I know most Anon Babble users weren't even alive for this game...

That's a wii game

Remember that Anon who was making a PC version Air Ride? I wonder what happened to him..

Whipped out by nintendo head hunters.

I know most Anon Babble users weren't even alive for this game, but can we discuss how much of a huge deal this sequel is? Also which riders were your mains back in the day? Proud formula and Rex Wheelie chad here.

I'm old enough to remember when Kirby's Air Ride was originally announced as an N64 launch title:

youtu.be/Mp79BiXz83g

Even before it was called Air Ride, the game was shown off in Nintendo Power and such as Kirby Bowl 64 in 1995 for the 'Ultra 64'. And it was originally a sequel to Kirby's Dream Course on the SNES...

youtu.be/xPy_75NxF30

It was one of those N64 games that kept seeing delays until it was cancelled for the N64 and moved over to the Nintendo Game Cube.

I'm currently going through Kirby marathon. Which of the spinoffs are worth playing?

There is no fucking way Sakurai would acknowledge the newer Kirby characters he didn't create

I mean he did with Kirby 64. He acknowledged Adeline and Dark Matter even though he wasn't involved in both Kirby's Dreamland 2 and Dreamland 3.

He showed up again after the announcement. Was pretty pumped.

:Wiped out I mean. Jesus what the fuck happened to my spelling.

i wish these early builds leaked onto the internet

But.. Sakurai didn't make Kirby 64

people who were born in the year this came out are 22 years old right now or will be 22

i wish these early builds leaked onto the internet

This is from a VHS promotional video for the North American launch of the N64, it shows Kirby's Air Ride as a 'launch window' game:

youtu.be/Fo2LDdR6aJ0?t=754

The game was originally slated for late 96 or early 1997...

The items are getting rubbery! They're bouncing!
White Kirby, shadowstar

Whoops, my bad
All he did was voice King Dedede
Also looking on wiki, it seems that Sakurai's last Kirby game was... Amazing Mirror?
Was Sakurai not involved with Kirby as a franchise for 20 years until Kirby Air Riders?

This game is going to be a major flop lol

youtube.com/watch?v=2bEZQ00OOxY
Swerve Star and Wheelie Scooter were my mains.

Yeah, he started his own company and did freelance work. Most of that work ended up being devoted to versions of Smash Bros.

Sequel retard, the trailer is only 2.5 minutes long if that and tells you this.

scooter wheelie and wing star I think.
Also Hydra.

retards still make this excuse

Guess we need a reminder

BotW only needed 2mil t be a success

Astral Chain did 1mil and such a huge success Nintendo took full IP rights

bayo3 did 1mil and was a success

ARMS did 2mil and was a huge success

etc

Nintendo is one of the few publishers to have sane standards.

Sure, but Air Ride still had Meta Knight and King Dedede as playable.
You can squeeze in a few others that act as permanent copy abilities.
I'll make a prediction of

races go to up 10, maybe 12 racers at a time

kirby has like 20 colors, plus MK, KDDD, bandana dee, maybe adeline. Possibly gooey.

8-10 new Air Rides/vehicles

maps are actually Kirby themed this time vs generic environments.

3 city trial maps to swap between

Which of the spinoffs are worth playing?

Dream Course, Air Ride are the best by far. 10/10 if you have friends that are willing to put in some time playing it with you. Block Ball is also definitely worth checking out, it's use of powerups in the Breakout/Arkanoid genre is surprisingly good.

kirby snowboarding

I'd be interested in this at least.
Has potential.
WHERE THE FUCK IS OUR RPG HAL?! YOU SHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIITS?!

huge deal

It's gonna sell like 2M copies. Only failed millenials have any idea of what it is, and even then half of them are only buying it because there's nothing else.

Air Ride, Rainbow Curse, Mass Attack (especially its sub games).

Was Sakurai not involved with Kirby as a franchise for 20 years until Kirby Air Riders?

Have you been in a coma?
Yes. This is widely known. He's only done smash and Kid Icarus Upraising for decades now.

Point on the doll where Kirby hurt you anon.

which riders were your mains back in the day?

Always loved the Hydra, of course, but other than that, I always favored the Wagon Star. It just looked nice and stood out to me compared to all the other rides, and it had good, all-around stats to boot.

