Right this moment, Nintendo launched its subsequent Nintendo Direct presentation targeted solely on Kirby Air Riders, the subsequent venture from Tremendous Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai. Earlier than diving into the small print on Kirby’s subsequent journey, Sakurai gave a peek behind the event curtain with a very fascinating line–he was apprehensive a brand new Kirby Air Riders can be an excessive amount of like Nintendo’s different racing franchise, Mario Kart.
Sakurai made the remark throughout the starting of the presentation, as he talked about to each Nintendo company president Shinya Takahashi and then-president of HAL Laboratory Satoshi Mitsuhara that there are similarities between Air Riders and Mario Kart. As Sakurai himself mentioned within the presentation, “OK, so it’s mainly Mario Kart.”
“I even talked about this once I obtained the request to make the sport,” Sakurai mentioned. “I requested them in the event that they nonetheless wished to do it, however as followers of the unique know, the attraction of the sport is definitely not the races!”
The 45-minute deep dive into Kirby Air Riders revealed many particulars in regards to the upcoming racer, together with the characters and automobiles gamers can be racing with, in addition to the floating island of Skyah that serves as the sport’s setting. A number of modes, together with Metropolis Trial with as much as 16 gamers, have been additionally detailed throughout the presentation.
Kirby Air Riders will launch completely on Nintendo Change 2 on November 20.