Kid Icarus: Uprising/Shout Out: Difference between revisions

** The raid of the Space Pirate ship may be a shout out to the [[Kirby Super Star|raid of the Halberd]], complete with enemies shouting over the intercom. The shouting is unintelligible, though.

** The first menu is in the same style as ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' and ''[[Kirby|Kirby Air Ride]]''. The idols, treasure hunts and other elements seem to be strongly inspired by them, as well.

** During {{spoiler|Pit's first battle with him, Hades}}, rapidly punches similarly to fighter/Smash Bros Kirby's Vulcan Jab. He even vocalizes in the same way Knuckle Joe's assist trophy did in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''. {{spoiler|Hades then proceeds to eat Pit by inhaling him.}}

* There are multiple references to other Nintendo games scattered throughout Uprising:

** [[The Reveal]] of {{spoiler|[[Samus Is a Girl|Gaol's true gender]]}} is almost certainly a reference to [[Metroid|Kid Icarus's sister series.]] The enemies in the ship holding the 3 Sacred Treasures are named Space Pirates. In particular are the Space Pirate Commandos, [[Metroid Prime|who have grenade launchers]]. [[Lampshade Hanging|Pit mentions]] that Komaytos bear a strong resemblance to Metroids. The idol description for Komaytos references [[Super Metroid]] in particular:

** The idol description of the Fairy Orbitars:

*** Then you get to Chapter {{spoiler|16}}, when {{spoiler|the Aurum Hive has a shield protecting its entrance and Hades [[Ramming Always Works|rams a captured Aurum battleship through it to create an opening]]}}. It's very much like the scene from ''[[Star Fox Assault]]'' when {{spoiler|Peppy [[Ramming Always Works|rams the Great Fox through the shield protecting the Aparoid Hive to create an opening]] for the rest of the Star Fox Team}}.

*** During the {{spoiler|first fight with Hades}}, he {{spoiler|ends up attempting to swallow you alive}}. And during the {{spoiler|second fight}}, you have to shoot his hands at one point to continue fighting him. [[Star Fox 64|Sounds a lot like a final boss from a similar game...]]

** At one point of Chapter 20, {{spoiler|Pit uses the Lightning Chariot to burst through the shield around Palutena's Temple.}} It is done similarly to how {{spoiler|Kirby takes out the Subspace Cannon towards the end of [[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]’s adventure mode.}} The Palutena Bow, a rare bow unlocked by beating Chapter 24 in 11 minutes or less, is the exact same bow that Pit uses in that game, and scenery very similar to that of Final Destination/Destroyed Isle of the Ancients is seen during {{spoiler|the final boss fight with Hades}}.

** When Palutena talks about the powers and how you have to take into account the size and shape of the powers to fit into a grid, Pit proclaims that "All that time playing [[Dr. Mario]] has come in handy!"

** When you battle {{spoiler|the Kraken for the second time}}, upon knocking it out, Pit will shout, "Take that, tentafool!", a clear reference to [[Pokémon|Tentacool/Tentacruel]].

* Several enemies are named after deities and beasts from Greek mythology, though many of these names have been slightly altered (or, more likely, bungled in the translation).

* The sound effects of certain shots finding their mark sound very similar to those made by [[Mega Man Legends|MegaMan Buster shots]] doing the same.

* Mimicuties have a rapid-kick move similar to [[Street Fighter II|Chun-Li's Lightning Legs]]. {{spoiler|In the final chapter, Hades' fight involves him throwing monoliths at you in a fashion very similarly to the [[Kamehame Hadoken|Hadoken]] motion. And when Medusa shows up to help out, he unleashes a [[Shoryuken]] on her}}.

* The Brawler Claw's continuous fire is the [[Hokuto no Ken|Hokuto Hyakuretsuken]].

** In Pandora's Labyrinth of Deceit, after the [[Star Fox]]-like space sequence, Pit descends through parallel "walls" for a while, with a light in the center, as David did upon entering the monolith.

* At one point, {{spoiler|Viridi}} says that Pit and Palutena have a "mutual admiration society." They later say "[[Annie Get Your Gun|Anything Palutena can do, I can do better]]."

* Pyrrhon mentions reading up on the {{spoiler|Aurum}} on [[That Other Wiki|Divinipedia]].

* {{spoiler|The Heart of Hades}} fights you in an arena that looks like it came from [[Bomberman]]. Throughout the fight, it will drop bombs that work just like the ones from Bomberman.

* The idol for the Hedgehog Claws weapon contains the description [[Sonic the Hedgehog|"these claws charge quickly and provide a large speed boost to users."]]

* In the game, there's an enemy called "Collin" that can only be killed when you hit back the enemy it fires. The idol for this enemy says the name of the fired enemy is "Phil", and the idol is named "Collin and Phil". [[Phil Collins|Flip the two names around...]]

* The markings on the Ninja Palm are remarkably similar to the ones on [[Shinobi|Oboro]] headgear.

* Standard Orbitars are [[Gradius|Options]].

* The Space Pirates are located in [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|the Galactic Sea]].

* One of the loading screen tips says "Touch certain surfaces in Air Battles to run on them. [[Kingdom Hearts II|Try this on Hewdraw's back.]]"

 

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