Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami
a.k.a. 光神話 パルテナの鏡 / Kid Icarus
created and published by Nintendo in 1986-12-19, running on Famicom Disk System
type: platformer, shooter
genre: Fantasy
series: Kid Icarus
perspective: side view
player options: single player
languages: jpn
genre: Fantasy
series: Kid Icarus
perspective: side view
player options: single player
languages: jpn
Personal review
You are Pit, a little angel trapped in the underworld and you have to free your homeland from the evil Medusa. Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami (half a year later released as "Kid Icarus" in the US) plays like a mix of Super Mario Bros., Zelda 2 and Metroid. Not quite as "classic" as the aforementioned games it nevertheless features interesting gameplay and is technically well done. However it is also overly difficult. Actually much too difficult in my eyes. Hard to hit enemies, difficult jumping passages and several levels being a huge labyrinth. Nintendo seemed to follow a general rule of other publishers in 1986 and 1987 to rise the difficulty level to near insane levels.
teran01 # 2010-09-17 16:15:34
teran01 # 2010-09-17 16:15:34
Technical specs
display: raster
Tags (18)
video game
culture
other
hardware
software
creatures
locations
tools
activities
Xrefs (2)
Related games
Contributors (3)
teran01
zerothis
Sanguine
zerothis
Sanguine
Rate and review
LIKE
PLAYED
FINISHED
-
OWN
PLAYING
WANT