{"id":123174,"date":"2022-03-22T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129148"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:00:00","slug":"feature-kid-icarus-uprising-nintendos-most-daring-release-of-the-last-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/22\/feature-kid-icarus-uprising-nintendos-most-daring-release-of-the-last-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Kid Icarus: Uprising, Nintendo’s Most Daring Release Of The Last Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yes, it’s now an entire decade since Masahiro Sakurai was permitted to do something other than Smash Bros., so to mark the occasion, Mitch Vogel looks back on one of Nintendo’s most ambitious and misunderstood titles…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s all take a step back and rewind the clock to June 2010, a simpler time when for most of us pandemics were merely the stuff of history books. After a long and ridiculously successful run with the DS and Wii platforms, Nintendo was gearing up to reveal its next gen successors and the company had made it known that it would be showing off its next portable at E3.<\/p>\n

Reggie and Iwata tag-teamed the announcement of the all-new Nintendo 3DS, a futuristic portable that targeted the 3D craze that had set audiences imaginations (and retinas) alight when James Cameron\u2019s Avatar<\/strong> came to theaters. Features like gyro controls, an analogue slider, and much better graphics than the regular DS all supported the promise of a more advanced gaming experience. And what title did Nintendo choose to showcase its new flagship hardware? They didn\u2019t go with a new Zelda or Mario game, as you\u2019d expect. No, the first game that Nintendo chose to reveal for the 3DS was none other than Kid Icarus: Uprising<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of Kid Icarus: Uprising landing on store shelves and this writer would contend that it was the most ambitious game Nintendo ever published on the portable, and still ranks highly as one of their most daring releases of the last decade. The company has made plenty of genre-defining and rightfully award-winning titles since, but I still have yet to play anything<\/em> that feels like Kid Icarus: Uprising.<\/p>\n