Star Fox General Thread

I heard it was because Nintendo didn't want the Dinosaur Planet IP going to Microsoft, so they forced it to become a Star Fox game.

I just wish they had continued it. Yeah it wasn't really a Star Fox game, but it was a good game in general. Maybe next game could have just been about Krystal, with occasional cameos from Fox and the crew.

I think a game with Krystal would have been neat,Starfox adventures practically copies Legend of Zelda's gameplay style so it would have probably ended up as a Zelda clone,maybe Nintendo didn't like this aspect hence why they've never developed beyond.In general the gamecube era seems to be something of an old shame to them

Edited by Ultimatum on Jan 13th 2019 at 9:50:43 AM

Most people I've seen yell at Miyamoto saying he ruined a good game by forcing Rare to make it a Star Fox title, but that sounds like a case of misblamed/God Never Said That to me. I wouldn't be surprised if he just made a small comment and Rare took it the wrong way.

They didn't care about Diddy Kong Racing be a Mario Kart riff or Banjo-Kazooie being Mario 64 inspired.

Edited by Pichu-kun on Jan 13th 2019 at 4:00:49 AM

Just gonna butt in and say that Wolf is so out of character in Star Link that it's so hilariously funny.

He really is. It's a crying shame that Starlink was so good in some places and then failed to stick the landing.

I think Fox's portrayal might had been based on his Star Fox 2 appearance.

Starlink: Crimson Moon, coming soon.

The writer of Rogue One wants to make a Star Fox Movie

So long as they don't retread into the SNES/64 plot and ditch the double screen, gyro horseshit, it should be promising.

Starfox the movie but everyone wears fursuits

Honestly even more than the games, its baffling to me that Nintendo hasn't done more with the franchise in outside media. I know after 1993 the big N basically didn't bother with stuff like comics or books outside some token mangas, but SF especially feels so ripe for exploration, arguably close to the potential Lo Z & Metroid have.

Say what you will about Sega, but they've been infinitely smarter in letting companies and writers plumb the depths of Sonic than Nintendo's managed.

Nintendo did let third parties do Star Fox for a while though.

x4 I really doubt the movie is going to have gyro controls or dual screens.

Edited by WillKeaton on Jan 14th 2020 at 6:38:50 AM

Ha! Looks like I gaffed again. I took it as writing the plot for a potential game.

Now that I've taken in all the information without failing, maybe it'll be a thunderbirds style movie with puppet action. Or Team Corneria, Lylat Police!

Fantastic Mr Star Fox

Peppy and Andros' voice actor, Rick May, has passed.

It seems he was suffering from pancreatic cancer and had a heart attack earlier this year, but was taken by COVID-19.

In which games did he play Andross and Peppy? Because there have been several actors over the years.

He was Peppy in Star Fox 64

On Borne Again's comment, there was a Star Fox comic series that was exclusive to Nintendo Power back when the first game was new. It never gained a reissue like Super Mario Advenures and the Zelda comic did.

And what's odd is that they had that when there was basically mimimal canon from game to work off of. Since then, even after several games and timelines, the closest we've gotten to non-game EU material is a minute long video with puppet versions of the cast.

Meaning that Pikmin 3 (not the whole franchise just 3), which had various short animated films in 2014, has managed to have more expanded universe media in the year it came out than Star Fox has managed in the last 25.

I mean, there are three different Star Fox comics, and a ten minute animation. It's not a lot, but it's not nothing.

I guess part of it is my continued bafflement with Nintendo's refusal to really do as much with their properties in non-game media as much as they could. Yes the early Nintendo animated shows were pretty lousy and the Super Mario Bros movie's reputation as a failed realization of the franchise is well earned.

But even with that and Nintendo's status as a pretty conservative company with their IP's, it still constantly feels like there's such creative exploration of that's failed to happen (not to mention the money left on the table) from the refusal post 1993 to really do much with what they have.

Its telling that it took the efforts of TPC and Studio Sign to get Pokemon and Kirby animes respectively, or that in the midst of an arguable animation golden age that Castlevania's gotten a well regarded adaptation before the likes of Mario, Zelda, Metroid, or Star Fox. And that's after being signed off on by Konami, a company most famous in the five years for screwing up or ignoring their beloved properties.

Meanwhile, I'm just hoping the Nintendo Power "Star Fox" comics might get a reissue someday (alongside the Metroid comic adaptation).

The Super Metroid one or the Metroid Prime one?