New Kirby Amiibo Are Up for Preorder - Here's How They Work

If you’re a instrumentality of Kirby the adorable pinkish puff ball, you’re surely looking guardant to Kirby Air Riders, which hits Switch 2 connected November 20. As Nintendo is wont to do, the institution is besides releasing a brace of amiibo figures to spell on with the caller game. There’s a Kirby and Warp Star amiibo and a Bandana Waddle Dee and Winged Star. They some retail for (a somewhat shocking) $49.99, and are acceptable to merchandise the aforesaid time arsenic the crippled itself.

The crushed for the other disbursal is that these are much elaborate than astir amiibo figures. With each of them, you get a quality and a conveyance that enactment unneurotic successful absorbing ways, peculiarly if you person some figures. Read connected for the details.

Kirby and Warp Star amiibo - Kirby Air Riders Series

Bandana Waddle Dee and Winged Star amiibo - Kirby Air Riders Series

How the Kirby Air Riders amiibo Work

So however bash these things work, exactly? When you enactment Kirby connected the Warp Star conveyance and pat it connected your Switch 2 controller, it creates an in-game Figure Player (think NPC) that volition contention astir the tracks successful your matches. As the FP competes successful races, it volition level up, and its instrumentality proficiency level volition besides increase. (Machine proficiency is fundamentally a people for that character-and-vehicle combo).

If you person some of the supra amiibo figures, you tin swap riders connected the vehicles. That way, you tin person an FP of Kirby riding connected the Winged Star, oregon Bandana Waddle Dee riding connected the Warp Star. When you bash this, the FP quality maintains its level, but starts from zero successful its instrumentality proficiency since it’s a caller vehicle. You tin ticker the video supra to spot it successful action.

Nintendo says much of these Kirby Air Riders amiibo volition beryllium released successful the future, creating much character/machine combinations for your FPs. Also, Nintendo is readying a 2nd Kirby Air Riders Direct hosted by Sakurai, during which helium whitethorn connection further details astir these (and upcoming) amiibo.

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