Kid Icarus: Uprising creator wants a new console port for the 3DS game

Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai appears to be hinting that another of his games, 2012’s Kid Icarus: UprisingNintendo 3DS is getting a port to modernize the game for their home consoles.

The latest episode of Sakurai’s YouTube series is largely about Kid Icarus: Uprising, and that game’s risk-reward difficulty mechanic, The Fiend’s Cauldron. In the video, Sakurai explains the design process behind The Fiend’s Cauldron, which let players adjust Uprising’s difficulty using a slider, letting them trade “intensity” for better rewards. Not all games need that kind of difficulty system, he argued, but The Fiend’s Cauldron let players present themselves with a personalized challenge that didn’t make them feel bad for opting for “easy mode.”

At the very end of the video, Sakurai says, “It sure would be nice to play Kid Icarus: UprisingOn a home console. I wonder if someone out there will ever port it?”

You will definitely notice it WouldIt would be great to have this option. Kid Icarus: UprisingIt is a wonderful game, which more people should enjoy, thereby exposing them to Eggplant Wizards and Specknoses. Plus, the Nintendo Switch has sold 114 million units to date, nearly 40 million units more than the 3DS did, so there’s a much larger audience for it now.

Uprising was also hindered by its control scheme, which required controlling protagonist Pit with the 3DS’ left analog stick and the system’s touchscreen. The control scheme was so awkward that Nintendo supplied a stand in plastic and physical copies of each game. With its dual analog controls and greater number of buttons, the Nintendo Switch could be a great choice for controlling your Nintendo Switch. Kid Icarus: UprisingIt’s easy to be comfortable.

And it’s possible someone out there is doing that right now, based on a trio of job listings unearthed earlier this year. Bandai Namco is the publisher-developer of several Nintendo games, including Super Smash Bros., Mario Sports, and Mario Tennis. He was looking for people to work on a 3D game contract with Nintendo. It was described as a remake/remaster. Given Sakurai and Bandai Namco’s past working relationship, a co-developed update to Kid Icarus: UprisingThis could all be possible.

Nintendo has made no such announcement, though, and fans of Pit and Palutena will have to see if Sakurai’s mischievous suggestion that Kid Icarus ought to come back is anything more than that.

Original, 8-bit Kid IcarusIt is available on Switch in the Nintendo Entertainment System For Nintendo Switch Online Library.