The Direct showed a roster of playable characters, including King Dedede, Meta Knight, Bandana Waddle Dee, Knuckle Joe and others.

Kirby Air Riders’ roster that we know of is as follows and shared by Nintendo channels so far: The main guy is here, of course.

Acceleration happens automatically and, in the original, you really had just two inputs to worry about: the control stick, to steer; and the “Boost Charge” button, which was B on the GameCube pad.