Thread 718446247

9 hours until the direct
share your hopes, fears and expectations

>>718446247 (OP)
whats kirby doing?

My only concern is that Kirby Air Ride was not a particularly balanced game and that Riders will die an early death using the same balance philosophy in current year
The fact that Nintendo's even dedicating a 45 minute direct exclusively to it makes me hopeful they've put more effort into it than just nostalgia pandering

my only fear is that the roster is going to be almost only kirby again. i expect thousands of checklist achievements

>>718446334
driving maliciously

>Hopes
gacha
no males
Art direction similar to Last Origin
>Fears
Sex scenes censored in the west
>Expectations
Child kart racer with kirby characters

>>718446465
kirby characters plushies and figures are too profitable for them to not put other characters in the game

>>718446465
The only roster that matters is the vehicles.

>>718446247 (OP)
Make copy abilities permanent on a separate button, no timer shit.

>>718446247 (OP)
>Hopes
City Trial 2
Anything from Dream Land 3/64 in terms of bosses
>Fears
None of the above in Hopes
>Expectations
Nothing

Can't wait for another rehash of a trash gamecube game tendiesisters we can't stop winning

>>718446247 (OP)
I hope we don't see Sakurai looking noticeably older now since his last youtube channel video

>>718446247 (OP)
I wish this was a Metroid direct instead. What is there to talk about for 45 minutes with this game?

>>718446247 (OP)
City Trial with a bigger map that supports more than 4 people.
That's literally all they need to do.
Who gives a fuck about any other mode.

>>718447471
They already said plenty about Metroid, what would you have them talk about, the controls again?

>>718447554
I’d rather have 5+ moderately sized city trial maps.

>>718446247 (OP)
>Hopes
>Kumazaki/Modern era Kirby gets full acknowledgment
>More features, modes and online
>New gameplay mechanics/improvments that spice things

>Fears
>Only Sakurai-era stuff (Dreamland/Adventure/SuperStar etc)
>It’ll be just as boring as the original GC game

>Expections
>It’ll be 70$ no different from Bananza or Sonic CrossWorlds.

Mainly it just needs a LOT more content than the original. I have very fond memories of Air Ride but you can see almost all the game's content in 3-4 hours. If they want people to buy this for 70 dollars in 2025 it's gonna need a LOT more shit.

Make your bets on what this mouth-less Kirby is in the game.

>>718449619
>>It’ll be just as boring as the original GC game
If you know 1 or 2 people then you easily get hundreds of hours out of it

>>718446247 (OP)
>Hopes
Kumazaki rosterfags ack themselves
>Fears
No City Trial
>Expectations
$80+

>>718447471
They've already said more than enough about Metroid, all they need to do for that game is give a release date which they'll probably do in the September direct. We know literally nothing about Air Riders though, we don't even know how the game looks since all we have is a CG trailer. Also considering it's a Sakurai hosted direct, probably half of it will be him talking about the game while playing it.

Do you think this will be a proper switch 2 game or another "it was a switch 1 game but we moved it over to give the switch 2 an exclusive" like DK and MK? As in - will this be built for the ground up for the hardware, using new features like DLSS or is it just gonna be a switch 1 game upscaled to 1440p.

>>718446247 (OP)
One of the Rides/Stars is the Robobot Armor.

>>718450062
Top Ride

>>718450062
what is this from?

>>718450853
It's the official Twitter account's avatar.
https://x.com/KirbyAirRiders

>>718450853
It's the avatar from the official twitter account for the game.
We know it's something from the game itself, just not what yet.

>>718450787
Pretty sure Sakurai said on his youtube channel that the game's proposal was settled in 2022

>>718449619
I hope your fears come true you rosterfag

The first Air Ride was just barely enough to not be called a trashy tech demo, so at worst I think this will be at the forgettable mario/kirby sports spinoff level, but I hope it's actually at the Kid Icarus level of system depth with a surprising amount of content and effort.

>Hopes
Multiple City Trial maps with online play
Stars have underwater capability
Top Ride returns
Player-made objectives (ex: the ability to place a goal flag like Luigi's Balloon Mode from Odyssey)
Button remapping and the ability to decouple actions from the A button
They keep the ability to hop off the Star and walk around

>Fears
Some really gutted but stereotypically-Nintendo online mode that sucks, like "ghost racing" other player's Drag Race highscores or some shit like that
80$
Not 60 fps
No City Trial

>Expectations
A solid and definitively Sakurai-flavored party game that releases to 8/10 reviews
Most Stars return and we get some new ones
70$

>>718447554
Kirby air ride 99

>>718450787
You know how long games take to make these days. Pretty much everything in year 1/2 and maybe even some in year 3 are going to be games that started development on Switch 1 and then moved to Switch 2. Also I think people that focus too hard on that are missing the point anyway. People obsess over MK World and Bananza starting as Switch 1 games but interviews for both outright say that their vision of the game wouldn't have been possible on Switch 1 and they would have been scaled back hard.

>>718451382
I'm not against that, their 99 games have actually been pretty great.
>Collect power-ups with your star of choice as fast as possible
>Thrown into trials
>Survive as long as possible
I guess you wouldn't be able to find dragon pieces though.

Thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEZQ00OOxY

>>718446247 (OP)
>Hopes
A bunch of not Kirby playable characters who can also vehicle switch.
Multiple City maps.
>Fears
Just different Kirby colors.
Too much attention on other modes.
A dumb gimmick ruins the whole thing.

>>718446371
Racing games don't really need to be balanced.

And the City Trial meta at the highest levels of competitive play is unbalanced in that it revolves around only a few karts, but it's not boring or simple.

(that's my understanding anyway, I've only watched a bit of City Trial comp play on youtube)

>>718447554
But at the end of city trial you do stadium events and some of them are 1 lap on the normal tracks

>>718455115
Why is this bitch so fucking evil?

>>718446247 (OP)
Believe In Sakurai

>>718446247 (OP)
>Hopes
At least 16 tracks for both Air Ride and Top Ride
Up to 12 players for both Air Ride and City Trial
New items for Top Ride
Top Ride track editor
City Trial has at least 3 huge maps
Option to have up to 3 Stadium levels being played at the end of a City Trial with the best preforming player overall winning
Multiple characters ripple queen please...
Keep the funny Bulk Star glitch
$50

>Expectations
$70 + DLC
City Trial is just one map
Only 8 tracks for both Air Ride and Top Ride
Checklist being replaced with a shittier system
Terrible online mode
4 players only

>>718446334
blasting Paralyzer

We aren't getting any new characters.

>>718446247 (OP)
>Fears
Intermission courses

>>718446247 (OP)
I really dont care about kirby. When metroid

>>718446247 (OP)
I need the item bounce theme to be as glorious as it can be. kirby deserves it as dreamland's chosen creature

>>718446247 (OP)
>hope
It's an actual Switch 2 game, not just that it started as a Switch 1 game.
City Trial spotlight because that was the best mode, it was literally a 4 player battle Royale before battle Royale games existed. Need to make it support more than 4 players.
Nice vehicle variety
>Fear
Switch 1 game with higher res.
Basically the same content and little more than the original.
>Expectations
No expectations desu, Sakurai always does the unexpected and delivers something interesting.