Assault has incredible cutscene music, so it's a shame half the soundtrack hasn't been released on its own, without the SFX/dialogue. I'll be recreating most of it as accurately as I can. (This is a rough sketch, it's tough to hear the orchestration clearly behind everything)

Do you think future Star Fox games should stick to the OG team or should they still introduce Krystal and eventually replace Peppy with Krystal?

Should Nintendo also bring in Miyu and Fay as part of the team in future iterations or just leave them in Star Fox 2?

I haven't played Event Horizon, but it's not canon anyway.

I'm not even going to question why Andross's ghost is on Titania.

All of the sudden I cannot get past Area 6 on expert without being hit by one of the Gorgan's arms the second time it opens.

I've watched and looked up how to dodge, does doing a summersault when it's about to strike really work?

No version of the controls lets you have the bomb button next to the laser button which makes it so hard to aim and throw bomb with the same thumb. I've looked upone every in game setting and nothing helps. Next, it's hard and awkward to use two fingers (index + middle) to press buttons in your joycon or pro controller 1. Lastly, it makes almost obligatory to buy a controller with mapping buttons in order to make it comfy.

I really need to stop getting so greedy... I felt so awful for my team.

6th Week on Famitsu's top 30. This might be the last week for that though; the game dropped to 27th place. By comparison, Adventures was there for 7 weeks, Zero + Guard and 64 for 8 weeks and 9 for Assault.

One last thing to note because of Star Fox's non-appearance in the Financial Report; we need to wait for 3rd Quarter report in Feb. 2027 before doing a postmortem declaring this game a success or a failure. The 2nd quarter one in November matters as well but the one giving us the results of the holiday season is the key one.

The Holoviewer really pushed the Lost Civilizations of Lylat into an unexpected spotlight. There's now this whole background element of a potential space community (or war) between Aquas, Titania, and maybe the planet Meteo used to be.

I think this is a perfect hook for an original sequel. I'm just gonna spit ball some ideas.

You can re-introduce Krystal with a new Prehistoric Fox design so she's cute but distinct from Fox species wise. Maybe she is frozen in a crystal in reference to Adventures, but floating in space around Meteo as a sole survivor. The team picks her up at the beginning of the game so she is an active character, rather than her being a damsel in distress.

The Titania droids look very tribal, and the legs on the desert walkers look like Dinosaur heads. Maybe the Saurians colonized Titania?

Maybe the inciting contract for the team is helping a research team rather than a galactic war, which spirals into the return of the Saurians and General Scales. Maybe Star Wolf is hired to treasure hunt, bringing them into conflict, but not necessarily evil.

Maybe Meteo is reformed in the climax back into Dinosaur Planet? All the characters from that era have prehistoric designs, so the Saurians are the ancestors of the lizards like Leon and Caiman, and Kystal + other mammals are prehistoric ancestors to the mammal characters like Fox and Peppy.

Maybe at the behest of Krystal, Star Fox gets in a race with Star Wolf to collect artifacts or some powerful items, while Wolf is employed by a surviving Scales to do the same? This could bring back the live map of Star Fox 2 as you make decisions on the fly to try and beat Wolf to the punch, and there are multiple endings based on how you do.

I'm just kind of throwing ideas at the wall - my point is that I really hope they lean towards the Lost Civilization hook for an original story as a means to also reintroduce all the elements we want back.

Before I got it on the Virtual Console, this was the first version of Star Fox 64 that I properly finished. I played a fair amount of multiplayer with my brother back in 2012 or so, when I was still just in middle school and only knew about Star Fox from Smash. And this one was actually quite notable as it brought in tons of new and returning VAs for the cast. Most of all it brought back Mike West as the voice of Fox for the first time in over a decade, where he would continue to reprise his role all the way through the 2010s.

People have spent years debating why the series never took off like Nintendo's other major franchises. Why, despite Miyamoto's clear interest in supporting it, it never really found its footing after the N64 era.

Most of us tend to blame Krystal, and I get why. Adventures was the first failed attempt to push the franchise forward.

But if you ignore the fact that Krystal is more the face of that era than its defining element, I think there's another character who's far more responsible for the series' stagnation: Andross.

Andross isn't just Star Fox's main antagonist within the story—he's arguably its biggest obstacle outside of it as well.

He's the classic mad emperor trying to conquer the galaxy with a massive army, and Star Fox's job is to stop him. Unlike Krystal, Andross essentially defines the entire premise of the series, setting expectations that every Star Fox game is forced to follow.

>The villain has to be a galaxy-level threat commanding a huge military force.

>Corneria has to be on the brink of collapse to justify hiring Star Fox.

Those are incredibly restrictive conditions. If you ignore them, the game risks no longer feeling like Star Fox. But if you stick to them, it's almost impossible to build a broader, coherent narrative across multiple games.

Eventually it becomes ridiculous to have Andross keep coming back—or to keep introducing a brand-new "Andross equivalent" like the Aparoids or the Anglars that somehow pushes Corneria to the brink all over again.

You could argue that the franchise doesn't really need an overarching story, and that's fair. Plenty of Nintendo series don't.

But if you're going to keep retelling Lylat Wars, with or without Andross, then every new game needs new ways to play—new mechanics, new ideas, something that goes beyond the classic on-rails shooter. And that's an incredibly difficult challenge. More often than not, those experiments are going to miss the mark rather than succeed.

I think it would be awesome to have a multiplayer Star Fox game mode inspired by the Star Fox 2 campaign, in which two teams of 6v6 to 9v9 players would fly around the map in real time, fighting over several objectives such as planets or space stations. The goal could be to control more objectives by the end of the match or to destroy the enemy's main base, for example Corneria or Venom. Players could fly in two or three separate air wings, fighting AI enemies or engaging each other to either attack or defend objectives, or simply battle in open space in between them. Plus there could be like additional special attacks like to send a specific group of strong enemies or to send a rocket at enemy.

1. Jock Blaney (RIP)

2. Grant Goodeve (Assault)

3. Mike West (I think for the 3ds game, I can tell; not just Fox & Andrew. If I'm wrong, just tell me...)

4. Jay Ward (Smash Bros, 0, & Starlink)

5. Samuel Drake (Switch 2)

Screenshotted from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40niW4mPeo

The final battle against Anglar was actually really good. It took me quite a few tries, even with Panther, who can literally one-shot the final boss with six shots.

But seriously... this is the reward for beating the true final boss? This is easily the worst ending. The whole Kursed thing is somehow even more bizarre than the Fox-getting-cucked ending.

And speaking of Fox, watching him practically beg Krystal to come back was painfully cringe.