[SPOILERS] Kirby Air Riders

[somber cosmos]

to quote snagglepuss "heavens to margatroid"

[gentle cosmos]

||but if you were in the kirby fanbase when those sorts of things happened you would notice it lol||

[wise monolith]

||Kirby fanbase in the West only got super large with FL (though SA did really well too)||

[gentle cosmos]

||ppl here lost it when they saw the new playable characters in air riders lol||

[wise monolith]

||especially the Magolor fans (they died instantly)||

[crystal cloak]

||what i ultimately mean is i hope this game isnt like mkw where its just characters and nothing else||

[frozen zinc]

But like- the daroach render alone speaks to how much extra detail every character in this roster got for their inclusion.

[gentle cosmos]

||what does even mean lol||

[wise monolith]

||it definitely isn't||

||also the game is out lol||

[gentle cosmos]

||mario kart world is more than just characters lol||

[crystal cloak]

||the main appeal||

[heavy forge]

ppl still like the machines if that's what you're talking about

[gentle cosmos]

||the main appeal of that game is not the characters, its the open road||

[wise monolith]

||Machines are also a big thing, and also just the fact it has large amount of content in general||

||Road Trip is very big mode for people||

[frozen zinc]

Yeah, its a more diverse roster that gives each character unique skills and abilities to actually have a playstyle difference beyond “oh this character has slightly better coin scaling it now overpopulates every competitive lobby”

[wise monolith]

||the game also has Events (both rn focusing on City Trial) and will get at least one more free update (which is actually more focused on features (Paddock))||

[heavy forge]

sure, noone is posting stuff like formula star TikTok edits for it, but stuff like my machine helps put some limelight on it & ppl familiar with the the game can attest about battle chariot's popularity in city trial

[wise monolith]

oh yeah My Machine is VERY popular

there are so many videos of just that section

so many people sharing stuff too

[frozen zinc]

Magolor isnt just a pretty face slapped on a bundle of stats, his skills actively change your playstyle. That’s what ultimately makes a roster with more than kirby so impactful

[crystal cloak]

i was just hoping ppl didnt just jump on it due to chars

[wise monolith]

even ingame there's a few things showcasing it, ||hell Noir Dedede plays into it!|| (massive Road Trip spoilers)

[crystal cloak]

thanks for explanation tho

[wise monolith]

hell no, being well-advertised polished multiplayer game is the main thing that makes it popular

[heavy forge]

eh, there some merits to that idea of ppl buying a game bc their char is in or not

its not a majority tho

[crystal cloak]

seeing ppl reaction to rick of all chars

[wise monolith]

see how many people play Mario Party or Mario Kart. or Among Us. or Plate Up. shit like that
(hell some of those people tried Dream Buffet! and a bit did not like it or care for it much)

[crystal cloak]

had me worried

but yeah

[wise monolith]

I mean Rick is just cool

also hampter

[crystal cloak]

yeah true

[wise monolith]

I wish there was a ||Pick|| alt though :(

anyway I feel like the Special is what got bit of people more than anything else lol

and he also seems just. genuinely good to play

[frozen zinc]

I think every character should have had 3 alts for the right level of variety

as a baseline

[wise monolith]

I'd go with 4 but even that would have been better yeah

[frozen zinc]

marx and magolor would love an extra slot

[wise monolith]

Taranza would too

original form Sectonia would be cute.....

[frozen zinc]

yeah give us dream stalk taranza

[wise monolith]

also Gooey, his alt sucks for being the only one

[frozen zinc]

well, that would be a skin not an alt palette

[wise monolith]

nah it would

[crystal cloak]

i find it funny cause he is the worst out of all animal friend in dl2 and dl3

[wise monolith]

I mean he's also the main one

[crystal cloak]

true ||im more of a pitch tho||

[wise monolith]

I like Coo....

anyway look at this guy, trying to steal all the spotlight

oh right he's also the only one in Toy Box. for some reason

(and obviously he's the 'main' one in Star Allies too)

[mighty token]

||I KEEP GETTING GIGANTES BY PURE ACCIDENT 😭 ||

[real quail]

||I just need one more Gigantes parts OUGH…||

[quartz niche]

||Funny thing in relation to that. I remember trying to get Gigantes one time and the single CPU had one part and I had two. I tried to attack the CPU and that somehow led to me losing both parts and the CPU getting both of mine, giving them Gigantes instead.||

[merry python]

Omw to make a formula star edit

[quartz niche]

||and while I was able to get VS. Gigantes, I still need to actually ride Gigantes in City Trial for two achievements||

[real quail]

||I was eating popcorn and drinking, literally, while watching the air riders “random gameplay” in the title screen and I spat my drink out when Noir Dedede showed up with no issues in machine passage||

[mighty token]

||I hate when that happens. You could fire the entire arsenal, guns, and the rays of god themselves at them and they will hold on to it for dear life, but if they so much as breathe on you and you lose EVERYTHING||

[real quail]

||I wonder if noir can show up in the title screen without them unlocked||

[crystal cloak]

||is there any explation why nova is evil or is it just because||

[real quail]

||Sakurai needed a reason to explode Nova as tradition, trust me||

[lethal cargo]

||Does "so we can blow it up again" count?||

[merry python]

||I doubt but that would be really funny ||

[real quail]

||The only issue is Noir’s shadow as unlockable character shows up in checklist before touching roadtrip, as well as Noir showing up in top ride if you play all courses before doing roadtrip in general so I can’t get my guards down on how noir shows up lol||

[merry python]

||Ooh wait really? I did not know about that top ride thing||

[quartz niche]

||Speaking of Gigantes actually, I tested out fighting Gigantes multiple times. First I tried with Me + 14 Lv9 CPUs vs and an idle P2, and the P2 won by doing nothing. I tried doing nothing myself vs. 15 Lv9 CPUs and still won by doing nothing. Then I went to fight Gigantes alone after learning more people gives it more health, and I set the CPU to Lv1 with a 4 Weight Handicap and only then did I just barely win against it (with less than 3 seconds on the clock as well)||
||Gigantes is broken, not gonna lie||

[real quail]

||My honest reaction was so funny cause that’s how I got spoilered noir was playable LOL||

[merry python]

||I just like speedran though finishing road trip so i wont have to bother with spoilers lmao. Literally the moment i started playing online afterwards instantly Gigantes appeared || big road trip spoiler

[crystal cloak]

||who was actually thought noir ddd was dark matter||

🤔

[merry python]

||Guess this animal||

[real quail]

Literally within 3 seconds in 😭 😭 😭

[merry python]

||Who invited bro||

[honest fable]

||he just wants to play top ride 💔 ||

[vestal vessel]

||honestly is it just me or would a bit more warning/leeway with gigantes spawning in be appreciated. Like sure gigantes is allowed to be overpowered in general but if someone within a mile of you spawns gigantes in, you're just kinda dead with seemingly no real way to avoid getting pancaked😭||

[mighty token]

|| I LITERALLY DID NOT MEAN TO GET HIM 😭 😂 I ROBBED EVERYONE ||

[real quail]

||I haven’t seen Gigantes in like 150 city trials||

[quartz niche]

||Speaking of||
||I feel like there should be some explanation of how Gigantes controls. Because it's so confusing to understand how to navigate with it, even just in the VS. Gigantes Stadium||

[mighty token]

||Yeaaah, we need like one person to be Gigantes and for the others to fight him. The CPUS never do anything/much no matter their level so I always end up losing. He is soooo broken ||

[quartz niche]

||I'm so glad I'm not alone in feeling that||

[heavy forge]

||eh, I think the sight of gigantes parts is enough of a warning not to go to the plains area that often at late game ||

[mighty token]

||Suffering from Success 😭 SOMEONE ELSE GET HIM, PLEASE LMAOO ||

[wise monolith]

||I haven't seen them in title screen demos at all (not counting the How to Play things technically, I forget if it's in the basic one or Road Trip one or not)||

||if it did we would have signature from that lol||

[real quail]

Title screen demo is so funny to see because one of the demo had Daroach hitting the walls the entire duration of introduction

[wise monolith]

I saw one where a Waddle Dee got stuck 😭

I very much wonder how they work lol

[mighty token]

||No joke. I got Gigantes 9 times. It's someone else's turn to be Gigantes 😂 ||

[real quail]

Forced everyone as CPU at level 1, trust me 💪 💪 💪

[heavy forge]

lucky you

[quartz niche]

||Dang I wish I could be that lucky. It's the one machine I need for the "Ride all Machines" achievement||

[wise monolith]

(from very early on in here ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-LzvRkjy2s||)

[merry python]

||When Gigantes appears that my cue to stop playing the game and hide in a cave for the test of the match||

[real quail]

||I wish I was lucky cause even after total of 500+ city trial I only saw Gigantes 3 times and 1 time it failed to even finish because it was JUST TWO PLAYERS. YES GIGANTES CAN SPAWN WITH TWO PLAYERS. I cried||

[quartz niche]

||I also need to go 329 yards through fog but like||
||I feel like I do that whenever I see the fog where I just keep moving forward through it no matter what but it still doesn't give it to me||

[heavy forge]

||prob one of the few that wants gigantes to show up often so I can try to beat it and humble the the one that got it||

plus the gummy

||not doing it w/ the stadium one bc I want my gigantes gummy count to mean something ||

