#Kirby Air Riders
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Honestly it was half half for me
A lot of gooey and kirby
Rick was there and there was some Kawasaki and noir
I didn’t encounter single Magolor aside from myself 
wow 😔
i pretty much just saw ricks and one kirby
i never saw a gooey outside of myself
kirby nooo!!!
i have a feeling the 3 specials from kirby's alternate colors were added pretty late in development, or at least didn't take too long to make
crash is just a big explosion very similar to bomb or meteor rocky
burn is kinda just fire's burning attack but longer
and snow bowl is very obviously based on steel ball
ever since i learned how the use the vampire star well it's been one of my favorite machines in air ride
only complaint is why they chose rick for this and not against magolor
yeah.. nah this first day of the event is beans..
Today is Ricksmaxxing day
proud of the kirby on formula star destroying the race though
oh right event
I need to actually play this event and not do like the other that I only did half of the rewards then got the time it ended wrong and didn't get teh rest
Proud Magolor user dying from how huge buff the characters get
Ah yeah this event is shortest as well
It’s only 3 days long
i'll probably jump on day three just to see how overpowered they'll make king dedede
oh i think i might have done the most upsetting steal of first place.
was at the finishing area in sky sands in third, too a ramp and won by less than a second while in the air
on my trusty pea wagon of course
y'know.. Snow bowl might be hella underrated for how easy it is to just plow over everyone and take first
Same with me for Lololo & Lalala
You know what would make for a pretty funny Air Ride event
Races but they randomly spawn items from Top Ride/City Trial
Imagine the control reversal ray or Gordos in races
This sounds so silly
Evil but also funny
The homing bomb juat joins the race
Oh shit I forgot about the 3 day event
We're on Day 2.
btw is there a hat??
No.
Wow these events are falling off-
Bro lucky 
The only Checklist item I haven't completed in City Trial is the "Win against Gigantes in 1:45" one
Legendary machine parts don't despawn
Just wanna let you know these messages are from 4 days ago </3
I am aware of machine parts not despawning outside of certain conditions
Creepy 💀
Ah
Wait, what are those conditions?
Like when there was a glitch that despawns parts for rest of the match 
Oof
When someone drops a legendary parts at same time as swapping machine, it despawns the parts as well
I don’t think that one was fixed yet
The downside of parts not despawning is that if the parts get stuck in certain area that’s impossible for machine to grab, or get stuck inside certain areas, it’s legit impossible to get it
Even with magnets
Heartbreaking: rocky bike might be kinda goated
It's pretty fun
if someone with legendary parts falls off the map or gets damaged while flying too far away from skyahs ground, where do the parts go if they fell off the map?
Do they respawn in somewhere random on viable ground to prevent from despawning?
They respawn if it falls off the map safely
(In random area, usually visible like few moment later)
ok thats a nice failsafe
Yeah as long as it falls off the map completely they will respawn
It’s just if it fails to and get stuck in some wildest area no machine can reach or get stuck inside a terrain you’re cooked
i dont want to eat space lion meat
2 first places so far
Three now
That race didn't feel real
How was I so dominant
One more
86 HOURS
Haha funny HAL number
Ugh man, more license nonsense?
Man these events are running out of things to give
License Card decorations wouldn't even be an issue had there been more than one design that we could make
Tbf these are short event
So they’re not gonna do hat event for people that might not make it
I do miss hats though, I do hope next one or after is one
hats mainly tie into holidays I think
I don't remember when the golden top hat was, might have been new years but otherwise all of the other ones are holidays
it wasn't new years it was in March
but at least the other ones are holiday based
July 4th America hat 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅
It could've been vaguely related to Saint Patrick's Day but it also works without that minor connection
Bald eagle/Wing ability hat hybrid
using a non boosted character for the event, so that I could finally defeat the stupid missile enemy for the "defeat all enemies" checklist for online
but took forever
Yeah the event is surprisingly good for those checklists lol
Oh is that why I see people not utilizing the event's gimmick?
(I had an assumption they wanted to challenge themselves somehow)
It's also possible some people just have a favorite character
This yeah lol
It’s also satisfying if you win with non boosted favorite
Good job Magolor! (Won 1st place with 5 boosted on day 2)
Star slide really carried me
i wasnt even able to utilize star slide they were so boosted when I tried non boosted character 
like the star trail was hardly visible anymore they were so far ahead and it wasnt speeding me up to drive in the trail
Dang 
Honestly it was a bet, was using Rex wheelie or formula star and hoped for the best
Nova, Amberfall, and Nebula Belt was the best bet as well
Only issue was hoping the special doesn’t charge first lol
Also machine passage was funny with everyone except me got stuck at the bumper section
Point, and, laugh.
people getting stuck on the bumper in machine passage is always funny
until it happens to you
I just cry about it
i'm pretty good at not getting bumpered
it's actually even funnier smacking somone into a bumper that's just starting to move
I just go the safe way lol
How the hell did I never see this before https://fxtwitter.com/oycygwdbf82gyp6/status/2003002845961089186?s=46
This might be the funniest glitch ever
@short trail Gigantes in Hijump 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭
The result screen is so funny
was about to say if this was a new glitch, but i saw the date (feb)
Tf do you mean Gigantes isn't good in high jump 💔
????????????????????????????????????????
