This Thursday, November 20, the new one went on sale. Kirby Air Riders. The delivery, which revives the already classic Kirby Air Ride from GameCube, marks the premiere of the first exclusive Kirby game for Nintendo Switch 2but also the first on the console with the new internal engine from Bandai Namco: SUN-BIRD.
The engine name and logo appear on the registration card. Kirby Air Ridersas was already discovered with his “beta online” a few weeks ago, and it also appears in the game’s file on the Bandai Namco Studios website. A tool until now almost unknown, but which carries in development since 2019and for which the Japanese company continues to recruit personnel even today.
Although at first glance the new Kirby game has an appearance that, in general terms, is very reminiscent of Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Masahiro Sakurai He has led it under a new graphics engine. In fact, to date it is the only game released to the public that uses this engine. By the way, if you want to know more about him, you can read our analysis of Kirby Air Riders here.
SUN-BIRD It is a graphics engine designed for large scale games which is still in development under the direction of Julien Mercenonformer technical director of Square Enix and Ubisoft. It seems that Bandai Namco wants to stop depending on third-party engines like Unreal Engine, which it used in Tekken 8 inter alia.
That its new engine debuts on Switch 2 is a very good sign for the future of the console and its relationship with this Japanese company. What will be the next game to use it?
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