[quartz niche]

||I had that happen to me actually. It was me and a CPU. I had 2 parts, they had 1. I tried attacking the CPU for their one part. I lost both of mine, then they picked it up and they became Gigantes. ||

[real quail]

I did it with chariot and just drive in circle on the city area on road during the first event. As long as you don’t jump around and do much, you should be able to achieve it with machine like scooter or chariot or wagon star

[crystal cloak]

||do you think thats were wheelie originated from||

prop not

[real quail]

The best friend is the map on the corner because you can still see them even during the fog so I just use the road area on the city as a guide to where I should drive using map

[quartz niche]

Fair
||Good luck with that though since the whole stadium event heavily favors Gigantes||

[heavy forge]

that's the fun of it, tho ||I will say that cpu allies does bring it down bc its mostly free fodder for the gigantes player to get kills||

[quartz niche]

Real

||I did nothing but move forward as Gigantes and got 2 kills by just walking forward (and they were both Lv9 CPUs)||

[heavy forge]

oh yeah, ||someday I would like to see what happens if gigantes is destroyed during city trial. It does have a health bar and it does take some damage when the weak points are hit so||

||hope that this server can collaborate on this at somepoint||

[mighty token]

||If anyone needs the beat Gigantes under 1:45, I'll just make it easy and do literally nothing. I have yet to get that checklist myself ||

[quartz niche]

||So funny thing about that, I've won as Gigantes by doing nothing. Multiple times in a row.||

[mighty token]

||We can for sure try! I'd like to do that! ||

[quartz niche]

||Sounds fun||

[mighty token]

|| Luigi 🤝 Gigantes
Wins by doing nothing ||

[quartz niche]

||We found Luigi's Air Ride Machine||

[mighty token]

||Of course that'd be his Air Ride machine lmaooo ||

||We need all of r/Kirby to team up to take down Gigantes so we can finally clear our checklists ||

[serene sparrow]

btw if anyone here ever does anything super specific like that, that is helpful to let me or other people from wikirby about lol

[wise monolith]

||yeah, still haven't seen anyone get a video of that unfortunately||

and yeah lol

probably get video footage if possible

[mighty token]

||We gotta be the first ones, then 🔥 ||

[quartz niche]

||Make Kirby history||

[real quail]

We can 100% do this at some point 💪
Probably not now but in near future!

[faint zinc]

||this reminds me of a time where I got Gigantes during the Kracko event and I just landed on top of him instantly killing Kracko and everyone who was trying to damage him ||

[real quail]

If we do, I’ll let you know

[mighty token]

https://tenor.com/view/spong-gif-9518114106835725294

[quartz niche]

||Hydrogen Bomb vs. Coughing Baby||

[real quail]

Me riding battle chariot while blasting Magolor cannon as I land on Dyna blade’s head and kill like 6 people in sight somehow

[honest fable]

||im trying so hard not to laugh in public the visual of this is so funny 😭 ||

[real quail]

One shotting Kracko and Dyna blade is so funny

Grand wheelie, you SUCK

Genuinely, you suck

STOP MOVING

I hate when the game just tells you to go behind grand wheelie while I’m Magolor cannoning cause it’s easier to hit from front

[mighty token]

I was trying SO HARD to not burst out laughing while I'm at work 😭

[honest fable]

trying to attack grand wheelie with rip roaring rick is tricky for me because he goes faster than wheelie 😭

[faint zinc]

I have a video saved of it but it is so laggy due to the amount of deaths 😭

[real quail]

Grand Wheelie and Tac when your character’s special is something that’s hard to aim specific target that’s small:

[mighty token]

||I'M ANIMATING THIS, I'M LAUGHING SO HARD 😭 ||

[real quail]

https://tenor.com/view/goku-dragon-ball-gif-4685554128794268208

Tac when your character is Rick

[honest fable]

LITERALLY

like just let me grab your patches please

https://tenor.com/view/kirby-air-riders-meme-rick-rick-kirby-rick-sweep-gif-16400263200008120935

[mighty token]

||CPUS always run into me when I don't mean to kill them, but become Sonic the Hedgehog the moment they kill me or have a legendary piece ||

[honest fable]

||when you smell LEGENDARY PIECES in the vicinity #CpuSweep #GetThemMachines||

[mighty token]

||Me on my way to S N A T C H them Legendary Pieces (by accident, I just wanted Halberd not gonna lie): ||

[vestal vessel]

||that feeling when wild legendary machine event is tomorrow||

[leaden flower]

||When yo homie has a part of a Legendary Air Ride Machine 😂 😂 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣 😭 😭 😭 🔥🔥 ||

https://tenor.com/view/spiderverse-across-the-spiderverse-chase-fighting-chasing-gif-27240038

[mighty token]

||Nothing personal, just business||

[chilly flame]

[top ride/Hidden machine] guess I die

[quartz niche]

The what

||I've been trying to get the wild Legendary Machine event for so long because of a dumb offline achievement where you have to attack a Legendary Machine, but can't do it in an online match||

[real quail]

get very behind and hope you get them instead of UFO

[sudden compass]

that's the dumbest checklist task i've ever seen

[real quail]

Or you can get very ahead and steal missile ability from the last place by being right behind last place

[deft badger]

I spent... WAY too much time testing things today after getting a new monitor. One such thing was HDR recording with OBS - and editing said HDR stuff in VEGAS Pro.

This is the result. (Road Trip unlockable spoilers!)

[sudden compass]

you can land on the parasols in waveflow waters!?

winged star-man on waveflow waters is so cool
too bad i lost by 0.13 seconds for no reason

oh wait this is the spoilers chat lol

uhhh i like how dale i mean solite is the final boss

[mighty token]

Glad i'm not the only one who does this strat lmaoo

[sudden compass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UVG_ZTwAnk (video might contain spoilers so that's why i'm posting it here cause i haven't watched it yet)

[quartz niche]

||The Donut of Death||

[strong sky]

air ride unlockable ||so like is the planet in galactic nova shiver star? i just noticed that.||

||i think that's the only preestablished planet that fits the depiction||

[summer osprey]

16 player Taranza lobby:

[wise monolith]

||there's no moon, probably not||

||(planet also seems populated here, so unless there's time travel bullshit going on....(though that'd also imply there would have been no moon in 64 if it was that))||

[quartz niche]

Into the Taranza-verse

[umbral pendant]

reminds me of scabampasbaspis

or barracuda

[silent halo]

Tarzan

[muted totem]

Has anyone gotten to indigo rank in air ride?

If so do you remember getting a reward for it?

[quartz niche]

||Anyone know where this is in Magma Flows?||

[somber sparrow]

Looked it up, its apparently the rock after the 3-branch maze area, before that upwards conveyor

[sage crater]

Thank god I’m finally done with the All Up on Road Trip

[civic whale]

||I can't believe I just ran into one randomly from a Road trip pick up event. Even now I keep at least 30,000 points on hand to buy one that shows up in the store||

[pale maple]

https://tenor.com/view/sonic-waiting-sonic-waiting-gif-3881168176189922005

||legit my face today tryna finish the CT checklist||

||why have I not seen the Halberd in the past 2 hours of playing?||

[mighty token]

||Meta Knight is still paying off the insurance for it after crashing it so many times 😔 ||

[pale maple]

||MK I just need the stat thingamabob, nothing else||

||bro is taking forever||

[silk sparrow]

ROAD TRIP/CITY TRIAL? ||https://youtu.be/ralW7qIkXdM Nice Gigantes Lego Concept!||

[quartz niche]

For my CT Checklist, I still need to:

• ||Land an attack on a legendary machine (which don't mind that there's the exact same achievement for that but Online, apparently that one doesn't count)||
• ||Weaken a legendary machine||
• ||Progress 329 yards in the fog||
• ||Defeat a rider with a Revenge Mark over their head||
  ||And three more that all involve Gigantes||

[wanton hedge]

||Rick gets smitten by Sakurai for being too good||

[somber sparrow]

Dedede mogs

[civic whale]

||Traveling on rails helps with the fog challenge. And if you can get a second controller you can just KO the dormant player 2 then switch controllers and get revenge||

[quartz niche]

True

||I do still need to to hope a Legendary Machine spawns in my round though||

[pale maple]

||I dunno how to spawn Gigantes pieces, they showed up twice and dipped||

[pale maple]

"Ride every kind of machine in Skyah at least once"

||Me, tryna actually see a single Gigantes piece, not even trying to get the piece, just see it:||

it's been 2 hours

[elder sorrel]

I am NOT riding rex wheelie.

[flat hull]

but the potential for rad biker gang picture in photo mode

[fervent silo]

||Points with gigantes||

[vestal vessel]

well wait, ||do we see around the planet? could the moon just be behind the planet from the perspective of us and nova?||
||granted, thats a bit semantical. We know shiver star star had a moon, we dont see a moon with this planet.||

[quartz niche]

Okay, what ||is a rotating panel in this course?||

[pale maple]

The spinning one before the portal

[sudden compass]

||i think those boost square things near the end of the lap, which swap between giving a boost and not giving a boost||

[pale maple]

Use the hop star to jump over it and set it to one lap

[sudden compass]

oh wait yeah no

i forgot it had those moving circle things

[flat hull]

Hop star can jump :)

[tepid panther]

finished my third road trip playthrough! w taranza this time

unsure who ill go for next

[quartz niche]

I ended up doing four runs of it with the Return to Dream Land crew

[silent halo]

They wanted you to use Hop star somehow!

