Why did Kid Icarus never catch on like Mario or Zelda ?
>>12254878It just wasn't a very good game
>>12254878It takes a variety of interesting ideas and implements them all poorly.
>>12254878Too hard
>>12254927>>12254973>>12254992These are all good answers
the blue bomber mogged it
>>12254927you kidding, right?
>>12254878they made a single game and forgot about it until smash brawl.
>>12255410They also made a Game Boy game and forgot to release it in Japan.
the scaling on the RPG mechanics is all fucked and it creates a bizarre situation where the first few levels are the hardest part of the entire game
mario and zelda are fun
>>12254878It had kind of a weird difficulty curve that filtered a lot of people in the first few levels. 80s Kids tended to like Space adventures and fantasy dragon slaying over Greek mythology maybe. It was a little less polished than the other two.It kind of mirrored Metroid at first, getting the NES game and then GB sequel. Somebody somewhere decided in the SMES era to give resources to Super Metroid and not Super Kid Icarus. You can’t make then all. I’ll bet Super Kid Icarus was on a board somewhere and got crossed out due to projected sales. If the same team behind Super Metroid made it, it would’ve been great.
No one wanted to play as some gay kid with wings
Because it sucks. In the first few minutes of Mario, you get acclimated to the controls, stomp on Goombas, grab a mushroom... first few minutes of Zelda you get a sword and start exploring some caves, kill some enemies and grab some ruppees...In the first few minutes of Kid Icarus you go into some empty rooms, shoot at some annoying flying enemies that are hard to hit with your dinky arrows, get gangraped by tiny grim reapers (who the hell decided this game needed stealth elements?) and get killed by the bottom of the screen.Maybe there's a cool game in there somewhere; I'll never know since I'll never bother playing past the second level.
>>12254878Too good
This game is awesome. Get hammers to save your stone buddies, scary Reapers, guys that steal your stuff, Eggplant Wizard dungeons...Medusa...it's great.The leveling up is vague, but the Gods don't smile on everyone.
>>12254878It wasn't homosexual enough for Nintendo audience. It was neither a mustached leather daddy couple nor an androgynous tunic wearing teenager
