Thread 718128472

>"It doesn't matter to most people, but today, Sora Co., Ltd. is celebrating its 20th anniversary."
>"…That's a long time! "
>"Thank you for your continued support."

>"The new game *Kirby Air Rider* hasn't even shown gameplay footage yet, but I think we'll be able to share some information soon."
>"Please wait!"
https://x.com/Sora_Sakurai/status/1956187495991009776
Direct soon guys. Trust in Sakurai.

>direct
they're just going to randomly drop a trailer on twitter

>>718128472 (OP)
Look I love sakurai for his influence in making smash happen but Kirby air ride 1 is massively overrated and as much as I love kid icarus uprising feels too much like smash in it's DNA.

HYPE! THANK YOU SAKURAI!

>>718128947
Shit taste, City Trial is absolute kino. You must be friendless

>>718128472 (OP)
>20 years
>smash dojo is 20 years old
Jesus fucking Christ

>>718128472 (OP)
>It doesn't matter to most people,
he's correct Smash was a net negative for gaming

>>718128947
>Kirby air ride 1 is massively overrated
I agree, but inly because it was clearly rushed an underbaked outside of Coty Trial. I'm willing to give it a second chance now that he's got more than a year to give it the polish and additions it deserves.

>>718128472 (OP)
ARIGATO SORASAMA!!!!

>>718128793
There's the gamescom in five days

>>718128793
No they won’t. They very rarely do that with big games, particularly for substantial reveals

>>718129909
>substantial reveals
>gucking kirby spinoff
yeah sure

>>718129983
>Nintendo doesn’t consider Sakurai’s new game substantial
Retard

>>718128472 (OP)
Oh boy I can't wait for no new characters because Sakurai's ego can't handle characters or ideas not made by him being acknowledged in any way.

>>718129778
They never do anything for other people’s events

>>718130581
good, fuck rosterniggers

>>718128472 (OP)
>Mario Kart World is mediocre
>Bananza is good but drags in the middle
>Meanwhile, Air Riders has been in development for over three years and will be PACKED with content we cannot even predict, just like every other Sakurai game from the last 20 years.
The TRUE GOTY from Nintendo is near, anons. Trust in Sakurai.

>>718130581
>game is called air RIDERS
>thinks there won't be new characters
Look, I didn't originally think there would be or really even want new characters, but there's a reason this game has had the longest development cycle of any Sakurai game. I think only Uprising rivals it, and in terms of active development (not conceptualizing), I think it's usurped Uprising. Nothing is out of the question at this moment, and I'd be surprised if we really don't get any new characters (again, I don't even want them cuz Meta Knight and Dedede were the least fun choices in the original air ride). This will not be a simple follow up to Air Ride

>>718131548
>longest dev cycle
Is that excluding smash, or do those get pumped out quicker than I realize?

I hope air ride anon is out there somewhere, happy ghat Sakurai came back to do what he couldn’t

>>718133574
He came back not long after the game was announced and was indeed happy about it.

>>718131038
Nintendo is going to be at Gamescon.

>>718133426
Melee was 2ish years, Air Ride he only jumped on in the last few months as director, Brawl he joined in 2005 and had out by Jan 2008, Uprising started development in 2009 and he had that out by March 2012, Smash 4 was out a little under 3 years later, and Ultimate was released a little under 3 years after development started on it. Active development on air riders started in April 2022, meaning it's been 3 years and 4 months at this point. Considering how much was in Uprising compared to what we know before release, and how much he packs the Smash games with shit, I'm guessing there's something big about this new game that we don't know about yet.

>>718134523
Nah it’s just that games take much longer to make now.

The god has spoken. Fuck furukawa, I believe in Sakurai

>>718128472 (OP)
can't wait for the renewed interest in the item bounce theme. they're gonna keep it... right?

>>718129983
Does /v/ even see anything from Nintendo as a "substantial reveal", except maybe Zelda?