[pale maple]

||I GOT MAG'S 2ND ALT FINALLY||

||TOOK ME 3 HOURS||

[chilly flame]

I think it's the rotating platforms that give random items, copy abilities, or a dash panel

I just set the gimmick setting to off to not have to deal with figuring out what it was lol

[supple fiber]

It’s the big one before the portal, (answer ➡️ ) ||Use hop star to jump over it||

Since iirc it also uses “rotating panel” when referring to the one in Flower

I don’t know why it says “any” tho I think they copy pasted it from said Flower one

Although it could also be the copy ability one with the boost and item at the end

[real quail]

I have no clue how I did that checklist without hop star

[supple fiber]

So then it probably is said rotating thing

-# although I would not call that a panel by any means…

[brisk minnow]

UHHHH

new rap spoils something
||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLidef3RdZg ||

[supple fiber]

LOL ||I think it’s just to be enticing in “WHAT IS THAT” type||

||Tbf someone who watched the directs but stayed spoiler free and doesn’t have the game yet would NOT know that is Zorah at all||

[brisk minnow]

||In all fairness, it's not Zorah lol||

[real quail]

It’s lowkey not as bad lol

[brisk minnow]

yeah but you know

[chilly flame]

||technically I think they did show the front of gigantes in the direct lol||

[brisk minnow]

I wanna respect the rules lol

[chilly flame]

||by virtue of it being a freeze frame in the road trip opening||

[brisk minnow]

anyway

ダー!

[real quail]

||At least it wasn’t Noir Dedede just chilling in paddock lol||

[silk sparrow]

||COME ON NINTENDO ||

[mighty token]

||Youtubers biggest rival of spoilers: Nintendo Themselves ||

[deft badger]

but at least they don't put that shit in the thumbnail and poorly photoshop eyes on

[lethal cargo]

||At some point, a spoiler could be considered a "teaser", given there's still no context for it||

[silk sparrow]

ROAD TRIP ||First Playable Noir Dedede and now Gigantes?! ||

[real quail]

I still find it funny how official Nintnedo spoilered day 2

[supple fiber]

Is that video still up?

[real quail]

Should be

[mighty token]

I still haven't seen that video yet lmaoo

I should, I already seen everything blind

[lethal cargo]

||Though it's hard for me to imagine not expecting "playable Noir"||

[real quail]

Air Riders Commercial be like:
“Here’s better view of 02”
“Here’s better view of course”
“Here’s better view of road trip”

What’s next? “Here’s a better view of Sakurai’s win rate online?”

[rocky pine]

||I did get spoiled on Noir being playable from the in-game Top Ride celebration video lol||

[mighty token]

Okay, just saw the day 2 trailer. All I gotta say is, O O F

[silk sparrow]

||Even City Trial Too ||

[lethal cargo]

||I played through it without watching any videos or doing any of the checklist stuff, but legit my expectation was "well duh of course we get to unlock this character, and probably that bike too". I was wrong about the bike, but that's probably more because it's basically a custom regular bike||

[elder sorrel]

They stop advertising the game and just start advertising sakurai’s cat

[vestal vessel]

so kirby air ride had approximately 0 marketing and air riders has ||spoiler filled marketing. truly groundbreaking||

[rocky pine]

||True, but still the fact they casually showed off playable Noir even before I booted up Road Trip for the first time LOL||

||me when I say "lol" twice||

[silk sparrow]

Praying that it won’t get a UK translation because it’s gotta be bad

[vestal vessel]

who wants to bet ||that one of the switch account icons will be a spoiler||

[rocky pine]

||katfl dedede moment (kinda)||

[supple fiber]

||NDDD and gigantis in the secret extra final week, unlockable only by buying every other vehicle icon||

[mighty token]

Spoiler: ||To unlock the new Switch Icons for the final wave, you must 100% all checklists in Air Riders first /j||

[flat hull]

finished

[vestal vessel]

||well i mean at least that would kinda have natural spoiler filtering by nature of being a couple weeks after release, and requiring the buyer be a total fanboy enough to buy all the others||

[brisk minnow]

fuck

Sakurai pulled a very funny on Twitter

I dunno if it's still considered spoiler at this point

||https://fixupx.com/Sora_Sakurai/status/1996389799754887540 ||

桜井 政博 / Masahiro Sakurai (@Sora_Sakurai)

カワサキがレオを…

Quoting ITmedia AI＋ (@itm_aiplus)
︀
人が乗れる四足歩行ロボ「CORLEO」、2035年に製品化へ　川崎重工
︀︀www.itmedia.co.jp/aiplus/articles/2512/03/news094.html

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FixupX · Dec 4, 2025, 1:23 AM

[supple fiber]

-# what does it say

[brisk minnow]

||The quoted tweet:
Ridable quadruped robot "CORLEO" to be commercialized in 2035 Kawasaki Heavy Industries||

||Sakurai says "Kawasaki is Leo..."||

||or maybe "Kawasaki's Leo..."||

[real quail]

THIS IS FUNNY

😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

HAHAHA

[brisk minnow]

just to give more context

Sakurai being funny on Twitter

||"Kawasaki Heavy Industries" why even bother with Haltmann Works Co.||

[rocky pine]

||Kawasaki's Leo||

[supple fiber]

||Do we think Leo is gonna replace the Dragoon item in the next smash game (if there is one)||

||I don't think so personally but it's possible||

[chilly flame]

||no dragoon is still super iconic||

||if anything the most likely thing is that Noir Dedede gets in as a Dedede clone and his final smash is the fused legendary machines lol||

[supple fiber]

||Yeah that would be fire||

||I wonder how he'd play tho if not just a Dedede costume (which is preferable tbh)||

[real quail]

||yeah no sorry Leo is never gonna beat dragoon’s aura||

[pale maple]

I GOT ||GIGANTES OMG||

||AT LONG LAST||

[chilly flame]

||knowing how they did Dark Pit and Dark Samus, he'd be gameplay-wise almost completely identical in stats||

||just different visuals and animations, and a different final smash||

[supple fiber]

||His "hammer" is just a rex wheelie on a stick||

-# || unironically would make sense for the jet hammer moves||

[mighty token]

|| Sorry I was hoarding them all ||

[pale maple]

||AMNI I SPENT 4 HOURS DOING THIS||

||I WASN'T EVEN TRYNA GET IT, I WAS TRYNA GET THE STUPID HALBERD||

[mighty token]

|| Meta Knight! Help us out, twin! 😔 ||

[pale maple]

||he still ain't showed up||

||maybe there's a reaosn why his ship got destroyed....twice||

[mighty token]

|| Brb, hijacking the Halberd myself. Modern problems require modern solutions ||

[wise monolith]

||they also have it so it can't hover (but jumps pretty high), so that too||

[supple fiber]

🗨️

[chilly flame]

||they usually don't change clones for the sake of keeping them easier to balance, so Sakurai can probably just make stuff up to keep them similar anyway even if it contradicts air riders||

||like, dark pit doesn't use the power of flight in the original game like pit does, but they both do in Smash||

[wise monolith]

||ah, fair||

[real quail]

||anyone wanna do Gigantes event… Except I don’t have it…||

[faint zinc]

||I could host one ||

[real quail]

Omg yes

[heavy forge]

sur

e

[real quail]

E

I’m trying to get the achievement

Could you possibly host them few times lol 🙏

[faint zinc]

I dont mind

[supple fiber]

Which achievement?

[pale maple]

||I could use it too||

[heavy forge]

main thing is that once ppl get parts for that machine ppl should spec into offenses and good machines. Also let the player with two parts attack you if you have 1 (tho you both could fight over it anyways)

[real quail]

||I want Gigantes gummy and 1:45||

[supple fiber]

||Ah, was about to say bc the get 7 parts one says offline only||

[heavy forge]

generally try to get ||gigantes ||ASAP so thers more time to beat it up

[faint zinc]

||I got one Gigantes gummy and I dont even remember when I got it 😭 ||

[pale maple]

offline only?

