Topic: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

[Shaymin]

As in "we got five minutes warning this was happening".

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/75482/nintendo-announces-switch-2-star-fox-reboot-in-emergency-star-fox-direct

Following a Nintendo Direct with five minutes of warning on social media, a new treatment of Star Fox 64 has been announced for Switch 2. Simply known as "Star Fox", the game will release on June 25, with pricing TBD. The game's eShop listing has the game at US$49.99, C$69.99, €49.99, and  ÂĄ5480 for digital with commensurate increases for physical.

The core gameplay is a remake of Star Fox 64, but with added mission mode options for previously completed stages and a new opening cinematic featuring the original betrayal of future (former?) F-Zero pilot James McLeod. A 4v4 multiplayer mode pitting Star Fox and Star Wolf will be available including online play, and GameShare is supported for up to four systems locally. Additionally, a co-op option is available using one Joy-Con for flight controls and the other in mouse mode for combat, and the N64 Nintendo Classics controller is also available as a control option.

The game's GameChat function will also include an option to use the core Star Fox team as avatars.

[Ian Sane]

Such a whiplash.  I find out about this surprise Star Fox Direct, I'm excited to go check it out and... it's a remake of Star Fox 64.  What?  That's so lame.  Star Fox 64 is already on the Switch 2 with NSO.  They couldn't make a new game instead?  It's Star Fox.  You've got the basic gameplay ready to go so make new levels and make a new game!

There can't be a series that at some point was well regarded that has been so badly botched by their publisher as much as Star Fox.  Nintendo's instincts for what to do with this series is always wrong.

[Kairon]

It has bots in multiplayer mode! If it can be all players on one team and all bots in the other I can't wait for some good old fashioned comp-stomps! Whooo!!

[broodwars]

*sigh* You know...the game will probably be fine, but this announcement was fucking lame.

After all these years, we're doing YET ANOTHER remake of Star Fox 64, and mind you...Star Fox 64 was ITSELF a remake, so this is now the FOURTH time Nintendo's remade this game. Hell, considering that Star Fox Adventures also recycles the final boss from 64, I'd say we're up to at least 4.1 times that game's been remade now.

Really? That's really the extent of your fucking imagination, Nintendo? Yeah, screw putting forward any creative ideas and pushing the story forward. Let's just make a cheap and lazy tie-in product for another franchise's movie.

I'd say I expected better of you, Nintendo, but I can't say that I did considering how monumentally Nintendo's screwed up this franchise over the years.

[Evan_B]

Andross’s monkey’s paw curls yet another finger…

[Caterkiller]

YOOOOOOOO!!!!!! This looks good!

I got texts out of the blue from a lapsed gamer like "did you see this?!"

Everyone needs to stop lumping Zero in with 64. Those stages are designed and played COMPLETELY differently. Honestly the stage layout in Zero is better than 64 in some cases. Star Fox Zero was an entirely new game with a similar narrative. The vast majority of you couldn't deal with the Gamepad so here we are again. Same goes for Star Fox SNES, that is not Star Fox 64 in the slightest. Similar story(if you could even call it that) with planets going by the same name. Everything else is completely different.

I would have preferred an entirely new game but holy moly am I all in on this! That fleshed out multiplayer is calling to me! Only 8 players is slightly disappointing but I imagine it will get expanded over time. I have a good feeling people are going to get insanely hooked on this. The base movement in 64 looks to have remained the same and in multiplayer settings it is so satisfyingly frantic. You can increase the speed of multiplayer as well. Not sure what that means but faster is faster!

You old grumps didn't show up for Zero so you need to just wait a little longer for a new game. Fox just got reintroduced to millions of young'ns and old'ns alike. The quality of this game and the expanded multiplayer will earn Star Fox new fans. This will get us a new game in the next 4 years I'm sure of it!

We got the spirit of the uncanny puppets back and a huge expansion on the narrative. This is Nintendo's first game that truly looks next generation. This whole thing seems very un-Nintendo like and I am so here for it!

The new Star Fox crew in the next Smash is gonna be wild!

[broodwars]

Everyone needs to stop lumping Zero in with 64. Those stages are designed and played COMPLETELY differently. Honestly the stage layout in Zero is better than 64 in some cases. Star Fox Zero was an entirely new game with a similar narrative. The vast majority of you couldn't deal with the Gamepad so here we are again. Same goes for Star Fox SNES, that is not Star Fox 64 in the slightest. Similar story(if you could even call it that) with planets going by the same name. Everything else is completely different.

Haven't played many remakes in the last decade, have you? The modern Resident Evil 3 is designed and played completely different from the original PlayStation RE3, with completely different levels and mechanics.

But it's still unquestionably a remake. It's telling the same story with the same characters.

We have the entire concept of a "reimagining" to cover games that divert so drastically from their original that they're practically new games. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a complete overhaul of the original Silent Hill to fit an Adventure Game mold.

But they're still remakes.

It's been 10 years since Nintendo had a bad developer release a bad Star Fox game on a bad console sporting a bad controller with a bad mandate to force players to accept a bad gimmick. You don't have to run defense for it anymore. 

[Evan_B]

We can argue semantics and the like all we want, there’s already a narrative out there that this is “the fourth version of Starfox 64,” and whether or not Zero was an original game with original controls and original ideas, that only reduces this to “the third version of Starfox 64.” That Starfox 64 is (admittedly replayable, but not in a way that modern gaming enthusiasts like to think) a two-ish hour experience makes me wonder why Nintendo is so insistent on doing nothing with this franchise. Sure, this will appeal to the Starfox fans that we all know exist, and it’s arguably a shiny new cost of paint for the game for newcomers, but it shocks me that they followed the super dynamic, cartoony sequence from the Galaxy movie with these slightly grotesque versions of these characters.