Not only, but pretty much

huge deal

bro no one has played it, zoomers just think it's funny or cool to act like they did. It was trash compared to double dash

every thread

best comment section on youtube

There are four. There's also Miyamoto Kong: Minecraft, and The Tutorial Program That Should Have Been A Free Pack In..

Do you think they'll make a remix of Item Bounce?

Kirby Air Ride was a shit game. And I say this as someone who roleplayed for hours with my friend in City Trial. The game isn't enjoyed the way it was intended. I doubt anyone actually had fun with any of the other modes aside from one play session. And even City Trial was just a place where we chilled and collected all the warps stars and pretended to open a car shop instead of a serious battle arena.

be honest with yourselves

I have a physical copy of air ride for some reason and I've never played it

NOOOO you can't like Nintendo!

Air Riders is releasing in the holiday season. My instincts are telling me it'll be a Battle Royale Live Service based on City Trial, instead of just being City Trial, but bigger and better.

Item Bounce is actually one of the tracks from the anime. Originally called "Dedede Bustle." So no. But not for the reasons you might expect. It would be fucking hilarious if they did, but they pretty much can't, even if they wanted to.

I am honest with myself.
The game was great fun all around, top ride was finnicky but good in small bursts.
Enjoyed Air Ride plenty...just wish the maps were more Kirby in nature rather than genetic element/nature zones.
City trial is great fun to just ram rod a cunt and kill their machine popping it like a pinata.

Die please.
In pain.

i wish these early builds leaked onto the internet

My favorite thing is the 90's tude backwards cap Kirby model that was shown off in the earliest builds of the game. I think Hal stopped working on the N64 Air Ride in late 1997. Then restarted development for the Game Cube in 2001-2002?

A large amount of Air Ride's music is from the anime

is air ride good? never played it

oh yeah I forgot about dei kong and the paid interactive manual
lmao

For me? Shadow Star.

there is more interest in that song than there is in a new kirby game
no on earth really cares about this franchise lmao

It's not a sequel, it's a port/remaster

It's good in that it's fairly unique, but it's also very simple.
The enjoyment for most comes from filling out the challenge boards.

eric is seething already over the Pink Chad

Well..this will be a fun year indeed.

It's simple but good fun yuh.

The hat is just Yo-yo Kirby really, but its a good touch for a snowboarding Kirby game.

dk is a mario port

this is too be retarded to be a joke so you must be genuinely retarded to unironically believe it

purple Kirby on Shadow Star

Air Ride Mode gets boring after a little while, Top Ride is underdeveloped, but fun for what it is. But City Trial is the real meat of the game, and it's extremely fun, until you run out of reasonable progression items on the checklist and have to live with multipe "Destroy this specific Star while riding this other specific Star" and "Do fucking nothing in the Free Run mode for two fucking hours straight." tasks.

I never said it being a Battle Royale was a good thing, just that I get the feeling that's what it'll be.

You can tell it was developed in functionally five months, but it does a lot of fun things and there's nothing else like it. yet

Unironically more hyped for this than Mario Kart

Couldn’t find any other suitable thread but I just wanted to drop by and say that some new New NSO Icons are available to be redeemed, not just F-Zero 99 but Kirby too with Forgotten Land, Adventure and Amazing Mirror, you’re welcome

Nobody gives two fucks about Sonic Racing

As a racer it's meh but the fun comes from dicking around in City Trial

It's textbook trolling, man. It worked on you.

FL

Nice tyvm lad.

You should die painfully for being that dumb.
It'll just be a larger map with 10ish kirbies hunting for upgrades and to fuck each other over. Plus the actual races and whatever other 3rrd or 4th modes we get.

Anon.
It's eric.
Can you seriously not tell?
He's posted that pic like 50 times in 3 weekas or so.
He's been a vile li'l schizo for 8 years now.
nearly as bad as a certain other cunt I'm not gonna name, but who has been a malignant tumor for 15 years.

I did play the main mode and Top Ride a good amount, but I put the most time by far into City Trial. I ended up rarely swapping off of the Compact Star because it had the best steering by far. I did also like the Winged and Shadow Stars.

It'll just be a larger map with 10ish kirbies hunting for upgrades and to fuck each other over. Plus the actual races and whatever other 3rrd or 4th modes we get.

But what if it isn't? Why wouldn't they turn what was basically a prototype for a Battle Royale into a real one? That's what I'm worried about.

