I honestly was talking on
another kirby-specific forum (which is... sadly rather dead, but i'm trying to bring it back to life, so sorry for the very subtle promo for it-) about a sequel for Air Ride on either the NX or Wii U. I do hope it'd be on both if someone at HAL Labs did end up giving it an ok, in which i'd also desperately hope it's not cancelled like Kirby GCN was. City trial was super fun and I'm actually bringing Air Ride on my trip to see my friend so we can play it together! It'll be so fun to have someone to play games with again since I currently live alone with my grandparents and they don't really play video games.
Music... gosh, I adore the music of Kirby! Not much else to say about it.
Oh yes! The music for all of the Kirby games always seems to fit perfectly with the game, for example the sort of calm tone of Epic Yarn really fit the cutesy yarn feel of the game! Jun Ishikawa is truly one of the best composers in my opinion and i'm so glad he works on the music for the Kirby Franchise! I especially love the OST of the new game and how many old tracks were remixed / brought back in it. It was really touching to me, and is one of the reasons why Robobot is a very precious Kirby game to me (along with it referencing Air Ride, which is my main favorite in the Kirby franchise despite it just being a sort of spinoff non-story canon racing game?)
I should add I feel if Kirby Air Ride got a sequel, it would have a LOT more content to rival Mario Kart 8 with, as well as a cast of primarily kirby characters (Kirbies, perhaps characters from the anime and games. It'd be amazing to race as susie, ribbon, and so on alongside kirby!). I feel City Trial will be much more expansive too and I hope there's a way to do a free trial WITH the events on, because those are great!
Oh, I've also watched the first half of the anime, when the dub was released on the Wii over time. Love the Meowth-style Escargoon and just how silly King DDD (as it's spelt in the anime dub, I think) and his relationship with his subjects is. The conspicuous CG animation took some getting used to, but, like, it's quaint.
I actually stuck to the Sub for the anime as far as I could. So far it's subbed up to Ep. 77 and Operation: HnK is still working on it. There's a few subs from outside sources beyond that, but they're rather hard to find on youtube... Not really a huge fan of the dub because they cut so much out and censored more than you can imagine, but 4kids is just bad like that, it's like a universal fact. If 4kids dubbed it, try to find the subs if you want something more loyal to the story because 4kids will always butcher out important development and scenes. Like how they called Phantom Star Geras/Gerath a METEOR in one of the dubbed episodes and removed the touching music box from Kirby Super Star used in the park scene.
Actually god, don't even get me
started on how much i loathe the music replacement for the dub. A lot of the Air Ride OST is actually reused from the anime, since the anime came first, and therefore i recognized most of the sub's songs from air ride and it was really captivating for me and got me a lot more invested. They also remixed Kirby Super Star songs in the sub too, which is great! I loved how they used actual kirby songs in the original japanese version... but.... they took it all out of the dub...
That's pretty darn unforgivable in my books.