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Critics love what Velan Studios did with Star Fox 64's remake on Switch 2, but nearly every review asks the same question: why won't Nintendo let Fox McCloud move forward?
Star Fox doesn't launch until June 25, but pre-load purchases alone were enough to put it at #1 on the Switch 2 eShop chart, beating every playable game on the platform.
The team that made one of the best arcade sports games of the last decade is now remaking a Nintendo classic. Velan Studios has been confirmed as the developer behind the new Star Fox.
The first wave of Star Fox previews landed this week, and the consensus is striking: Nintendo may have finally nailed the franchise's comeback.
The Star Fox Switch 2 remake keeps the classic rail-shooting gameplay almost untouched, but Fox McCloud himself has undergone a dramatic personality transplant that changes the tone of the entire game.
Takaya Imamura, the man who originally designed Fox McCloud and the Star Fox crew, has weighed in on the backlash over the Switch 2 game's realistic art direction. His verdict: the movie versions looked better.
April came and went with no Star Fox announcement, and one conspiracy theory suggests Nintendo fed false information to smoke out its leakers.
The original Star Fox puppets, used for the SNES game's box art and Japanese promos, were destroyed by the same studio that would later make Godzilla Minus One. Natural rubber and open air don't mix.
NateTheHate, the leaker who called the Switch 2 reveal date, is now putting a hard deadline on the Star Fox announcement: April.