Features and Modes
After you start your game file, you’re greeted with seven buttons on the Touch Screen, representing the different available game modes.
The entire single-player story of Kid Icarus: Uprising can be experienced in this mode. Tapping on this button presents another group of options.
- Move Out!—This button takes you to the Chapter Select menu for the main story line. Progression is simple: Complete one chapter, move on to the next. When you begin a chapter, you are taken to the Fiend’s Cauldron. It is here that you can spend hearts you’ve earned while playing the game to increase the Intensity of the chapter. The higher the Intensity, the greater the challenge. The value of your treasures you find and the hearts you earn in battle also increases with the Intensity level. Standard Intensity is Level 2, the hardest is Level 9.
- Treasure Hunt—You earn rewards from the Treasure Hunts by completing certain criteria in single-player and multiplayer. Some rewards will unlock just by beating levels, others are used to fuse a certain weapon. Three Treasure Hunts appear as you play: Palutena’s Treasure Hunt is available immediately, with two more Treasure Hunts unlocking over the course of the game.
- Practice Range—Curious about how a particular weapons handles but worried about going into a level with it? Try it out at the Practice Range first! This is the perfect place to see how much damage a weapon can do, and how its charged shots work.
- Arms Altar—In this menu, you have three major options: Redeem Hearts, Fuse Weapons, and Convert To Hearts. The Redeem Hearts button takes you to a shop where you can use your hearts to buy a random selection of weapons from Lady Palutena. The Fuse Weapons button takes you into the weapon fusion system. Convert To Hearts allows you to take old weapons that you have no use for and convert them to hearts.
- Idol Toss—In this mode, you must carefully pick up an egg by using the stylus on the touch screen and place it into the golden dish. Be careful not to drop the egg; if you do it can break! Once you’ve placed your eggs in the golden dish, use the stylus to pull down the dish on the Touch Screen to launch the egg and reveal an item. You can practice this before placing any eggs in the dish to get a feel for how it works. In the upper left-hand corner of the Touch Screen you’ll notice that you have a certain percent chance to receive a a new idol when you place an egg in the dish. This percentage can change based on the color of the egg and the number of eggs used. You’ll acquire more eggs over time as you play and can also spend your Play Coins to get extra eggs.
- Gear—This menu allows you to switch out your weapon and your Powers. You can have up to four sets of premade Powers, or you can use the Autofill Powers button to have a random selection provided to you.