BRO WHAT THE FUCK AM I LOOKING AT
The way Gigantes falls off the map is historical
It’s funnier because it legit plays Gigantes defeat animation on hijump stadium regardless
Thinks back to the clip of a Rick Hydra instantly killing another player first, then launching off
It's fascinating that it has a falling animation at all for that
I guess as a failsafe for glitches like this
It’s amazing
It also makes Gigantes feel a tad more in line with the other machines lol
See guys, I can't just move and quick spin, I can fall too!
WAIT HOW IN THE-
Hear me out
If this is possible in other stadiums...
Gigantes retirement screen real?
GIGANTES SKYDIVE IS POSSIBLE
GIGANTES SKYDIVE IS POSSIBLE
WHAT THE FUCK
GIGANTES IN OTHER STADIUMS IS REAL!?!??!
When it's been a month since you've played Air Riders, the game starts teaching you how to play again 😭
videos or the pop-ups?
former happens even after a few days at least
not sure about latter (I never truly had them go away)
the model spinning around in the fall animation IM DEADDDDD
This means the game doesn't run a check on where the location/game mode is set to, it only runs a check on "if GIGANTES HEALTH = 0; then = play defeat animation"
its probably just a hardcoded animation to be applied over whatever model breaches the fall zone
It’s so funny lol
I mean, City Trial Field uses the same one so it makes sense to do it like that
man i need the switch 2 hacked so we can see the guts of this game sooooo bad
Gigantes is viable to exist in city trial as well
and not just the Gigantes Stadium
Im saying there isnt a part of the game that checks if Gigantes should be spawned in during a non compatible area.
ah, that's bit different
which we already knew went for the other Legendary Machines (and partially for Flight Warp Star)
Need Gigantes to spawn in air ride single race
Flight Warp Star </3
flight machines are so weird to use on top ride
Still wish they don’t force quit you wit the glitch
at least we can make CPUs use it
wing star works peak in the Air top ride track but anywhere else really the flight mechanic isnt super useful/or at least intuitive
Same... same
I've been thinking about trying to force a Figure Player onto it and seeing if that would work but that sounds incredibly convoluted
With FWS, the game seems to fail when trying to recalculate stats, which is incredibly funny with the context that it doesn't bother checking if Gigantes is in the correct stadium apparently.
Pop ups along with controlls. Like tilting down, advising me to switch from a compact star to literally anything else, using specials, etc lmaoo
I still have no idea what the original context for this quote was
ah okay, good to know lol
I remember pop-up tips came up every now and again during my first few months of owning the game
Despite playing borderline daily
But I don't think I've seen them in a while?
But I think some of them just pop up if the game detects you doing something "wrong," like holding forward on the stick or refusing to get off your Compact Star
Well obviously the game doesn't know what it's talking about
Yeah lol
I've seen players getting crazy results with Compact
I've heard its handling stays pretty easy to manage even with several patches
Rail panic is a very interesting one as well, considering you can easily win or lose
thats why i run low speed characters for city trial
Like Hydra isn’t good with rail panic, while Dragoon is top tier
really?
I'm consistently good at Rail Panic, so that probably contributed to this specific victory
Yeah Hydra is very bad unless you can destroy other machine in process
It makes sense, Hydra relies on boost charges
Being on rails makes it impossible to release those charges
not sure how many people know this, but the pop offs can be turned off in the options
but it has a high top speed, does that not transfer to the rail
That too
i pretty much had them off by default since ive had years of air ride practice beforehand lol
Yeah Hydra’s status just doesn’t work well with how rail panic works
Also the guaranteed delayed start can end up having Rocket Star or dragoon escape through
Rocket, Dragoon, Leo, Turbo, Wheelie being the best
Yeah Wheelie Bike is my most consistent winner on Rail Panic
milky way wishes except rick causes the sun and moon to stop fighting by summoning a black hole after doing a sick flip
free him
Forgo Rick
pondering my rick
@stoic otter A glimpse into the center of the universe
also looks like you just sent Rick out of his pokeball
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
RICK IS THE CENTER OF MY UNIVERSEEEEE
pokemon if it was peak ...
Rick used Verickular Manslaughter!
It's super effective!
