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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Fara, Fay, and Miyu: [[WhateverHappenedToTheMouse Fara simply isn't in the final release]], while Miyu and Fay remain exclusive to this game (Miyu was apparently recycled as Katt Monroe, and Fay seems to have inspired Bill Grey). They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast and include a female component... something that took until ''Videogame/StarFoxAssault'' to be realized by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then, [[ConvenientReplacementCharacter that was to replace Peppy]], and Krystal is only playable in multiplayer.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Fara, Fay, and Miyu: [[WhateverHappenedToTheMouse [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Fara simply isn't in the final release]], while Miyu and Fay remain exclusive to this game (Miyu was apparently recycled as Katt Monroe, and Fay seems to have inspired Bill Grey). They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast and include a female component... something that took until ''Videogame/StarFoxAssault'' to be realized by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then, [[ConvenientReplacementCharacter that was to replace Peppy]], and Krystal is only playable in multiplayer.

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* EightPointEight: Seeing the game was shipped more than 20 years later than its intended release date, a harsh response to its aged nature was inevitable. [[http://www.ign.com/g00/articles/2017/09/27/star-fox-2-review?i10c.referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F IGN]] steps in and gives the game a literal "5.0".
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Both Fay and Miyu have pretty dedicated fans, which is fairly impressive for a pair of characters that have only shown up in a (formerly) cancelled game and nowhere else. It helps that the series has very few female characters of note.
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* EightPointEight: Seeing the [[TheShelfofMovieLanguishment The game was shipped more than 20 years later than its intended release date, a harsh response to its aged nature was inevitable. date]]. Even knowing this, many (but not all) critics judged this game by modern releases rather than [[FairForItsDay it's own merits for the time]]. This resulted in [[http://www.ign.com/g00/articles/2017/09/27/star-fox-2-review?i10c.referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F IGN]] steps in and gives giving the game a literal mere "5.0".
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Both Fay and Miyu have pretty dedicated fans, which is fairly impressive for a pair of characters that have only shown up in a (formerly) ([[{{Uncancelled}} formerly]]) cancelled game and nowhere else. It helps that since the [[{{Reboot}} reboot]], the series has very few had ''very few'' female characters of note.
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} it's been released to the public.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo has '''''finally''''' given it a worldwide official release.
* IAmNotShazam: Inverted. Andross refers to Fox specifically as "Star Fox", and Wolf calls himself "Star Wolf" (his team is just called "The Wolf Team").

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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} it's finally been released to the public.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken incomplete attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... realizing [[WhatMightHaveBeen what the game was trying to be]], Nintendo has '''''finally''''' given it the game a worldwide official release.
* IAmNotShazam: Inverted. Andross refers to Fox specifically as "Star Fox", and Wolf calls himself "Star Wolf" (his team is just called "The Wolf Team").
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** It was actually ''this'' game that introduced Wolf, Leon, Pigma and (almost) Andrew of the Star Wolf team. Their characters would be recycled (with significant ArtShift and a total character change from Algy to Andrew) for a re-debut in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.
** Many mechanics such as charged shots, all-range movement, ground and underwater combat was introduced in some form in this game which was recycled for ''64'' and also introduced a map screen, allowing you to attack any target you wish, a similar mechanic re-used in ''Command''.
** Andross starts using GiantHandsOfDoom and gains a more natural face in this game on Hard and Expert difficulties, inspiring his later boss fights.
** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the UsefulNotes/WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto himself.

