City Trial

CITY TRIAL

Kirby: Air Ride was a unique chapter in Kirby’s history, an attempt at a racing game with multiple different variations on the concept. One of the more memorable modes of the game was City Trial, a small open world where you could drive around collecting items and seeing various sights.

The stage representing this would be a traveling stage, with platforms based on the various air machines rising to take you to different areas around the city, dropping you off and occasionally letting you break a block to collect an item.

Possible theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2MpyEN9yU

Wheelie

WHEELIE

Another ability Kirby often makes use of is the Wheel ability, which lets him spin and dash at high speeds. This is often represented by the Wheelie enemy, a sentient tire often carrying a bike attachment.

As a fighter, Wheelie will be incredibly fast, among the highest speed stats in the game. Its moveset will pull from its various appearances throughout the series, with some garnishing from the game Kirby: Air Ride.

Likelihood rating: Piranha Plant clause.

Dyna Blade

DYNA BLADE

For the SNES, Kirby series representation came in the form of Kirby Super Star. The game was split up into multiple mini-stories that you would work your way through one by one. One of these featured a giant bird wreaking havoc over her missing eggs.

This is Dyna Blade, one of the most powerful residents of Dream Land. Though a major boss, she will turn friendly when her eggs are returned to her and she has had a recurring presence throughout the series.

As a fighter, she will be big and powerful, with good aerial mobility and high speed. Her moveset will pull from her main boss battle as well as any subsequent fights.

Likelihood rating: Piranha Plant clause.

Kirby Air Ride

KIRBY AIR RIDE

Now, here's a game that my brother and I actually owned, but apparently, we f*ed something up, because the only thing we could figure out to do on it was City Trial, and after wandering around that for hours, we were like "this is really boring. Where's all the stuff to do? We're just wandering around an empty city. The box said it was a racing game." I don't know what happened. Clearly we did something wrong or we just had a faulty disc.

Kirby Air Ride is a racing game with three main modes. Air Ride is the standard 3D kart-racing level, where you ride around on Warpstars and such against mostly other Kirbys, plus King Dedede and Meta Knight as unlockables. Copy Abilities act as your "items" for the kart-racing, with Bomb letting you throw bombs, Fire letting you toss fireballs, Freeze surrounding you in an ice barrier, Mike is basically the music box, Plasma lets you shoot electric beams, Sleep puts Kirby to sleep, Sword gives you a sword to attack with, Tornado gives you an added spin, Wheel turns you into a wheel, and Wing gives you the ability to fly.

The stages include the generic Fantasy Meadows, the scenic Celestial Valley, the desert Sky Sands, the icy Frozen Hillside, the volcanic Magma Flows, the high-tech Machine Passage, the sky Beanstalk Park, the castle Checker Knights, and the space Nebula Belt.

Top Ride sets you in top-down races, set on a Grass, Sand, Sky, Fire, Light, Water, and Metal track. Then City Trial is a city you can roam around in, collecting various new items and things and various little sidequests to perform. Dynablade appears here. I should also mention the Dragoon and Hydra, a couple of special vehicles you have to assemble to unlock. Several standard enemies crop up as cameos across these three modes.

Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

Kirby

King Dedede

Whispy Woods

Kracko

Poppy Bros.

Mr. Shine & Mr. Bright

Brobo: maybe gimmick rep? Is there enough for that?

Gordo

Waddle Dee

Waddle Doo

Observor

Wheelie: air ride gimmick rep? (Let's be real, if there was ever a game they could be a gimmick rep for . . .)

Dynablade

Etc.

Stages:

Whispy Woods Land

Kracko Land

Poppy Bros. Sr. Land

King Dedede's board

Dream Course

Kirby's Avalanche

Block Ball Arena

Star Stacker Stage

Tilt 'n' Tumble Stage

Fantasy Meadows

Celestial Valley

Sky Sands

Frozen Hillside

Magma Flows

Machine Passage

Beanstalk Park

Checker Knights

Nebula Belt

Top Ride

City Trial

Items:

Dragoon

Hydra

Thanks for reading! Mmm, I think I'm ready for some dessert.