VERICKULAR 😭 😭
Late but
It’s funny how the game recommends rail panic as Hydra, even though you can say Hydra is the worst machine in rail panic, as well as worst stadium to go into as Hydra out of all thing
The lack of
stats slows down Hydra, and Hydra already has slow start because of charging mechanics, which may be worse than Bulk Star at that point
So even if you have max
there’s a chance you may still go slower than machine like compact star
Hence why it’s better to just focus on destroying the machine instead of trying to race normally, because you will likely going to not win if there is at least 1 person with good stats or machine like dragoon, leo, rocket, turbo, wheelie etc
thats crazyy lol
Dragoon and Rocket is the scariest to deal with because Dragoon = ignore every gimmick, constantly in max air speed
Rocket = Crazy speed boost that’s just works perfectly with the gimmicks
Hydra is nothing as long as you don’t get attacked 
Like if your machine slows down in cave section, there’s a chance you may die to Hydra that approaches behind you
ive learned to fear and respect rocket after the nova time trial event
Rocket Star is like ASMR, I love the noise they make
all i hear are the little "poot-!" noise it make when you fail to fully charge

Hehe funny rocket
Like man, KARs Rocket is so beautiful
Especially with render
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sec9cj5xtaJLkDdp6eRwVNDs7OBTy4uTxq60Ts-0TfI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.mibi7ah64tgp finished every kirby air riders section in kirby lore document yay
A Summary of Kirby Lore By RHVGamer This document is still a work in progress. This document is best viewed with “wide” text width on desktop. All information is sourced from either the images seen below each paragraph, which can be clicked to get the links to their sources, or footage from gam...
was easier than i thought (probably because there aren't 20 pieces of obscure japanese-exclusive interview lore to find and organize)
instead, there is only 0.5
funny airtopia ruins
more like lame airtopia ruins
Where does Jaguar Sewing Machine Embroidery-Only Software: Kirby Family fit into the lore?
it's the main villain of kirby slide 2: revenge of the puzzle
but that game isn't out yet so don't tell anyone i leaked it
(I really love Marc when he opens his mouth super wide while using the mic.)
https://fixvx.com/tokumeinomarui/status/2056389633177690118
Is Marx the next Michael Jackson of our time?
He’d definitely seem the type to dangle a 9 month old off a forth story balcony
Not sure about the singing though
japanese wiki now has pages for the glup shitto road trip objects, peak
"who's your favorite kirby character"
"flag"
Was it confirmed that all these Road Trip path elements are characters?
"For convenience, this wiki will treat him as a character"
I just got three new amiibo cosmetics in one day.
It was two different lines for My Machine and an 8-bit Kirby sticker. They all seem to be on Wikirby already.
alright
good to see them also on the character list page lol
Flag vs Mushroom vs TV
who would win
woah where's that from
neat
some of these inclusions are a bit funny though lol
i was about to mention dark meta knight not being there but apparently he's listed with like star allies idk
yeah because playable/ally/a role that's not 'enemy'
i see
"For convenience" will treat as a character
?????? am i missing something LOL
yea am i uneducated on kirby what is happening
in that it's really obtuse to categorize all the options in road trip as any one description so character is just the default
You reminded me I should genuinely check this soon
And compare between Wikirby and Air Riders book
It seems to not be as much as people expect from amiibo, though
these road trip environments are so cool
The Bourbon
They're everywhere...
Considering the original's lack there of, this is a major win
Thought that was Mario Kart World for a second 😭
It's BAAACK
what
Item that appears changes daily
oh no
Why are they so short 😢
I don't even know if I'll be able to do this one if the meteors item is involved
anyone got pic of it ingame (in English)?
It’s the one week I’m busy :((((
Hopefully I can sneak in some play
oh surprised they don't list them this time
yeah that worries me
read it as crowned courses
Actually Imma do this event in bullet train LOL
I still wish it’s like
1 week event?? I get they tried to make everyone play and have less bot match but
3 days are very short
I kind of need them to say when the meteors are going to be here
because I will die instantly if they exist
I get it’s top ride (or air ride) and it’s not city trial but it still sucks since it’s gonna be very easy to miss even on weekend, vs if it’s available all week, even if it’s spread out, it’ll be easier for people to not miss out

SO WE CAN GET 8 PLAYER AIR RIDE IN SINGLE RACE STADIUM AND IN AN EVENT BUT NOT IN THE REGULAR MODE!?!?
I gotta set reminder so I can actually join
(tbh i prefer 6 players anyway but still it's funny lol)
This is top ride
oh
Magolor in the thumbnail automatically peak
ANOTHER TOP RIDE EVENT!?!?
Top ride event that’s 3 days long again
At least I can use my beloved Swerve Star again
this is the 4th event in a row to not be in city trial 😭
weren't you just complaining about it being short?
i just realized there's a good chance i won't even get any 8 player lobbies 😭 😭 😭
Ah fair
or even like. 4 players
Because it won’t matter if you can’t play within that 3 day span
I might legit take my switch 2 to Disneyland and play them
Sakurai this is the third rotation event
i think they may have shortened the time gap because of player count?
im sure some people (which includes myself) just grind on the first day and never touch the event again
so i guess because of this they've just shrunken the overall play time maybe?
I kinda hate how short events are in this game. And also how so much content is locked behind them, so I end up playing out of fomo alone.
Yeah, like honestly I’d rather go against bot and not real player at that point if they can make it longer
Plus most game by year 2 of rotation, majority of people will already been done and it’s not going to have big player base anyways
Event 1: 3 days CT
Event 2: 3 days CT
Event 3: 5 days CT (hat)
Event 4: 5 days Top
Event 5: 5 days CT
Event 6: 5 days CT (hat)
Event 7: 5 days CT
Event 8: 5 days AR (hat)
Event 9: 5 days CR (hat)
Event 10: 5 days AR
Event 11: 4 days Top
Event 12: 3 days AR
Event 13: 3 days Top
i am so horrible i keep getting legendaries and bullying the servers as dark daroach 
clip compilation of my evil side
bye meta knight
Dude. Fuck yes
Those brilliant level designers thought of everything with Skyah 🔥
I hate that freaking hole sm
Can a hat be given out this time please?
mood
does he mean ultimate
that is a photo of smash ultimate, smash wii u/3DS had different costumes lol
yeah
misinfo..... i thought we as kirby fans were against this....
