Kid Icarus
Kid Icarus is one Nintendo series that hasn’t been the most active over the years. After the second game, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters in 1991, we didn’t see a new entry until Kid Icarus Uprising in 2012. Uprising was wildly different, a combination of rail shooter and third-person action. Now it’s been five years since we last saw the series, and a smaller mobile game might be the perfect way to bring it back.
The rail shooter style would still work well on mobile, using the touch interface to fire on enemies that attack you. There could be an interface for moving Pit around as well, or simply move him along a track with the player touching on the screen to fire. Of course, this style would also work well for a mobile Star Fox, but at this point Kid Icarus might have more appeal for a mobile crowd. The best idea would be to make the game single-player focused with a one time purchase, like Mario Run. However, if you wanted to do some kind of stamina system with a mission structure you could go with that as well. There are some good examples of mobile shooters that give you full control of movement, but for Nintendo’s quality standards it’d definitely be easier to opt for the rail shooter style, filled with all the witty and hilarious writing that Kid Icarus Uprising featured.
