Kid Icarus: Uprising is the greatest handheld game of all time, one of the greatest games ever made and Masahiro Sakurai's masterpiece

[Virtua Sanus]

It really is an incredible game with a crazy amount of high quality content. Worth it for the initial awkward pain you have to deal with.

The game feels weirdly un-Nintendo too, which is a big reason why it is so cool I suppose.

 

[Damaniel]

It's fine as a game - if you're right handed. If your game needs an accessory just to make it playable, you need to rethink your control scheme.

I wouldn't mind seeing it ported to Switch with better controls though.

 

[Grisby]

Unless you're left handed.

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Raises hand.

 

[FusionNY]

It's also Nintendo's best game. This game is the definition of joy.

 

[Greywaren]

The fact that it's one of my favorite games of all time DESPITE the atrocious controls says all it needs to say about its quality.

 

[Quinton]

It's beautiful!

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follow me on etsy I do custom prints five bucks

 

[SparksterMeta0]

Everything from its presentation, to gameplay, to meta humor, was excellent.

If not for control accessibility issues that don't cramp up your hand, it would have been perfect.

 

[Mesoian]

It should get ported off the 3ds so you never have to use that awful control scheme again.

That game literally hurt to play.

 

[Jon Carter]

I loved the 3DS but the graphics in this game were too off-putting for me. Just dreadful textures, blocky models, a lot of elements were just flat 2D images, gaudy colors… This game would need a complete remake to make it more artistically consistent and visually pleasing.

 

[Blade24070]

Worst playing game ever, but presentation-wise, it was top-notch.

 

[mattiewheels]

Can you buy it digitally?

 

[Fumpster]

I love the writing, the presentation is amazing for 3DS, and the flight controls are great. But I don't like the on-foot combat controls and I think the fact the game had to ship with a stand to compensate for its control scheme is kind of evident that some things should have been reconsidered.

 

[Mutedpenguin]

If it had been released on the Wii , with the perfection of Wii pointer + nunchuk controls, it would be far more beloved.

They had the perfect system for the game right in front of them..and they screwed the pooch by putting it on the 3DS with those controls.
The platform choice made zero sense based on the game they designed.

 

[Cronen]

Unless you're left handed.

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This.

 

[WrenchNinja]

My feelings of it are pretty mixed but leaning negative. I like the on rails segments and the story and writing is great. But man those ground segments stink with the controls your given. Just physically painful to for me to play. It doesn't really help that my feelings about the game are also coloured by my fan interactions at the old place, accusing me of not playing the game or not spending enough time on it.

 

[Tathanen]

Dying force-lowering the intensity so the only way you can ever achieve an intensity-related challenge is by beating an entire excruciatingly long level without dying once is enough to keep this game from ever being truly perfect.

That aside, absolute masterpiece.

 

[Gouf]

If it had been released on the Wii , with the perfection of Wii pointer + nunchuk controls, it would be far more beloved.

They had the perfect system for the game right in front of them..and they screwed the pooch by putting it on the 3DS with those controls.
The platform choice made zero sense based on the game they designed.

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It would play a lot slower with Wii pointer controls. It wouldn't even really be the same game.

 

[skillzilla81]

One of the most uncomfortable control schemes I've ever encountered. Hated every second of trying to play it.

 

[Regiruler]

I loved the 3DS but the graphics in this game were too off-putting for me. Just dreadful textures, blocky models, a lot of elements were just flat 2D images, gaudy colors… This game would need a complete remake to make it more artistically consistent and visually pleasing.

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Look at the enemy designs. The artistic discord is intentional.

Can you buy it digitally?

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Yes, it's been available digitally for a while. It even had my Nintendo discounts for a while.

 

[Lotus]

Unless you're left handed.

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Yea apparently I gotta stay far away from this game due to this...

 

[XenodudeX]

One of my favorite games of all time. It really was that good. Music was amazing as well

 

[demondance]

The MP was great. ARMS is loosely similar but doesn't quite scratch the same itch. I'd love a version of it back, even if you could never quite replicate it exactly without the controls of the 3DS version.

 

[Tohsaka]

Not with those controls.

 

[Vibed]

Dying force-lowering the intensity so the only way you can ever achieve an intensity-related challenge is by beating an entire excruciatingly long level without dying once is enough to keep this game from ever being truly perfect.

That aside, absolute masterpiece.

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I mean, that is the challenge, and they're completely optional. It's not like the game has an abundance of cheap deaths to waste your time, beating 9.0 feels earned.

 

[nutaroundthecorner]

you're goddamn right

 

[OsramTaleka]

The Switch is a hybrid and Steamdeck isn't out yet but other than that you're spot on.

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But I said the steamdeck exists and if the switch is a hybrid so is gameboy.

 

[Plywood]

I couldn't get past the controls which felt like I was being punished for not having a third arm.

