Comments on: Bare breasts found in Kid Icarus

By: 1up

1up — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:13:34 +0000

god of war is a little different than KID icarus. nintendo is/was a company orchestrated to have family-oriented content. and no, putting a bra on a harpy would not have been a stretch for nintendo, its not even a stretch for mythologists, much less a children geared gaming company. its obvious that nintendo didnt spend time to check the manual, or whoever did check it did not agree with nintendo’s ideals about video games. there was a lot of documented discontent with the way they ran things at nintendo, so its feasible. that image will be gone for the virtual console game manual, rest assured. theres no way thats escaping another set of nintendo’s eyes…

By: Daskel

Daskel — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:16:53 +0000

I’m with Jurek. Less blood and gore. More bare breasts! I mean do you want “kinder and gentler” or what?

By: Nevio

Nevio — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:47:25 +0000

Also, this isn’t the only videogame based on mythology who has topless women.
Go check God of War for PS2.
I guess topless girls in ancient Greece fantasy environments are commonly accepted because Women in classical paintings found on archeological sites are ALWAYS topless.
So an ancient greek girl (or Syren/Harpy) with her breast covered would look like a 80s rockstar with short-cut hairs.

By: Nevio

Nevio — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:38:56 +0000

Actually, that “Syren” looks pretty much like an Harpy.
And an Harpy is, by any chance, a topless bird-woman chimera.
I don’t remember i ever saw an harpy wearing a bra, since it is a mythological monster.
Guess what? Kid Icarus is based on Mythology, that makes sense.
I think an harpy wearing a bra would have been ridiculous even for Nintendo.

By: chugaboy

chugaboy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:39:31 +0000

amen cresco!

By: Sesq

Sesq — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:53:08 +0000

One must bear in mind that Nintendo didn’t go absolutely gung-ho about censorship until around 1988, a couple of years after Kid Icarus had been released.

By: Cor Vus

Cor Vus — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:57:56 +0000

*FAP* *FAP* *FAP*

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:09:20 +0000

I remember seeing this in the manual for the game when I bought it brand new back in ‘86 or so. People are just discovering this now?

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:50:41 +0000

Some ignorant fools posting at the top. This isn’t an article about outrage, this is an article about Nintendo’s hypocrisy.

By: Jurek

Jurek — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:25:10 +0000

Only in North America will such close mindedness ever exist. This is definitely something that should go on the first page of a newspaper. Perhaps if you replaced all the gore and violence in your lives with a pair of bare breasts, your arogance and ignorance might diminish.