play with up to 8 people in Top Ride...but I'd reccommend only 4" XD

Also, those have to be the best looking cutscenes I've ever seen in a Nintendo game, absolutely gorgeous.

And a flat out "there will be no DLC" confirmation does suggest the whole team is hopping straight onto another project and I think we all know what that is. But for now, this is another Sakurai masterpiece, I'm so glad he was given the opportunity to do this!

This was even better than the last Direct, this game looks so promising!

@N00BiSH Oh, so Scarfy's the reason the game has an E10+ rating in America.

Seriously, that image surprised me when I opened up the forum.