Kirby Air Riders is a Super Smash style runner who triggers all good chemicals in the brain
When the Nintendo Switch 2 was launched, I certainly thought that Mario Kart World It would be the console racing game of choice in the foreseeable future. However, one of God’s most perfect creatures could have something to say about it.
I’m talking about Kirby, of course. Maybe the most kind little guy in the history of video games (it is flawless and I will not hear otherwise) accelerates on Switch 2 in November with Kirby Air RidersA surprising follow -up of a cult classic nintendo gamecube game 20 years ago. Yesterday, I was fortunate to obtain practical time with the distributor of nonsense vegetable which is Aerial riders. Nintendo also showed the game during a live livestream of 45 minutes, and after this brief overview, I left impressed and very hungry for more.
To put it briefly, it is a video game for people who love it when BS is in color in bright colors all the time. I am one of those people.
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Kirby Air Riders is deceptively simple
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As I have already mentioned, Air runners is a series of 2003 Kirby Air Ride. Rather exciting, it is directed by Masahiro Sakurai, that you may know the guy behind Super Smash Bros. He actually created Kirby during the day, and Air runners is his first direct involvement in a Kirby match in two decades. (If these details bring out your Nintendo interior nerd, then you will want to watch the Kirby Air Riders Direct Livestream with Sakurai.)
As a sidenot, can you imagine being able to tell the people you created Kirby? I would never do it about it.
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Anyway, the Smash Energy is outside the graphics in Air runners. The menus seem and feel almost identical to Super Smash Bros. UltimateAnd it has a powerful quality of pickup and game which is obvious from the first time you put your hands on the controller. Like the original Gamecube, it’s a racing game where your vehicle accelerates for you. No need to maintain a button or something like that. You focus only on the direction and attack of your rival runners, which is for the best because it only takes 10 seconds in a given scenario for Air runners To become a chaotic waste of candy -colored explosions occurring at very high speeds.
Another central mechanic from the 2003 game is a brake button that also acts as a boost. You can maintain it to build a large burst of speed, but of course, it will slow you down for a second. It is useful to round the corners, but not so much on a simple. When you do not derive, you can speed up the speed by attacking the NPC enemies on each route or by riding on a brilliant line left by other runners who stay on the track for a few seconds.
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Or Air runners Diverge from its original source material is that there are a lot of other playable characters in addition to Kirby. The favorites of the series like King Dedede and Meta Knight are here, of course, and they are joined by various enemies and nasty other Kirby titles. Each character has his own statistics and his own special movement, which is activated by the press of a button at the discretion of the player as long as his special counter is full. Special offers can range from screen debitage attacks to gigantic speed increases, so determine the one you like the most will be essential for success.
I was honestly not a big fan of the original Aerial walk Because it was mechanically thin, but the addition of a list of runners with unique features and special movements adds some layers of complexity essential to breeds. He feels appropriately divergent to Mario Kart WorldWhich is vital because the two games are so close to each other. I think honestly Air runners could have a higher and slightly more in progress skills ceiling than Mario cardWhich is cool.
As you might expect from a game with Kirby, the music I heard in the demo was also incredibly catchy, and the visuals are magnificent all around. It is a very, very fun to watch and listen to as well as play.
City Trial is a competitor of the best multiplayer mode of the year
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Another way Air runners Takes after his predecessor is that the real breeds are not really what you are there. I had fun in the two short races that I was able to play, but the trial in town is the place where the real action is.
For the unknown, City Trial is a return mode of Aerial walk It is like a mixture between a racing game and a royal battle, to use the language of our time. Up to 16 players can wander freely around a large level of sandbox with a bunch of different areas to explore exactly five minutes. During these five minutes, it’s up to you to find a machine that you like (there is a bunch of different and they all feel very different from each other), roll around the card collecting power-ups which slowly accumulate the statistics and prepare your machine at the end of the game.
This end of the game implies stages, which are essentially few multiplayer minigames which use each part of the Air runners Mechanical formula. One of them is only a dragster race which promotes high -speed machines, while another puts players to fly as far as possible with a large ramp, and which is naturally addressed to machines with a flying statistics. The strategy therefore consists in collecting specific types of statistics boosts during the part of the sandbox so that you can specialize in one thing, rather than collecting blindly as much as you can. One of the cooler ideas here is that Power-ups can be canceled if they have opposite effects; You don’t want to strengthen your flight and weight statistics at the same time because they are contrary to each other, for example.
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I was able to play three trial games in town and had a real explosion all the time. The duration of five minutes is perfect, because it flies quickly while offering large amounts of Bedlam which make it feel longer than it is. Random events are constantly occurring in the city’s test. Sometimes the big boss monsters appear that each player can work together to defeat for great awards, while other times the possibility of participating in a short race in the city’s test will appear. I also met with dangerous meteor showers and cases where each player became tiny for a while. It really keeps you on your guard, which I appreciate.
As the five minutes are sold, you may have a machine so fast that you can barely control it, or so powerful that it is unstoppable in the stadium mini-games more focused on combat. There are not two trial games from the city that only feel the same thing. It’s a bit magical.
I only have to play Air runners For about an hour, but as you can probably see, I am very eager to play more. He does Mario Kart World Look at calm in comparison, which I did not think possible. Count me throughout it.
Kirby Air Riders Lance exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 on November 20. You can pre -order the game now via Nintendo and Game Stop.
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