Of Myths & Monsters, of Brawls & Uprisings: The Kid Icarus Thread

mntorankusu

If there's a no-stylus mode it doesn't make sense that you can't use dual analog with the circle pad pro.

skeldare

mntorankusu wrote: »

If there's a no-stylus mode it doesn't make sense that you can't use dual analog with the circle pad pro.

The_Spaniard

Not news to me, but I really wish they had used the CPP to make a dual stick control scheme.

UncleSporky

Kid Icarus's composers:

Motoi Sakuraba: Tales of, Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, Baten Kaitos, Dark Souls, Golden Sun
Yuzo Koshiro: Streets of Rage, ActRaiser, Shinobi, Etrian Odyssey
Masafumi Takada: Killer7, No More Heroes, God Hand
Noriyuki Iwadare: Lunar, Grandia, Radiata Stories
Yasunori Mitsuda: Chrono Trigger/Cross, Xenogears, Shadow Hearts

Yowza.

All returning from Brawl, by the way.

mntorankusu

Motoi Sakuraba is the best.

I expected Shogo Sakai to be one of the composers, though. He's been on Kirby Air Ride, Melee and Brawl.

Edit: Not only that, but Shogo Sakai did this arrangement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyPhA1LWlWI

mntorankusu

Oh, there's a page where you can listen to some music.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/akdj/music/music01.html

Boss Battle (ボス戦) by Yasunori Mitsuda is really good. The Practice Room (練習部屋) by Masafumi Takada is incredible.

Judging by these tracks, Sakuraba (Main Theme / メインテーマ, Dark Pit Theme / ブラックピットのテーマ, Chapter 4 Air Battle / 4章空中戦) isn't at his best here. It's still pretty good though.

mntorankusu

Son of a bitch. The soundtrack CD is available through Club Nintendo in Japan.



Edit: Also here's a picture Sakurai just posted on Twitter.

Is this Yasunori Mitsuda? He mentioned something about Procyon studio and the soundtrack, so I guess they're finishing up the CD?

skeldare

mntorankusu wrote: »

Son of a bitch. The soundtrack CD is available through Club Nintendo in Japan.



Edit: Also here's a picture Sakurai just posted on Twitter.

Is this Yasunori Mitsuda? He mentioned something about Procyon studio and the soundtrack, so I guess they're finishing up the CD?

Just another thing that Japan gets that we'll never see.

Houn

Can't see that picture. "Access Denied" when I try to open it in a new tab.

mntorankusu

Yeah I didn't realize the link would expire.

RockinX

I think Nintendo really wants the franchise to be successful. The amount of money being put into marketing it is insane.

skeldare

I love the commercial they have for this game. I've seen it a few times already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njaaBWbA8_k

Krathoon

Fortunately, they kept the voice acting to a minimum in the commercial. Good choice.

agoaj

But they also used the worst line.
Couldn't they come up with something better than prepare to meet the light?

You're not ready yet!

Houn

Is that... a black and gray 3DS?

mntorankusu

All right!!

Brainiac 8

What is that?

Also yes, it seems Nintendo really wants to put Pit in the same league as Mario, Link, and Samus with the amount of money they are putting into making this game a hit. Also the US commercial is rad.

agoaj

I guess it's the achievement system, right outta Kirby's Air Ride.

Brainiac 8

What does it do? Unlock stuff as you gain achievements? Sort of like how Sakurai did the achievements in Brawl?

mntorankusu

Yeah, it's just like the "Checklist" from Kirby Air Ride or "Challenges" from Brawl (it's something about "Goddess Palutena's Treasures" here), but this time it looks like each box also uncovers part of a picture

Edit: As far as I can tell, it's not clear if it's more like Air Ride or Brawl. In Brawl every single box had something inside, but in Kirby only select boxes did, and you didn't know until you opened it. The benefit of unlocking an empty box is that it shows you the challenges for the ones next to it.

Brainiac 8

I love Sakurai, the dude packs so much stuff into his games.

Sterica

This game is shaping up to be a must-buy, but damn if that voice-acting is in a weird place. It's like on the cusp of greatness, but the writing and/or delivery holds it back. Can't tell which.

skeldare

Rorus Raz wrote: »

This game is shaping up to be a must-buy, but damn if that voice-acting is in a weird place. It's like on the cusp of greatness, but the writing and/or delivery holds it back. Can't tell which.

It must be the years of watching anime, but I don't have much of a problem with the voices. If anything, blame the directing. That and the fact that they had to translate the script to english and ub over in english. It's bound to make things awkward.

V Faction

It's definitely that anime-taste; trying to give dialogue that doesn't quite fit English vernacular. I hope it doesn't quash peoples' enjoyment. The very fact that this game even has such quirky speech as a personality is pretty darn big.

Anyway, it may be unfairly painting a positive perception, but I've been gung-ho about this game ever since the first E3 trailer. I was planning to get it ASAP from the very start.

RidleySaria

I can tolerate cheesy/bad voice acting. I mean, I'll even defend the voice acting in Metroid Other M. But man oh man, I hated Thanatos in those videos. So awful.

Cantido

I hope there's a score attack mode without all the talking. It's not even that the talking bothers me, it's that it will get annoying over multiple playthroughs.

Krathoon

Yeah. Thanatos sounds like Rip Taylor. I am going to blame the Americans for that one.

It is totally cracking me up that they are throwing everything and the kitchen sink in this one. I did not not realize Sakurai was in HAL Laboratory since he was 19 (Wikipedia) and made Kirby at that time. I do believe we have a Miyamoto successor here.

TimFiji

Will Kid Icarus 3D Classic be released for sale on eshop or only through the download code?

