I actually feel some sadness that this area of the boards isn't as lively as the Robin thread. Sure, they got Hong coming up with social games and stuff there all the time, but I was hoping from speculation days that there was more Palutena/Kid Icarus love and it'd be crowded here.
Support fadded away with her confirmation and the franchise popularity is not that great specially after yesterday I don't like to be doom and gloom but Kid Icarus is like enemy number 1 on the eyes of many people, I am not sure how many of you were in the backlash that deconfirmations were yesterday, I saw people constantly asking for Sakurai's head and a new director for the series, and complaining how KI has 3 characters when Rool and Ridley were more deserving.
Even all of us agree that Dark Pit and Dr Mario were not necessary, but the hate seems to fall on KI for being a "small underserved series favored because of Sakurai bias". I am kind of annoyed how some people get mad when someone go to their threads and say things like "X is not happening" and defend the character asking the poster to not bash their favorite (with good reason), but when their character is deconfirmed then they start bashing series that got reps... I just don't like double standards, maybe people yesterday had reaons to be upset and mad and I kind of understand their situation but I fail to see why bashing KI for "getting favorited" by Sakurai would make any difference
I just hope people start to think in a different way and start to see characters for their potencial and gameplay and not for the series they are from. When I see the roster al I see are characters I don't go counting 7 Mario reps, 5 Zelda reps, etc. I don't believe in "overrepresentation" or in "underrepresentation". Those are subjetive factors not rules or facts.
What faction would you guys belong in and why?
Army of light - Palutena, Pit, Centurions
Forces of Nature - Viridi, Phosphora, Arlon, Craggalanche
Underworld Army - Hades, Thanatos, Medusa
Unaffiliated - Dark Pit, Magnus, Dog, Girl
Well I would stay with Palutena's army Skyworld is a gorgeus place and she is actually the only god in the whole saga that defend humans and seek their wellfare
Viridi would probably hate me, because obviously I am human, even more now with the bad shape Earth is because of us
Hades and his group are plain evil, Hades doesn't even care about his minions I don't stand a chance
See, thinking of stuff like this always makes me want a strategy-type game featuring the Kid Icarus universe.
Like you pick which faction you belong in, and then your job is to complete missions by properly handling resources to create centurions/monsters.
Like say you're playing as palutena, and you have a certain amount of hearts or prayers, and you can use them to make a heavy centurion. Then once you figure out which units to make/train, you manage them and send them to battle/defend.
Sometimes it's just facing the enemy head on.
Sometimes it's defending a fort from an enemy general unit (Pit, Phosphora, Thanatos)
Sometimes it's working with another army to combat a huge enemy (chaos kin, pyrr-aurum)
I feel like it could be a lot of fun and change the traditional game formula from being an OP character tearing through minions, and instead you manage the minions and place them/order them in a way that allows you to finish the OP enemy character.
Your idea remind me of fusion between Age of Empires, Fire Emblem and Dynasty Warriors
Creation of units with resources, playing strategelly and having commanders with armies to either attack or defense.
About the franchise getting dormant again, I am not confident we are getting new games regulary, Sakurai doesn't want to continue working on it and as a small series Nintendo might give it to a not so good studio, leading to an underwelming game, just like what have happened to Star Fox after 64.
Since Sakurai isn't going to write the story of a theoriset sequel, maybe the new writters can't catch the humor present in Uprising, my best hope to be honest is either Sakurai finds something appealing for him to retake the series or that Nintendo itself or GOOD second parties like Monolith, Retro or Intelligent Systems, make the game.
Sorry if my reply comes too late when everyone seems to be discussing Palutena's moveset right now but this was such I good topic that I simply can't ignore
