Zoomers are now trying to pass off revisionism of this game saying it "was always shit", ignorant of the fact that it was always considered a classic and that old /v/ even used to do netplay sessions of it on Dolphin. If you were born 9/11 you should not be allowed to have an opinion on this game as it is most assuredly uneducated and dogshit, so STFU already and let us hype Air Riders in peace.

>>714667772 (OP)
The Metacritic score is accurate. Cope and dilate.

Huge Kirby Air Ride fan here. Excited to play the game for the first time on Switch 2.

>>714667772 (OP)
>Zoomers are now trying to pass off revisionism of this game saying it "was always a fucking masterpiece"
Fixed it for you

>>714667772 (OP)
/vr/ is that way grandpa. -->

>>714667772 (OP)
KIRBY NO, THIS IS AN ALLIED STARSHIP, STOP

>>714667772 (OP)
I mean, the game is mostly shit. City Trial hard carries it.
I also like top ride.

>>714667772 (OP)
If I dont inhale it, someone else is gonna inhale it!

>>714667772 (OP)
Zoomers like you are the ones who grew up with this glorified tech demo pretending that it's good tho

>>714668507
this will never not be funny

>>714668507
but WHY does it sound so jewish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEZQ00OOxY

>>714667772 (OP)
It's been years since I played it, so maybe it is just nostalgia, but I remember really enjoying fuckin' around in the open world mode

Its simple.
You need friends to have fun with this game.

>>714667772 (OP)
Nah I rented it as like a 10 year old and thought it was shit

>>714667772 (OP)
You know nothing about Kirby, otherwise you'd acknowledge that Air Ride was just a lousy anime tie-in that offered nothing of value to the franchise. Just let it go, and take your overused 9/11 references with it.

>>714667772 (OP)
>spams the same thread
>accuses others of trying to influence public opinion
I know the game has your national anthem in it but there's no reason to defend it, goldberg

>>714670140
>a racing game isn't fun without friends
That's a shit racing game. Every good racing game is fun alone, more fun together.

>>714667772 (OP)
Nah m8, airride is 100% nostalgia hold up by one mode.


I cant wait for all the Airride fans to play Airride for the first time on switch

>>714670140
>It's fun with friends!
Most things are, that's why they're your friends.

>>714667772 (OP)
I literally just downloaded a rom and played for the first time a couple hours ago. Holy shit the gameplay is good. City Trial is disappointing for only having one round and not having a straight-forward racing outside of a drag. Kind of an overrated game mode. Air ride mode is better, but it's missing a grand prix mode.

>>714667772 (OP)
>Zoomers
Gen alphas you mean. Air Ride is a beloved zoomer game.
The alpha kids will stop their nonsense once their favorite influencers play and enjoy Air Riders when it comes out and they see tiktoks saying its a good game.

>>714667887
>t. The average TTYD fan
The gayest part is that you could easily have real fans of these games if Nintendo would simply port them instead of holding them hostage for marketing NSO and expensive, pointless remakes.

I wouldn't call the game shit, but you sure as hell don't want to buy it at full price either. This was a game you'd only ever get out of a pre-owned or clearance bin if you found it that way. Even in 2003, this game just didn't have the content to be worth the price. Nine tracks and not even any Grand Prix? On top of that, the machines are a little TOO wacky in design, so playing with friends becomes less about anyone's racing skills and more about who made the less/more retarded choice in machine (and if some fucker knows how to use the Swerve Star, nothing else is competing with that.) It really is carried exclusively by the one extra mode. (Top Ride is also fun, but barely lasts ten minutes before you're done with it.)

>>714674448
Its a battle royale

>>714669470
because it's klezmer, a traditional ashkenazi jewish musical genre?

checker knights is also an obviously klezmer track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdTyIPkDiow

>>714667772 (OP)
i'm a massive fan can't wait to play it for the first time on switch

>>714667887
why would you pretend to be a Kirby fan. It's not like it spawned a single copycat or had much in terms of discussion around it. The most people who didn't play this game remember is the item bounce theme.

>>714679390
Klonoa is like Kirby

>>714674448
>racing game
it's not much of a "racing game". That's probably most peoples issue with the normal racing gameplay, it almost plays itself.
Air Ride is just bullshitting yourself through with the right machine
City Trial is a battle royale prototype
Top Ride is bullshitting yourself through map events by luck

The game is more fun by fucking your friends over. Destroying his machine seconds before City Trial finishes or winning top ride because the sand worm spit you out forward while your friend gets pushed back 3 times in a row.
Meanwhile in Air Ride you pick Meta Knight and autowin against most matchups.

Can't wait for metafags to ruin the game for everyone because some tranny datamined the 3 possible locations were legendary machines appear based on his starting location and obviously knowing the final game from the first hint.

>>714667772 (OP)
even when I played it back then I knew that the city trial area was so poorly designed. It looked like a soviet amusement park or something -- but iirc they made this game in like a month or something.


The news seems more exciting then the idea of the game itself for the sequel. Look how lively and characteristic the font for this game's title is then the new one is just a flat black.

>>714667772 (OP)
I only know this game because of the Item Bounce track.

What kind of ignorant cunt unironically hates Kirby?

>>714667772 (OP)
Even as a big fan of this game I recognize that only City Trial is worth playing. The whole game should have been dedicated to that.

>>714681030
it basically is.
They just failed to make top ride part of city trial too, which wouldn't have been hard to do, just allow people to use their machines in this mode.

