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Well that's a tragedy. Kid Icarus: Uprising may have had problems with controls, but I would love to see a sequel that fixes these issues. The sense of humour, the brilliant graphics, as well as the fun I had with it was unlike anything else Nintendo had done. If the only thing we hear out of this franchise is a retro remake (2D platformer, pixel graphics), I'd be a sad, sad panda.
Yeah, I assumed it was only for the one game also. I mean their name is Project Sora: 'Project' often meaning one-off specialtimes and 'Sora' being Japanese for sky because angels...
Noooooooo(...)ooo, Kid Icarus was a masterpiece !
I loved the humor, the gameplay and the music...what a shame
@Pencoin: Buy it now, it is easily the best 3Ds game !
I loved the humor, the gameplay and the music...what a shame
@Pencoin: Buy it now, it is easily the best 3Ds game !
Pretty much what Stealth said iyam. When the game was first announced, they said something about forming a special studio just for that game. I never expected them to stay together.
Sorry and Project Sora are two different things. I was under the impression that the people that worked at Project Sora were contract workers from other studios, aka no real employees.
I get the reasoning people are giving for it always being a one game deal, but that doesn't sound right to me. Sure Project Sora is a pretty obvious reference to Kid Icarus, but just because the company is named after a game, doesn't mean that's all they had planned to do.
Whatever the case, here's hoping Sakurai's next game (after Smash 4) is as good as Kid Icarus was. Even though your Destructoid review ultimately didn't care for it that much.
Whatever the case, here's hoping Sakurai's next game (after Smash 4) is as good as Kid Icarus was. Even though your Destructoid review ultimately didn't care for it that much.
Hoping the employees get moved around, because Kid Icarus: Uprising was very fun to play. I'd like to see that sort of talent put to a new IP or another franchise.
#1 mistake, they didn't make it a Circle Pad Pro title, it would have been the perfect game for the public to adopt that peripheral, but they just made it for lefties which is a bit weird. If you're doing something anyway, why not go all out? Its just the same as the Metroid game on Wii (forgot the title), no controller support and they should have used both Wiimote and the controller instead of just using the stick controller to switch between first person and thrid person. These developers are so freakin' lame.
Sora Ltd. is the name of the company. They did not close the studio down. You would think journalists would get their facts straight before posting them....
@Chris Alley, Sora Ltd and Project Sora are not at all the same thing. You'd think people would do research before bashing journalists.
Project Sora was just a team-up with Nintendo and Sora Ltd for the Kid Icarus game. The game is done so the project is essentially over. I'm guessing the employees just went back to their respective team (whether it be Nintendo or Sora Ltd)
Nintendo does this all the time making little teams and calling them studios fir specific titles. I'm sure most people got divided up and sent to other projects or maybe stuck with Sora.
Oh, Chris Alley seems to be correct. Sweet! So it's just a misunderstanding then. In that case, I can't wait for Sora Ltd.'s next project!
@Chris Alley, you are really stupid. Where in this post is Sora Ltd listed as closed down? Project Sora is what is listed as shut down. In fact, the post mentions how Sakurai continues to work under his personal banner company Sora. You need to work on your reading comprehension.
From what I could find in new archives, Project Sora was made up of about 30 Nintendo employees who worked on Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Something tells me all those employees are now working on Super Smash Bros. 4.
I'll never understand Nintendo's obsession with horrible controls, DS, Wii and then the 3DS, so many games that could have worked so much better with standard controls but nope, gotta make something stupid and convoluted.
There are titles on the Wii that people hacked for give them more traditional controls and they work much better.
There are titles on the Wii that people hacked for give them more traditional controls and they work much better.
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Am I like the only one who doesn't get the complaints against the games control scheme. Outside of the fact it takes some getting used to it took me all of 3 chapters to completely have it figured out and once I did I thought the controls fit the game better than dual stick controls. I never cramped my hands, i never arched my back in an uncomfortable position, I usually play with 3d on, and I've never used that stupid stand or any other convoluted technique. And I did all that and beat each level on max intensity.
Am I like the only one who doesn't get the complaints against the games control scheme. Outside of the fact it takes some getting used to it took me all of 3 chapters to completely have it figured out and once I did I thought the controls fit the game better than dual stick controls. I never cramped my hands, i never arched my back in an uncomfortable position, I usually play with 3d on, and I've never used that stupid stand or any other convoluted technique. And I did all that and beat each level on max intensity.
Project Sora was only formed to make Kid Icarus Uprising it is just a small development team.
Sora LTD is the full company the Sakurai created for Nintendo for Super Smash Bros. Do some research people.
Sora LTD is the full company the Sakurai created for Nintendo for Super Smash Bros. Do some research people.
It wasn't a very good game, but aside from that Project Sora was only created for that one game, if they make a sequel ever (and that might take another 25 years...) then they'll probably open another "Project".
Its something that people this way don't really know a lot about, and it usually happens more with Anime from what I've experienced, but "Projects" or things like them, usually desolve sometime after the show/series is over. Which is probably the case here. .hack is a great example of this, as it had 2 projects, Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate, which (even though much larger in scope) sounds like the same deal as Project Sora.
As for Sakurai, if this is actually bad news, then I wouldn't exactly be surprised by it, since he's seemed pretty dismal over his relationship with Nintendo ever since just after E3 2010. If this was coming, then that might be why he was like that -though I still hold up that its not the same thing, and this article is probably missing some context.
Its something that people this way don't really know a lot about, and it usually happens more with Anime from what I've experienced, but "Projects" or things like them, usually desolve sometime after the show/series is over. Which is probably the case here. .hack is a great example of this, as it had 2 projects, Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate, which (even though much larger in scope) sounds like the same deal as Project Sora.
As for Sakurai, if this is actually bad news, then I wouldn't exactly be surprised by it, since he's seemed pretty dismal over his relationship with Nintendo ever since just after E3 2010. If this was coming, then that might be why he was like that -though I still hold up that its not the same thing, and this article is probably missing some context.
Too bad. Game was fantastic. Jim's review be damned, same goes to the fanboys who accepted said review and never bothered to play the game.
Unless Kid Icarus Uprising was a massive failure, I doubt many lost their jobs. But the good news for gamers is that unlike Squenix (who refuses to make sequels without the original developers involved, it's ultimately Nintendo's decision (not Sakurai's) for Kid Icarus sequel, hopefully it won't take another 20-25 years.
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