Masahiro Sakurai is best-known for his work on the Smash Bros. and Kirby series, but during the early days of the Nintendo 3DS he worked on something very different: a revival of Kid Icarus. However, in his latest YouTube video, the designer explains how the game actually started out as an attempt to do something new in the shooter space.
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