I never realized it was just paint in Smash
Bro didn't care about going the extra mile with his Galacta cosplay until getting into Air Riders 😭
what do you mean they nerfed the gold on the white alt. i knew the pink alt was less colorful in 3ds/wiiu but like geez. bro lost his bling in the white alt
Tweet also doesn't know the distinction between textures and models
because... yeah, it's fully textured in ultimate
by definition
ik they are cowards
Mayo knight looks so clean
i gotta commend road trip for like actually showing the game's backstory, rather than just giving it in dialogue and pause screen descriptions and interviews
i genuinely can't think of a single other kirby game that does that, except like kirby triple deluxe showing the dreamstalk seed being dropped down
Proud Irish citizen
Actually something intervened with Nova's wish but you wouldn't know that if you played the game
~ Mossy Hero Soccer Guy
well yeah besides that
MOSSY HERO SOCCER GUY 😭
Ok at the very least that one quip is basically meaningless for now, because the story still works without it
but i mean that the game shows any backstory at all lol
There's a difference between "Oh yeah something got in the way of something else but you won't see it" and "This one thing is why your adventure started in the first place"
Oh my god I can't read
wait what the fuck i just realized this game doesn't have a new green greens
that feels illegal
Meta Knight NOOOOOO
i feel like i say "i just realized" too often but idk how else to start sentences related to me just realizing something
also i guess the milky way wishes credits theme has the green greens motif but that's like the ONLY new green greens in the game
oh and triumphant return
oh yeah that one too
Just like the original…
"I didn't know this before, but..."
"fun fact, apparently..."
How meta knight could have been moving like during DMT
Meta Knight getting his revenge (saythatagain) for not being in 64
I attempt to unmask the mysterious Air Rider with skills too good to be true: Dr. Scary—only to find a true image of horror beneath the mask. How has the Kirby Air Riders competitive scene never heard of this Daroach Slick player before?
CREDITS
A Star Channel production
Most things: Sparkle
Co-producer and interviewee: 3792
Inspirat...
Was walking today and kid and mother was singing the What’s this Air Riders (Japanese) in store and it was cute
awwww!!!
that's one big eye
Wagon star is so fun to play, even with the whole “unable to get boost from rails which can decide entire matches” thing
I love wagon
i always play it with scarfy since you get really good speed when angry, and people love hitting you
Hm
That sounds really dependant on having people hit you
Meta knight is good there as well, as soon as you turn the final corner while super is enabled, you do a quick spin and zoom forward so quick
I’m stupid what’s DMT
Dark Matter Trilogy
Dreamland 2, 3, and Kirby 64
They stated that Zorah's wish got "corrupted" on its way to Nova which is why it ended up making a doomsday machine. But genuinely I keep forgetting that tidbit and will probably contiue to keep seeing Nova as a troll wish granter. Not even because I'm choosing to ignore that detail but because I legitimately forget about it most of the time
nothing said that zorah's wish got corrupted, that's just a common theory
Wagon star is great for beginners I find.
I always reccomend it when I play with someone for the first time.
I thought it was confirmed in an interview.
the interview just implied that there was "another malicious force" with zero elaboration on what that means
man is it possible for ANY part of kirby lore to not evolve into a misconception?
Genuinely that interview only made Air Riders' story worse
Not only is it something that wasn't remotely hinted towards but all it's done is bring more questions that likely won't be answered
I will join the club of pretending like that detail doesn't exist and Nova was just doing a bit of trolling
Oh was that point in the interview misconstrued?
My bad
I just went along with it because I didn't want to just ignore whatever point was made completely and didn't think it may have been worded weirdly in translation
- official information is given
- people make subjective interprations of the information
- people misremember the interpretations as official
this really is a lot of kirby lore huh
miiverse lore posting never died it just evolved
But yeah "malicious force" is actually what I remember hearing about it
It will be a cold day in hell when a new Kirby game keeps all the important lore information in the game and not interviews
If it's vauge then you can't have contradictions
all 2 dream buffet lore is given in-game AND isn't mistranslated (to my knowledge)
not a part of the story so not missing information
wait for some future art book to suddenly drop some dream buffet lore in the margins in the future
also, kumazaki did 
I just then say the wish got messed with somehow to try and wrap my point up faster because it feels like it flows better in the plot. Like mentioning a "malicious force" doesn't really then explain whatever it did to make things go sideways with Nova.
Must be Chef Kumazaki

I mean yeah, he always cooks
Malicious force was actually judt Nova feeling a little bit cheeky.
I'm so sorry.
(I got Hydra 4 minutes before the end of the round)
And I got my 745th achievement that round
Eeeeyikes this fighting polygon team is tough but at least they're just fighters from the game!
