Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that. That was indeed awesome.
The music was spot-on too.
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Kid Icarus Uprising |OT| On a Wing and a Prayer
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Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that. That was indeed awesome.
Yeah I was surprised too. He really can do anything.
SpacePirate Ridley
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So he IS the writer of the game. God bless you sakurai. Also god bless you treehouse for the english dialogs, AND Nintendo of Spain, you did a good job with the wacky translation, too bad is nearly impossible to read the subtitles and would have been better with an option of a spanish dub.
BTW for people who have finished the game
In
and tips fighting without getting hit most of the time against
His the fucking worst boss in the game and the most difficult and fustrating. Just becuase of his beserk mode.
I dont have any problems with the other bosses, but him is a pain in the ass.
BTW for people who have finished the game
In
boss rush mode
heart of hades
I dont have any problems with the other bosses, but him is a pain in the ass.
sorijealut
Member
Sakurai... you genius, you.
THIS is what a talented developer is like.
He has his hands in so many areas of the game it's not even funny.
THIS is what a talented developer is like.
He has his hands in so many areas of the game it's not even funny.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Super Guide to Weapon Fusion
I got most of this info from the Japanese wiki, where they figured out the formula for how weapon fusions work to get specific weapons.
Essentially, there are 12 weapons of every type, and each of these weapons is assigned a number from 1 to 12. When you fuse two weapons together, you just add those numbers together to get the number of the resulting weapon. If the result is higher than 12, it just wraps back around to 1; in other words, if it's more than 12, subtract 12. Simple as that!
So for example, you want to make an Angel Bow, because you have heard it has really good homing capabilities and you want to try it out.
First you check this chart to see what combinations can result in bows:
It turns out you can make bows from anything except staves and other bows.
So looking down the first column, you randomly decide you are going to make an Angel Bow from a blade and an arm. What number is the Angel Bow, so we can find out what blade and arm numbers we need to add together?
Well here is a nice list of the item numbers. I believe this is correct; it's the order the cards are numbered and the order of idols in-game, and every test I've put it through has worked. These are SPOILERS, some of these weapons take a lot of work to unlock, and they're named after bosses and such.
So we can see that the Angel Bow is number 7. 2 + 5 = 7, we could use blade 2 and arm 5 to make it, which is a Burst Blade and Drill Arm.
Or as another example, Royal Blade plus Artillery Claws equals Ore Club. 5 + 8 = 13, 13 - 12 = 1.
Nifty, huh?
One interesting thing about this is that almost any weapon can be used to fuse almost any other weapon. I mean, think about it...say you want to make a Royal Blade, blade 5. Staves are one blade ingredient and cannons are the other, so let's see which staves and cannons can be used to make blade 5:
1 & 4
2 & 3
3 & 2
4 & 1
5 & 12
6 & 11
7 & 10
8 & 9
9 & 8
10 & 7
11 & 6
12 & 5
...All staves and cannons can be used as part of a fusion to make blade 5! It's just a game of finding the right partner.
If a fusion doesn't work, i.e. if you try to fuse two weapons to make a new one and all you see is an X and question mark, it means you haven't unlocked that weapon yet. Play the game more, explore more thoroughly, complete more treasure hunt challenges. Eventually you will be able to fuse anything with anything.in every even-numbered chapter
According to the wiki that revealed this, there are some exceptions to this rule. You'll expect to get a staff and end up with a sword instead. I have no idea why, perhaps there are some small programming errors. If a certain combination doesn't turn out as expected, I'm sorry, but this addition rule for fusion works the majority of the time.
Oh yeah, one other thing: to my knowledge, nobody knows how to tell which stars and abilities get carried over yet. It's bound to be a complicated calculation.
Quoteing this post for a new page cause it's awesome
Oni Link 666
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Smiles and Cries
Member
Pit makes me love Hot Springs the way he loves them so much I chuckle every time he finds one
You can dodge through him if you're fast enough, and trying to keep your distance helps. There's also a power that lets you shoot through walls, haven't tried it on him yet but I imagine it would be useful. Dunno if you would want to give up power slots for it though.
BlueScrote
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I'm really enjoying multiplayer. It plays really smoothly. It's also helping come to grips with the ground controls I think.
StrikerObi
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I wish Sora would join forces with Grasshopper Manufacture and Platinum Games to make the GOD KING of weird Japanese action games.
Giolon
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Reformatted for readability.
Wow, it's amazing what a few line breaks will do.
Also, I think Sakurai might have just jumped onto my favorite game designers list.
Wow, it's amazing what a few line breaks will do.
Also, I think Sakurai might have just jumped onto my favorite game designers list.
And then he reworked Kid Icarus decades later when he was 19.
