SuperPhillip Central says: "Lately, the angelic warrior Pit has been up there in popularity with some of Nintendo's mightiest mascots. This has been mostly due to his reintroduction to the gaming world as part of the roster of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and his first new starring role in over twenty years, Kid Icarus: Uprising. Uprising remains not only one of my favorite 3DS games of the year, but it is one of my favorite games of the year on any platform. That notwithstanding, I, like most likely many of you, was not familiar with Pit's past efforts with the original NES Kid Icarus (the game is available on the Wii's Virtual Console service or in 3D Classics form on the 3DS's Nintendo eShop) and the subject of this review, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters for the original Game Boy. Does this game shine in the glory of the sun, or do its wings burn up?"
Paul James of BGU writes "We’ve been busy at BGU in the last few weeks as we prepare for E3. It’s a choatic time but it’s a time that allows us to get a little creative in our thinking and grants us the chance to let our imaginations run wild as we dream up what amazing possibilities could be looming around the corner. One that crossed my mind as I was in the cut and thrust of writing the many What We Want features that you’ve seen in recent weeks was the idea of a Retro developed Kid Icarus for Wii U. It’s reasonable, it’s feasible and I’ll explain why below."
Lamenting those shoulda-been classic sequels demoted to the small screen and doomed to be forgotten.
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