Holding down the top left button auto-fires your selected weapon, which changes from ranged to melee attacks when you get close enough to an enemy. The slide pad controls movement, using it to strafe and circle while in the air, and actually move Pit in any given direction while on foot. The touchscreen controls targeting, allowing you to slide the aiming reticule around to aim, and while on the ground it doubles as a camera control. The second half will see Pit on foot, offering up more control for the player but at the expense of a much slower pace.Ĭontrols are handled using a combination of the slide pad, touchscreen, and left top button on the 3DS. Every stage is divided into two sections, an on air Space Harrier style rollercoaster that forces Pit along a path while you blast down bad guys that constantly pop up in your field of vision. The only real negative I’ll level at the title is that I do find the controls a little cumbersome, mostly when it comes to the on-foot sections of the game. But I’m happy to state that the delay doesn’t seem to be indicative of the overall quality of Kid Icarus: Uprising, as I’ve had a lot of fun playing through the game for review. Uprising had been pushed back a few times from its original launch window release date, which would typically give consumers cause to speculate on how well the finished product would turn out. This led to constant speculation about the possibility of a Kid Icarus revival project, which was eventually unveiled as this title around the time the 3DS was announced.

Pit was more recently featured in another game developed by Uprising’s designer, Masahiro Sakurai, the ever popular man behind the Smash Bros. Kid Icarus: Uprising sees the angel character Pit return to a full-fledged adventure for the first time in over two decades, since the Game Boy sequel to the NES original in 1991. And trust me when I say you will fall firmly into one of those two camps when it comes to the non-conventional controls used here. It just oozes charm and has an amazing level of detail to it, enough so that it will most likely win you over despite whether you love or hate the control scheme. One of the best aspects about the Kid Icarus revival on the 3DS is that you can tell the team behind it really had their heart in the game.

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