Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai was seemingly teasing his latest game Kirby Air Riders in plain sight for years, and I can't believe no one noticed until now

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Hindsight is 20/20 after all

Kirby Air Riders
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Kirby fans have noticed that Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai was hiding the fact he was working on Kirby Air Riders in plain sight in his old tweets.

I think it's safe to say that there probably wasn't one person on the planet who expected that one of the first games Nintendo announced for the Switch 2 way back in April would be a sequel to the GameCube title Kirby Air Ride. While Air Ride still has a cult following all these years later, the game itself had extremely mixed reviews (with Edge giving it a 3/10), and – being a GameCube game – probably didn't light the world on fire with its sales either.

Now that Kirby Air Riders is out, everyone is making the same joke about Nintendo immediately asking Masahiro Sakurai to work on Super Smash Bros 6: "Alright. We let you make Air Riders. You know what comes next…"

Scott McCrae
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Scott has been freelancing for over three years across a number of different gaming publications, first appearing on GamesRadar+ in 2024. He has also written for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, VG247, Play, TechRadar, and others. He's typically rambling about Metal Gear Solid, God Hand, or any other PS2-era titles that rarely (if ever) get sequels.

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