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

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.

# 2010-09-17 16:15:34

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