A marvel! 16

In Kid Icarus, we are immersed in a world of Greek mythology, colored manga graphics. The little angel Pit, officer Palatuna goddess of light and darkness struggle especially Medusa who has the annoying habit of wanting to conquer the human world.

Early in the game, Medusa resurfaced. Pit launches in pursuit and recovers stolen hearts by his enemies.

Each of the many missions involves two steps:

- An aerial stage. This is a shooter in which we literally eyeful. One is struck by the stunning graphics, it has the feeling of acceleration, plunged slalom in settings "Ancient Greece" sublime, that Pit makes its way amidst hordes of enemies.

- Second, to find its target quest, our hero must ask in a temple or city. What follows is an exploration phase with a very light taste of RPG (you can manage special skills that one team) in large areas and beautiful where the Boss is hiding.

Unusually for a game of this type, the script, full of humor (the dialogue is irresistible) and winks aeil other Nintendo games), is very pleasant to follow, allowing to focus on the various turning situations, drolatiquement unlikely. And yes, Medusa will not be the only one to come to bother us!

The lifetime of the game is very consistent: the solo campaign is indeed long and rich: you can set the difficulty of each level: the more it is, the more we get interesting rewards. In addition, special areas open, which we "forced" to repeat the course to get all the gifts and all the weapons ...

Pit need weapons to confront its enemies. They are very numerous. Besides those they find in his journey, he can buy and build new in the shop left to him by his patron goddess. Between the arches, the masses, swords, sticks, hands, guns, the possibilities are almost limitless. Each has its strengths and weaknesses to us to make the right choice.

My only concern the gameplay: directing the angel with the pad, the firing area with the stylus and shoot with the L button Other buttons are not used, which resulted, for right of seek unnecessary or painful left hand.
The support provided with the console, can relieve our hands, but it takes up space and must necessarily lay it on a table, which poses an obvious problem for a game console vested in any PORTABLE!
In terrestrial phases, one must constantly manage the camera (with horizontal strokes pens), which is very annoying in the phases of intense fighting and which may cause us to miss a treasure.

Yet once taken things in hand, we can not be qu'époustouflé by the beauty of the app, the graphics are spectacular, such as music and dubbing.

Kid Icarus Uprising is a marvel, certainly perfectible in its playability, but we have here the first "real" great original 3DS software that reveals finally its power.

One hope? Nintendo is preparing a second phase, with a redesigned gameplay!