Rumor: Early Factor 5 Kid Icarus model flies out
by JC Fletcher 
on Feb 1st 2009 8:00PM
Early last year, we saw some
potential concept art for a Wii
Kid Icarus update from developer Factor 5. Today, NeoGAFfer Shiggy posted what
may be an early character render from "late 2007/early 2008." We've included the original Famicom Disk System version's character art for comparison.
This is about as tenuous a rumor as there could possibly be because: A) We don't know if the Factor 5
Kid Icarus game was
ever real. B) We don't know if this image or the previous concept art was actually from that hypothetical game. C) Even if it was real at some point, the game is most certainly dead now, due to the state of
Factor 5.
We don't want to cast aspersions on Factor 5. They are responsible for true classics like the
Turrican series, as well as recent favorites like the
Rogue Squadron games. But we won't lament the early demise of this (probably fake) interpretation of Pit. After all, he's got Solid Snake hair circa-
Metal Gear Solid and he's wearing a sort of Ryu Hayabusa ninja outfit. We could only imagine this game's story involving Pit getting infected with a techno-organic super-virus codenamed E.G.G.P.L.A.N.T.