[faint zinc]

wait how many people would you like

[heavy forge]

o nvm you mean the stadium, not the city trial one yet

[supple fiber]

||When the gummies become real they should have a gigantic Gigantis chocolate||

[flat hull]

im going vampire star

[real quail]

||depends, whoever is Gigantes might have to just sit there lol||

[flat hull]

like those easter bunny chocolates

OH RIGHT ||GIGANTES WILL BE A PLAYER||

[real quail]

||Watch it be CPU </3||

[supple fiber]

Exactly. and filled with like tar

[flat hull]

is there a way to let us all ||take turns||

[real quail]

||Whoever is Gigantes, I’m sorry but please stand still for us /lh||

[honest fable]

road trip ||gigantes chocolate where u find zorah's core in the middle ||

[supple fiber]

||DIABOLICAL LMAO||

[flat hull]

||choking hazard smh||

[real quail]

It’s time

[pale maple]

||wait can yall do that again then cause I need that achievement too and the room was too full||

[rocky pine]

||everytime I fought that boss we always lose 😭 ||

[flat hull]

||if i get gigantes im moving sorry||

Ive never ||been gigants before||

[real quail]

Well do it several times dw lol

Nvm

[mighty token]

|| The master plan ||

[real quail]

||It’s CPU||

[flat hull]

ok im not

[rocky pine]

GO MY SHINY WINGULL

[flat hull]

I GOT OHKO

[real quail]

NO

[flat hull]

wait whyd we

[mighty token]

NOOOOOOOOO

[rocky pine]

[real quail]

😭 😭 😭 😭

[mighty token]

Run it back

[real quail]

||WHO WAS PLAYER 8||

[flat hull]

i dont understand, we can only ||die once, but still get to fight?||

Jam

[real quail]

JAM

😭 😭 😭

[mighty token]

Okay NOW we're ready

[real quail]

||we get total of 20 life’s all together||

[pale maple]

Comin in

[nocturne berry]

||team has 20 lives collecti
vly||

[flat hull]

OOOOH interesting mechanic

[dusky epoch]

yeah you have to watch out for ||the quick spin, that's the dangerous move||

[flat hull]

almost forgot to join

[faint zinc]

||I wish you could increase lives in rules ||

[real quail]

||simply be in air||

[twin swan]

I got ||Daroach and starman|| IN THE SAME RACE

[mighty token]

This is no different than the company. Clock in and lock in

[flat hull]

||pls be me pls be me||

[rocky pine]

oof didn't join in time

[real quail]

||Pls don’t make me gigantes||

[flat hull]

WAIT?

[real quail]

NO WAY

[flat hull]

aw man

NPOOOO

[nocturne berry]

hehehehe

[faint zinc]

SO CLOSE

[pale maple]

AGK

[real quail]

I JUST WANT CHECKLIST

😭 😭 😭 😭

Redo

[mighty token]

It's Knuckle Joever

[knotty jewel]

so maybe attacking from afar didn't do me much good

[flat hull]

im so morbidly curious what its like from ||Gigantes perspective||
pls game pls ||let me next||

[wise monolith]

||can you not set who's the player in there?||

[real quail]

||no||

[wise monolith]

why

more things to update lmao

[faint zinc]

because we love rng right guys

[real quail]

||I just want to defeat Gigantes in 1:45…||

Never gonna work

[flat hull]

GOOD LUCK

[pale maple]

||so wait if we get to be gigantes...can we just stay still?||

[real quail]

||PLEASE NO GIGANTES||

[real quail]

Yes

[knotty jewel]

Doesn't ||gigantes have less health when there are less players?||

[real quail]

||If you wanna save others lol||

[flat hull]

wdym we're doing the stadium lol

[lethal cargo]

||I think that was a "please don't make me be Gigantes because I need the check for killing it"||

[heavy forge]

yea

[flat hull]

NOOOO MY special was charged

[real quail]

NOOOOOO

[knotty jewel]

darn

[pale maple]

ARGH

[rocky pine]

[faint zinc]

||THERES LIKE A SLIVER OF HP NOOO||

[mighty token]

Nooooo

[dusky epoch]

also it's easier if you do this ||single player||

[real quail]

||If I’m Gigantes I’d just sit still||

[flat hull]

easier is for the weak

[rocky pine]

||wouldn't it be funny if we can ride gigantes in free fun||

[flat hull]

https://tenor.com/view/zaunvi-caitvitwt-gif-1251875630135871970

would u tho

[real quail]

Nah I’m serious lol

[faint zinc]

4th times the charm 🔥

[mighty token]

|| We just need better gaming chairs ||

[real quail]

I wanna help others but also myself

[knotty jewel]

and im very weak, your point?

[mighty token]

Nooooo I didn't join

Good luck guys!

[nocturne berry]

what i got it again????

||im barely even moving the controller😭 how are people dying||

[mighty token]

|| Vibbin, Magma, and Yusmi fighting who gets to comit the most vehicular manslaughter ||

[flat hull]

LERSGOOOOOOOOOOO

[real quail]

YES

[faint zinc]

YEAAA

[real quail]

LETSGO

[knotty jewel]

YAY

[pale maple]

WE GOT EM

[rocky pine]

YIPPEEE

[mighty token]

YOOOOO

[faint zinc]

I GOT THE GUMMY

[crystal cloak]

||do you think zorah coulda just used star rod||

[real quail]

WE DID THE CHECKLIST

[mighty token]

Wait, I still need the checklist

[flat hull]

||that stciker slaps||

[mighty token]

I didn't join

[real quail]

THANK YOU WHOEVER THAT WAS

[pale maple]

Do it again

[flat hull]

it was yusmi

pls more thats a fun stadium

also amni didnt get it

[rocky pine]

Yeah lets do it again

[pale maple]

Probs should do it again for Amni

[real quail]

Yeah we should do it 💪

[flat hull]

i dont have the stadium unlocked

who did

[real quail]

Vibbin

[faint zinc]

I can do it again for amni!

[nocturne berry]

i got one on!

[faint zinc]

oh nvm yusmi got it

[flat hull]

rock onn

[real quail]

Thank you Yusmiiii

[pale maple]

^

[nocturne berry]

everyone in?

[pale maple]

I'm in

[flat hull]

amni is thats all that matters

[real quail]

Anyone else need in?

[flat hull]

dang paddock is so cool in full game

[heavy forge]

kk, for those doing city trial:

if ||gigantes parts|| are present focus on collecting it and have it be spawned ASAP. so let those w/ the parts focus on each other

once ||gigantes is on Skyla|| just go afk and see if everyone else can destroy it b4 the timer ends

[delicate plinth]

What are y'all doin

[faint zinc]

CPU IS IT

[real quail]

||fighting Giganes||

||gigantes||

[delicate plinth]

can I get in mayhaps

Or is it too late

[flat hull]

||I KEEP GETTING STUCK ON IT DYING||

letsgioooo

[real quail]

YEASSS

[pale maple]

GOT EM AGAIN

[knotty jewel]

coolio

[faint zinc]

WE BEAT WITH AND AGAINST CPUS

[nocturne berry]

did we do it fast enough?

[knotty jewel]

wow I got second

[pale maple]

Did Amni get the achievement?

[real quail]

||what color is Gigantes gummy, I can’t tell if I got it or not||

[knotty jewel]

dark maroon I think

[faint zinc]

||Brown, hope you like coffee flavored gummies||

[real quail]

Gosh dang it

[knotty jewel]

you can check all the different gummies by pressing +

[rocky pine]

@mighty token did you get the achievement?

[real quail]

Didn’t get the gummy

[wise monolith]

||like this||

[real quail]

||coca cola taste ahh, didn’t get it so IT SUCKS!!||

[knotty jewel]

still can't believe this thing is back by the way

[faint zinc]

||cant wait to gamble for gigantes gummy when the eventually release IRL||

[mighty token]

I diid!!

[flat hull]

groups?

[delicate plinth]

||Are y'all gonna kill it again or||

[pale maple]

avenge me fellas

[rocky pine]

Nice!!!

[knotty jewel]

yeah groups can only be max of 8

[rocky pine]

We can go again!

[faint zinc]

wth why does the sticker for batting Zero Two look so cool

[heavy forge]

||has gigantes ever appeared at 6 or 7 min city trials?||

[mighty token]

Thanks for you and everyone helping!!

[rocky pine]

||I dont have the stadium unlocked unfortunately||

[pale maple]

👍👍

[mighty token]

Zero 2 has aura

[knotty jewel]

still can't believe Zero two came back

in THIS GAME of all things

[pale maple]

Same

[delicate plinth]

Can I join?

[rocky pine]

^

[delicate plinth]

Aw damn

[flat hull]

thisll be my last game. heading off discord, then i'll leave paddock 🫡

good luck yall have fun!

[mighty token]

|| Can we try to defeat Gigantes before the Raid Boss event? ||

[knotty jewel]

||Raid boss event? I thought it was a team battle event||

[faint zinc]

||thats if it feels like appearing in city trail||

[mighty token]

|| Gigantes was sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends ||

[knotty jewel]

||||

[mighty token]

|| I'll join next game lol. I got Gigantes 9 times 😭 ||

[real quail]

I wanna join…

[knotty jewel]

I wonder if this big screen shows the city trial going on in the paddock right now

[real quail]

Nvm….

[delicate plinth]

Is the paddock y'all are in public

[knotty jewel]

...wait, no
did I see this clip already???

[real quail]

Check pin in #1150961074468818944

[knotty jewel]

omg I did

THE BIG SCREEN HAS BEEN A LIE THIS WHOLE TIMEE

[delicate plinth]

Thabk you

[real quail]

The fact you evaporated as soon as you said it 😭

[knotty jewel]

I simply could not handle it
-# (and I also wanted to make more custom machines)

[real quail]

🔥 💪

Have fun!