It's made in the same engine using the exact same assets with much of the same content as mario oddyssey. Is that not a port?

most Anon Babble users weren't even alive for this game

grim

using the same assets

As much as Ocarina of Time is a port of Star Fox 64

It might be in the same engine, but no assets appear to be shared. It has a similar art style and design philosophy to Odyssey, but that's because it's made by the same team, who have a weird fixation on making the environments, mechanics, overall concept and enemies all fit a single coherent theme like hats and rabbits, or crystals and rocks in this case.

Because, despite what some twats say, Nintendo isn't retarded.
They do generally understand the market and what gamers want even with occasional fumbles (splatoon sold like 5mil on the wiiu. securing mon hun for wii, 3ds, wiiu. hyrule warriors, reviving bayonetta, etc).
the game won't just be a mega massive battle royale game.
you'll get air ride with standard race tracks...perhaps even a grand prix this time...or they could make it like Diddy Kong racing where you drive/fly to the track entrances.
top ride could return but hard to say.
then you'll have city trial.
we might see ultra trial/mega trial as an alt mode where its 50+ racers all at once duking it out...or 4/5 concurrent matches all run together where each mode where the lowest half are culled out, the teams condensed and keep going till you have a winner. At the worst.
But Hal already put its foot in the Battle Royale mode with Kirby Dream Course, so they won't need to go full in that idea again.

but that's because it's made by the same team, who have a weird fixation on making the environments, mechanics, overall concept and enemies all fit a single coherent theme

...you mean good and strong game design anon?
More developers should learn from this if anything.

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why yes I'm a complete fucking retard what gave it away

No (you).

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dei kong

wokey kong

why are Anon Babblefags trying to push this meme so hard

Meh, I would've preferred Uprising 2 or a new IP from Sakurai.

I didn't really do much racing. Just did lots and lots of local multiplayer playing City Attack with my bros and it was the most fun you could have at the time other than melee (fuck compfags it was still the shit as a casual)

Definitely looking forward to this one but I am wondering if Sakurai's "still got it". Wasn't as impressed with ultimate, but I'm glad he's out of Smash Jail.

I am just waiting for people to shop this as

kirby dick riders

Nobody bullies kirby fans because they are secretly psychopaths.

ALL assets are shared

How much of Kirby lore nonsense was always there and how much was created after such videos popped up because Hal thought "whatever, let's roll with it"?
Like did it all start with Void Termina or were people talking about how dark Kirby lore gets before then too?
I remember talking about Kirby being a maniac who will destroy evil abominations just because someone stole his cake... but that's more about the premise of the DS game than anything else.

Did we really all share the exact same Air Ride experience?

I have to buy the Expansion Pass to get the opportunity to spend coins on the Amazing Mirror icons

What the actual fuck is this shit

There was a weird and creepy secret villain all the way back in Kirby's Dream Land 3. Zero. It shoots literal blood out of a bloodshot eye. Then it came back as a fucking fallen angel in Kirby 64. Then they showed its mirror world counterpart in Amazing Mirror as of Dark Mind's final form.

There's always been a sinister undercurrent to Kirby. Like, what the fuck are these guys, and why are they always in places you can't go?

but I am just thinking that Zoomers will rip the game to shreds because it doesn't have all their favorite characters like Mario Kart does.

I hope they do this. This could be a nice wake-up call for him that Kirby is no longer his and the shit he pulls with Kirby in Smash won't fly in an actual Kirby game. This is going to be interesting to see where this game goes.

So do you guys think the Riders part of the title is referring to a lot of players at once or lots of different characters? Or is it just a name?

Kirby lore started with Kumazaki taking the lead with Superstar Ultra and adding more and more bits of it over time.

If this is a multiplayer centered game, I can see them just pulling surface level Kirby stuff like Meta Knight, Kirby, and Waddle Dees. Are people really going to care about lore in a game that's meant to be played with your friends?
It's probably just because they didn't want to call it Riders 2.

*because they didn't want to call it Kirby Air Ride 2

Swerve Star > Shadow Star > Wheelie Scooter > the rest

The original roster was only Kirby, Meta Knight, and Dedede. Worst case scenario is that Sakurai still has bias for the Kirby games he worked on and the only new characters are Marx and maybe a couple enemies from Super Star.

