"Reynard Vulpine". Cute name, made from French and Latin words for "fox" (renard/vulpes).

What I wonder is, who actually reads these press releases?

us...

They're trying to get the furries with that one. Expect an increase of Krystal porn over the next few weeks.

THE EYES, THEY BURN!!! Thanks KDR, for that lovely thought.

Seriously though, on the subject Press releases, they are mainly for stock holders and retailers and I guess people like us.

Yes, I can see all the furries out there obsessing over Krystal and her massive furry fox-boobs. Anyway, Star Fox Assault was incredibly disappointing, with only the Multi-player being the reason for a purchase. Really really sad since it took them what, 3 years to make it!?

I saw the commecial yesterday, it was funny. This game is more interesting to me than RE4. I don't care if Star Fox is getting average scores, it sounds really fun compared to saving the president's daughter.

Have you played RE4? Because it sounded like you had and then it sounded like you hadn't. And with anything don't knock it until you try it.

Since when was RE4 about "saving" the president's daughter?

To me (still playing, chapter 3-2) it's about "B1TCH, DON'T GET IN MY WAY YOU JUST FOLLOW ME AND SHUTUP WHILE I MAKE BRAIN STEW OUTTA THESE CRAZIES"

and

"I need to get out of this bloody place and away from this chick so i can find a new job and sell my life story to NBC."

It's really about kicking ass and rubbing herbs on your masculine body. Saving Ashley just seems to be an expected consequence for completing objectives.

I still ahven't played Star Fox: Assault yet, or Adventures for that matter, but I guess it was a good thing I didn't buy it :-\ Well I guess I have more games to look forward to. And when this and Pikmin 2 go down to 20$ ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE!!

And Prof. I think it's more of like...

"Once I get back to America, people will all respect the mighty LEON!! All hail LEON and my herb rubbing self"

Then Reggie will come out of nowhere and push Leon out of the way and sit on the mighty throne of skulls that come from Yamamuchi's kitchen

Krystal!

Oh god.

Anyway, cute press release. It's similar to the TV commercial, which I thought was awesome.

I actually thought both were kind of lame... again continuing Nintendo's trend of commercials that are more inside jokes for fans than trying to get new people interested.

Unless referring to girls or puppies, cute is condescending. I liked the commercial, though. It may be partly because of my friend conditioning me to like foxes and therefore hate fox hunters and partly because of splosions. Splosions are good for attracting attention.

it isn't really that hard to understand, StarFox is about a Fox and the commercial has Fox chasing fox hunters


i've played RE4 and i like REremake better because i like Resident Evil and RE4 is not like Resident Evil, though RE4 is emaculate i just like RE better, and the story premise in RE4 is just god awful, save the president's daughter Leon, in Europe. the game is overrated, it shouldn't have been a Resident Evil game, it should have been an original game for the GameCube, something we never get. even though StarFox is obviously not of the same level of completion as RE4 everything about the game just seems more fun, at least the commercial for StarFox doesn't blow if nothing else. i guess what im saying is i knew StarFox would get average scores but I was expecting more out of RE4. im not disappointed by RE4's reception in the media, but im disappointed by how forced the game feels. it was like they sat down for the third or fourth time and were like, "we have to fix Resident Evil," but instead of fixing what is wrong with Resident Evil they just made a different game.

"continuing Nintendo's trend of commercials that are more inside jokes for fans than trying to get new people interested."

Yes! That's exactly how to describe Nintendo's commercials. I've been trying to explain it in words for years.

I guess that's why I've always liked them so much.

In some cases I wouldn't say it's a bad thing, though. Everyone knows about Mario. Unfortunately, I generally find Mario commercials to be the least interesting. If they had commercials of this quality with Mario, that philosophy wouldn't be so bad.
With lesser known franchises like Starfox and Metroid, they should be opening it up to new people, as much as I may like the commercials they have now.

I think right now they can make their inside joke ads because it's too late to attract that many new people to the Cube. Zelda should get some ads that reach out to more people but Star Fox is really just going to appeal only to existing Cube owners. However the first Revolution ads can't be inside jokes. When the console is new is when you attract the new people so that's when ads for the everyman have to be shown.