[wise monolith]

yeah there's no real spectating or use for the big screen rn

[civic whale]

|| https://youtu.be/xLidef3RdZg?si=sXcInerWxlXXnTlq||

||has this new jp commercial for Air Riders been posted yet?||

[wise monolith]

yeah

[honest fable]

HIM 🥹

||my shayla is in the commercial 🥹 ||

[fresh kiln]

City Trial ||khdfokwmdfkosdnfosdkdf Dyna Blade still not showing up||

[real quail]

||nvm I have Gigantes gummy now yay||

[sly umbra]

I've seen so many people complain abut trying to complete the City Trial checklist but honestly, my recommendation is to just... don't rush it lol

[quartz niche]

Oh nice! I was worried you didn't end up getting said achievement

[sly umbra]

I think it's better if you don't grind it and just let things fall into place naturally, but again I haven't gotten hands-on with the game, so idk if this is the best advice I can give

[real quail]

Me losing my sanity over halberd

Can’t wait to shoot down halberd in other game after I finish this last checklist that I’ve been trying to get for past 150 hours

[quartz niche]

||So what courses does Bang-Bang (the enemy that gives you Missile) appear?||

[umbral pendant]

apparently the ||ability/enemy appears more frequently when youre behind||

[quartz niche]

||I figured so, similar to UFO and Gemaine. Though I've only seen the UFO Enemy when falling behind so I wasn't sure if it also only appeared in certain courses||

[inner surge]

so uh

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FixupX · Dec 4, 2025, 1:20 AM

whats the policy on spoilers now lmao

nintendo just shown off half the game lol

[umbral pendant]

well we are an english server so we will probably have the rules still until an english CM appears and then we can probably ||mention gigantes|| but i doubt it

[quartz niche]

||It is the only thing I need to complete the "Defeat every kind of enemy at least once" and "Use every kind of Copy Ability at least once" achievements||

Wait

||What?||

[umbral pendant]

||Dale was a japanese name||

so it was localized

[quartz niche]

||It feels wrong to call him anything else||

[umbral pendant]

thats what you get when you meme a ||name|| to oblivion

[wise monolith]

we didn't allow launch trailer to be posted in nonspoiler channel

so I don't think there would be reason to

||funny launch trailer showing both Noir Dedede (and Top Ride: Nova)|| (massive Road Trip spoilers)

[chilly flame]

i don't think the spoiler is too big a deal out of context

like it was something technically already seen in the direct via the road trip opening cutscene

[wise monolith]

sort of but not really

||this has full body view and both in Road Trip scene itself and as a Stadium||

||meanwhile opening only really showed the eye for most part iirc||

[chilly flame]

yeah but i mean ||better than showing Noir Dedede in Air Ride||

[wise monolith]

||okay did show more but only for split second (and obviously they never showed it as a Stadium)||

[chilly flame]

the funny not-so-innocuous freeze frame

[proud kelp]

Just clipped Failboat lol
Spoilers because it’s got ||Leo|| in it

[chilly flame]

I wonder if I AFK on 99 lap top ride I'll eventually get lucky and the game will give it to me

I'm already noticing that somehow me doing literally nothing gets me ahead of half the CPUs by default

I don't think this is working

I have been AFK for almost 20 minutes, next time I should put a handicap on myself and level 9 CPUs I think

I do wonder how many miles I'll get

I think I've noticed that you seem to get at least 2 miles for every second the match takes

probably more I haven't exactly calculated it too much

I got 1686 miles after 40 minutes

I got missile once and only when I intentionally screwed up my placement

can't believe doing nothing is a better strategy for victory than actually playing the game

maybe I should have gone afk with the bulk star

[inner surge]

anyone got a rip of all the music ready to download yet?

[kind peak]

So can we talk about ||noir dedede||

[gentle cosmos]

yeah, just dont talk about their involvement with the story and you're good

[gusty sigil]

Can we talk about ||gigantis|| in the non spoiler thread now or is that story mode spoilers cause they're technically a hidden machine

[gentle cosmos]

you can

just dont talk about how they relate to the story

[gusty sigil]

Huzzah

[gentle cosmos]

the main point of the spoiler policy now is just....dont spoil road trip and thats it lol

since you can see machines and riders online and the game has been out for 2 weeks, we figured its fair game to post clips of them in public without the need to tag and stuff

[gusty sigil]

Yuh

[gentle cosmos]

as long as you dont spoiling their relevancy to the story you should be good

[gusty sigil]

Will all road trip ||new game +|| spoilers be allowed a:ft[er get]cry&d

M& heggiris

Sorry my keyboard was bugging out

[gentle cosmos]

prolly tag that

[gusty sigil]

||Will all road trip new game + spoilers be allowed after December 11||

[gentle cosmos]

||but once the spoiler policy ends next week (if it does) then yeah everything about the game is fair game||

we'll close the thread too once that day comes

this can obv change

[gusty sigil]

If I haven't finished ||new game plus|| by then youd better post-pone the deadline just for me

[gentle cosmos]

ill consider it

[mighty token]

|| Yusmi made another match and we managed to get it despite half the team being CPUs. When I tried to join, it glitched and never showed the stadium for me ||

The timing of me getting this could not have been more perfect.

(Spoiled due to Road Trip Content in City trial)

[elder sorrel]

Why has it never registered until now that you can just

do this

[proud kelp]

I mean you would still need a perfect opportunity
Getting the Mega Cannon to spawn at just the right range at just the right moment takes some crazy luck

[elder sorrel]

No I meant moving around with it lmao

[proud kelp]

Oh lol

[frozen zinc]

||Gigantes: they call me 007:
0 ability to move without help
0 seconds lasted against a hydra
7 of my fragments you’re still missing for that checklist task||

[leaden flower]

I was going to emote but nah I’ll leave it like that

[runic lynx]

||What's the best rider + star to take down Gigantis within 1:45.00? I was trying Knuckle Joe + Shadow Star but its not rly working out||

[dire jolt]

||I would try the Vampire star. It can “bite” the weak points (red) , which may help defeat it faster.||

||As for a rider, I would suggest Daroach since he does an automatic scratch attack.||

[chilly flame]

You kinda need to rely more on attack items than anything

[sand bay]

||anyone noticed that hyper gigantes’s core looks like an eye||

[vestal vessel]

||i mean tbh the core kinda looks like an eye in all forms. just especially during hyper-gigantes||

[elder sorrel]

||holy shit zero three||

[sand bay]

||mostly hyper since it looks more clear||

[leaden flower]

||Had the most dramatic realization like a caveman discovering fire in the fact that Leo is supposed to be a Last Battle Ability more in the vein of the previous games with True Endings lol|| (Major Road Trip full completion spoilers)

||Though like||
||It’s more of a reference to Starship and Landia specifically given that you ride on it lol||

[lethal cargo]

||I feel like the Starship is a better comparison, because Landia is at least shown on screen before you get to ride them. Starship equally comes out of nowhere||

[supple fiber]

||Still baffles me how the most appropriate super star reference ever with the Starship (other than the Nova blowing up sequence) isn’t in the game||

[lethal cargo]

||~~though I'd still argue that the Starship thematically fits better than a random fire themed cat ~~||

[hexed copper]

||It would've been nice to see the Starship in full 3D glory||

[supple fiber]

||It would’ve been a PERFECT legendary machine and the perfect opposing force to gigantis, AND the fact that it would’ve been perfect to fight nova with, sakurai why ||

[leaden flower]

||Oh yeah ofc||
||Also the fact that they also fight Nova and the ending is one giant callback to MWW||

[wraith badge]

||They’re pretty adorable together|| Road Trip story spoiler

[leaden flower]

||Lions are cool ig lol||

[supple fiber]

||I honestly don’t get it tho bc the one time Super Star bias is not only acceptable but preferred is the one time it isn’t applied. ||

|| This is more of a missed opportunity than Robobot heavy lovster||

[frozen zinc]

||tbf starship would not have been as exciting as brand new legendary machines||

[lethal cargo]

||I feel like Leo will grow on me more with time, but yeah Starship would have been cooler

That said, maybe he didn't want to recontextualize it as an Air Ride machine||

[leaden flower]

||Tbh yeah||
||I do wish it appeared but honestly I prefer something new for an Air Ride Machine||

||Especially since aside from Wheelies the Air Ride Machines are their own thing||

[supple fiber]

||Yeah something new is good but like. You get what I mean? ||

wrong reply

[lethal cargo]

||Leo just seems weirdly biological for a game where everything else is obviously vehicle shaped lol

But I get not going for the MWW reference in this specific case lol||

[frozen zinc]

||It’d be like if robobot armor got made into a legendary machine.||

||cool reference, but we’ve already had our fun with this thing.||

||also wouldn’t starship basically just be ufo the machine?||

[leaden flower]

||Honestly I kinda hope Leo shows up again just to have another lion hanging out with the main cast||

||Kirby on his way to have the most unhinged friend group ever||

[frozen zinc]

||I love leo because of how uniquely he plays as a legendary machine. He’s got swerve breaking, hop star’s jump, and vampire’s auto attack. Really cool blending of tools that gives him a lot of utility as a grounded legendary machine||

||he’s my favorite legendary just for how much control you can have over gameplay with him.||

[quartz niche]

||I remember being absolutely blindsided by Leo because it honestly felt like it came out of complete nowhere. It also feels kinda strange to call Leo a machine. It looks a lot more like an actual animal.||

