Imagine they made a Star Fox game with flight mechanics similar to No Man’s Sky in the sense that there are missions that take you from planet side to space and onto another planet in one mission? They could do that on Switch 2, but instead we get a very very safe ie boring remake.
Not buying a Switch 2 for a game I already played 29 years ago.
I fucking love Star Fox but it hurts to see the franchise rotting on the vine. I know Nintendo’s philosophy is that they only want to make a sequel if they can advance some new mechanics or hardware tech, and clearly they saw the mouse mode and 2-player co-op as the impetus to even make this in the first place, but god damn would I love to see a new story with the exact same gameplay.
Sometimes you just come up on a formula that works and you can let the writers take the wheel for a bit. Not every game needs to push the envelope in terms of graphics or mechanical complexity or never-before-seen gameplay loops.
We got a good reaction pic out of it, I guess
Lmao 🤣
Who’s excited for Star Fox 64 4
Sad to see the huge engine glow go. I always thought it looked cool.
G-Diffuser… seems fine. Let’s go already!
Oh you know that one’s gonna come to bite him in the butt later
Yeah, we know because we have already played this game like 4 times before lol
I have wanted a new Starfox game for so long. I wanted to be excited about this, but why are they remaking it AGAIN?!? 4 of the 7 Starfox games are the same fucking game! When people said they wanted a new Starfox game they meant they wanted a NEW Starfox game. If they wanted to do just a visual upgrade they could have just tweaked Zero and released it on Switch. I mean hell at least that game had new content. The franchise has so much potential and its so frustrating to see Nintendo be completely unable to innovate on this series. Fucking Konami managed to do a decent job for fucks sake. This is the only franchise of theirs that they are just completely incapable of creating something new for and its honestly baffling.
I didn’t realize there were 7 games now, damn. I always forget the SNES and 3DS. If you want a similar game, down to the cheesy pilot headshots and text boxes while flying (with the oh so common roguelike progression and basic lack of story that modern games seem to love), you could try Whisker Squadron. The gameplay is pretty fun, if basic.
You may be interested in the upcoming competition: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1921490/Wild_Blue_Skies/
There is also Ex Zodiac: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/
Hard pass. Maybe they’ll take that engine and make new content with it. If so then I’ll pay attention.
At least it has a multiplayer mode but I do find it odd how they full release old games instead of having it as an expansion for new games.
Gameplay looks fine, but I’m not buying a switch 2 to play.
What’s up with Fox’s appearance tho? He looks like he’s cone out of retirement being overweight. Remaster doesn’t mean you have to have realistic visuals that alter from the style of the original.
I actually really like the new style. It has been divisive though.
Check out the OG Star Fox boxart on SNES, it’ll look familiar. Both US and Japanese versions.
Guys just play the PC port of SF64 called Starship
With mod support too!
Do you know if there’s a good place to find mods for these N64 re/decomps? Googling around hasn’t produced many relavent results for me ( or maybe they don’t exist yet? )
I remember seeing a few on thunderstore, but I don’t know if there’s a centralized repository for them yet.
Is that playable on my Switch 2?
AFAIK, it’s only playable on a hacked original Switch, by loading the compiled game onto an SD card.
Seeing the landmaster level hit me in the nostalgia, but I’m am not a fan of the Paw Patrol voice acting.
I never would have expected a Starfox 64 remake. Why cant we have nice things?
A game that amounts to a graphically enhanced N64 game shouldn’t cost $50.
Edit: Buying games at inflated prices emboldens Nintendo to raise them further; if this were a new game they’d be pricing it at $70 or $80.
Ugh, it’s Star Fox 64. I loved it as a kid because it was new and cutting edge and hey rumble pack… but the tone of the SNES original, the music, the character art, they were better than Star Fox 64’s in retrospect.
On top of that, they tried to make Fox look like a realistic fox with that goofy cartoon pattern and mohawk, and it’s just not working for me. The mohawk never worked for me and now it looks even sillier.
It’s a good thing I already laid Nintendo to rest in my heart or seeing this might have hurt a little.
Not missing having a Switch 2 at all.