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** It was actually ''this'' game that introduced Wolf, Leon, Pigma and (almost) Andrew of the Star Wolf team. Their characters would be recycled (with significant ArtShift and a total character change from Algy to Andrew) for a re-debut in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.
** Many mechanics such as charged shots, all-range movement, ground and underwater combat was introduced in some form in this game which was recycled for ''64'' and
''VideoGame/StarFox64''. This also introduced a map screen, allowing you to attack any target you wish, a similar mechanic re-used in ''Command''.
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marks the first time that Andross starts using uses GiantHandsOfDoom and gains a more natural face in this game (only seen on Hard and Expert difficulties, difficulties), inspiring ''all'' of his later boss fights.
** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut
fights. [[UpToEleven In addition]], many of Star Fox's core game mechanics were first introduced in the series proper with ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the UsefulNotes/WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This 2'': [[HomingProjectile homing charged shots]], free movement in flight, land combat, underwater combat, [[EnemyDetectingRadar the tactical map]], [[TransformingMecha transforming arwings]]... all of these ideas were recycled for later releases, including ''Star Fox 64'', ''star Fox Command'', and ''Star Fox Zero''. The fact that the transforming arwings were directly inspired by ''Star Fox 2'' was even acknowledged by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto himself.



* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Again, Fay and Miyu, who remain exclusive to this game (although Miyu was eventually recycled into Katt Monroe, whereas Fay slightly inspired Bill Grey). They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast, something that took until ''Assault'' to realize by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then it was to replace Peppy.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Again, Fara, Fay, and Miyu: [[WhateverHappenedToTheMouse Fara simply isn't in the final release]], while Miyu and Fay and Miyu, who remain exclusive to this game (although Miyu (Miyu was eventually apparently recycled into as Katt Monroe, whereas and Fay slightly seems to have inspired Bill Grey). They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast, cast and include a female component... something that took until ''Assault'' ''Videogame/StarFoxAssault'' to realize be realized by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then it then, [[ConvenientReplacementCharacter that was to replace Peppy.Peppy]], and Krystal is only playable in multiplayer.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} it's been released to the public.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo has '''''finally''''' given it a worldwide official release.


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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} it's been released to the public.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo has '''''finally''''' given it a worldwide official release.
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* GoddamnedBoss:
** King Dodora isn't terribly hard, but it has a ton of defense and a well guarded hitbox. In addition, it can breathe fire; since the fight is supposed to be done in Walker form, you'll have to turn into the Arwing and barrel roll to avoid burn damage, wasting time.
** Expert Mode Fortuna is a gauntlet of three of these:
*** Queen Dioray is a giant underwater squid. The Arwing cannot function underwater, so you'll need to switch to Walker mode. Once you hit it, though, it will immediately become invincible and surface, forcing you to go back to Arwing mode and wait to surface yourself. Once you beat it, you'll have to turn back into the Walker and sink back down.
*** Inside the base, you'll have to fight the Kick Gunner. While it appeared in Hard Mode, this variant is far more annoying due to its arena having four pools of water in a square, and the Kick Gunner will more often jump between two pools than jump onto land and attack for a while. When it goes into a pool, it will take a while to jump out again, making it potentially a massive time sink.
*** To add insult to injury, the core of the base is the most annoying variant: four turrets in the corners that must be defeated to attack the core. If you don't have a Smart Bomb, you'll probably be adding another second to the timer.
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* ThatOneBoss: The Space Blade, one of Andross's Hunters that has a 25% chance of spawning on Hard and a 50% chance on Expert, is the toughest boss in the game. It starts out far away from you and unleashes a bunch of highly damaging barrages of shots as you approach. Once you get there, while the shots lower in intensity, they still do a good chunk of damage if they hit. As for damaging it, it has three shields rotating around it that block all shots, and getting a hit on the center weakpoint is harder than it seems. Lastly, after a while of being nearby, it will turn into a spinning blade and fly away for a while while also becoming invincible, starting the process over while wasting a lot of time.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: It was actually ''this'' game that introduced Wolf, Leon, Pigma and (almost) Andrew of the Star Wolf team. Their characters would be recycled (with significant ArtShift) for a re-debut in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.

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It was actually ''this'' game that introduced Wolf, Leon, Pigma and (almost) Andrew of the Star Wolf team. Their characters would be recycled (with significant ArtShift) ArtShift and a total character change from Algy to Andrew) for a re-debut in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.


