10 Video Game Sequel Baits That Went Nowhere

Nintendo has a large back catalogue of mascot characters and they certainly know how to use them. Well, most of them. Sorry, Earthbound fans.

In 1986 the company released challenging platform adventure Kid Icarus starring the cherub-like angel Pit as he climbed his way to Skyworld. The game got a GameBoy sequel outside of Japan and then went largely dormant which, in its own way, made it perfect for nostalgic party fighter Super Smash Brothers.

Starting with 2008’s Brawl, Pit became a playable character. With a 20 year absence, he needed a modern redesign and Smash director Masahiro Sakurai clearly loved doing this enough that he followed the game with a rare non-Smash/non-Kirby title called Kid Icarus Uprising. It brought the character and his world back to life, in a brand new style, for the Nintendo 3DS.

The tease for a follow-up, strangely appropriately, doesn’t occur in this game so much as it does in the Wii U edition of Smash Bros. Here, it’s possible to trigger conversations on the Kid Icarus stage between the game’s cast. In one, Goddess of Nature Viridi reveals she has been amassing her forces and even recruited Pit’s dark doppelganger who is looking for a rematch.

It’s cute and fans couldn’t help but get excited at the tease. Sadly, the franchise has gone back to sleep since 2012 and remains that way.