{"id":1618,"date":"2025-08-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:53:29","slug":"preview-sakurais-kirby-air-riders-is-a-kaleidoscopic-adrenaline-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/preview-sakurais-kirby-air-riders-is-a-kaleidoscopic-adrenaline-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Sakurai&#039;s Kirby Air Riders Is A Kaleidoscopic Adrenaline Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Watch out, Mario Kart World.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kirby has the ability to put everyone in a good mood, right? I mean, I&#8217;ve been in a lovely mood thanks to the pink puffball (and Nintendo), as I was lucky enough to go hands-on with the upcoming racer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/kirby-air-riders\">Kirby Air Riders<\/a> for the Nintendo Switch 2 at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>As a surprising sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/kirby_air_ride\">Kirby Air Ride<\/a> on the GameCube, it&#8217;s a really fascinating game, and it does, as director Masahiro Sakurai said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/kirby-air-riders-direct-every-announcement-how-would-you-rate-it\">yesterday&#8217;s Nintendo Direct<\/a>, feel very different to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart World<\/a>. So let me run you through what I got to play during my behind-closed-doors session.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/previews\/sakurais-kirby-air-riders-is-a-kaleidoscopic-adrenaline-rush\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out, Mario Kart World. Kirby has the ability to put everyone in a good mood, right? I mean, I&#8217;ve been in a lovely mood thanks to the pink puffball (and Nintendo), as I was lucky enough to go hands-on with the upcoming racer Kirby Air Riders for the Nintendo Switch 2 at Gamescom in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}