Kirby Air Riders is acceptable to merchandise exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2 connected November 20. Directed by Smash Bros. caput Masahiro Sakurai, Kirby Air Riders is simply a racing crippled featuring characters from the satellite of Kirby. It offers conflict arenas for vehicular combat, arsenic good arsenic modular tracks for racing. Kirby Air Riders is disposable for preorder present (see it astatine Best Buy).
Kirby Airy Riders
Kirby Airy Riders
- Get it astatine Best Buy - $69.99
- Get it astatine GameStop - $69.99
- Get it astatine Nintendo eShop (Digital) - $69.99
There aren't immoderate peculiar oregon collector's editions for Kirby Air Riders, truthful the modular variation is your lone choice. I, for one, find that benignant of refreshing successful a satellite wherever galore games complaint an other $20 to play a fewer days early, which conscionable seems distasteful to me.
We'll adhd much retailers arsenic the listings spell up, but for much contiguous info arsenic it unrecorded astatine different retailers, beryllium definite to travel IGN Deals connected X and Bluesky.
Is the Game connected the Cart?
If you bargain a carnal transcript of Kirby Air Riders, you tin remainder assured that the afloat crippled volition beryllium contained connected the cartridge itself.
This isn’t ever the lawsuit with carnal Switch 2 releases. Some boxes conscionable travel with a codification to download the game. Others travel with game-key cards, which don’t incorporate the crippled itself, but fto you download it and are required to beryllium successful the strategy successful bid to play it. Finally, determination are afloat crippled carts that travel with the crippled connected them. Kirby Air Riders is the latter, arsenic are each first-party Nintendo games released truthful far.
What Is Kirby Air Riders?
Kirby Air Riders is simply a sequel to a GameCube crippled called Kirby Air Ride (note the deficiency of "ers" astatine the end) that came retired successful 2003. While the archetypal game’s roster was mostly antithetic versions of Kirby, this sequel lets you play arsenic a fig of different characters arsenic well, including King Dedede, Meta Knight, Chef Kawasaki, and Bandana Waddle Dee. All of these characters volition person Kirby’s patented transcript ability, which lets them transcript and usage the powers of their enemies.
And wherever the archetypal crippled featured a azygous fastener to property during gameplay, this Switch 2 sequel has added a 2nd button. The B fastener lets you boost, portion the Y fastener lets you usage peculiar abilities. For much info, cheque retired our sum of everything announced astatine the Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct.
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Originally posted:
Aug 19, 2025 7:39 pm