Remember that time they tried putting city trial into smash

>>714681584
Smash run was fun and it pisses me off that they put some bad Mario Party mode in 4 on the Wii but I understand why.

>>714680804
Has IRyS seen this?

>>714667772 (OP)
I'm currently designing a huge autistic kirby air ride ruleset to subject my irl friends to. The main idea is that it takes advantage of the fact that the game lets you adjust each player's speed using the handicap feature.
>air ride mode
>I printed physical cards of each machine
>before each race we deal 3 random cards to each player
>we also have a deck of "trait" cards that vary from terrible to positive that impose further house rules such as "you cannot quick spin"
>traits are randomly dealt to machines before selection
>you can fuse together machines you have acquired over the course of the event to get many traits on a single machine
>your handicap is determined by the amount of traits on your machine, so you end up with tons of traits, both positive and negative

>>714667887
>average smash bros bandwagoner

>>714684019
kudos to you if you have friends that can stick up with autistic self made rules, I know my friends won't.

I don't think universal rules work, its map dependent. Best example is probably Jet Star
I'm not even sure if you can fix Formula star that way

oh boy another thread calling a zoomer game not a zoomer game because actually nintendo made e rated games for only 18 year old millennials or something

>>714667772 (OP)
2025 is just the year of zoomers and secondaries coming out of the woodwork to say things are shit because they never got to enjoy it while it was out.

>>714667772 (OP)
Game magazines and general internet reception when it came out was negative. Then little kids who grew up with that game changed discourse in a positive direction since no one cared enough to dismiss them. Now you have them wasting time and money in a sequel, so you have people actually raising their voices about how the game was negatively received, so making a sequel is odd.

>>714686279
The game has been a cult classic for at least a decade
>but I never heard you talk about it!
Because you never clicked on the kirbairide threads

>>714686026
Gen z kids i've noticed have the worst cases of "The Fox and the Grapes" even more than i did as a kid.

Absolutely mindblowing to me that they're not only bringing a game nobody cares back to life, but that it's the same genre of game as the Switch 2's big flagship game.

isn't this the item bounce game

>>714686026
>>714686962
It's either that or thinking some shoveware Nickelodeon Wii games are hidden gems while shitting on classics like half life and halo

>>714667772 (OP)
I am 32. It was always shit. It is a one button racing game and City Trial is a shit party mode where you dick around doing nothing for 5 minutes usually followed by a 10 second minigame.

>>714667772 (OP)
>If you were born 9/11
well fuck me for being born 9/11/2001

>>714667772 (OP)
Why is Nintendo releasing a competitor to Mario Kart?

>>714689643
They knew World was gonna suck.

>>714667816
>Metacritic
Look at this SHITTER and laugh.

>>714667772 (OP)
Oh, now it's a millennial game? You /v/yards really change what category the GameCube falls into as a zoomer or a millennial console to fit your narrative.

>>714670140
Hehe, fatto ratto

>>714675616
I hope they flesh out city trial a lot more in riders. multiple maps would also be really nice.

>>714679390
Air Ride was always a poser game to like. Most Gamecube games are like this.

>>714686279
>why the fuck are you making God Hand 2 bro that game got a fucking 3.5 on IGN
gen alpha, probably

OP can say "Zoomers hate [literally anything]" without a shred of evidence and /v/ will eat it up without question to start bitching about them.

>>714692796
>Marxist prides himself on how easy it is to tell lies to people trying to act in good faith

>>714692796
get off my fucking board

>>714667772 (OP)
Why does kirby look angry? Hes a happy little ball?

>>714667772 (OP)
We all know you're a smash fag who's never heard of Kirby or never played a Kirby game until smash. Anyone who ever tells me they're a starfox, f-zero, pikman, Kirby, megaman, castlevainia fan I just put them under smash nigger

trash game made for goy manchildren

>>714667772 (OP)
So, we're finally admitting that the cube was played more by millennials than zoomies?

What I don't get is people going, "This game is very flawed, why is it getting a sequel?" as if games with great potential but flawed execution aren't precisely the ones that SHOULD get sequels

Kirby is literally made for infants, literally every preschool desgin ever

>>714693293
Most people are of the mentality "You only have your first impressions and are allowed nothing else." You're not allowed to improve or change over time.

>>714669470
>(((Nightmare))) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FimJAOGb3Nk

>>714686279
The game was looked at fondly by the people who played it. They only decided to make a sequel because a battle-royale esque mode like city trial better fits the current climate of video games, its likely the actual races will still be luke warm

>>714695841
It's being designed by Sakurai so there's no doubt it'll be good and probably have a decent skill ceiling, but the decision to make another first party racing game is baffling.

>>714696053
That kind of mentality is why Nintendo doesn't bother with revisiting their other IPs as often or at all. Why make something like F-Zero and Wave Race, and so on, if Mario Kart exists.

>>714667772 (OP)
The game abandoned depth to be an extremely shallow racer and outside of fucking around with friends in City Trial and the great ost there is very little enjoyment to be had.

Hell, it's even the worse racer on the console with F-Zero and Mario Kart being significantly better.

>>714667772 (OP)
They'll do a 180 when it's on NSO.

>>714668507
I hope an Item Bounce remix is included in the sequel!

>>714667772 (OP)
>Zoomers are now trying to pass off revisionism
No I'm not :)