Sunday Longplay - Kid Icarus (NES) - Best Ending

This week on Sunday Longplay, I'm playing an old NES classic that I never owned as a kid. Welcome to Kid Icarus!

Earth was ruled by Palutena (Goddess of Light) and Medusa (Goddess of Darkness). Palutena bestowed the people with light to make them happy. Medusa hated the humans, dried up their crop, and turned them to stone. Enraged by this, Palutena transformed Medusa into a monster and banished her to the Underworld. Out of revenge, Medusa conspired with the monsters of the Underworld to take over Palutena's residence, the Palace in the Sky. She launched a surprise attack, and stole the three sacred treasures: the Mirror Shield, the Light Arrows and the Wings of Pegasus: which deprived Palutena's army of its power. After her soldiers had been turned to stone by Medusa, Palutena was defeated in battle and imprisoned deep inside the Palace in the Sky. With her last power, she sent a bow and arrow to the young angel Pit. He escapes from his prison in the Underworld and sets out to save Palutena and Angel Land. Throughout the course of the story, Pit retrieves the three sacred treasures from the fortress gatekeepers at their respective fortresses in the Underworld, the Overworld, and the Skyworld. Afterward, he equips himself with the treasures and storms the sky temple where he defeats Medusa and rescues Palutena.

Kid Icarus is a side-scrolling platformer with role-playing elements, which reuses the engine used in Gunpei Yokoi's previous adventure game Metroid. The player controls the protagonist Pit through two-dimensional levels, which contain monsters, obstacles and items. Throughout the stages, the player may enter doors to access seven different types of chambers. Stores and black markets offer items in exchange for hearts, which are left behind by defeated monsters. Treasure chambers contain items, enemy nests give the player an opportunity to earn extra hearts, and hot springs restore Pit's health. In the god's chamber, the strength of Pit's bow and arrow may be increased depending on several factors, such as the number of enemies defeated and the amount of damage taken in battle. In the training chamber, Pit will be awarded with one of the three power items if he passes a test of endurance.

The game has five different endings, depending on the player's performance, Palutena may present Pit with headgear or transform him into a full-grown angel. There are four criteria to meet to get the best ending:
1. Have a fully-extended life bar. You get an extension at certain score thresholds, and the last one is at 200,000 points.
2. Have 999 hearts in reserve.
3. Collect 5 Arrows of Strength to fully upgrade your attack power.
4. Have all three power-ups from the Harsh Training chambers: the guard crystals, the flaming arrows, and the longbow.
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