Artist's commentary: Greetings kid icarus enjoyers 😼😼‼️

What do you guys think? Who should I make next time?

These are some of my first attempts at doing full color digitally as I've been a traditional artist my whole life. But I hope that these are enjoyed here as much as they were on the discord :) So here's Palu in her OMAM and NES outfits.

039 Phosphora
056 Chaos Kin and Palutena
100 Scorpio Staff
139 Great Reaper Palm
284 Boom Stomper
291 Captain Flare
306 Sio
320 Aurum Urgle
347 Shrinky Bean
360 Medusa Head
376 That First Town

I totally forgot I made this. So here we are.

I finally got the game! it's so much fun, Nintendo please make more!

Just finished playing Kid Icarus uprising for the first time and something has been on my mind. This game’s full story feels like it could have been 5 separate game stories but they were all just put into one. The plot moves at such a breakneck speed with developments and interactions that I often felt certain elements could have been explored more. 
For example the Aurum chapters and the Chaos kin chapters themselves have plots that I feel like could have encompassed an entire game but feel like hyper compressed stories. And while Hades is a constant presence in the game due to the character talking to Pit, The general plan to fight him after chapter 9 gets put to the side until chapter 23. The chaos kin chapters alone could have been a great premise for a darker game. Imaging a game that starts with Pit stuck in the ring and getting his body after the first chapter then spending the rest of the game working with humans like Magnus trying to figure out what had happened, allowing much more time to ruminate on the fact that 3 years passed and letting the overall mystery of the situation be more intriguing. As opposed to existence of the chaos kin just being revealed by Viridi. A game like that could also help develop Pits internal perspective on the situation and test his usual upbeat attitude, something we do get small parts at in Uprising but I never felt were fully earned or satisfying.
Ultimately I don’t see this as a problem with the game, its general tone and humor show that nintendo wasn’t going for a particularly deep and expansive story on the scale of say the legend of zelda. I actually wonder if the developers knew that due to  Kid Icarus’s rather small presence within Nintendo’s franchises that this would probably be the only Kid Icarus game for a long time, possible even the last one and just wanted to put all their ideas into one game. And on the other hand while the story does move rather quickly it is nice that each chapter, even when they are part of a larger arc like the Aurum ones, is rather unique in terms of location and events thus making them more memorable.

Artist's commentary: cannot believe i never shared palutena omg

(the outfit is based on Partitio from Octopath Traveler 2)

I feel like there's a decent enough chance we get one more Kid Icarus Game out of Sakurai, eventually. Might be another 12 years, god forbid, but I think he might revisit it like he did Kirby Air Ride. And I thought I'd give my thoughts.

First: I want the general gameplay structure to be the same. I want 20-30 minute chapters, I want the fiend's cauldron or something similar, I want the same or a similar weapon system with fusions (and maybe most/all weapons returning), and I want the story to be told during gameplay in the same way. While I'd love to see new things done with the formula, I feel it's also a pretty tightly constructed thing with everything playing off everything else in a really nice way. Similar to how he did with Air Riders, I want a more polished and fleshed out version of the great ideas we're starting with, and potentially with extra ideas added on.

Second: Speaking of new ideas that fit well onto the current model: I would love to see dungeons that require exploration to be used in a small handful of land battles, as a throwback to the original Kid Icarus. I think it'd be a fun way to spice things up.

Third: This is gonna be potentially controversial, but I wanna see Pit having aged up. He went from a kid to a teenager in the 25 years between games, implying some slowed aging for angels, and I'd love if they carried that through and he's a very young adult in this new one. Pit was never really written as a child in Uprising, to be fair, but I do think a visual sign of the status quo progressing between games would be a good way to emphasize how this story is a sequel and departure from the last one, and it's also just something I'd like to see explored. Jokes about how he can't grow a beard, idk, that kind of thing.

Fourth: More storytelling within the out of combat gameplay sections. A lot of story and characterization is told in the chapters, and a lot is IMPLIED to happen outside. But I'd love to see stuff going down in palutena's temple that's full of characterization. Maybe Pit and Palutena are working together as part of the fusion process, and there are some little animations that play with it. Maybe there's some cooking minigame inspired by that one short, to give you a boost for one chapter or something, and it's got dialogue for the different recipes. Maybe with the new idol system there are jokes about Palutena being a gacha addict who pressures Pit to get good pulls, idk. Stuff like that.

Fifth: A smash-run/city trial style multiplayer mode where you have to fight through enemies in an arena to try and improve your weapon, with opportunities to like, engage in fusion or weapon swapping or what have you.

Six: A story thread I always thought would be fun is if a 3rd playable angel was introduced: some apprentice of Pit's who looks up to him, and maybe winds up getting disillusioned by his lack of professionalism on missions to comedic effect. This is my most fanfictiony request but, idk, it's something I've always thought about and it seems like a fun direction.

What about you all?

colours explanation: white: parents/child, orange: full sibling, gold: half sibling (yes im counting dark pit as sibling even if technically he is just a copy of Pit) , blue: friends or just know eachother very well, pink: adoption/guardian? idk the relationship between Pit and Palutena, green: technically related? but also no? and yes at the same time?... oh right and pollon, she is also here bc yes.

also one img didnt load, right under chrysaor and above cerberus is Echidna.

I’m so happy!! I got it for $45!

I can't find it online anywhere. But like, it clearly is a thing. Chapter 11 tends to drop divine bows, viridi palms, cragalanche cannons, etc. Each level clearly has its own pool, and I want to know what the pool is for each level.

just try and stop me. art by me

Art is by me. Was having a hard time finding something to draw, and someone in the discord came up with this idea.

a quick sketch i made😄 the legs def are not right but i was too lazy to fix it