ShockingAlberto
Member
I get it
Smiles and Cries
Member
Sakurai has earned much respect with this game but people should not forget he has a good team behind him. Overall Nintendo did a great job here this is indeed a classic.
hope it sells well enough for them to try it again.
hope it sells well enough for them to try it again.
This may seem obvious, but you can just sidedash out of its way. You just need to get the timing down.
Makes me wish even more that he made Brawl with a funny story instead of whatever Brawl could be described as having.
*Hopes next one is funny out the ass with Pit & Palutena doing running commentary*
the KI:U |OT| is by far the best party thread in months, I am yet to see a single post bitching and moaning about something. Minor complains about controls but overall, this thread shows what videogame dreams are made of.
an entity of gamers getting a game they all enjoy at least for fucking once, with out silly talks of FPS, downports, graphix, game should be here, game should be there.
I don't even have a 3DS but I love to read this thread and confirm that once in a while complete happiness can be achieved. the last time I saw an OT like this was probably Mario Galaxy, a while ago.
Bravo, Sakurai & Co.
an entity of gamers getting a game they all enjoy at least for fucking once, with out silly talks of FPS, downports, graphix, game should be here, game should be there.
I don't even have a 3DS but I love to read this thread and confirm that once in a while complete happiness can be achieved. the last time I saw an OT like this was probably Mario Galaxy, a while ago.
Bravo, Sakurai & Co.
I've been here since the beginning and there's been a lot of heated debate over the controls, sales, etc. But yes, overall this is a thread of fap and may the fap continue.
Went to a Best Buy and two Gamestops today.
Both were sold out.
Woah....nice....
I was gonna say that whoever wrote this game's story should write the next Zelda.
Kinda surprised it was actually Sakurai himself.
Well it's unlikely that Sakurai will write the next Zelda, but whether he does or doesn't, it really needs to follow this game's lead. Have a story that doesn't fall back on collecting X number of Y, and instead gives you different objectives for each step of the story. And I think Kid Icarus has finally proven that you can have voice acting without sacrificing that Nintendo whimsy.
Wow. Not too surprising for Gamestop, since they generally get in just enough to cover preorders and then a couple more, but it's surprising for Best Buy. I hope it means the game's selling really well and not just that they got low shipment orders.
I love that. No matter how serious things get, there's still time for the jokes.
I wasn't sold on the lighthearted take when they first said that's what they were doing with this game, but I'm glad they went that route. Anyone else in the world would have jumped on the gritty reboot bandwagon, and we would've gotten something like Factor 5's Man Icarus. Sakurai was all, nope, we're making this game goofy as hell.
Kinda surprised it was actually Sakurai himself.
Well it's unlikely that Sakurai will write the next Zelda, but whether he does or doesn't, it really needs to follow this game's lead. Have a story that doesn't fall back on collecting X number of Y, and instead gives you different objectives for each step of the story. And I think Kid Icarus has finally proven that you can have voice acting without sacrificing that Nintendo whimsy.
Went to a Best Buy and two Gamestops today.
Both were sold out.
Wow. Not too surprising for Gamestop, since they generally get in just enough to cover preorders and then a couple more, but it's surprising for Best Buy. I hope it means the game's selling really well and not just that they got low shipment orders.
I love that. No matter how serious things get, there's still time for the jokes.
I wasn't sold on the lighthearted take when they first said that's what they were doing with this game, but I'm glad they went that route. Anyone else in the world would have jumped on the gritty reboot bandwagon, and we would've gotten something like Factor 5's Man Icarus. Sakurai was all, nope, we're making this game goofy as hell.
Smiles and Cries
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Went to a Best Buy and two Gamestops today.
Both were sold out.
I hope this is a trend of sold out and not underestimated low shipments
This makes me very hopeful for Smash 4's story mode.
You know how much Pokemon sells, right?
Brawl's script was done by the guy who did Final Fantasy VII, iirc. There was much hoopla about how "epic" this would make the game. Heh.
So yeah. Sakurai, if the next Smash has a story, write it yourself, foo. Uprising be ballin'.
Pit is such a wonderful character. I love his ongoing enthusiasm and his cheerful tone. His silly passion for hotsprings is hilarious, and the way he reacts when controlling Cherubot for the first time is just awesome :
It kinda makes me sad when Palutena makes fun of him. Especially when she says he needs to (early game spoiler, if i'm not mistaken)
"I love you Cherubot ! You're my new best friend !... But don't tell Lady Palutena."
