Kid Icarus (universe): Difference between revisions

==Franchise description==

During the "golden age" of the [[nwiki:NES|Famicom/NES]] in the late 1980s, one of the original titles and IPs released alongside titles such as {{uv|Metroid}} and {{uv|The Legend of Zelda}} was ''Kid Icarus'', an action platformer that aimed to blend several genres. The game's development process was stressed by time constraints, and the game was released on NES on July 1987 to mixed critical reception, which focused criticism on its frustratingly high difficulty and some odd design choices; despite all this, the game has long since been regarded as a cult classic for the console, and some of its characters had been featured on the American cartoon ''Captain N: The Game Master'' alongside other video game characters popularized by the NES. Following this, a sequel for the Game Boy, ''Kid Icarus: Of Myth and Monsters'', was co-developed between Nintendo and Tose Co., Ltd. and released on November 1991. Reception was decidedly more favorable for the sequel, citing significant improvements to the gameplay all around, though the game never reached the level of public attention that the original had. In an odd twist, ''Of Myths and Monsters'' was, for literally two decades, one of few first-party Nintendo games that were not published in Japan.