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** Andross starts using GiantHandsOfDoom and gains a more natural face in this game on Hard and Expert difficulties, inspiring his later boss fights.
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i dom't know how to delete things I guess.


* BrokenBase: While many are happy that the game is ''finally'' seeing an official release, the fact that it's coming on the Super NES Classic has caused some of this, either not wanting to spend a lot of money for just one game, or worried that [[HistoryRepeats history will repeat itself]] and it'll be like the NES Classic (thankfully this ended up not being the case, with units being noticeably easier to find than the NES Classic), where the console was discontinued despite the lack of units and high demand.
** Notably, the ROM got dumped less than a day after the SNES Classic's release and was added to collections that already preserve the full Super Nintendo library, finally giving them the one game that has never had an official release version untill now.
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This was written prerelease which is a no go now and it mostly focuses on one sid (even though Broken Base needs two equal sides) and part of the example even admits that part of that one side didn't hold true oin the end anyways. The extra bullet point is just Natter.
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* EightPointEight: [[http://www.ign.com/g00/articles/2017/09/27/star-fox-2-review?i10c.referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F IGN]] steps in and gives the game a literal "5.0". Of course people took an issue, not because of the score, but because the review criticised the game for playing like a game made in TheNineties. [[CaptainObvious Which it was.]]

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* EightPointEight: Seeing the game was shipped more than 20 years later than its intended release date, a harsh response to its aged nature was inevitable. [[http://www.ign.com/g00/articles/2017/09/27/star-fox-2-review?i10c.referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F IGN]] steps in and gives the game a literal "5.0". Of course people took an issue, not because of the score, but because the review criticised the game for playing like a game made in TheNineties. [[CaptainObvious Which it was.]]
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* BrokenBase: While many are happy that the game is ''finally'' seeing an official release, the fact that it's coming on the Super NES Classic has caused some of this, either not wanting to spend a lot of money for just one game, or worried that [[HistoryRepeats history will repeat itself]] and it'll be like the NES Classic, where the console was discontinued despite the lack of units and high demand.

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* BrokenBase: While many are happy that the game is ''finally'' seeing an official release, the fact that it's coming on the Super NES Classic has caused some of this, either not wanting to spend a lot of money for just one game, or worried that [[HistoryRepeats history will repeat itself]] and it'll be like the NES Classic, Classic (thankfully this ended up not being the case, with units being noticeably easier to find than the NES Classic), where the console was discontinued despite the lack of units and high demand.
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* IAmNotShazam: Inverted. Andross refers to Fox specifically as "Star Fox", and Wolf calls himself "Star Wolf" (his team is just called "The Wolf Team").
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figured it was redundant


* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} it's finally been released to the public.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo has '''''finally''''' given it a worldwide official release.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} it's finally been released to the public.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo has '''''finally''''' given it a worldwide official release.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} It's out in the public domain.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo has '''''finally''''' given it a worldwide official release.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} It's out in it's finally been released to the public domain.public.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo has '''''finally''''' given it a worldwide official release.
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** Notably, It's likely that the game will be dumped, and added to collections that preserve already the full Super Nintendo library, finally giving them the one game that has never had a release version till now.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} It's out in the public domain.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo '''''finally''''' have released it worldwide, officially.

