Kirby has the ability to put everyone in a good mood, right? I mean, I've been in a lovely mood thanks to the pink puffball (and Nintendo), as I was lucky enough to go hands-on with the upcoming racer Kirby Air Riders for the Nintendo Switch 2 at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

As a surprising sequel to Kirby Air Ride on the GameCube, it's a really fascinating game, and it does, as director Masahiro Sakurai said in yesterday's Nintendo Direct , feel very different to Mario Kart World . So let me run you through what I got to play during my behind-closed-doors session.

I, along with around 20 or so other people, were all shuffled into a room together where, to my surprise, we got to watch the Direct together. Here is where I started really falling for this game. This was the first t

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