 

[TheKeipatzy]

No. Didn't like it

 

[PspLikeANut]

Was Amazing when I played it long time ago. Not sure how it will fair now. I'd imagine I will be struggling with the controls now specifically the land missions

 

[Tathanen]

I mean, that is the challenge, and they're completely optional. It's not like the game has an abundance of cheap deaths to waste your time, beating 9.0 feels earned.

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I'm fine with trying to beat a stage at a difficulty level, but the intensity challenges all being one-credit challenges was just way too frustratingly difficult for me. Beating it on 9.0 woulda been hard enough! But they don't even ask you to do it, they only ask you to one-credit it. Fuck! FUCK!!!

sorry I have trauma with this game

 

[Xenoblade 3]

It's really great. It has the best voice acting in a nintendo game too

 

[Vibed]

I'm fine with trying to beat a stage at a difficulty level, but the intensity challenges all being one-credit challenges was just way too frustratingly difficult for me. Beating it on 9.0 woulda been hard enough! But they don't even ask you to do it, they only ask you to one-credit it. Fuck! FUCK!!!

sorry I have trauma with this game

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I think I got to like Ch 21 on 9.0 before I gave up. So close, yet soooo far :p

 

[GamerJM]

Somewhere in between "loved it" and "it's okay". It's a B+ game for me. I respect those who love it, and I think the game's campaign basically does everything it sets out to do flawlessly. It's nonstop packed with action and consistently fun the whole way through. But it never really stuck with me the same a lot of big first-party Nintendo games do. Also I didn't stick with it for very long but the multiplayer seemed pretty imbalanced and kinda janky.

The controls are fine. Just use ABXY for aiming for ground segments. I could never play at the higher difficulties with that button layout but for the lower-mid ones it works perfectly.

 

[LordHuffnPuff]

A claim that it's the best original title on the 3DS would not be unreasonable.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

But I said the steamdeck exists and if the switch is a hybrid so is gameboy.

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Wut.

 

[chiller]

Great writing that's made even better with an excellent localization and VA cast.
I also remember really enjoying the visual design of the world and music.

hmmm
The stand felt fine to me at the time, but I don't think it would if I went back. It doesn't really seem like it's "one size fits all."


Overall, the game is wildly ambitious (especially for one on a handheld) and it would be great to see some kind of port, even if just for posterity.

 

[WakaWaka]

All those complains about the controls! I never understood, why people just didn't get creative.

I found the most comfortable way to play the game, by just putting a pillow in your lap or by laying on a couch with the pillow on your belly and place your hand in the pillow holding the 3ds.

This way you can put your one hand around the device without having to hold it with a cramping hand or the stand. It rest perfectly and, trhus I cold appreciate what sakurai wanted to achieve with the swipping controls; speed + similar feeling you get with a mouse; just try it this way and you will love it!

 

[Sheldon]

I'm guaranteed to have typed all the words in the title in that precise order somewhere on this or another forum before.

 

[RailWays]

Best game on the 3DS

 

[Glimlocker]

I ask once again to those who hate the controls, what control scheme on Switch (or any HD port) would retain the speed and precision necessary for clearing this game at 9.0?

I'm not talking about the fact that the left handed controls are sad…unless everyone saying they hate the controls are referring to that…

I asked this last week (or thereabouts), too.

 

[Slick Butter]

CTRL+F Persona 4 Golden

There a very few good qualities to Kid Icarus and so I'm struggling to understand if this is a serious thread.

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Of course it's a serious thread, it's a seriously great game. Could be uncomfortable for some depending on which 3DS model you had, but great nonetheless.
The multiplayer was pretty awesome as well, I wish there was something else like it.

Persona 4 I could not get into, on the other hand. I put up with it for about 30 hours of playtime and learned I was maybe halfway through the game when I thought it should have been at least starting to wrap up.

 

[Dice]

Not with those controls.

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It manages its 'goat' title even DESPITE the controls.
Cuz I hated them too. 👍

CTRL+F Persona 4 Golden

There a very few good qualities to Kid Icarus and so I'm struggling to understand if this is a serious thread.

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Eh, that's console at heart lol
Also P4's dungeons were soul sucking

 

[No Depth]

Loved everything except playing it. Fun writing, visuals and concept, but gawd I hated playing it.

 

[ARobotCalledV]

Not the greatest handheld game of all time for me, but definitely a phenomenal game.

 

[Deleted member 42484]

One of the best games of all time. The control scheme is definitely a flaw, but it's still great.

 

[BrickArts295]

It was a pain to play with my big hands, always had cramps.There's a great game hidden behind those weird controls.

 

[Zoid]

 

[pikachief]

Didnt have an issue with controls just thought it was really boring and the ground levels kinda stunk

 

[Biske]

The dog shit controls ruin whatever game is there. Give me the game without absolutely shit controls

 

[CommandThrower]

It's a very good game, but the controls make me hesitant to recommend it to anyone.