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** Notably, It's likely that the game will be dumped, ROM got dumped less than a day after the SNES Classic's release and was added to collections that already preserve already the full Super Nintendo library, finally giving them the one game that has never had a an official release version till untill now.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[{{Vaporware}} It's out in the public domain.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo has '''''finally''''' have released given it worldwide, officially.a worldwide official release.
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** Notably, It's likely that the game will be dumped, and added to collections that preserve already the full Super Nintendo library, finally giving them the one game that has never had a release version till now.
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* EightPointEight: [[http://www.ign.com/g00/articles/2017/09/27/star-fox-2-review?i10c.referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F IGN]] steps in and gives the game a literal "5.0". Of course people took an issue, not because of the score, but because the review criticised the game for playing like a game made in TheNineties. [[CaptainObvious Which it was.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[Vaporware It's out in the public domain.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo '''''finally''''' have released it worldwide, officially.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[Vaporware [[{{Vaporware}} It's out in the public domain.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo '''''finally''''' have released it worldwide, officially.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After over twenty years, [[Vaporware It's out in the public domain.]] For a game that has had numerous unfinished builds and broken attempts at turning them into WhatMightHaveBeen... Nintendo '''''finally''''' have released it worldwide, officially.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Again, Fay and Miyu, who remain exclusive to this game (although Miyu was eventually recycled into Katt Monroe). They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast, something that took until ''Assault'' to realize by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then it was to replace Peppy.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Again, Fay and Miyu, who remain exclusive to this game (although Miyu was eventually recycled into Katt Monroe).Monroe, whereas Fay slightly inspired Bill Grey). They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast, something that took until ''Assault'' to realize by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then it was to replace Peppy.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Again, Fay and Miyu, who remain exclusive to this game. They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast, something that took until ''Assault'' to realize by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then it was to replace Peppy.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Again, Fay and Miyu, who remain exclusive to this game.game (although Miyu was eventually recycled into Katt Monroe). They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast, something that took until ''Assault'' to realize by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then it was to replace Peppy.
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** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the UsefulNotes/WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto himself.

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** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the UsefulNotes/WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto himself.himself.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Again, Fay and Miyu, who remain exclusive to this game. They were meant to expand the main Star Fox cast, something that took until ''Assault'' to realize by making Krystal one of the Arwing pilots, and even then it was to replace Peppy.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Both Fay and Miyu have pretty dedicated fans, which is fairly impressive for a pair of characters that have only shown up in a (formerly) cancelled game and nowhere else. It helps that the series has very few female characters of note.
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* BrokenBase: While many are happy that the game is ''finally'' seeing an official release, the fact that it's coming on the Super NES Classic has caused some of this, either not wanting to spend a lot of money for just one game, or worried that [[HistoryRepeats history will repeat itself]] and it'll be like the NES Classic, where the console was discontinued despite the lack of units and high demand.
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** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto himself.

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** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the WiiU UsefulNotes/WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto himself.
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** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by ShigeruMiyamoto himself.

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** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by ShigeruMiyamoto Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto himself.
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** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/Star Fox Zero'' on the WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by ShigeruMiyamoto himself.

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** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/Star Fox Zero'' ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' on the WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by ShigeruMiyamoto himself.
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** Many mechanics such as charged shots, all-range movement, ground and underwater combat was introduced in some form in this game which was recycled for ''64'' and also introduced a map screen, allowing you to attack any target you wish, a similar mechanic re-used in ''Command''.

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** Many mechanics such as charged shots, all-range movement, ground and underwater combat was introduced in some form in this game which was recycled for ''64'' and also introduced a map screen, allowing you to attack any target you wish, a similar mechanic re-used in ''Command''.''Command''.
** The "transforming vehicles" aspect would finally make its debut in the series proper with ''VideoGame/Star Fox Zero'' on the WiiU in 2015, a good 20 years after ''Star Fox 2's'' cancellation. This was even acknowledged by ShigeruMiyamoto himself.
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* CompleteMonster: [[YMMV/StarFox Andross]] again.
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*CompleteMonster: [[YMMV/StarFox Andross]] again.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: It was actually ''this'' game that introduced Wolf, Leon, Pigma and (almost) Andrew of the Star Wolf team. Their characters would be recycled (with significant ArtShift) for a re-debut in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: It was actually ''this'' game that introduced Wolf, Leon, Pigma and (almost) Andrew of the Star Wolf team. Their characters would be recycled (with significant ArtShift) for a re-debut in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''.''VideoGame/StarFox64''.
** Many mechanics such as charged shots, all-range movement, ground and underwater combat was introduced in some form in this game which was recycled for ''64'' and also introduced a map screen, allowing you to attack any target you wish, a similar mechanic re-used in ''Command''.

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