048 · KID ICARUS
A First Party Nintendo game filled with Reapers, Crosses, and super catchy music? It’s gotta be a franchise they would forget for years to come only to revive via Smash Bros…welcome KID ICARUS! For more NEStalgia as well as show notes, articles, and more check out www.NEStalgiacast.com
Show notes
- Introductions
- First Impressions
- Objective
- Read the manual
- Kid Icarus is an action platformer meets RPG. You control Pit through 4 worlds of vertical and horizontal platforming obtaining new weapons along the way and upgrading your old ones.
- WHAT A SURPRISE!
- FUNDAMENTALS
- SHOOTING
- JUMPING
- REAPERS
- HEARTS
- ITEMS
- TREASURE CHAMBER - STORE - BLACK MARKET - TRAINING CHAMBER - HOT SPRING CHAMBER
- CREDIT CARD
- ANGELS FEATHER - SAVES YOU FROM FALL FROM DEATH
- WATER OF LIFE AND BARREL
- HAGGLING
- FORTRESSES
- MAP AND PENCIL AND TORCH
- EGGPLANT
- MALLET
- BOSSES
- TWIN BELLOWS - TWO HEADED RED DOG
- HEW DRAW - BLUE SNAKE
- PANDORA - BUBBLE INVISIBLE MONSTER (THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL)
- STAGE 4
- SHMUP STYLE
- MEDUSA BATTLE
- ENDING
- Hearts: 999
- b. Strength: 5
- c. Endurance: 5
- d. All three Weapons acquired
- If you have them all you get a kiss from Palutena and become like a grown man
- JAPANESE FDS added a specknose WORST ending
- MUSIC
- DEVELOPMENT
- Toru Osawa's debut as a video game designer, and he was the only staff member working on the game at the beginning of the project.
- He programmed most of the game, worked with TOSE on development and only after Metroid’s completion did the rest of the team join.
- Sakamoto apparently canceled Osawa’s wedding vacation to bring him back into finish the game.
- No staff roll could even be added, but it was added in the NA version WITHOUT OSAWA instead they misspelled his name and wrote Inusawa
- “Customers were perfectly willing to play it, and we were perfectly willing to make it that way,” Yoshio Sakamoto recalls.
- The Final Stage was added at JUST THE END of production
- SEQUELS
- Kid Icarus: of Myths and Monsters was released for the Gameboy in 1991
- Plays very much the same
- Pit joins Smash in Brawl and Palutena in Smash 4
- Kid Icarus Uprising was released in 2012 designed by Sakurai and way more meta and quirky