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Back on vacations i had a pretty limited internet that really didn't allow me to look for references or navigate my usual sites. Due to this i had more time to think of fun ideas so... On this deviation i bring you: Ice Climbers: Uprising!
If you got the reference then you know where this is going, this is my idea of what it would be like to bring back the ice climber franchise back in a new game.

-Genre: Platforming, with a special focus on levels designed vertically unlike the usual horizontal format of most games.
-Lore Expansion: New characters and locations while also referencing the old (Topis and Polar bears make a return, etc.)
-Simple controls: Just like in the original game you only need to Jump or use your hammer for the most part. Having a partner in play means you can jump mid air via stomping an ally, or reach
-Co-op Mode: Yes, 2 players can take on the levels with equal skills/ability sets (No difference between Popo and Nana). Since the levels focus on a more vertical design, it is entirely possible that it could be made for the 3DS too so that each have their own screen instead of sharing. In case of not having the game on one of the 3DS, people can still tackle....
-Challenge Mode: Inspired on the original game, level designs are short enough to possibly be transfered without the need of a cartridge on a 2nd console. Think of this as a mission based Co-Op mode rather than a Co-Op Story.
-Story:
Super Star Actor comes to the mountain to film the next great Hollywood hit. Using a pick axe to mess around the icecap they break a frozen caveman loose without noticing. It revives and eats the staff's food, then escapes and terrorizes a town nearby that believes him a yeti monster. The winter food reserves are also stolen from them and it's the Ice Climbers goal to track down the monster and retrieve the vegetable feast!
There's also an old legendary Hiker who is too old for that stuff. He has been residing on the village near the last mountain he needed to climb to climb all of the world's mountains.
the news of the yeti sparks the "drive of his youth" for the unknown and, using a backpack with automated stuff (Literally robot arms) he built when settling down, goes climb the mountain in search of the creature on his own. The Ice Climbers will find snippets of his diary that will tell his story and add to the franchise's lore too. Dropped pages with info on enemies and stuff for world building. He is also the grandfather of the two, lol.
Meanwhile the action star will appear on random scenes to make his Hollywood stunts and complicate the adventure. (i.e. He blows up part of the ice cap for an edgy avalanche scene, not realizing you are there too).
The explanation for frozen caveman on this game, but also the pterodactyle thing from the original game is simple: there will be a level where they fall a cliff and land on a prehistoric underground thing (Kind of like what earthbound did, the famous "Dinosaur land underground" clitche) To build that up, there will be an archeologist that comes to the mountains saying she's found texts and stuff about a land lost to time through an earthquake and is around to investigate such stories. At the mention of the loose yeti she grows ever more convinced of this. She arrives once grandpa left and the super star has been doing his thing though, probably in mid of the game so that it's not throwing all the characters right away. In-game she might have an helicopter to move around the map that will be in the shape of donkey kong country (basically the mountain zoomed out) and also have the "Save points" inside the levels via research camps.

Idea for a new Ice Climber game and all character designs (with the exception of the original ice climbers) (c) Athorment

Description
Back on vacations i had a pretty limited internet that really didn't allow me to look for references or navigate my usual sites. Due to this i had more time to think of fun ideas so... On this deviation i bring you: Ice Climbers: Uprising!
If you got the reference then you know where this is going, this is my idea of what it would be like to bring back the ice climber franchise back in a new game.

-Genre: Platforming, with a special focus on levels designed vertically unlike the usual horizontal format of most games.
-Lore Expansion: New characters and locations while also referencing the old (Topis and Polar bears make a return, etc.)
-Simple controls: Just like in the original game you only need to Jump or use your hammer for the most part. Having a partner in play means you can jump mid air via stomping an ally, or reach
-Co-op Mode: Yes, 2 players can take on the levels with equal skills/ability sets (No difference between Popo and Nana). Since the levels focus on a more vertical design, it is entirely possible that it could be made for the 3DS too so that each have their own screen instead of sharing. In case of not having the game on one of the 3DS, people can still tackle....
-Challenge Mode: Inspired on the original game, level designs are short enough to possibly be transfered without the need of a cartridge on a 2nd console. Think of this as a mission based Co-Op mode rather than a Co-Op Story.
-Story:
Super Star Actor comes to the mountain to film the next great Hollywood hit. Using a pick axe to mess around the icecap they break a frozen caveman loose without noticing. It revives and eats the staff's food, then escapes and terrorizes a town nearby that believes him a yeti monster. The winter food reserves are also stolen from them and it's the Ice Climbers goal to track down the monster and retrieve the vegetable feast!
There's also an old legendary Hiker who is too old for that stuff. He has been residing on the village near the last mountain he needed to climb to climb all of the world's mountains.
the news of the yeti sparks the "drive of his youth" for the unknown and, using a backpack with automated stuff (Literally robot arms) he built when settling down, goes climb the mountain in search of the creature on his own. The Ice Climbers will find snippets of his diary that will tell his story and add to the franchise's lore too. Dropped pages with info on enemies and stuff for world building. He is also the grandfather of the two, lol.
Meanwhile the action star will appear on random scenes to make his Hollywood stunts and complicate the adventure. (i.e. He blows up part of the ice cap for an edgy avalanche scene, not realizing you are there too).
The explanation for frozen caveman on this game, but also the pterodactyle thing from the original game is simple: there will be a level where they fall a cliff and land on a prehistoric underground thing (Kind of like what earthbound did, the famous "Dinosaur land underground" clitche) To build that up, there will be an archeologist that comes to the mountains saying she's found texts and stuff about a land lost to time through an earthquake and is around to investigate such stories. At the mention of the loose yeti she grows ever more convinced of this. She arrives once grandpa left and the super star has been doing his thing though, probably in mid of the game so that it's not throwing all the characters right away. In-game she might have an helicopter to move around the map that will be in the shape of donkey kong country (basically the mountain zoomed out) and also have the "Save points" inside the levels via research camps.

Idea for a new Ice Climber game and all character designs (with the exception of the original ice climbers) (c) Athorment