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Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the blockbuster Kirby and Super Smash Bros. franchises, has enjoyed further success with Kid Icarus Uprising

“ Perhaps we'll see someone else besides me make another Kid Icarus in another 25 years.

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While it looks like Icarus fans are once again out of luck, at least for the foreseeable future, we at least have Uprising’s surprisingly true to the original adventure to tide us over. When it came to paying homage to the original, Sakurai said this was a key concern of his.“No matter how much you change a game's genre and whatnot for the times, I think it's vital you never lose your respect for the original game,” he said. “With the first Kid Icarus, it's not a serious adventure - it has a more humorous bent to it, one you don't see in the original Legend of Zelda and Metroid that came out that generation. To embody that in a modern style, we made efforts not to have it seem like a run-of-the-mill battle - the story flow is really daring and unfolds in crazy ways that don't pay too much attention to the setting.”As for how Uprising’s over-the-top English localization came to be, Sakurai admitted he gave Nintendo of America a lot of leeway so the game would be enjoyable for native speakers of English. “The Japanese version is definitely very comedic too,” he said. “It's something that takes advantage of the nuances of Japanese conversation, and not all of it works directly in English. We had NOA handle the localization, and I told them to change the meaning and content as much as they want - that I wanted conversations that sound natural and enjoyable to a native speaker.”

Audrey Drake is an Associate Editor of IGN and a proud member of the IGN Nintendo team. She is also a lifelong gamer, a frequent banisher of evil and a wielder of various legendary blades. You can follow her zany exploits on her IGN blog and. Game on!