How in the world is the commercial based on an inside joke? You clearly hear the word "Fox" in there several times...If anything it would be confusing to people that don't understand the background of fox hunting...

I just saw the commercial, and it seemed... okay-to-good.

My biggest peeve with it is the tagline "the hunters become the hunted". WTF? That's not one of the game's major themes, is it? You can't just slap a tagline onto a game based on some random thing you decided to do in the commercial.

Something like "this is one fox you don't want to hunt" would've worked so much better.

And Nintendo needs to get rid of this whole stupid "Who Are You" theme they're still trying to get going. It's not cool. It's not deep. It's not funny. It's not working. It just gets in the way of the real content they should be putting in the commercials. They damn well better get rid of it before the next Zelda hits. They should just take the E3 trailer (either the one with the Conan music, or the regular one will do), update the end of it from "coming soon" to the launch date, and air that. As-is. Forget the 30-second spots, and just get whole minutes. If it's a rare-yet-awesome commercial, that should generate more than enough word-of-mouth to compensate for some lack of market saturation.

But, who am I kidding? Nintendo won't do that. They're going to ruin the Zelda commercial. I expect it'll be worse than the Minish Cap one. This StarFox commercial will look like gold in comparison.

Oh and, I think the "inside joke" stuff applies more to the press releases than the commercials. They really need to work on those. And Nintendo Power too. Man, Nintendo is soooooo uncool these days. It's mind-boggling.

I liked the Minish Cap commercial, thank you very much...

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You can't just slap a tagline onto a game based on some random thing you decided to do in the commercial.

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Yeah the Zelda trailer from E3 would probably make a pretty effective commercial on it's own. The new Zelda is a beautiful game. So thus it's beauty should be shown in the ad and there's no better way to show that then to focus on game footage, like the trailer does. Nintendo always puts in some dumb little skit or something followed by a few "blink and you'll miss it" gameplay shots. It's like they're stilling thinking it's the NES, where all the games looked like crap and thus needed to be hidden by actors. This is the era of good looking 3D graphics and there's a whole generation of graphics whores who have been raised in the Playstation era. So thus showing off amazing graphics is the absolute best way to get people interested.

I know they're instead going to do something cute and funny for the Zelda ad that only fans will understand which is too bad. You figure with the utter failure of the Gamecube to catch on with the general public and the fact that the Cube has had the exact same format of ads its entire life that maybe Nintendo would clue in that the current ad format doesn't work. If it did work then the Cube wouldn't be a huge failure now would it.

Interestingly enough GTA is by far the biggest success story of this generation and all three game's ads are nothing more than game footage with a song from the soundtrack played over top. And these aren't even pretty games. Sometimes it just pays to show people what the game is like.

Ian, we all know GTA gets attention through word of mouth, not ads. Not saying it's not a good method, just saying in general.

You're talking about the ads being bad for mainstream audiences, but the only reason the E3 2004 trailer is so great is because we like Zelda so much. Because we're Zelda fans. Most people would be "Oh", so that's a bit of a double standard.
Gameplay footage is a swell idea, but they need a much, much cooler trailer to attract attention. Less scenery and horse riding and more explosions and things getting chopped up. And awesome music. Conan's pretty good.

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The "Who Are You" ad campaign is cool, and it's not like they're letting it restrict them. All they do is tack it on at the end of every commercial, it's not based around the "Who Are You" theme. Only two or three commercials did that. They could change their commercials for the better and still keep that, if they wanted, without affecting much at all.

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I think they could make a better trailer than the one from E3 2004, though. It was grand for introducing it, but it could be a lot better.

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I think another Zelda Rap commercial would clear the shelves of the new Zelda game.

Just saw a print ad for the game in Gamepro, and it was rather amusing, with an Arwing and Landmaster parked in the driveway of a suburban home.

doesnt the landmaster tank look more like a car? It doesn't have treads and only has four wheels. : (

That pretty much ruins the game.