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Sakurai Says Kirby Air Riders Is 'Basically Mario Kart' in Extremely Smash Bros-style Direct

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Kirby Air Riders Isn’t Mario Kart—It’s Super Smash Bros. at Speed

Kirby Air Riders, coming to Switch 2 in November, bucks every kart racer convention and could barely be described as a racing ...
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Kirby Air Riders was co-developed by Sakurai's Sora studio & Bandai Namco

Masahiro Sakurai revealed during the Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct that Bandai Namco and his own studio worked in tandem ...

Kirby Air Riders Is Letting King Dedede, Meta Knight, Waddle Dee, Others Use Copy Abilities for the First Time

What do you know about Kirby? Well, he's round, he's pink. And he can suck up and eat just about anything, and steal whatever ...

Kirby Air Riders' grand Direct unveiling was classic Sakurai, as he jokes it's not another Mario Kart clone

As for the game itself, it's a follow-up to Kirby Air Ride - a racing spin-off for the titular character that released on GameCube over 20 years ago - and sees characters riding on magical stars ...
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Masahiro Sakurai celebrates 20 years of Sora Co. Ltd

With how ubiquitous designer Masahiro Sakurai has become at Nintendo thanks to Kirby and Super Smash Bros., it’s hard to ...