"make some friends"
Smiles and Cries
Member
Pit is such a wonderful character. I love his ongoing enthusiasm and his cheerful tone. His silly passion for hotsprings is hilarious, and the way he reacts when controlling Cherubot for the first time is just awesome :It kinda makes me sad when Palutena makes fun of him. Especially when she says he needs to (early game spoiler, if i'm not mistaken)"I love you Cherubot ! You're my new best friend !... But don't tell Lady Palutena.""make some friends"
he deserves a girlfriend in the next game poor guy
Palutena was teasing him, you thin-skinned pansies. I'd be more concerned about how she constantly puts him in harm's way, though as we learn later on with the centurions (and this is not a spoiler), Palutena's forces can always be revived, so I'd imagine that applies to Pit as well (and it must, since she teases him for saying "I'm finished!" all the time).
I like how Pit reacts to the flirtations of
, though. And how Palutena tells Pit not to think anything "naughty," eheheh. It's hard having a hot boss, eh Pit?
I'd be more concerned about how she constantly puts him in harm's way, though as we learn later on with the centurions (and this is not a spoiler), Palutena's forces can always be revived, so I'd imagine that applies to Pit as well (and it must, since she teases him for saying "I'm finished!" all the time). I like how Pit reacts to the flirtations of
Phosphora
I work at Target and the Nintendo rep came in today. He said that Kid Icarus has been selling like crazy and that Nintendo is really happy with it (our store was completely sold out btw).
For those interested, he also said that several people within Nintendo are preparing for a re-reveal of the Wii U, saying that the name will almost definitely change. I don't know how much information this guy knows but I found him to be pretty fun to talk to.
We have two locations at Target for it, including one on an endcap where we feature it. Parents are coming in saying how their 10 and 9 year old children are begging for it. We had quite a big shipment.
For those interested, he also said that several people within Nintendo are preparing for a re-reveal of the Wii U, saying that the name will almost definitely change. I don't know how much information this guy knows but I found him to be pretty fun to talk to.
We have two locations at Target for it, including one on an endcap where we feature it. Parents are coming in saying how their 10 and 9 year old children are begging for it. We had quite a big shipment.
nckillthegrimace
Member
If that's true, then that's pretty cool on both fronts. You should post that in the Wii U speculation thread, too. Give those guys another scrap of information to obsess and argue over.
I just can't believe how much I'm enjoying just listening to the characters in this game talk to each other. Three heads bickering with each other, lame puns about it, everyone can fly naturally except Pit, it's great.
How is a handheld game for a franchise I cared nothing about suddenly my vote for best written game of 2012?
Also only on level 3, would be farther but I keep getting a new weapon and trying it out on level one. Or going online, getting a new power and weapon and trying level one with them. Slow progression and difficulty slider does not help push me forward (in a good way).
How is a handheld game for a franchise I cared nothing about suddenly my vote for best written game of 2012?
Also only on level 3, would be farther but I keep getting a new weapon and trying it out on level one. Or going online, getting a new power and weapon and trying level one with them. Slow progression and difficulty slider does not help push me forward (in a good way).
Smiles and Cries
Member
Palutena was teasing him, you thin-skinned pansies.
I like how Pit reacts to the flirtations of, though. And how Palutena tells Pit not to think anything "naughty," eheheh. It's hard having a hot boss, eh Pit?Phosphora
Its hard to zero in on what is cannon about Pit's death or dying since the game breaks the 4th wall all the time besides the (
story deals with that very topic near the end point of the game
Smiles and Cries
Member
word of mouth must be killing it at school all that loot and bragging right of who has the best weapon? damn could be huge if it pans out
Smiles and Cries
Member
I had to go into the Audio settings to turn down the sound effects and music a little just to hear what these guys were saying because it became so much part of the game's charm
Look at how good Skylanders did. Kids like these types of things. So do I of course. I've been playing it today and the game is excellent. The voice acting and silly story are definitely the highlights.
nckillthegrimace
Member
This game isn't for kids. It has mild suggestive themes.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
LOL that shot defense - 2. Good luck XD
but..but.. 6 stars!
UncleSporky
Member
It's not even Nintendo, it's like...Pixar. Seriously. These characters are super awesome.
I wa referring I how unexpected Pokemon's status as a system seller was.
sorijealut
Member
Nice post - it's true, this thread is pretty friggin awesome.
Good to know our excitement is reaching other gaffers.
Got this the other day.
Dat claw man. It's nice, but you have to be mindful of the weapon value, it usually reflects how it will do in battle.
Axelstream
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My main weapon, which is a 260 value Cursed Palm, has that -2 shot defense. It's got some strong abilities, but prepare to get lit up like a mofo. :C That in-peril autododge is pretty sweet though, and those strength stats are pretty darn high. By the by, does anyone know what the "shaking" effect does?