The nefarious low polygon Great King:
Wait oh my god he just looks like Pablo in this
Dedede the BackyarDDDigan
I love him
King Dedede: WE'RE GOING TO MARS, WE'RE GOING TO MAAAARS

Oh god I see it
hey Sakurai when will you share more stories
for his sakurai presents vid on air riders 86 years from now
Will Adeleine be announced in 86 years?
Yes! She'll be a free (for one month) DLC character to celebrate the release of the 86th Kirby game by then
After one month, she'll cost the fair price of $86.99
Doot doot eight six!!!
I maybe blind because I don't see it 😭
he forgor the land…
intentionally crappy recreation of what I thiiink they mean?
This but it's the two eye-star-spots looking down at leo (as this game's nova does all the time)
It's easier to see from a distance
what is this crash team racing??
If the gap between Air Ride 3 and Air Riders is the same as the gap between Air RIders and Air RIde, then Air Ride 3 will come out in 2049.
Steamgust blimps have a couple of glitches like this
doo
beam attack is now invading my mind
dark beam attack
ohhhh right air riders is having another event coming up yayyayayyy yay 
EVIL WADDLE DOO?!
- MORE. ACHIEVEMENT.
I knew the tresure chest one would be the last.
I won't stop tonight unitl I do it.
Why he got lipstick
thats the inside of his mouth
Ngl if most of the lobby wasn't CPUs I wouldn't have won that
I fumbled hard by getting Gigantes
That was effective
How am I supposed to get rainbow rank on air ride when I can't even find players in city trial
What region are you in
fair theory
NOVA got a lobotomy and now all it can think of is destruction 
Oh yeah I like this theory
Europe
Going off the theory that Fecto Forgo is the basis of all power for the ancients since it is the same shape as Galactic Novas heart, maybe there is a little bit of fecto inside of novas heart that is corrupting it or something like that
Mecha Elfilis
the same shape of Galactic Nova's heart
heart is heart shaped
heart shaped themeing is prevelant literally everywhere in Kirby
Event today!! Can’t participate till last minute so it’s gonna be bot lobby!! /s
Can particiate first minute so it's still gonna be a bot lobby!! /srs
what's the event again? and how long is it?
Whats the rewards for it 👀
We will find out in 2 hours lol
(Probably just another of those license stuff and stickers)
(And nothing crazy like hat)
Aw
I just want more hats bro 😔
Are there any good things or is it more license bs
Oh wait too soon
(Seriously why can't we have multiple designs for ID's??)
Since like 80% of rewards apparently is for ID cards
Oh yeah event today?
yeah
3 minutes ish
I thought it said manager and got excited for second
i love my some generic everything
Wow, the game could not have screwed me over harder there
8 person top ride was a mistake
Also I could NOT be more overstimulated
Fucking Twitter Machine Sticker
I think I actually hate this event
Guys I think they gave up on these events
think it's mostly just due to not having anything 'major' to do for last month or two (though I think they could have done more for anniversary at least, or maybe even Mother's Day)
.....maybe there will be one for start of Summer next month?
Why is the offense stat even displayed in Top Ride
It’s slightly different in Japanese so sadly it won’t work out
ugghhhhh Top Ride is not meant for this and it shows
swaps to a different machine
immediately gets the second worst track for that machine
...I swear this game has something against me in particular
What the hell
Also ow my ears
At least I got one first place win
That was terrible
ive never seen this many chickens in a game before
holy shit toontown reference
Yeah I don't think I ever saw that item in an actual race until today
Taranza what have you done
I love how this one isn't even taken with photo mode it's just "look at this lmao"
light?!?!?!
star that plays top ride: light
I miss Top Ride Light so bad
i never played og air ride multiplayer really and those stupid changing rails seem perfect for chaos during the race
top right
siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh
and ant doom was taken out back and shot (every time we lose a silly little creature i die inside)
Oh yeah JP Compact Star name
My brain didn't even notice
I guess that means that I mostly rely on icons rather than names
then they have designed their games UI succesfully
I saw some guy a while ago complaining that "the machines were too simple and not interesting" only to get hit with every reason them being simple works and the guy's attempted redesigns didn't
can i witness the redesigns
Uhh give me a sec it was a hot minute ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/kirbyairriders/comments/1sxgjai/as_someone_who_doesnt_play_this_game_i_wish_the/
Found it (oh my god I forgot that the guy didn't even play the game)
"As someone who doesn't play the game" lol you just want visual eye candy from a distant perspective. That's going to be very very different immediately transferred over to ... having all that visuals to look at and grab your attention in gameplay
not to immediately knock their creative vision just an observation
what would you even be doing on the subreddit of a game you don't play??
the face on shadow star is definitely cute, but the ornaments in the back are too much. It also tries to soften or pedal back on what it's initially going for in its "oooh shadowy edgy" vibes so why be counter productive like that
It gets so much worse when you look at the comments by the way
Jet star looks so malicious and sick, why is it gonna bite my head off 😭 insanely interesting use of the body shape that I do enjoy but scary jet star is sending me
holy crap i got a 6 player lobby in the event already
8 players dang
almost like this is some king of... eight player top ride...
okay i got stopped in place for no reason 3 seconds before the finish line and went from 1st to 6th
i think its a face with bright teal blush
I think it's supposed to be horns and the teal things are eyes???
