A book of short chapters explaining why you should play a 10 years old 3DS game. written by Some guy called Fox.
None of the images or videos used are mine and will be credited, if i forget to credit someone do not hesitate to point it out. "Kid ica...
I would like to clarify, i am not here to force you to like or play the game, if you don't like it, or you're just too lazy, It's perfectly fine. I just want to make you curious so that you can give it a try if you want to. Also, this chapter is about more some facts and history about the franchise as a whole. if you wish you can skip to the next one. Or just not read anything at all.
Okay so let's start by the debut, what is kid Icarus ?
Well kid Icarus is a platformer game released 1986 in japan on the famicon (the japanese NES) and in 1987 in North America and Europe on the NES.
the producer was
Gunpei Yokoi
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and the director was
Satoru Okada
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the game came to be because one day a man named Toru Osawa decided that Greek mythology needed to be a Nintendo game, he wanted to make a game where you could jump like Mario, collect items like link and shoot like Samus. and thats how it came to be, but Nintendo said :
"you have until December to release the game" so he started working, and after 3 months Nintendo was like
"soooo how is it going bud, is codding a game all by yourself going well ?"
and he, Toru was like "no."
and since they had a deadline the peoples in charge of Metroid that had just finished developing Metroid came in to help. and even, still to meet the deadline they had to sleep on torn cardboard boxes and cover themselves in curtains to not suffer from unheated development building to wake up earlier... they also had to cut several levels.
And since it was made by the Metroid team it was made on the Metroid engine, they even made an enemy called "komayto" that is said to come from another planet and that weirdly look like a metroid...
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