16th June 2010, 3:31 PM
I know right?
I wonder, Kid Icarus is actually an angel styled after the Icarus legend, and Palutena is an original goddess. I am curious as to how Medusa, lead Gorgon yes but otherwise just a run of the mill monster, became the ruler of the underworld. It'd be interesting if there was some story about that. I mean, the way I see it this Medusa after being utterly betrayed by the greek gods (I mean she was punished for being raped, that's pretty messed up), probably became so bitter that instead of just sitting around in a cave forever waiting for adventurers, she probably started a huge Kratos style vendetta against the gods, gaining power from each one she destroyed, leaving only Palutena to stop her before she destroyed the whole world in her anger.
Or maybe I'm over thinking this.
At any rate it's nice to have a setting loosely based on something besides Middle Earth. Ancient Greece is as good an era as any (though really Zelda 2 had a very Greek feel to it with all those building designs). It's also interesting that they're working the whole "melting wings" thing into game play.
I wonder, Kid Icarus is actually an angel styled after the Icarus legend, and Palutena is an original goddess. I am curious as to how Medusa, lead Gorgon yes but otherwise just a run of the mill monster, became the ruler of the underworld. It'd be interesting if there was some story about that. I mean, the way I see it this Medusa after being utterly betrayed by the greek gods (I mean she was punished for being raped, that's pretty messed up), probably became so bitter that instead of just sitting around in a cave forever waiting for adventurers, she probably started a huge Kratos style vendetta against the gods, gaining power from each one she destroyed, leaving only Palutena to stop her before she destroyed the whole world in her anger.
Or maybe I'm over thinking this.
At any rate it's nice to have a setting loosely based on something besides Middle Earth. Ancient Greece is as good an era as any (though really Zelda 2 had a very Greek feel to it with all those building designs). It's also interesting that they're working the whole "melting wings" thing into game play.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)