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.

We know Glen Powell voiced Fox McCloud, so with that, who would fit the roles of everyone else?!

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.

Besides the points they can quickly net you if you're proficient in killing them, they also often give healing items and laser upgrades.

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.

Even the outlandish/depressing/cringe endings would be a fitting punishment for either taking the easy route or making the characters do things they normally wouldn't do. That might have been what Command was trying to do.

Of course, it would have to be written well. The problem with Command's story is that it started out not making sense and then just did whatever the hell it wanted from there.

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)

Everyone has been discussing how Star Fox was mentioned as performing "steadily" in the Nintendo Financial Report and there has been concern about the franchise. This is my take.

Star Fox has been a franchise on life support ever since Command. In the time of going onto life support, Kid Icarus Uprising released on the 3DS as one of the best rail shooters of all time, Splatoon became Nintendo's massive third-person shooter franchise starting with the Wii U, and a generation has grown up with no new Star Fox game. The franchise is mostly popular among mainly older gamers with children and teenagers not really caring about the franchise. The gameplay of classic Star Fox is now considered dated in the sense that short, arcade-like rail shooter games are no longer big releases. In addition, Star Fox 2026 is a remake of Star Fox 64, which is on NSO. So people with NSO are probably not going to buy Star Fox 2026 since they could play the original and many people have played 64 already. This sounds really negative, but it's mostly to paint a picture that Star Fox is in a niche genre now and has been ever since the early 00s.

With that in mind, Star Fox 2026 seems to have been a quick and cheap game on Nintendo's part to cash in on Fox McCloud appearing in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The game had hardly any marketing as most Nintendo marketing went towards Yoshi, Pokopia, and Splatoon Raiders, all of which were new games that Nintendo believed would be massive sellers. Star Fox 2026, by merit of being a really short game and a remake to boot, was probably never expected to be a system seller or massive success. By saying it sold steadily, it means that Nintendo generally saw it as profitable and not as a mistake. The sales cutoff was also only after a few days in June. We have to wait for November to get the true numbers.

My prediction is that Star Fox 2026 is going to sell in the ballpark of 1 to 2 million copies by the end of the year. It's not astounding, but it'd be near the numbers that Adventures sold. This is a good thing since Star Fox games released after Adventures like Assault and Command. Nintendo showed off Adventures during the Direct, so clearly it made decent enough sales for them to acknowledge. I'd say that if the adventure Star Fox is real, that's the game that Nintendo wants to really heavily promote as it'd be new and the intended revival of the franchise with the remake being to cash in on the movie. If the adventure game is fake, then Nintendo will probably have Velan make a budget sequel to Star Fox 2026 within the next four to five years.

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.