............................ohhhhhh
“I dont want to do the design team’s work for them”
A. You just did
B. They went through a lot more trouble making that possible than it would be for you to embrace it
ok that reads fairly different than how i was looking at it LOL
ok i dig the teal eyes and widdle horns
this time i got 7th 🫠
hey at least i'm documenting all the different placements' point amounts for the wiki
I’ll do that event this evening
The jet star with teeth 😂
the evil and malicious jet star:
wow thanks to the different available items i got to use chickie for literally the first time ever
i should probably be documenting items too
I did so bad one race that I was literally the only target for the stupid meteor item that I despise
Gotta have to keep telling myself to do top ride whenever I have time
YUKKURI REMEMBER
wow these stickers sure are some of the stickers of all the stickers
why tf did my announcer voice change from english B to english A??
and how did it take this long to notice lol
i have now used the rocket star exactly 1 time in top ride and i can already tell why it became a fan favorite
Creature
yay event complete these are definitely rewards
actually i'm not sure if they're truly rewarding
The rationale for this rubs me the wrong way...
?
Or at least the reasoning behind those redesigns
Ah. Yeah same
holy shit the speed boost you get from dash panels is insane
Like, okay this is a vehicle-based game, so yeah some focus may be on the vehicles...
But the focus was never on the designs, it's purely on the gameplay
This isn't like Forza, where the cars are the appeal... this is a game where one of the modes has you destroy and steal people's cars
Part of my reasoning for it putting me off is that the Machines are not individuals.
And it seems like that was misunderstood
from attacking too sometimes
The bigger thing that bothered me was this weird factor into "sales"
Nobody buys a game because the power ups looked a certain way or what have you... there is a far bigger thing a game has going for that they need to find for themselves
(Also the riders cover 80% of the machines so like the whole deal with the designs is sorta pointless)
Also there's a whole feature you can decorate the cars to your heart's content
The humble my machine customs:
This had been brought up to the user
Yes, it was. And the answer genuinely baffles me
They skirt around it with some contrived alternative
Whoever that user is has never heard of OCs /lh
Honestly? Given that the main image in the discord preview is basically a machine with googly eyes drawn on, I'd wager this is just engagement bait
"Why don't the developers give us some pre-made designs?"
The humble machine patterns:
You don't have to be a Decal wizard to make a good machine design
As the definitive Air Ride Machine OC person...
Idk I have no comment

That or the person just cannot comprehend Air Ride
Either way, not really worth the energy
It is also a month ago so yeahhh
Yeah I just spontaneously remembered it and someone asked
this is the perfectest moment captured as Marx does a jump for his wings sprouting lol
the machines are the appeal though? they have little personalities in their idle animations and the whole "lore" reason behind their activation and usage is the bond they form with the riders? and the main cool guy™ introduced in the game is machine adjacent or heavily related
anyway @mortal basalt perfect captured moment of the grape specimen and its wings
OH MY GOD 🥹🥹🥹
I feel like the game can't make up its mind on that, though
Road Trip: These machines are alive and bond with their riders 🥰
City Trial: DESTROY VACANT MACHINES TO POWER UP 🔥
Nova is shaking in fear and calling us the real monster
watching from the distant sky as we murder all its machine children
yea that event always messes with me, especially when youre greeted with the chorus of various death screams
nova seeing the way they massacre its children
They definitely weren't thinking about it that hard
GO ON A POWER TRIP! KILL ALL WHO STAND IN YOUR WAY HAHAHAHAHA
various cries of agony
For me, like, the variety of different kinds of machines are nice. But the machines themselves aren't really that interesting? Like they're more of a means to an end so you can play the fun racing game or the less fun RNG game
...same, especially given I make all of my Machine OCs in game... yeah
tell that to all the vampire star adoration
The creature
the way it snarls as it charges up and prepares to bite; rabies
This is amoral and evil but unfortunately I have a Paper Star with TADC Maid Jax so I personally think some machines deserve to be destroyed 
That is completely your choice my guy
I also have a Zooble Swerve Star too
I like to imagine they made Caine mad so he turned the cast into Air Ride Machines
My gif now
Might go hunting for the Gigantes stadium prediction since I have nothing better to do
Ok Gigantes parts are in play first try
Formula star sounding like an actual animal gets me every time
wagon star gonna wagon in this event.
It's very funny that I have more than 100 of every gummy except for the legendary machines...
