Nintendo Pulling Bikini Chef Kawasaki Fan Designs From Kirby Air Riders, Players Say

Nintendo is rushing to region user-made designs shared wrong Kirby Air Riders that diagnostic fan-favorite quality Chef Kawasaki dressed successful a micro bikini.

Kirby Air Riders allows players to make and customize their ain in-game rides utilizing basal shapes and stickers, thing that has rapidly led to each mode of idiosyncratic creativity — and respective designs that diagnostic the beloved cook successful formation attire.

Chef Kawasaki has been a fan-favorite among the Kirby assemblage for years, and there's a moving gag that, underneath his apron, Chef Kawasaki is different naked. Alternatively, fans person suggested, the quality could conscionable astir beryllium hiding a micro bikini underneath the straps of his cooking attire — thing present depicted successful mounds of fanart that we volition not embed connected this website.

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Is Nintendo a instrumentality of each this? Seemingly not. As if to marque its presumption clear, Nintendo has present removed respective Chef Kawasaki micro bikini designs from Kirby Air Riders, arsenic they began topping the game's database of astir fashionable fan-made rides.

Automaton reports that 2 widely-downloaded Chef Kawasaki micro bikini riders person already been made unavailable by Nintendo, portion a 3rd — with a somewhat larger bikini and succubus wings — rises successful popularity and looks acceptable to trial Nintendo's limits for what it volition allow.

This isn't the archetypal clip that Nintendo has acted to unopen down the dispersed of Chef Kawasaki bikini artwork. In 2022, it swiftly stopped the proliferation of a fanmade paper game, Chef Kawasaki’s Microbikini Karuta, which featured galore fan-drawn images of an eyebrow-raising nature. (The game's creators had besides begun selling the crippled for nett — different large Nintendo no-no.)

The latest crippled from Super Smash Bros. bid brag Masahiro Sakurai, Kirby Air Riders launched this week exclusively for Switch 2. A spin-off of the Kirby bid wherever players contention astir circuit-based tracks connected glider-like machines, it is simply a long-awaited sequel to 2003's Kirby Air Ride connected GameCube.

"Kirby Air Riders' unconventional controls tin get successful its ain mode sometimes, but they don't halt it from being a fun, frantic enactment racing crippled with an astir unreal magnitude of worldly to do," IGN wrote successful our Kirby Air Riders review, awarding the crippled 8/10.

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