Action
UPS
CEO
Nintendo
10 years later, Kid Icarus Uprising is proof that Sakurai should be allowed to do whatever he wants
Kid Icarus: Uprising was a divisive game, thanks to its touchscreen controls back when it was released ten years ago. Nevertheless, I think it remains one of the finest handheld titles Nintendo has ever released. Super Smash Bros and Kirby director Masahiro Sakurai, as the story goes, was given free rein by the late Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata to pick an as then dormant Nintendo series to develop a new title. He chose Kid Icarus and gave us a bombastic action game with on-rails shooting, 3rd-person action sections, and a gloriously goofy story with hilarious writing.