One, sixty-four, zero, two. That’s the order of release for Nintendo’s Star Fox series, and it’s the order that I’ve now played them. Star Fox Adventures and Command turned up in the middle, if we’re also counting releases with subtitles instead of numbers.
Nintendo’s absurdly anticipated SNES Classic console launched today, but somebody’s already ripped Star Fox 2 to a handful of original SNES cartridges, listed them on places like eBay and Etsy, and sold them.
Last week, Nintendo quietly uploaded the digital manual for Star Fox 2, which will be included on this month’s SNES Classic hardware. But what’s really interesting is that said manual included a whole batch of concept art and game design documents for the canceled Super FX Chip shooter.
I tried out the SNES Classic, and found that Nintendo has made some small but meaningful improvements to it over the NES Classic. I have no idea why, since the thing would sell out in 30 seconds anyway even if it were covered in rusty needles. Instead, it has a few nice new features, including a pretty smart system to…
Nintendo announced that the SNES Classic will come with the previously-unreleased Star Fox 2. Were you surprised? Imagine how the game’s original programmer Dylan Cuthbert feels. He told Kotaku via email that he found out with everyone else when the news broke.
After 7 years, Bayonetta is coming to Steam. A lot of people will be happy, since their other options were the versions of Xbox 360, a not-quite-good PS3 port, or a digital Wii U version.
Star Fox, by Tyler West.
I don’t usually post non-car content, but I am having a nerdgasm right now! I never played the original SNES games, but I grew up with an N64 and we rented Starfox 64 from Blockbuster a billion times as kids....loved that game, multiplayer was a blast! I’m not huge on all the game lore from all of the games in the…
Star Fox Zero is another one of those difficult-to-critique Nintendo games. With the help of Platinum Games, much of it was done really well. It has the Nintendo polish that we expect from them. But it was yet another attempt by Nintendo to reinvent an IP by doing things differently. It got a lot right, but got a few…
With the end of may I just remembered something. It’s nearly summer and where I live, it feels like Solar from Star Fox 64. The only upside to my situation is that I can still get wifi from my basement.
Not too realistic, because an overly realistic Star Fox cast would just be animals in flight jackets. But this is a good compromise.
I feel as though, in recent years, Miyamoto’s status has been hurting game development, causing younger staff members to look up to him and take his word as that of some god, when in reality he works best when taking a backseat to modern game development. So let’s take a seat and see whether or not Nintendo is better…
In concept, a fan-made animated series about Nintendo’s Star Fox games following the continuity of Star Fox 64 sounds like a recipe for charming failure, akin to the many passionate but ultimately cringe-inducing Star Trek fan films. So it’s an unexpected delight that animator Matthew Gafford’s A Fox In Space is so…
The official Star Fox anime isn’t the only animated short that came out recently. Animator and voice actor Matthew Gafford and his team of enthusiasts spent more than six years establishing their fan project, set in the Star Fox universe, called A Fox in Space.
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Even if you can get used to the awkward controls, Star Fox Zero is merely mediocre. It’s as disappointing a major Nintendo console release as there’s been in some time.
It’s short, coming in at around 13 minutes, but remember: this is a team effort between Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell), WIT Studios (Attack on Titan) and Shigeru Miyamoto. And it’s pretty damn cool.
Fox McCloud has daddy issues. We know this because not five minutes of game time goes by without someone mentioning James McCloud, the missing dad who gave his life so that the people (well, animals) of the universe could be safe from the menace of the evil scientist Andross. Only, he didn’t do so great a job, because…
It’s barely related to the Star Fox series and has mostly been ignored in the year of hype leading to the release of its big brother Star Fox Zero, but the new oddball Star Fox Guard tower defense game from Nintendo and Platinum is well worth your attention.