Pros: It's the Metroid 2 for Kid Icarus, and by that I mean, it's a sequel to Kid Icarus on the NES, but it's on Game Boy instead! And it really is, it improves upon the previous entry in some key ways, controls being one of them, movement generally feels better, and stages, while still vertical, the camera moves with you, so instead of walking to the right of the stage and magically appearing on the left side, as you would on NES, instead the camera wraps around, infinitely looping the stage elements, like the stage is built on the side of a vertical cylindrical column (hey, that kinda works with the ancient greek theme of the games). And the game in general is just a good time, going from stage to stage, it's not as frustrating, and it's pretty satisfying defeating the final boss (thing literally looks like Satan, and he's HUGE, fun stuff).

Cons: The music isn't as memorable as the first game, from what I can remember, and naturally, being on Game Boy, the game is lacking in color, which really helped the first game come to life. But what can y'do.

What it means to me: I beat this game, before I beat the first game, I'm not sure if I played the games out of order as well, as I played them both around the same time, but I do recall getting into this one more, initially. Found it used at a Gamestop in the mid 00s, had to get it, and really enjoyed myself.