[royal vine]

||Gigantes when gets the chaos emeralds||

[vestal vessel]

||plot twist, leo IS the starship or something idk||

[wraith badge]

||Nova is done for.|| Road Trip final boss

[crystal cloak]

||did haltmann foreshadow zorah||

[frozen zinc]

||canon nova: be careful when asking me for a wish, as I may provide greatly undesired results when important details are left open to interpretation.
Fanon nova: I need to destroy popstar please let me destroy popstar I can make any kind of wish about destroying popstar just ask me for something PLEASE.||

[trim prawn]

||tbf nova had 0 reason to make this wish about destorying popstar but he did anyways||

[vestal vessel]

||to be fair, canon nova is definitely interpreting those up-to-interpretation details in a very... unexpected way for anyone on dreamland and irl||

[somber cosmos]

||Nova also had no reason to try to crash into popstar for marx’s wish too lmao||

[lethal cargo]

||Though again, what Nova was actually trying to do in MWW is unexplained and "crash" is a post Air Riders fanon||

[vestal vessel]

||or at least, "as-much-as-air-riders-is-canon nova"||

[somber cosmos]

||Literally nova is 3 for 3 when it comes to trying to destroy life for no reason (yes including star dream)||

[somber cosmos]

||This interpretation existed far before air riders dropped||
||Its just people mention it more now. Plus yea we don’t know for sure if nova would crash but if a giant celestial body is moving quickly head on towards another celestial body. And it’s being physically pushed back then idk what else you would really expect nova to do. If nova was gonna make marx a castle or something there is no reason why nova couldn’t do anything else without making direct contact ||

[leaden flower]

||Honestly I like to think that rather than crashing into it, Nova was going to Pop Star to send its drones to subjugate everyone for Marx while he went to bump off Kirby lol||

||I still wish those fucked up spiders were Road Trip enemies lol||

[vestal vessel]

||marx wishes to rule popstar: start accelerating towards popstar. sun and moon are visibly holding nova back.||
||meta knight wishes to fight greatest warrior in galaxy: nova doesnt even need to do anything, bringing out galacta knight is already potentially catastrophic to nearby planets.||
||star dream: unable to fulfill a wish of bringing susie back to life on account of susie being alive. Star dream starts to lobotomize haltman, takes charge of the HWC, and decides on omnicide being a good interpretation of prosperity. although star dream might be impaired due to being at least somewhat incomplete||
||zorah||

aint that 4 times at this point lol

[crystal cloak]

||do you wonder maybe this isnt the same nova remember there are diff novas||

[somber cosmos]

Star dream is a different clockwork star
Nova is the same nova

[vestal vessel]

||i see some people going this route on account of air riders nova not having the watch, but tbh it seems rather unlikely||

[crystal cloak]

||even if it was the same one who summoned him remember he was destroyed||

[lethal cargo]

||Tbh, I never saw the "crash" interpretation before Air Riders, except maybe as a joke. I don't even really have an objection to that interpretation.

My main objection is just sudden swap in attitude by everyone that of course this is the definite and only interpretation, and anyone who thinks otherwise (either a different interpretation or thinking it's ambiguous) is wrong.||

[wise monolith]

||doesn't really matter, Nova can come back (see it reforming in MKU for instance)||

[crystal cloak]

||well mk summoned him||

[wise monolith]

||it's more we don't know when this takes place and all||

[lethal cargo]

||lol true! Though with how many people I know who are REALLY SCARED of spiders or bugs, maybe it's for the best it was just in a cutscene lol||

[vestal vessel]

||there def seems to be some level of coming back from death with nova. even in the original super star, destroying the heart did not instantly turn off/blow up nova. in ultra, we see nova somehow with some damage in circumstances where it should seemingly already be destroyed.||

||many, including me, kinda interpret this as clockwork stars can be reconstructed from essentially nothing, as long as the required magical power is gathered. eg the fountain stars||

[wise monolith]

||and it was never destroyed in MKU, maybe it got more stuff back and changed over time||

[leaden flower]

||Legit arachnophobia was the last thing I expected to see in a Kirby game||

[wise monolith]

||anyway yeah, there are many ways to interpret that with Air Riders, and crashing into Pop Star is actually even more unlikely after Air Riders (but not that people thought it was before either)||

||keep in mind, Nova never got super close, and as shown in this game, it has lasers||

||and ways to make machines, etc.||

||it could have done like basically anything lmao||

[crystal cloak]

||if so why did he charging towards popstar instead of nuking it in his debut||

[wise monolith]

||again he never got close to it||

[vestal vessel]

||i agree nova wasnt necessarily crashing towards popstar for marx, but i dont think the getting closer would be because of releasing drones. nova was explicitly fine releasing the drones from deep space in air riders||

[wise monolith]

||even for both planets in this game, he needed to be close to do anything||

||hell even in MKU, GK was summoned very close to it||

[lethal cargo]

||If anything, Air Riders makes Nova seem less powerful to me, in that it had to manufacturer a bunch of machines and launch them, etc rather than just doing something magical. So "having to get close to Pop Star to do anything at all" feels reasonable now to me

Even if I also wouldn't mind if Sakurai popped up going "what? Of course Nova was going to crash". It's really just the insistence on fanon that bothers me||

[vestal vessel]

||doesnt half the stuff nova makes in air riders just burn up on popstar entry?||

||seems to be well enough away from popstar||

[wise monolith]

||and it using thrusters doesn't really seem different between games, so I don't think it was actually going that fast relatively either||

[crystal cloak]

||also if he can grant wishes couldnt nova used wish to take control of popstar unless his wish powers isnt actually that powerful||

[wise monolith]

||well even in this game it doesn't do it directly or really magically lol||

[lethal cargo]

||Yeah a bunch just crashed, though I think that would happen with "just launch it at the planet" regardless of how close or far Nova was||

[wise monolith]

||Star Dream also could not do stuff super magically, the closest either of them had to that type of shit was portal stuff and that's not really much when you get down to it||

[vestal vessel]

||the thing is, we indeed havent ever really seen nova do much in the way of reality bending or similar. closest is summoning portals and the hologrammy stuff star dream does. by now, its been made clear nova did not grant marx his powers. and we've seen 4 showcases of clockwork star power at this point.||

||ive said it before and ill say it again: Do we think in-universe theres any actual source that backs up clockwork stars granting wishes, or was that just a lie from big ancient to sell more omnicidal :3 faces||

[crystal cloak]

||i mean all they shown is they are summoners rather than wish granting||

[wise monolith]

||anyway even in this game, Nova makes the machines inside of itself, sent drones which also came from within itself, the signal it sends to the machines with its genes comes from Gigantes, has to use thrusters to move, and the lasers it uses physically come from it||

[somber cosmos]

||Clockwork stars are just the biggest frauds lmao ||

[leaden flower]

||Honestly seeing how Nova has to work in order to grant wishes is actually so cool||

||Watching the little drones make Air Ride Machines was smooth af||

[somber cosmos]

True

[wise monolith]

||oh might as well mention its heart as well, it doesn't really do much super magically either (even Star Dream's did more in that degree)||

[lethal cargo]

||Really glad Air Riders didn't do the Star Dream soul desperation ohko attack lol||

[leaden flower]

||SD’s heart is more animalistic and vicious while ARs Nova seems to be a simple security protocol lol||

[vestal vessel]

||although yea, it should be mentioned in that area it can maybe have some relation/capabilities in terms of soul stuff. ie nova wreckage powering up marx's soul and star dream using haltman's very soul as a meatshield in the soul os fight||

[wise monolith]

||bitch can't even move lmao||

||literally all it does is lasers and energy balls||

||Star Dream's could actually use portals still and teleport (plus missiles, Shooter Cutter, Deadly Heart, etc.)||

[vestal vessel]

||headcanon: clockwork stars are powered by random eternally suffering souls. is some annoying protestor saying things like "I don't think we should construct random highly powerful sentient artifacts."? Then just chuck em into the clockwork star star as fuel lol||

[somber cosmos]

to also bring this to mention || in the meta knightmare mode in robobot, star dream had equally 0 qualms in summoning galacta knight, equally so in certain measures when bringing up clone sectonia and clone dark matter, both copies of potential threats||

[frozen zinc]

||and to be equally fair this is the only instance of him truly behaving that way.||

[radiant mortar]

why does no one talk about the queen ripple sticker

[frozen zinc]

how cute! Love seeing self-insert licenses.

[silent halo]

Found the halberd at last

I missed the fucker ontop of it

I'll just use checkmark

[sudden compass]

watching vernias's road trip playthrough and he just called ||kapar "pitch"|| 😭😭😭😭

to be fair they have similar designs but also lol

[frozen zinc]

For future reference, offline matches will preserve all events and stadiums if you quit without finishing

If a rare event didn’t go the way you want, just leave and retry the match

[silent halo]

What do you mean preserve events?

[pale maple]

lucky....

2 hours in and still no Halberd for me

[silent halo]

||also does Gigantes appear online?||

||Is there certain conditions for that to happen?||

[silent halo]

I tried days essentially

Probably a week at least

[frozen zinc]

City trial events will stay the same if you quit and start a new match

[pale maple]

....

What

[silent halo]

Damn I've already checked the halberd one 😔

[pale maple]

You mean that's why....AAAAAAGAGAGGGGHHTJFJ

[silent halo]

The "get all!" On halberd

[frozen zinc]

If you see the treasure event and then quit and start a new match, the new one will have the treasure event too

[deft badger]

Wait.

