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Wonderful Kid Icarus: Uprising art by Gigi D.G. She drew this to commemorate her favorite game of 2012, which also happens to be our favorite game of 2012! At least, that’s according to the official documentation we filed yesterday.
If you’re not reading Gigi’s comic Cucumber Quest, then that’s the first change you need to make in 2013. Resolve to be a person with a Cucumber Quest habit.
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Pre-order Figma Pit and Dark Pit
Pre-orders for the amazing Figma Kid Icarus: Uprising figures are now up at import toy retailers, including AmiAmi, which I’ve linked here. Both Pit and Pittoo sell for ¥2,910 ($35) and come with … oh no … an exclusive AR card in their first editions.
Both will be released in late April.
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Figma Pit and Pittoo figures, with weapons, interchangeable faces, and Monoeye accessories. Masahiro Sakurai tweeted these pics, clearly proud of how they came out. There’s no date yet, but … man, am I going to buy two Kid Icarus figurines? I kind of want to send the message that I’ll pay for more Kid Icarus, and, uh, I want these.
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It’s marked as “temporarily out of stock,” but Amazon is still taking orders of Kid Icarus: Uprising for $19.99. Be sure to click on the “More Buying Choices” to find it from Amazon. It’s a Cyber Monday deal (along with Star Fox 64 3D and Ocarina of Time) at Best Buy as well.
Having just spent a bit of time playing multiplayer last night, after scanning about 100 AR Cards, I can confirm this is still a good time.
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Club Nintendo is giving away a “Core AR Card Set” for Kid Icarus: Uprising, including “over 400” of the cards, which is way more than I have.
All you have to do to enter (in the US or Canada) is buy the game, register it on Club Nintendo, and then opt into the contest on the same site. You have until January 6 to enter. Cards! More cards!
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536 Kirby fans set a world record at PAX, by blowing bubble gum bubbles simultaneously.
Okay that’s great, but LOOK AT THOSE KIRBY SHIRTS. Nintendo handed pink Kirby face shirts out to some of the attendees, and I wasn’t one of them because I’m at home.
Also among things I didn’t get from Nintendo: sets of over 400 Kid Icarus AR cards, given to winners of an Uprising tournament at the event.
Daaaang.
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Kid Icarus sword props by ThePropShop. These are “made from wood, pink insulation foam, pvc and leather. Can be used as two swords as well as a bow.” I’m pretty sure the “use” implied here is display rather than fighting. I mean, you could try to fight somebody with these, but you’d be out $170.
Speaking of Pit swords, I thought PikminLink did a pretty dang great job on the ones she had at PAX East.
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Series 2 of Kid Icarus AR cards coming out in North America
Hey, more Kid Icarus cards are coming! AR Idol Cards Series 2 will include more characters, items, etc. as well as the “Stage Cards” that provide new backdrops for the AR battles.
These will be available starting tomorrow in North America. Nintendo is still limiting them to events – you can pick them up at the Nintendo World Store in NYC tomorrow – or every Friday from 6-8pm, or at unspecified retail events later, orrr at PAX and NY Comic-Con.
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Weird, sad news: Project Sora, the development studio behind Kid Icarus: Uprising, has closed, according to a message on its website. The studio is distinct from Sora Ltd., the company that basically consists only of Masahiro Sakurai (and which owned part of Project Sora). Presumably Sakurai is still employed with Nintendo.
Of course, Nintendo (and Sakurai) are working with Namco Bandai to create Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS. That choice makes more sense with the closure of Project Sora – and I can kind of see how it makes sense to work with an established studio instead of a mostly Nintendo-owned, but still functionally independent, studio.
Update: I’ve been reminded that Project Sora was a temporary operation set up just to make Kid Icarus, so the closure was built into the model. That makes the Namco thing make even more sense, as Namco is just the next “contract” studio to work with Sora Ltd., instead of setting up a new group.
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We’re still working through last week’s Nintendo Direct – we got the megatons up immediately and the minitons soon after, but a few interestingtons remain. Like this announcement, very briefly mentioned in the Japanese presentation.
Starting last week, Nintendo packaged up sets of Kid Icarus Uprising AR cards and sold them. Each 20-card set (Second Coming of Palutena or Devil King and Magnus, roughly) costs 263 yen from Nintendo’s site.
I still like Kid Icarus AR cards! Mostly because I still like Kid Icarus so dang much.
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Step your Light vs. Dark game up with some new Kid Icarus: Uprising tricks. Item Vacuum is so useful!
As many of our regular readers already know, this little blog is just something JC and I run on the side. Those of you who follow eSports know us better for leading the #1 ranked Kid Icarus: Uprising clan in the world, Garfield and Friends* (according to MLG, IGN Pro League, ESL, and other competitive game leagues).
We spend a lot of time making sure we dominate Light vs. Dark matches no matter how high we set the difficulty on the AI bots — practicing offensive and defensive plays hundreds of times until it’s all muscle memory, alternating between cardio and strength work-outs throughout the week to ensure we’re in top shape, and reviewing footage from previous matches to spot flaws in our execution.
This clip still managed to surprise use with a few new tips, though — and we’ve put hundreds of hours into the game!
*sponsored by Inokichi Cup O’ Chicken Noodles
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Palutena could be giving a shout out to Cave Story’s Curly Brace in this exchange from Kid Icarus: Uprising. Who knows if it’s intentional or not; somebody ask Treehouse!
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