And the Compact Star
i really like this event lmao
Too many chickens yesterday
Or birds
I think some are still trapped and cooking in my car grill
Apparently you only unlock one Vampire Star in the entire checklist
Vampire star continuing being the goat by not flooding my garage with blank copies
Almost 2 million miles
Very funny that Compact Star and FWS are in the Top Ride Checklist portrait when neither of them can be used in any mode of Top Ride
the event was boring until someone else with the same setup showed up then it became a 1v1
i bid thine rivalrous player a good day.
turns out this is an event that favors wagon star.. good thing i like to use wagon star
https://fxtwitter.com/KirbyAirRiders/status/2060420913623945646
minor spelling mistake
The "Eight-Player Top Ride!" event has stated and runs until 5/31/2026 at 8pm PT. You can get all sorts of rewards to use with your license from this one. We hope you enjoy racing to a crowded Top Ride finish line! #KirbyAirRiders
This event should be permanent on Online top ride
god please no
Why not, Regular top ride can be play up to 8 but online is just reduced to 4.
Top Ride is very evidently not made for eight players
Or there could be a separate mode for that
me chosing my bright green wagon star so i stand out just enough over all the scooters and chariots
Wait it's not 8 player normally??
No, it's usually 4
its eight player offline
https://fxtwitter.com/KirbyAirRiders/status/2060466209787683123 OH MY GOD THEY REPOSTED THE TWEET
The "Eight-Player Top Ride!" event has started and runs until 5/31/2026 at 8pm PT. You can get all sorts of rewards to use with your license from this one. We hope you enjoy racing to a crowded Top Ride finish line! #KirbyAirRiders
WAS ME NOTICING THE TYPO THE REASON IT WAS REPOSTED??
HAVE I DIRECTLY INFLUENCED AN OFFICIAL KIRBY ACCOUNT!?!??!!
AM I CANON TO THE KIRBY LORE?!/!?!?!?/1/!/1/!!
RHV will return in Kirby: Doomscovery
first place in first race, dead last bcs i was put to sleep on the biggest track (mountain) immediaterly after lool
oh right there is an event
now i can ignore this event and try to forget i had to go through that 😊
Aura
woah
I remembered 
My father was staring at me playing this event and went “where is Magolor”
I just stared at him and went “I’m literally playing as Magolor”
Moreso I legit only play as Magolor 😭
I had my usual interdimensional Magolor with bow and formula and vampire star
Ended up winning half the race with vampire and winning the top ride space gamble with formula
i think that top ride would be better if you couldn't win ranked online matches relatively consistently by doing literally nothing
Top Ride would be better if you could get ranked online matches
Look at my pretty Slick Star
They're just neat imo
btw the event description is just lying
every item has been available every day and only the spawn frequencies of some are changing
Where is that machine going
on a peaceful stroll
I almost never see machines just wander and I'm genuinely curious on what causes that to happen
When you manually get off your machine, a close one will come towards you
I don't think that would be the case here
Weird
machines always move to people without machines if they're close
ive seen machines travel quite a way to get to me, im sure there was someone off a ride you just couldnt see
So what you're saying is that they have an incredible amount of dedication
All machines go to heaven
Oh yeah I have ti play T*p Ride
Peak Ride
I don't think I've played actual 8 player races in this mode until now
It's nice that the game makes it a bit more manageable by increasing the size of the entire course a bit
Like what Smash Bros does for 8 player smash
It's actually very "8 player smash" core with just trying to keep track of yourself and mashing a bit lol
I think Vampire Star is very good with 8 player Top Ride
Are there "fake" real players online? When I play City Trial online, I often see known names
Even though the game labels them as P (of player), instead of CPU
Yes those are bots
Ah... I think the population is quite low now, right?
That's why I found strange a player with the same name in Dream's Buffet (completely dead online)
The population seems pretty high for me tbh
yeah
most of the cpu names are taken from kirby's dream buffet, you can find a list of them here
The term CPU (short for 'Central Processing Unit') in the context of video games refers to elements (such as characters or enemies) whose behavior is controlled by processes programmed into the game itself. More specifically however, it is used to refer to secondary players who have been set to be controlled by the game itself, rather than any h...
I do match same people often but that’s because 1. It’s around same time 2. Plays same game mode 3. Same rank etc
Also might just be because of the region (Japan/Asia)
(And if someone goes straight to next round, and you do the same, you will likely gonna match them again since both of the player goes into the round at same time lol)
I doubt KARs online will fully die for while, at least guaranteed to live till November 2026 with events going on
It might be hard to say in 2027, but Japanese community alone can keep the online alive (but mainly city trial) and gonna be difficult to say if you will match all the Japanese player base lol
Happy final (about) 12 hours of event, if you haven’t done so, I highly suggest doing it soon
Japan/Asia seem to have it very lucky
EU players such as myself only get a few players
Def cause of your region
I know this might be crazy but I listen to air riders right before I clock in the office 😌
Crazy? Nah that’s hella based
i still don't get why they removed popular search in the machine market
it's straight up just impossible to find the most sold machines of all time now
you can search exclusively ones that are frequently being purchased at the current moment which is kinda bad when the game doesn't have nearly as many players
AH GREAT EVEN THE THIRD PARTY WEBSITE DOESN'T LET YOU SEARCH BY POPULAR ANYMORE BECAUSE NOTHING CAN BE POPULAR IF THE GAME AS A WHOLE ISN'T POPULAR I GUESS
there's literally only 13 machines total in the popular tab
so both in-game and on this website it is impossible to find the most popular machines
Rick
Rick
Ricket star
Wait huh?
yeah they replaced it with random some time ago
finished the event, it was so funny
8 player top ride really is like 8 player smash
Oh. Why not just add a random?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I kept getting Nova. I played the event 9 times, and I got nova 4 of those times. I counted.
