What the @#$% Is Going On with the New Kid Icarus Game
Laser guns? Giant muscleheads with giant swords? Horrible, Power Rangers-level voice-acting? Power armor? I don’t know what the fuck this nonsense is, but it sure as hell ain’t Kid Icarus. I’ll grant you the Tempura Wizard is a great idea — watching a giant fried shrimp run around on tiny legs is outstanding — but then Evil Pit showed up and called Good Pit “Pit Stain” and then even the meager amount of good will I had for the game vanished.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.