I love dying a thousand deaths on the first stage of the game!
I must have spent nine hundred hours playing the first stage of the game and another twenty thousand five hundred thirty three hours failing to get past the second stage.
Nonetheless, I am so psyched at the prospect of putting millions more hours trying to get Kid Icarus to fly without a feather. Apparently kid Icarus can not afford to buy a feather on stage two shops. I guess the poor sod is too lazy to get a newspaper route which existed back in the 80's. GET A JOB!
On snowy platforms, which are snowy despite there not being any actual snow falling, don't duck! Kid Icarus has the special talent to fall straight through a platform if it has snow on it. Or is that supposed to be ice?
My recommendation is this game is worth buying so you'll see what graphics capabilities the Nintendo Wii U will have. It is fun despite the challenge as long as you have rubber walls to protect them from the occasional flying 3DS game system.