Kid Icarus (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2016
- A playthrough of Nintendo's 1987 NES game, Kid Icarus.
Here's a fantastic Nintendo classic that doesn't get anywhere near its due - my guess would be that its because even in comparison to other games at the time, Kid Icarus is brutally difficult and obtuse in some of its mechanics. It's hard to get to the end, even if only meeting the conditions for the worst ending, but to get the best is a real hardcore test. Loads of precision jumping, difficult enemy patterns, and a stingy life-bar all mean that you REALLY have to invest yourself to get through it.
That investment is well rewarded though - Kid Icarus is one of the best put-together NES platformers, at least in my opinion, with super-tight balancing and a generally fair (though incredibly steep) challenge. For such an early title, it looks pretty nice, and the music is thoroughly awesome - I love the stage 3 tune especially.
Kid Icarus was developed for the Famicom Disk System as a joint effort between Nintendo R&D1 (they handled most of the black box games) and TOSE with Gunpei Yokoi acting as producer. Yes, the same guy who headed up the Game Boy and Metroid, and then was humiliated by Nintendo after blowing the Virtual Boy (and died shortly thereafter in a violent car wreck). Despite the creator's tragic fate and the reprehensible treatment by a hard-nosed Nintendo after all of his massive successes for the company, this game is a true gem. Why has it only had two sequels?! Both of them are great, by the way, and the second game somehow goes even more unnoticed than the original!
For whatever ire this might stir-up, I have to say that I prefer this game a great deal over the original Metroid. I love Metroid, but Kid Icarus (incidentally enough running on the same engine as Metroid, since they were developed at the same time) really hit me much more favorably - it's far more linear and focused, and I appreciated that. I loved the exploration aspect of Metroid, but for me, that itch had already been scratched by Zelda. I really enjoyed the similar play mechanics that had been completely reimagined for this title and it's much lighter atmosphere. I thought that Metroid really managed to hit its full stride in Super Metroid, but Kid Icarus was already there in 1986. Metroid is also super-easy compared to Kid Icarus, and Metroid IS NOT an easy game by any stretch of the imagination.
Finally, for anyone interested in how I got the ending that I did: you have to finish the game with all of the strength upgrades, a maxed-out life gauge, all three of the final weapons for the Medusa fight (duh), and your hearts have to be maxed at 999 when you kill Medusa. I loved this game as a kid in the 80s and beat it a few times, but never managed any ending better than the one where Pit grows huge and flexes his arm. I didn't even realize there were more endings until I went back to the game as a teenager to replay it and finally got the best one.
So, in closing, I hope you enjoy this playthrough! I could play this again and again and never get bored with it.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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Super Mario Movie anyone? This canonically means that Mario's fav game on the NES could be this game.
This is one of the best nes games ever made. The music was also great. I have always thought that Yokoi's fate was utterly tragic, especially since, by all accounts he was one of the kindest, good natured people to ever design a game.
I'm 31 again & playing this for the first time...Instantly hooked! Every kid in the neighborhood came to our house to eat, play Nintendo & have fun. Parent was always home, they knew if I was playing Any Zelda to leave me alone 😁
F*?! this game was a GRIND!!! And yet I can remember playing this with my BFF for hours, copying continue codes and laughing like hyenas when we got turned into eggplants… major nostalgia feels. Thank you for reminding me of my 11 yo self
Mario's favorite video game is canonically Kid Icarus for the NES
haha Mario playing this in the film
You're an absolute beast. You make these hard games look so easy.
This just unlocked memories that I did not know existed. This was the game I got included with my brand new Nintendo. This tapped into a part of my brain that brought back something that was hidden away. I even started doing the finger movements. I’m frigging 41!!!!
So many fond memories of playing this as a kid. One of those rare games that actually got easier as you progressed. And that epic ending.
I'm here after this was shown in the Mario Movie
This was my absolute favorite game as a young child! My kids laughed at me when I showed them (the graphics lol) I will always love this game.
Fue impresionante que apareciera en la película de Super Mario Bros como uno de los juegos que estaba jugando Mario en su NES
If you enjoy a heavy challenge and steep learning curve, you really can't ask for a better put-together platformer than Kid Icarus.
This game was difficult AF, but also crazy fun
one of my top nes games. Me and my Mom passed it numerous times, first and second quests. She drew the original maps for me
I was hooked. Loved the music. I would freestyle to this when nobody knew what freestyling was.
Super Mario Movie told me to visit. :)
What a nostalgy trip, I haven't seen this game in more than 15 years probably (I'm 23). I wasn't very good at this as a kid and people here say it's actually a hard game so no wonder I guess, I was like 6 at the time I was playing this. However, my dad completed the game I think and I loved watching him play! <3
After two months, I finally beat the game because of how confused I was on the caves where the bosses were. So I decided to look up a video, and I probably wouldn't have completed the game without you, so thanks a lot!🙏 It was also awesome how it was shown in the mario movie when mario was playing on the NES. It was amazing!
so this is what mario is tired at plumbing toilet and getting barked at him and at 9pm he plays this game. wonderful scene chris fuckin pratt.