Love Starfox. LOVE IT. The SNES and N64 games are among my favorite ever. So much so that I will blindly buy anything Starfox related.
Also, Starfox Adventures was a good game. To heck and back and back to heck again with the hater.
Having said that - I am still pi$$ed that this game did not get its own amiibo line. I mean, who would not want a Peppy or Slippy amiibo? Wolf O'Donnell? Pigma Dengar! Oh geez gimme a break Nintendo. What the faaaaaaakkkkkk????
Report: President of Star Fox Zero dev PlatinumGames steps down
By Brian Crecente on Apr 21, 2016 at 8:35a @crecenteb
PlatinumGames president Tatsuya Minami stepped down from his role leading the developer late last month, according to a report from GamesBusiness.JP. He has been replaced by Kenichi Sato, who was the executive director.
The news comes as the company celebrates its 10th anniversary and just a day before the global release of PlatinumGames' and Nintendo's Star Fox Zero, which has received mixed reviews.
As with many of Platinum Games' core team, Minami started his career at Capcom. In 2006, he left the company to found ODD Incorporated. ODD later joined forces with Seeds, Inc., a company created by former Clover members, to form PlatinumGames.
PlatinumGames has a history of making unusual games including its premiere title, MadWorld, gun-for-shoes action game Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101. Its latest game, Star Fox Zero, came out today in Japan and hits most of the world tomorrow.
Currently, Star Fox Zero has a metascore in the low 70s with a very mixed reception. In our write up of the game, reviews editor Arthur Gies wrote that the title demonstrates everything bad about Wii U game design and declined to review the game.
The game was co-developed by Nintendo EDP and PlatinumGames. You can read more about that process, and how the game was designed to bolster the use of the Wii U's Gamepad, in our interview with PlatinumGames from last year's E3.
We've reached out to PlatinumGames and will update this story when they respond.
The other Star Fox game, Star Fox Guard, which plays more like a Tower Defense game, is getting more favorable reviews than Zero.
I bought it, and it's shipping now from Best Buy. Hell, I don't really give a crap about gaming that much anymore either, but I love Star Fox. I'll probably play through the couple hour campaign and never touch it again, but, I'm still a sucker for the old Fox. Looks like I may have more fun with the freebie Star Fox defense game than the main disc, but whatevs.
I don't care about reviews. Pretty sure I'd enjoy this solely because it's Star Fox (and an on-rails shooter; when was the last one, sin and punishment wii?).
I'm with you guys.
Same reason I enjoyed Metroid Other M. People got so mad and took personal offense when that game came out but I was like whatever, I was just happy to have another Metroid game and enjoyed it for what it was - not everything has to be the next Super Metroid.
Same thing with this game...
I fucking love Other M. Nintendo makes games for old nerds.
I'd like to try Starfox, but the reviews don't make it look too good. I can't believe it's been 20 years since a proper sequel.