All I want is a City Trial mode playable with at least 4 players.

lore

It's not lore, but the general cast of characters that Kirby has acknowledged and embraced starting with Return to Dreamland as well as callbacks to older characters from the Dark Matter Trilogy. People can go about how Smash only needs Kirby/Dedede/Metaknight but this isn't Smash and Sakurai no longer has a true say in Kirby. He may be coming back to his 'baby', but he quickly abandoned him with no hangups only to come back to his home company with his tail between his legs.

There are plenty of characters to use. You can use multicolored Kirbys alongside Bandana Dee, Gooey and Magalor too.

it's one vile snoy acting out against Nintendo.

they are cute li'l fellows.

It's them wanting to say its a sequel and clearly so and obvious note their will be far more racers on the tracks.

They've been adding new characters since Amazing Mirror.

Sakurai doesn't actually have a bias for the games he actually worked on, or Coo, Kine, Rick and Gooey would all have had more presence in Smash after Melee. And Kirby's Final Smash in Smash 4 and Ultimate wouldn't be Ultra Sword.

No Spinni, no buy

Amazing Mirror, released after Air Ride where Sakurai more or less left HAL

And a few crumbs here and there don't mean shit when he's still focusing on the games he made.

A great way to add in Ninja I agree. Would be fun.

If you've never had fun with air ride mode I encourage you to boot up the game single player and see how many checklist boxes you can get. It's really doable and there are some challenging ones but it's a lot of fun and you'll learn some of the ins and outs of the game during. Basically, you'll learn how to have fun racing in the game and try out lots of different machines. There really is a lot of fun to be had in air ride mode.

Idk anon looks like a game for babbys and girls.

Sakurai hates Smash so much that he made another Kirby racing game even though he said that he's retiring 10 years ago

KEKIS

Is there any reason to care about Bulk Star other than the glide glitch, that I've somehow missed for the last 22 years?

its really just fucking God damn piss shit awful, innit?
Only city trial with recharge out the arse saves it...and you may as well hunt hydra at that point.

all games are for kids

there's a checklist box for bulk on sky sands for you to get
in city trial it can be fun if you get a bunch of charge ups and boost ups. it's ass though that's part of the charm

There is another racer coming to the S2 that isnt mario kart

fucking kirby

Reality is just one big joke.

what are some adult games for big boys err I mean grown men?

They're slowly bringing back F-zero, anon. You just gotta be patient. We will get an F-Zero GTA with full car hijacking, ragdoll NPC physics at turbo speeds, and bowling with your cousin.

We have no clue what else is in the pipeline. It's been long enough that they can't really say there's no improvement to be made on F-Zero GX anymore. And with the completely new disposition and fresh style they're building on, I'd say anything is possible. F-Zero, Star Fox, all those one off N64 games. Even Wrecking Crew or Wario Land aren't out of the question. Especially Wario Land now that they know there's a market for it.

They better add my nigga gooey or I'm not buying

Flight simulator, tetris

This ain't it, unc.

Tetris for CD-i. The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe for CD-i. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties for CD-i.

Also which riders were your mains back in the day?

it's been too long since i last played but i remember liking the pyramid one where you had to stop to turn at all
i also remember the batwing one was just a straight improvement over the regular warpstar that did hueg damage, so that too

Especially Wario Land now that they know there's a market for it.

lol
i'm sure Pizza Tower will reach Nintendo's fax machines some day

They featured the Switch port prominently in a direct, and they made sure to draw attention to Peppino's cameo in Rift of the Necrodancer, too.

tfw too poor to buy a CD-i

They're on Ebay for $200-$300.

i swear to fucking god, sakurai, if you do this shit again i will not buy

It's very easy to emulate

Besides returning characters, name some stuff from the new games you want to see in Air Riders.

I'm going to buy this but I'm preemptively disappointed that owning a copy won't bring back the days of playing splitscreen with my friends when we were kids.

tracks based off major locations, like halcandra, royal road, access ark, jambastion, and wondaria remains

I'm glad he's out of Smash Jail

This is the glimmer of hope. Kid Icarus: Uprising sold the 3DS to me and it's a very strong contender for the best game of the last decade. The man is full of creativity, but iterating on Smash Bros gameplay is difficult and the series has always struggled outside of classic/all-star/multiplayer mode (Melee adventure mode was my favorite experiment but it's still not as good as the regular game).
Unfortunately I don't think the Switch 2 is going to offer enough for me to be worth buying as excited as I am about Air Ride, with the original being my favorite local multiplayer game. I bought a Switch for Metroid figuring I'd end up playing a lot of other games on it as well but Hyrule Warriors was the only other one that really hooked me. I don't feel like buying another system just to end up ignoring the new games on it to replay Mario 64 again. However if they ditched the subscription based virtual console and went back to selling retro games separately as one-time purchases I'd go back to Nintendo in a heartbeat.

the objective best tier list, you cannot deny it

Don't disparage the Wagon Star or Wheelie Scooter. Both are better than you give them credit for.

