Star Fox 2 was the 1995
unreleased Super NES sequel to the original
Star Fox.
Well, not
officially released. It was leaked online, then
Fan Translated into English. The game was actually fairly complete, lacking only some polishing touches for release, but was otherwise quite playable — a small
Game Mod fixed even this up, and the ROM is fully playable in emulators.
But the unreleased game did not go to complete commercial waste — two-thirds of its code was recycled for
Star Fox 64, and many of
2's gameplay mechanics were reused for
Star Fox Command. But whereas reaction to
Command was
very mixed, the leaked
Star Fox 2 ROM was well-received by gamers.
Storywise,
2 continues the
1993 game's
Canon, but was the last officially-developed work to do so. In 1997,
Star Fox 64 rebooted the game's universe from scratch.
Star Fox 2 provides examples of:
- Cool Shades: General Pepper again, naturally.
- Fan Translation: The only way this game saw a version with English text.
- There existed indeed, at one point, an official english version of this game, as evidenced by Nintendo Power screenshots.
- The Power of Rock: Macbeth's music.
- The Sixth Ranger: Miyu and Fay. Fara (or "Lady") was planned to be in this game and appeared in some earlier alpha versions, but was dropped from the final release.
- Transforming Mecha: Your ship can rotate it's wings down and use them as legs when you're on the ground. In Star Fox 64, the transformation aspect was removed, and the walking mech became a separate tank-like vehicle, the Landmaster.
- The Psycho Rangers: The Star-Wolf Team. This would have been the first appearance of them.
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