RidleySaria

I'm guessing it'll be on the eShop. I just can't imagine they'd go to the effort to jazz up the game and only give it to people who preordered.

skeldare

TimFiji wrote: »

Will Kid Icarus 3D Classic be released for sale on eshop or only through the download code?

My guess would be that it'll be released on eShop, though not right away.

mntorankusu

The Medusa's Revenge short on Nintendo Video now is really cool. Much better than Thanatos Rising.

Why does Medusa have hair though?? I guess her hair transforms into snakes?? I thought she just had snakes on her head instead of hair

skeldare

mntorankusu wrote: »

The Medusa's Revenge short on Nintendo Video now is really cool. Much better than Thanatos Rising.

Why does Medusa have hair though?? I guess her hair transforms into snakes?? I thought she just had snakes on her head instead of hair

I'd take a look to check, but I'm afraid about turning to stone.

UncleSporky

skeldare wrote: »

mntorankusu wrote: »

The Medusa's Revenge short on Nintendo Video now is really cool. Much better than Thanatos Rising.

Why does Medusa have hair though?? I guess her hair transforms into snakes?? I thought she just had snakes on her head instead of hair

I'd take a look to check, but I'm afraid about turning to stone.

Watch it through a mirror.

You'll have to tilt the 3DS slightly though because the 3D effect will be inverted!

mntorankusu

UncleSporky wrote: »

skeldare wrote: »

mntorankusu wrote: »

The Medusa's Revenge short on Nintendo Video now is really cool. Much better than Thanatos Rising.

Why does Medusa have hair though?? I guess her hair transforms into snakes?? I thought she just had snakes on her head instead of hair

I'd take a look to check, but I'm afraid about turning to stone.

Watch it through a mirror.

You'll have to tilt the 3DS slightly though because the 3D effect will be inverted!

False! It's true that reversing the picture would invert the 3D, but viewing the screen in the mirror also makes your eyes swap which image they're seeing.

UncleSporky

I was wondering about that but I decided it didn't matter at all!

UncleSporky

Brainiac 8

Krathoon wrote: »

Yeah. Thanatos sounds like Rip Taylor. I am going to blame the Americans for that one.

It is totally cracking me up that they are throwing everything and the kitchen sink in this one. I did not not realize Sakurai was in HAL Laboratory since he was 19 (Wikipedia) and made Kirby at that time. I do believe we have a Miyamoto successor here.

This is why I think Nintendo worked so hard to keep ahold of him. I have been under the impression that he will be Miyamoto caliber, if he isn't already, and very worthy to succeed him. I would actually love to see what he would do under leadership of a Mario or Zelda.

Either way, Nintendo gave the dude his own dev team and building and freedom just to make sure he didn't go anywhere. So yea, Nintendo sees his importance also.

Krathoon

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Krathoon wrote: »

Yeah. Thanatos sounds like Rip Taylor. I am going to blame the Americans for that one.

It is totally cracking me up that they are throwing everything and the kitchen sink in this one. I did not not realize Sakurai was in HAL Laboratory since he was 19 (Wikipedia) and made Kirby at that time. I do believe we have a Miyamoto successor here.

This is why I think Nintendo worked so hard to keep ahold of him. I have been under the impression that he will be Miyamoto caliber, if he isn't already, and very worthy to succeed him. I would actually love to see what he would do under leadership of a Mario or Zelda.

Either way, Nintendo gave the dude his own dev team and building and freedom just to make sure he didn't go anywhere. So yea, Nintendo sees his importance also.

Hopefully, Nintendo will put him to work on a new set of characters for the franchise. I think it is high time they expanded.

Brainiac 8

Krathoon wrote: »

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Krathoon wrote: »

Yeah. Thanatos sounds like Rip Taylor. I am going to blame the Americans for that one.

It is totally cracking me up that they are throwing everything and the kitchen sink in this one. I did not not realize Sakurai was in HAL Laboratory since he was 19 (Wikipedia) and made Kirby at that time. I do believe we have a Miyamoto successor here.

This is why I think Nintendo worked so hard to keep ahold of him. I have been under the impression that he will be Miyamoto caliber, if he isn't already, and very worthy to succeed him. I would actually love to see what he would do under leadership of a Mario or Zelda.

Either way, Nintendo gave the dude his own dev team and building and freedom just to make sure he didn't go anywhere. So yea, Nintendo sees his importance also.

Hopefully, Nintendo will put him to work on a new set of characters for the franchise. I think it is high time they expanded.

Miis, Dillon, Pushmo...they are new Nintendo characters....but yea, I'm hoping they are working on some new faces for the Nintendo universe.

Miyamoto has mentioned that he has a new franchise in the works...so we'll see.

skeldare

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Krathoon wrote: »

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Krathoon wrote: »

Yeah. Thanatos sounds like Rip Taylor. I am going to blame the Americans for that one.

It is totally cracking me up that they are throwing everything and the kitchen sink in this one. I did not not realize Sakurai was in HAL Laboratory since he was 19 (Wikipedia) and made Kirby at that time. I do believe we have a Miyamoto successor here.

This is why I think Nintendo worked so hard to keep ahold of him. I have been under the impression that he will be Miyamoto caliber, if he isn't already, and very worthy to succeed him. I would actually love to see what he would do under leadership of a Mario or Zelda.

Either way, Nintendo gave the dude his own dev team and building and freedom just to make sure he didn't go anywhere. So yea, Nintendo sees his importance also.

Hopefully, Nintendo will put him to work on a new set of characters for the franchise. I think it is high time they expanded.

Miis, Dillon, Pushmo...they are new Nintendo characters....but yea, I'm hoping they are working on some new faces for the Nintendo universe.

Miyamoto has mentioned that he has a new franchise in the works...so we'll see.

I think he ment new characters in the Kid Icarus franchise.