Does that also include Legendary Machine parts?

[pale maple]

Bruhhh this coulda been helpful yesterday

[deft badger]

I ask for the purpose of VS Gigantes

[frozen zinc]

I can’t confirm legendary parts, but sky islands will change

[deft badger]

Okay then. So it's only the potential Stadiums that stay the same, then

[frozen zinc]

Stadiums will also stay consistent, I got a glider hint, reset, and saw glider in the next round

[wise monolith]

heard people say events are partially consistent too at least

but this is probably a thing that needs more testing in general lol

[quartz niche]

I remember getting an icon for that and thinking "most people probably won't know who this is"

[sudden compass]

||https://fxtwitter.com/DepthsOfWiKirby/status/1988289246353125531 well i guess they answered that last one by directly showing popstar... cool
and i guess they also did show people in the city in the road trip intro||

Depths of WiKirby (@DepthsOfWiKirby)

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[silent halo]

||Where the fuck does Gigantes pieces appear||

[chilly prairie]

||At random, just like all the other legendary machines, but more rare it seems.||

[silent halo]

This game is driving me mad

[chilly prairie]

||You have to do road trip to unlock it for offline city trial though.||

[languid pond]

Just got ||Gigantes|| in city trial!!
at least i have the three achivements tied to the guy down

[silk sparrow]

ROAD TRIP ||When your trying to complete the Road Trip checklist but instead you commit Manslaughter||

[twin swan]

I've played city trial, I get the hype
||I got scarfy by I am not joking "Clobberin dat dere kirbeh" in the first 60 seconds with Dedede||

||Why? HE STOLE MY DEFENSE BUFF!!!||

[languid pond]

i got that one as marx
in my defence, they wornt exactly moving

[silent halo]

So I get the achievement for landing on the ufo, but the fucking game freezes so I didn't get it

This game is terrible

Kirby never should have been made

Skyah has fallen

[pale maple]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-mr-krabs-ring-the-bell-ringing-bell-gif-16270849

||HOUR 15, GIVE IT UP FOR HOUR 15 OF NO HALBERD!!!!||

[silent halo]

ME WITH THIS FUCKING STUPID UFO

Holy mother of god

The time it appears I got the fucking achievement but no Nintendo and their 1965 netcoding know better

[pale maple]

I am not even joking, I just need it to show up once and then I finish the checklist, all 3 of the final achievements I need are related to the Halberd

[real quail]

Halberd is my very last checklist lol

[silent halo]

So one finding everything, getting the all on top but qhat was the third

[real quail]

That thing aren’t showing up

[pale maple]

Experience every event, Halberd All Up, get the hydra pieces (the last piece is from the first event I stated)

I lool like a zombie waiting for it to show up

[wintry path]

||https://youtu.be/xLidef3RdZg?si=RoeIc6Km0TncV-Rz||

Oh those are spoilers in the commercial WOW

[pale maple]

"There's a special formation of machi-"

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-benson-regular-show-gif-21329031

I ALREADY SEEN THIS EVENT LIKE 30 TIMES

[flat hull]

is it still special

[silent halo]

||Me when I want Gigantes but god says:||

||And it's fucking hydra pieces, or leo, fuck you leo||

[silk sparrow]

ROAD TRIP ||Noir Dedede has no match of the MAGOLOR BLAST||

||Casual mode is fucking funny||

[brisk minnow]

Endgame Road Trip music
||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EKu-cxbzA ||

[umbral pendant]

wasnt it answered

[umbral pendant]

is this an actual gamerip or like a game recording because atp what does game rip even mean

[flat hull]

DYNAS EYELASHES ARE SHAPED HOLAY MOLAY

[brisk minnow]

that person used Switch 2 clips and stitched it back together

i assume the person lowered every other volume except music

[umbral pendant]

is that what game rip means

[brisk minnow]

yeah

because it's not done through the music player I assume

[umbral pendant]

what do you call when you get it via files

[brisk minnow]

a proper rip lol

[umbral pendant]

i see

[brisk minnow]

tbh though the wording has been lost to time for most people

[umbral pendant]

i personally wouldnt call it the word rip

[brisk minnow]

I wouldn't either

[umbral pendant]

rip is for actually pulling it outta the files

[brisk minnow]

I say that but

...I did call one of my few recording based rips as "Sound Rip"

but it was like, many many many years ago whoops lol

I'd just call it Recording probably at this point

[umbral pendant]

yea

[brisk minnow]

to my defense though... I don't use the word rip much lol

When it's about music I just say the song without any specifics

because with me you expect quality lol

[umbral pendant]

||also im surprised the halberd model is there but not a stage around it||

[chilly flame]

they gave dyna blade curves 😭

[pallid yew]

city trial checklist ||i just noticed the kirbs on the artwork are using the same machines as on this artwork||

[delicate plinth]

||so like what's the thing on the top left?||

[pallid yew]

||novus||

[delicate plinth]

||I mean the thing behind nova||

[pallid yew]

||leus||

[delicate plinth]

||is it tho?? It doesn't look anything like the Leo logo when you got the pieces||

[pale maple]

how tf do you get the halberd

[chilly flame]

skill

if you can't get the halberd you simply are not skilled enough

[pallid yew]

||the other legendary machines are all there so||

[delicate plinth]

||I guess it could be Leo's tail but man it really doesn't look like it at a glance lol||

[pallid yew]

city trial‘s favorite piece of bullshit: sheer chance and luck

[pallid yew]

||i see it, it‘s got a tail n a flame||

[astral locust]

It's been a while, and after doing 3 sessions in Road Trip, I got some thoughts about it

(Stuff I like, involving endgame/postgame spoilers of course)
||It's quite replayable, and the game is unusually forgiving that you don't actually lose stat progress when things get nasty! The whole progression system can get really addicting, especially with the strategies that come out of the stats you want to get in particular. Gigantis is fun to fight as the Dragoon, and the final "world" has a cool vibe to it.||

(Stuff I don't like, mostly nitpicks)
||The ability to change machines outside of a retry is only during the loading screen after a rest stop. But the tiny prompt is tucked away in the corner, making it easy to miss out on a first-time playthrough. I also just don't like any sort of mission where you have to defeat a rider in a race course, especially when I'm at the point where I outspeed everyone. Lastly, I kinda wish new game+ also gives us some stats at the start, because the first 3-ish worlds can become a REAL slog when starting a new session.||

[sand bay]

||I NEED THOSE PILLARS||

[prime fjord]

||you can’t use the normal starlit journey in city trial?||

[wise monolith]

||you can pretty sure, City Trial is not a menu lol||

||that post is talking about the main menu, which has no My Music, and is what that convo was about||

[prime fjord]

||oh i get it you meant like everywhere||

||yeah it would be nice to customize the menu music too tbh||

[wise monolith]

||yeah Smash has My Music for actual Menus (and has for a long while), so it's quite weird there's none for it here||

[prime fjord]

||im hoping Sakurai implements patch sized updates to add stuff like this||

[umbral pendant]

||update sized patches||

[wise monolith]

||we already know there's gonna be an update for some Paddock features at least (amiibo, 'Series', and local 2P in Paddocks more specifically), so hope they address stuff like that too||

[prime fjord]

||i wonder if my music for menus can also be unlocked||

||like i heard theres a crazy ton of unlockable stuff||

[wise monolith]

||people have 100%ed game already, it probably is not in at all currently unfortunately||

[prime fjord]

||or its actually not there||

||damn||

||maybe the menu itself has many variant themes and ultimate didnt? i forgot if ultimate played the same menu song through its sections||

[umbral pendant]

i mean cant you ||play music from the music player and it stays when you go back to the menu||

no real reason not to implement

[prime fjord]

||that works?||

||i hope thats true lol||

[wise monolith]

||yes but it changes back easily so you have to do it near constantly||

[umbral pendant]

woaw

i think this engine is genuinely an infant in terms of compared to smash wii u/ultimate

[wise monolith]

||tbf Smash didn't do well with playing music in Sound Test and then going to menu either? iirc it changed back on like the character select screens for Ultimate at least (though I could also be thinking of Smash Wii U)||

[wise monolith]

||anyway I don't think they'd care about having it work for variants tbh, not like they cared about City Trial songs fitting the time of the match or anything||

[umbral pendant]

there was no need for it to change back

smash ult had the same menu theme everywhere

[wise monolith]

yeah I always found it weird

[prime fjord]

||i wanna know if my music works for online city trial matches||

[wise monolith]

||I don't think so, do remember people getting songs they didn't even have yet at least; it might be different in Paddock but I doubt||

[leaden flower]

||Two new Kirby final bosses in the big 2025|| (Road Trip final boss art)

[chilly flame]

Is normal starlit journey a selectable song after all
I still don't have it unlocked

[wise monolith]

yeah, ||it's the 100% reward (aka for the 4 main Checklists complete) lol||

[supple fiber]

||For city trial dont think so but otherwise yeah||

[chilly flame]

so stupid

[wise monolith]

||I mean the thing says it can play there, so pretty sure it can?||

[supple fiber]

||Hrm....I have to check when I get the chance||

||But I thought it was just road trip completion reward?||

||Again, have to check||

[wise monolith]

okay yeah

[supple fiber]

wowie

[wise monolith]

||no, it is for all 4||

[supple fiber]

idk tbh

again again have to check when possible

[chilly flame]

||extremely baffling honestly||

[wise monolith]

||tbh it's funny, it almost feels like Ballad/Free are the main versions more than the normal one does in some aspects, or at least they feel more emphasized?||

