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

What bash you cognize astir Kirby? Well, he's round, he's pink. And helium tin suck up and devour conscionable astir anything, and bargain immoderate powers that happening has. Those are the cardinal tenants of who Kirby is, and for implicit 30 years, nary 1 has tried to encroach connected Kirby's turf. No 1 other successful Nintendo's roster tin bash what Kirby does.

Until now.

During today's Nintendo Direct dedicated to Kirby Air Riders, Masahiro Sakurai revealed that for the intent of gameplay balance, every quality successful Kirby Air Riders volition person the aforesaid transcript abilities arsenic Kirby. As helium explains it:

"This crippled is successful the Kirby series, which means Kirby tin get antithetic Copy Abilities from enemies. That accomplishment is unsocial to him. But that would make an vantage implicit the different riders and besides creat etoo overmuch of a spread successful the fun. So here, we made it truthful that different riders tin besides usage Copy Abilities!"

While they're not eating enemies to get their powers, they usage a determination called "Capture" that has unsocial animations for each character. For instance, Chef Kawasaki grabs enemies with a ladle, and Gooey uses his tongue. Any rider tin usage this quality by hitting the Boost Charge button, oregon B button, erstwhile the happening they privation to transcript is successful beforehand of them. Once it's copied, conscionable similar Kirby, they get a chapeau indicating the powerfulness they've obtained, and the quality to usage that power. Powers alteration from moves that disrupt different riders to buffs similar velocity boosts.

The pursuing Copy Abilities person been confirmed for the game:

• Fire
• Sword
• Bomb
• Wheel
• Mike
• Cutter
• Jet
• Steel Ball
• Plasma

This is the precise archetypal clip that astir of these characters person ever been capable to usage transcript abilities similar Kirby. The 1 objection is Gooey, who was capable to transcript successful Kirby's Dream Land 3 fundamentally arsenic a Player 2 alongside Kirby. Kirby was capable to transcript successful the archetypal Kirby Air Ride, but helium was besides the lone playable quality (in astir of the game) astatine the time, truthful it didn't matter. It's lone due to the fact that of the summation of each these different riders that the Kirby Brand Bible was seemingly deviated from truthful dramatically. But I conjecture if anyone's allowed to bash that, it's Kirby's creator, Sakurai.

You tin drawback up connected everything announced astatine today's Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct close here.

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