“If by ‘lasting universe’ you mean to ask if there’s a sequel, the answer is no … because we pushed a lot into the game in order to let people have this short yet deep experience, but the novelty of that would likely grow thin in the next game. For now, my thought is that perhaps we’ll see someone else besides me make another Kid Icarus in another 25 years.”
Masahiro Sakurai tells IGN that there won’t be a sequel to Kid Icarus: Uprising. My first impulse in response to this news is “nooooo,” but, of course, he’s right. Uprising feels super fresh, and Uprising 2 probably wouldn’t. Besides, there’s still a lifetime of gameplay in store for [Garfield & Friends] as we try to reach the absolute pinnacle of Uprising performance. We’re good now, but we’re not “awed whisper when we arrive on the scene” good.
“No matter how much you change a game’s genre and whatnot for the times, I think it’s vital you never lose your respect for the original game,” Sakurai said about the change in style.”
“With the first Kid Icarus, it’s not a serious adventure - it has a more humorous bent to it, one you don’t see in the original Legend of Zelda and Metroid that came out that generation. To embody that in a modern style, we made efforts not to have it seem like a run-of-the-mill battle - the story flow is really daring and unfolds in crazy ways that don’t pay too much attention to the setting.”
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