[chilly flame]

||it's the first song you hear in the game, as the main theme it should be unlocked by default
there's way better things they could have used for a final reward
especially since there's the instrumental version of ballad they use for Ruinous Runway||

[wise monolith]

||Farthest Reach's theme isn't in Music Player either :(||

[chilly flame]

||should have been Super Star Staff Credits for full completion instead of that||

[wise monolith]

||though I'm pretty sure Ruinous Runway is actually partially a different arrangement too and not just no vocals, but a simple instrumental for all versions could have been nice||

[chilly flame]

||this game's handling of music as rewards just annoys me||

[supple fiber]

How does one get ||Brawl Dedede theme?||

[wise monolith]

||anyway for Starlit Journey I mostly just wish that like. the lyrics for the normal version of the song were fully written out ingame, weird that it isn't||

[chilly flame]

||Top Ride 100% checklist||

[supple fiber]

||Oh. That isn't too bad; thanks||

[wise monolith]

||I mean I'm guessing in JP Ballad/Free's and its are basically the same, but for English there is differences so||

[prime fjord]

||DUDE HELL YES||

||I LOVE STARLIT JOURNEY JP||

||looks like this is gonna be the first game I will NEED to 100% then||

||but icl its a pretty strange way to unlock it||

[prime fjord]

||the gigantes theme?||

[wise monolith]

||it's a different arrangement||

[prime fjord]

||ah ok, i was worried peak was excluded on there||

||i saw a youtube video call it that or smth thats why||

||but prob just because its apart of the final map you play on, i thought that was the official name for the final boss theme||

[wise monolith]

||yeah that video is mislabeled lol, no one has uploaded Farthest Reach's actual theme yet||

||someone did upload Ruinous Runway earlier though, so sure someone will get it soon||

[prime fjord]

||gigantes themes are playable in the music player though right?||

[chilly prairie]

||only the hyper one, I think.||

[wise monolith]

||no they both are||

[supple fiber]

||I'm pretty syre you get regular gigantis theme by gigantis in city trial happening||

||(Since I sure as hell don't have it(WHERE ARE THOSE PIECES ))||

[chilly flame]

||you get it by doing the Gigantes in 1:45.00 checklist task i think||

[wise monolith]

||yeah it's classified as City Trial song||

[supple fiber]

||oh thats evil||

||I really hope they up the chances of missing city trial events and gigantis (when you don't have the 7 peices one) at some point||

[wise monolith]

||they'll definitely fix stuff to some degree, they acknowledged Dyna Blade's offline appearance rate seeming to be bugged||

[strong orbit]

lmao official CMs are now showing spoiler content (Road Trip Post Game) ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLidef3RdZg ||

[delicate plinth]

Minor City trial spoilers ||Rocky the rockinator kills everyone and gets away with it||

[royal vine]

Chat he’s back as a cameo

[wintry path]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[dusk fog]

How do I get the waddle doo skin what category of checkmark in it is what I wanna know

[real quail]

Air Ride/Top Ride

[strong orbit]

Not sure if this is spoilers, but I'll just post it here just to be safe. (City Trials Unlockable) ||Yeah.... Spid on Hydra||

[real quail]

You’re allowed to post stuff from city trials

[deft badger]

There's no content from the spoiler policy in that snap

[real quail]

The only thing that requires spoiler tag + requires to be in spoiler channel is road trip content, including the gameplay, stories, and lore

||hence, we can post Gigantes and Leo and Noir Dedede in the other channel without spoiler tag, but we can’t discuss about their relationship (lore and relevance) with the roadtrip without spoiler tag||

[deft badger]

A big question I have right now is... Is VS. Gigantes unavailable in offline multiplayer?

[real quail]

Might not be available because you can’t get Gigantes parts to begin with in multiplayer mode

[deft badger]

So people are aware that you can't get those parts in multiplayer? That answers my follow-up, then

I guess split-screen would be problematic for that due to the sheer scale of Gigantes

[real quail]

I haven’t done multiplayer mode but people has mentioned you can only do it if the screens are not split screen so probably

[deft badger]

mostly for the one piloting

[real quail]

Def no fun on pilot’s end lol

I guess time will tell

I’m sure more people will test stuff out

[trim prawn]

wait

I got gigantes in split screen before tho

[real quail]

Interesting

No clue than

[trim prawn]

I was playing with my brother who did not see gigantes before that match

and was very concerned

[real quail]

I’ve got people saying they couldn’t do it

No clue what’s the deal is than lol

[trim prawn]

if id known rumours would've spread about it being impossible i would've taken a screenshot :/

[real quail]

Someone tried to do vs Gigantes on split screen and it just didn’t work on them

[trim prawn]

huh

Yeah i got it during an actual match

Wait the game saves replays right?

maybe i can find it there

[real quail]

It should save if it’s not too old

Well moreso if the replay isn’t too old in terms of amount of rounds you played

There’s so many things we don’t know about Gigantes triggers

[trim prawn]

Oh it does not go back that far lol

this match was from over a week ago, i dont even have all my matches from today

[real quail]

Like people say you can’t get Gigantes at 6-7 mins trial and others say they got Gigantes at 7 min trial

[trim prawn]

Yeah theres alot of misinfo

ive gotten gigantes at 7

Ive gotten it in coop

so its likely just people getting unlucky and labeling it as impossible

[real quail]

My honest reaction when I couldn’t find the final piece of Gigantes because I was playing 3 min trial

3 min trial with 2 players

[trim prawn]

3 min legendary hunts

No wonder you couldnt find jack

[real quail]

Who is Jack

[trim prawn]

Idk, find him and let me know

[real quail]

Jack Skellington

[rough wagon]

doing a akinator-style game on another server where you think of a videogame and people ask you questions about it

someone asked me this about kirby air riders

[umbral pendant]

no that would be Forgotten Land

[rough wagon]

you can probably assign a Kirby game to every zodiac sign

i know there's kirby zodiac merch, but games is different

[brisk minnow]

which game is cancer

[rough wagon]

good question....

super star ultra?

[deft badger]

Well, I got proof that this is a big fat lie

While I didn't get to see Gigantes on the field,

my gaming buddy and I managed to get VS. Gigantes unlocked, and you can play it multiplayer no problem

and asynchronously

in fact, at least one participant - player or CPU - must become Gigantes

so if it's only two players, one will be Gigantes and the other will not be

[rough wagon]

for some reason, the narrator saying ||"But they were weak of will" during that one Road Trip cutscene while you see regular riders driving around|| has me dying every time i see it

[inner surge]

||gigantes might be a weapon of mass destruction but its no vs king dedede||

[real quail]

Too bad I got no friends irl so it’ll never apply for me

[rain moon]

Did city trial matchmaking become good overnight or is it just for the team battle event

Because the matchmaking for this event should just be how city trial matchmaking is in general

Unless it still uses bots and I have once again been bamboozled

[sudden compass]

||https://fxtwitter.com/YamimomoZ/status/1996858144673484902|| OH GOD RICK ARE YOU OKAY (spoiler for music)

Moyo (@YamimomoZ)

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[dusky epoch]

lmao

[pearl cove]

Unlockable Event Thingamajig ||I Really Hope The Kirby Ornament Thing Is Still Obtainable After The Event In The Shop Somehow.||

[rough wagon]

||same||

the grind for the events is kind of tiring, i just want one or two specific things from the list

[woeful vortex]

||Its probably gonna be like Smash Ultimate where they made it obtainable offline in like the miles shop or smth||

[lethal cargo]

I'm just glad they dropped the specific time slots thing. Via the power of not being able to sleep ever anymore, I unlocked everything last night. I almost wish there were more things on there too keep grinding for

[woeful vortex]

That was dumb

I did manage to get all the rewards in 1 time slot but

still kinda dumb

[lethal cargo]

The time slot thing meant that I barely had the ability to participate

[pearl cove]

Also Yeah Hop Star Is Good, I Was Out Damaging A Battle Chariot During Boss Wtf.

I Love This Little Weirdo

[lethal cargo]

Hop Star is just awkward to use without practice I think

But a solid choice for certain situations

[pearl cove]

Oh No Absolutely It Is, But I Think The Payoff Is Worth It.

[trim prawn]

Hop Star is useful but you need to learn it yeah

but it does feel good oneshotting someone with a jump for the final legendary piece

[honest fable]

dear god the hampter learned how to fly

[chilly prairie]

I think most people tend to lean towards wheeled machines in terms of handling type, they don't want much sliding at all which makes hop a bit troublesome for them since it's one of the slidier star types.

[sudden compass]

this is literally the hardest picture of all time
(spoilers for everything)

[wintry path]

||can you even play road trip as noir??||

[sudden compass]

||this is air ride galactic nova course, not road trip||

[lethal cargo]

||Still think it's a crime you can't||

[sudden compass]

||b-b-but it wouldn't make sense to have duplicates of the same character!!!1||