Kid Icarus: Uprising

Kid Icarus: Uprising is a video game for the Nintendo 3DS released in 2012. It is the third game in the Kid Icarus series and was released twenty years after Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters and 26 years after the original. It was developed by Project Sora and published by Nintendo.

Plot
Medusa who had been defeated 25 years ago has revived and resumed her invasion on the humans. Palutena sends Pit to fight back against the Underworld and defeat Medusa once more. But how did Medusa resurrect? Is there someone else behind the Underworld invasion?

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Each stage has 2 main sections: Air and Ground. The 2 modes make the game a combination of a rail shooter and a third person shooter.
 * 2) Numerous stages.
 * 3) The true enemy of the Kid Icarus series is revealed.
 * 4) Spending hearts gathered from enemies can be used to increase or decrease the intensity (difficulty) of a level. The harder the level you complete, the better the rewards, and vice versa. This mechanic was eventually carried over to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS ' Classic Mode.
 * 5) Nine different types of weapons: bows, claws, blades, palms, cannons, clubs, orbitars, staffs and arms. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses.
 * 6) Tons of additional content.
 * 7) The Checklist system from Kirby Air Ride makes a return, adding a lot of replay value.
 * 8) One mini-game requires you to spend play coins to buy eggs to obtain character and background models. Better start walking.
 * 9) Online and local multiplayer, with two modes: Light vs. Dark, a 3v3 mode, and Free-for-All, a six-player battle royale mode.
 * 10) Great music. It helps that many well known composers contributed to the soundtrack, including Motoi Sakuraba (composer for the Tales series and the Golden Sun games), Masafumi Takada (composer for the Danganronpa series), Yuzo Koshiro (composer for the Etrian Odyssey series), and even Yatsunori Mitsudsa (composer for Chrono Trigger and the Inazuma Eleven series).
 * 11) Great humor and writing, with many references to the first game.
 * 12) Speaking of the first game, almost every enemy from it was faithfully brought back here, this time, in a 3D space which was translated very well.
 * 13) Excellent graphics.
 * 14) Great voice providing, including such talented people as Antony Del Rio (Pit and Dark Pit), Hynden Walch (Viridi), Ali Hillis (Palutena), and many more.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While her voice providing is great, Viridi's voice can get on some people's nerves.
 * 2) The controls are messy. Especially if you're left-handed, since you must use the A, B, Y and X buttons to move, which is incredibly less precise.
 * 3) The Hewdraws from the first game unfortunately didn’t get over their loathsomeness.
 * 4) The Hades’ Heart boss fight is notorious for being unfair and pointless.

Reception
Kid Icarus: Uprising has a rating of 4.33 out of 5 on GameFAQS.

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