Mind you I main the turbo star 
the only thing sakurai has said about the chance is "due to various reasons" so idfk
(google translated)
it's because it was 80% the same as most expensive
like there was some differences, but ultimately was just super redundant
it was
but now they are completely mutually exclusive
the most sold machines of all time were all made within the first couple months, while the current available tab only shows ones being sold right now
i checked and they are all just recent ones
yes, that's what not being redundant is
the thing is that popular didn't have a date cutoff anyway
so no matter what the most bought machines of all time would still show up
Managed to get into 1 game into the event
And then not getting into any more
Getting into a 2nd game
Yeah this is the best Top Ride event since the lap speed one
Since there's rarely a situation in which I'd seek out 8 player Top Ride otherwise
Also this definitely helped put into perspective why online matchmaking caps out at 4 players
8 players would be so hellish for ranked play 😭
Regional matchmaking moment
Remembering I should occasionally play this game outside of events, Gooey: Gay Riders
he knows
ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuguhghhhh the detailing on the model is so scrumptious
okkaY
4/5 violet air ride is DONE
one more bar, and another rainbow is miiine~
then its just the eternal grind of city trial lmao
Wathe loveheart headband limetid time?
Yes, it was for Valentine's Day
Maybe I can get it next year
How did you manage to do top ride?
I've never managed to get an online match of it.
honestly
your best bet is to join the air riders discord and ask people to join
but if you cant do that i cant really think
i got mega lucky with my top ride rainbow
doesnt help that online global matchmaking sucks lol
You see, the best strategy is to start 6 months ago.
I'm pretty close to Violet rank in Air Ride. Probably would have gotten it today if it weren't for that one Susie player today winning so much smh. 
I hear you rank up 10 times as fast if you stop right before the finish line and let me pass you before finishing.
lmaoooo
true
its okay typman you only have to endure my sweaty ass for a bit longer
one more bar of violet and i got my rainbow
I did 
then i shall swarm city trial... hahaha
See, but it'll get a little harder to find matches without you. And the rank gain from second place is still better than the rank gain from not playing.
awww <3
its okay ill still play hahaha
i might need rainbow max even if its useless... who knows!
i dont mind abandoning top ride ranked tho lmaooo
Alright, I think it's time to get some help on this... does anyone know how to handle the 'Defeat Gigantes in under 1:45' checklist mission?
The closest I've gotten was in a City Trial where I had the crazy luck of a CPU assembling Gigantes while I had more-or-less maxed out a Hydra. Obviously... haven't gotten THAT lucky again. 😔
Getting help is probably your best best, if you can
Yeah I think a lot of people did that one socially, I remember people trying in matchmaking chat a lot near release
I got help in this server, and then the game crashed when we did it
So we did it again the next day iirc
i def asked for help a few times for this mission
if you need rider/machine tips, choose high offense stuff like knuckle joe, battle chariot and shadow star
エアライダー公式で展開している「きょうの一枚」は、開発中に私が撮り、チーム内日報に上げていたものです。
ネタが大量のゲームなので困ることはぜんぜんありませんでしたが… ストックが尽きれば終わります。
これから何日か、過去に出した「きょ...
"The "Picture of the Day" featured officially on Air Rider is something I took during development and posted in our team's internal daily reports.
Since it's a game packed with tons of content, I never really ran into any trouble at all... but once the stockpile runs dry, that's the end of it.
From here on out, for the next few days, I think I'll go ahead and add some commentary to past "Pictures of the Day" that I've shared." (Machine Translated)
he's kind of giving "im bored"
Unlocking Vs. Gigantes as a Stadium obviously helps a ton, if you haven't already
I also recommend keeping player count low, because Gigantes' health is adjusted to match the number of riders fighting it
If you're willing to perform retries until we get a bot into Gigantes in a Paddock, I'd also be game to help you 2v1 Gigantes in a Stadium
I did it in private
Unlock the Gigantes stadium event by getting 7 gigantes peices offline.
Then play with 1 level 1 CPU with max handicap, and pick the Shadow Star.
Keep reloading until the CPU gets gigantes, and then just go at it.
I reccomend using a character with an attacking special like Lololo & Lalala or Rocky. If the amount of time ever drops below 15 seconds left, just restart the match as that gurantees the CPU will still be Gigantes.
You should be able to get the acheivement in about 5 mniutes.
Accurate Rex Wheelie depiction
HO HO HOOOO
the rainbow
Dumb question but...
Does Air Riders have split screen multiplayer? Or would my friends have to get the game?
Been seeing mixed answers online.
Yes it does have split screen
if you mean couch co-op
but it does have local gameshare with switch 1 as well
iirc
Yeah it does
yes it supports local co op up to 4 players
gameshare is an option for any switch 1 users tho it is restricted a bit (no road trip)
and if you own online you can bring 1 partner online!
yep 
Thanks, guys! ^_^





