IGN has recently reported on their latest interview with Sakurai - the maker of Kid Icarus, among other popular Nintendo games - that he was saying that the next time we would see a new Kid Icarus game wouldn't be for another 25 years. This is not uncommon though, Sakurai usually doesn't make sequals for the same game in a generation so let's hope that on the next generation Nintendo handheld or Wii U we could possibly see a new Kid Icarus game, maybe with better controls. But Sakurai makes it sound unlikely:
"We pushed a lot into the game in order to let people have this short yet deep experience, but the novelty of that would likely grow thin in the next game. For now, my thought is that perhaps we'll see someone else besides me make another Kid Icarus in another 25 years"
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“No matter how much you change a game's genre and whatnot for the times, I think it's vital you never lose your respect for the original game,” he said. “With the first Kid Icarus, it's not a serious adventure - it has a more humorous bent to it, one you don't see in the original Legend of Zelda and Metroid that came out that generation. To embody that in a modern style, we made efforts not to have it seem like a run-of-the-mill battle - the story flow is really daring and unfolds in crazy ways that don't pay too much attention to the setting.”
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Source: IGN