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He wasn't kidding about the importanance of space ships in video games, considering literally the very first video game ever made featured a space ship (
Spacewar! for the PDP-1).
Haha he didn't even mention
Star Fox Assault or
Command when looking at the series' history.
This game was developed by Velan Studios, and uses their in-house Viper Engine.
This game looks like how I imagined a
Star Fox game for 7th-gen consoles would look, except with 4P local/online co-op.
10:12 oh huh, interesting have they have the enemies warp-in.
Man, it's nice to have a modern game that for once doesn't use TAA like whoa, and thus doesn't have temporal artifacts and the other hits to image quality that come with TAA. Very nice, clean presentation.
1080p in docked mode, but what we care more about than resolution is framerate, and of course it's a nice locked 60fps here. Plus no noticeable stuttering, fast load times, seamless transitions, and there's HDR too. I bet this game would look sick on an OLED screen.
Yeah it's understandable this new game has waaaay longer draw distances.
This reimagining of the environments really sells the point that area in the first level on Corneria is a city, and one that is under attack. Also the underwater level with the Blue Marine looks nice, and wow that level on the sun, impressive.
He compares the 3DS remake too, and he points out how the 3DS version feels like a halfway point between the N64 version and the Switch 2 remake, which is true.
The new cutscenes change and reflect your path through the game.
He complains about the lack of hit feedback that SNES
SF and
SF64 had. Says it makes it harder to tell if you are actually dealing damage. He thinks this is a bigger problem for n00bs than for people familiar with the game.
Slippy sounds weird, but sounds much better than N64 version, so that's a win. Peppy I think sounds better in N64 version though.
Interesting, new battle mode can be played with bots, cool.
Oh wow, there is mouse support for aiming. Weird.
Would be awesome if they make a brand-new
Star Fox too. Maybe this one will open the way forward for that.
I haven't played
Ex-Zodiac cuz that sh1t is still Early Access. The
Wild Blue Skies demo was kinda disappointing, so I hope the final game is better.
Haha of course he has to point out what a terrible remake
Panzer Dragoon got. Wish I hadn't bought it. And the demo for the remake of the 2nd game showed me they are gonna do the same sh1tty-@ss job with that one too.
Well if I had a Switch 2 this second remake of
Star Fox 64 would be the first exclusive game that I'd actually want to get for it. Not for anywhere near full price though. But yeah I don't see myself getting a Switch 2, so unless Switch 2 emulation shows up on PC, I'll probably miss out on this game. One of my friends is getting the game, and I'll be seeing him this weekend, so I guess I'll get to check it out.
