I honestly can't give an opinion of the race mode until it releases lol.
City Trial is was more fun than I thought it'd be honestly.

I looove the Ys VI ost, especially Mighty Obstacle and Release of the Far West Ocean

but the max money in great cave offensive being 9,999,990 and not 9,999,999 makes me ANGRY

The structure of a bunch of small campaigns with unique gimmicks feels perfect for Kirby.

this is making me want to play some of the new kirby stuff too
i used to be a big kirby fan before star allies released

scores are stupid by the way, but the same applies to if someone where to say a bad game > mediocre game. like idk. people insist they think games are art yet sure don’t act like it. let go of rules. reflect on things. if it brings you some sort of joy it’s clearly doing something right

when the programmers settle for a quick hack instead of perfectly elegant code, you may be tempted to think it's because they were on a deadline and wanted to move on to more important things, but no. it's actually because they hate consumers and love artificial difficulty