{"id":20971,"date":"2025-11-26T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/kirby-air-riders-review-cute-pink-squishball-challenges-mario-for-nintendo-racing-supremacy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:37:31","slug":"kirby-air-riders-review-cute-pink-squishball-challenges-mario-for-nintendo-racing-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/kirby-air-riders-review-cute-pink-squishball-challenges-mario-for-nintendo-racing-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Air Riders review \u2013 cute pink squishball challenges Mario for Nintendo racing supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nintendo Switch 2; Bandai Namco\/Sora\/HAL Laboratory\/Nintendo<\/strong><br \/>It takes some getting used to, but this Mario Kart challenger soon reveals a satisfyingly zen, minimalist approach to competitive racing<\/p>\n<p>In the world of cartoonish racing games, it\u2019s clear who is top dog. As Nintendo\u2019s moustachioed plumber lords it up from his gilded go-kart, everyone from Crash Bandicoot to Sonic and Garfield has tried \u2013 and failed \u2013 to skid their way on to the podium. Now with no one left to challenge its karting dominance, Nintendo is attempting to beat itself at its own game.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected sequel to a critically panned 2003 GameCube game, Kirby Air Riders has pink squishball Kirby and friends hanging on for dear life to floating race machines. With no Grand Prix to compete in, in the game\u2019s titular mode you choose a track and compete to be the first of six players to cross the finish line, spin-attacking each other and unleashing weapons and special abilities to create cutesy, colourful chaos.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/nov\/26\/kirby-air-riders-review-nintendo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c8274b5cab960c64e215dd53a552975b279c8e3b\/571_0_2698_2160\/master\/2698.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=80cd06e0384f2f57cf8eece0b3fc5b43\" title=\"Kirby Air Riders review \u2013 cute pink squishball challenges Mario for Nintendo racing supremacy\" \/>Nintendo Switch 2; Bandai Namco\/Sora\/HAL Laboratory\/NintendoIt takes some getting used to, but this Mario Kart challenger soon reveals a satisfyingly zen, minimalist approach to competitive racing<br \/>\nIn the world of cartoonish racing games, it\u2019s clear who is top dog. As Nintendo\u2019s moustachioed plumber lords it up from his gilded go-kart, everyone from Crash Bandicoot to Sonic and Garfield has tried \u2013 and failed \u2013 to skid their way on to the podium. Now with no one left to challenge its karting dominance, Nintendo is attempting to beat itself at its own game.<br \/>\nThe unexpected sequel to a critically panned 2003 GameCube game, Kirby Air Riders has pink squishball Kirby and friends hanging on for dear life to floating race machines. With no Grand Prix to compete in, in the game\u2019s titular mode you choose a track and compete to be the first of six players to cross the finish line, spin-attacking each other and unleashing weapons and special abilities to create cutesy, colourful chaos. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch 2; Bandai Namco\/Sora\/HAL Laboratory\/NintendoIt takes some getting used to, but this Mario Kart challenger soon reveals a satisfyingly zen, minimalist approach to competitive racing In the world of cartoonish racing games, it\u2019s clear who is top dog. As Nintendo\u2019s moustachioed plumber lords it up from his gilded go-kart, everyone from Crash Bandicoot to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/kirby-air-riders-review-cute-pink-squishball-challenges-mario-for-nintendo-racing-supremacy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kirby Air Riders review \u2013 cute pink squishball challenges Mario for Nintendo racing supremacy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}