Monolith Soft rpg's in this thread too?

Anyways, it's been about 17 years since a Kid Icarus game was released, roughly 21 for a console Kid Icarus game.

The level design BETTER be like the 2-D one, but I highly doubt it. I want verticle stages in a 3-D game. You could jump really high and glide a little as you climb up crazy ledges. That would be amazing. I mean, otherwise it's just Zelda with useless wings on your back. I want gigantic towers that take you into the heavens where you fight crazy evil angels and gorgons and whatnot. It should basically be a cross between Zelda and NiGHTS maybe? I'm just thinking out loud. Not THAT much flight, but a lot.

Also, if you look at my latest thread I have a full summary of IGN's wiik.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=21224#end

Not only was Kid Icarus confirmed, but so was a new Donkey Kong and Kirby games!!

This game is HUGELY overrated. Anyone who hasn't played it but thinks it's great should download it from the VC. Still, that of course doesn't mean a new game can't be good. 

It's not overrated. The game is pure quality. Very difficult and really fun.

Ah, but there's the rub. All of Nintendo's critics repeat themselves:

Nintendo development is nothing but past games revisited, with the same gameplay.

Here Nintendo has the chance to basically create a new IP, with Kit, and using Brawl as a jumping off point, they are basically creating a brand new game with unknown gameplay.

Have we seen the characters before, and heard the name? Sure. Long ago, a cheap repetitive game was made with the name Icarus, but this game, 20 years later, uses the characters underground Nintendo mascot status as an excuse to put him in Brawl and give him a voice, a following, and popularity.

Its foolish to say "Is this game relevant anymore" when you know as well as I that this game isn't Icarus by anything but name. Its a new game from Nintendo and it silences the critics who claim Nintendo development is getting stale.

Of course, if you are a person with sense, you realize that Nintendo development is anything but stale, and realize that new entries in existing franchises are often the best games ever released, and might be a bit dissapointed this new game isn't a new Zelda or Mario game.

I, on the other hand, am glad that Nintendo is creating a NEW game. No, it might not sell as well as its established franchises, but it could be a brand new experience from a Nintendo developed game, much like Metroid Prime was(The same thing was said about Metroid before its release).

The new Icarus is the revival of a name, and I'm VERY excited to see the direction Nintendo chooses to take. If we can look past sales potential this one time and get excited for this game, then we will have given Nintendo a chance to wow us once again. They haven't failed us yet.

Have faith, my friend.

I also believe the original game was nothing special, however, it is likely this new game won't even be mildly related to the original in gameplay.

Look at Nintendo development lately and know that the company has some of the best people in the world developing for them. You must know this new game has some serious potential, and the games "history" will have little influence besides nostalga, on this new title.

To let the original Kid Icarus' gameplay make you not consider the new installment a possible purchase, is pure folly. Think of this as a new IP for Nintendo, with the name Icarus, but the gameplay only an unknown Nintendo game can produce in the way of anticipation.

you know, I've been thinking about it and I'm pretty sure that Kid Icarus (when and/or if it comes out) will be the Wii's definitive third person perspective shooter/adventure game.

Back when the Wii came out, third person shooters were mostly relegated to movie cash ins. And one interesting part about the reviews of such movies (like the Chicken Little game) was the statements that while first person games seemed to have some pretty serious control issues (they meant red steel), the third person perspective games seemed to handle IR aiming much much better, since only aim, and not field of view were effected.

But since then, there's really only been one game to capitalize on that perspective; Resident Evil 4. The game demonstrated beyond a doubt that third person shooter controls kick copious amounts of rump on the Wii. But since then, few if any games have taken a similar perspective. Kid Icarus could be that game.

So it's my prediction that the next Kid Icarus will be like a much faster, more platform and exploration based version of RE4.

yup.

I want kid icarus. .... The game. I mean the game! Don't look at me like that.