This game is definitely going to use joycon mouse control to "rev up" the vehicle, sort of like that weird new game with the handicapped basketball and you use both joycons to move the wheels. I could see a similar mechanic with this game where you pull back the joycon like a toycar so it will give momentum to your cart

it's ass though that's part of the charm

God I hope the new one has meme machines. I hate how every option in multiplayer games has to be perfectly balanced these days as if the average person playing them is a top-tier compfag. Let games have fun or dumb mechanics to laugh at and enjoy and let the weird esports kids make up their own rules if they don't think it's fair.

I doubt it. The mouse functionality seems like the kind of thing that's only going to be used in games that revolve around it alone. No one's going to boot up Air Riders and say, "Oh boy, a game I can't play sitting on my fucking couch. How fun."

I wouldn't be surprised if we get a totally reworked Top Ride mode that has the three original Top Ride machines, plus a new mouse controlled one that uses the twist detection of the Joycon 2 mouse mode.

Dude a ton of games are pushing mouse controls where you wouldn't normally expect them. Switch 1 games are even being retrofitted with mouse controls, we've only seen just the beginning. That's THE new gimmick for Switch 2 and they're going to be pushing it a lot, especially early on. I don't think mouse controls will be mandatory, but I do think it will be an option for Air Ride. Apparently the tactile feedback on the HD rumble 2 is pretty crazy in that wheelchair game where each time you push the wheels you can feel the tension. Just seems like it would fit well with kirby where you have this kind of "charge and release" style mechanic that's crucial to turning in the game.

sakurai isn't a mobile controls utilizer, and even if there is it'll obviously be optional

They featured the Switch port prominently in a direct

An indie direct, not a main one. And that had more to do with the game being popular and a good finisher, especially with it being shadowdropped

the game being popular and a good finisher, especially with it being shadowdropped

Yes. All of that points to the fact that they know the demand for it is there.

pizza tower is still on the incompatible switch 2 games list

they better fix that before the collectors edition comes out

NTA but the whole

they showed pizza tower! warioland bros we are so back

type of logic is pretty desperate. You'll get more warioware and you'll be happy.

That's up to the dev to fix, and Pizza Tower uses the GameMaker engine so it depends on how fast they streamline that process to Switch 2 ports.

Dei Kong is only going to be like 5 hours long I'm calling it

Astrobot was GOTY.

wagon

can't charge, so can't drift

scooter

decent, but needs ramps a lot more than jet and can't maintain the speed

faggot

If it’s still incompatible by the time the switch 2 drops what happens with the game anyway? Is it just unplayable until it becomes playable?

For an indie game/third party game there's only so much Nintendo can do. If it doesn't work outright then it's not going to work until the devs of the game push an update.

Why are you a salty bitch?
GC had Double Dash and Air Ride, in the same year as well pretty sure.
Both did fine.
Stop being a fag.
Air Riders will be a november or december game. It'll do 2-5mil easy. Which is all it needs.
Plus with F-zero99 they'll certainly make a new game, much like Metroid Fed Force lead to its revival.

Why did you immediately goalpost shift fag?
Nintendo did huge internal investment for new teams, one for Wario Land/World is not unreasonable.

you can easily base a whole City Trial map off Wondaria Remains, Fiery Forbidden Lands, or Origin Wasteland.
Suzie's mech could be a neat vehicle, or a mini Lorr Starcutter.
Staff or Spear would be excellent abilities, same for paint/artist (like blooper in mario kart).

It'd be used for some weird wacky side mode if anything, not the main game, would be way too annoying I think otherwise.

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eric ffs LEARN.
NIGGER.
LEARN ALREADY.
You are the most fucking blatant cunt on this site.

it's up to the dev to patch their code so it works really.

I get that, but I mean will it even show up on the switch 2 or is it just gonna be gone from the library on there until it works

That I do not know...probably removed though.