Kid Icarus: Uprising

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Kid Icarus: Uprising
Sweep the heavens. Scourge the earth.
Protagonist(s): Pit Genre(s): Third-Person Shooter Platform(s): Nintendo 3DS Release Date: JP: March 22, 2012 NA/EU: March 23, 2012 AU: March 29, 2012 Developer(s): Project Sora, Ltd. Publisher(s): Nintendo Country: Japan Series: Kid Icarus Predecessor: Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

Kid Icarus: Uprising is a third-person shooter game developed by Project Sora, Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the third game in the Kid Icarus series.

Why It Sweeps the Heavens and Scourges the Earth

1. Each stage has two main sections: Air and Ground. The two modes make the game a combination of a rail shooter (for the former) and a third-person shooter (for the latter)
2. There are numerous stages, specifically 25 of them, that take place in various environments, such as ancient ruins, volcanoes, the Reset Bomb Forest, and even the Underworld itself!
3. The true enemy of the Kid Icarus series is revealed: Hades, the God of the Underworld himself.
4. Spending hearts gathered from enemies can be used to increase or decrease the intensity (difficulty) of a level. The harder the level you complete, the better the rewards, and vice versa. This mechanic was eventually carried over to Super Smash Bros. 4's Classic Mode.
5. Pit can equip nine different types of weapons: bows, claws, blades, palms, cannons, clubs, Orbitars, staves, and arms. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses.
6. Tons of additional content, including a Boss Rush bonus chapter where Pit must defeat all the bosses from Solo Mode back-to-back, an AR Card Viewer where you can see models of the in-game characters and enemies using Kid Icarus AR cards and a set of Portraits you can obtain by meeting specific conditions.
7. The Checklist system from Kirby Air Ride returns in this game, adding a lot of replay value and giving each level side objectives to complete for a better score.
8. One mini-game requires you to spend Play Coins to buy eggs to obtain character and background models.
9. This is the first game to include online and local multiplayer, with two modes: Light vs. Dark, a 3v3 mode, and Free-for-All, a six-player battle royale mode.
10. Great music that fits in well with the Greek mythology theme. It helps that many well known composers contributed to the soundtrack, including Motoi Sakuraba (composer for the Tales series and the Golden Sun games), Masafumi Takada (composer for the Danganronpa series), Yuzo Koshiro (composer for the Etrian Odyssey series), and even Yatsunori Mitsudsa (composer for Chrono Trigger and the Inazuma Eleven series).
11. Great humor and writing, with many references to the first game.
    • Speaking of the first game, almost every enemy from it was faithfully brought back here, this time in a 3D space, which was translated very well.
12. Excellent graphics that are a noticeable step up from the 2D games due to the use of 3D graphics.
13. Great voice acting, including such talented people as Antony Del Rio (Pit and Dark Pit/Pittoo), Hynden Walch (Viridi), Ali Hillis (Palutena), and many more.

Bad Qualities

1. While Hynden Walch did a good job voicing her, Viridi's voice can get on some people's nerves.
2. The controls can get messy at times. This is especially bad if you're left-handed, since you must use the A, B, Y, and X buttons to move, which is less precise than the Circle Pad or +Control Pad due to the controls not being designed with lefties in mind. Sound familiar?
3. The Hewdraws from the first game unfortunately didn’t get over how unlikable they are in both gameplay and characterization.

Reception

Kid Icarus: Uprising received positive reviews from critics and audiences (scoring 83/100 and 8.7/10, respectively, on Metacritic), with praise being directed at the story, characters, graphics, music, and gameplay, but the control scheme was criticized.

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