Star Fox programmer thinks modern efforts in the franchise miss elements
He’s “sure” that the series will return eventually
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Star Foxis one of Nintendo’s most iconic franchises, but Dylan Cuthbert, who served as a programmer on the original title (and in total was a lead developer on four of the series’ games), believes that “some of the more recent titles” missed out important elements that made the original game what it was.
Speaking to VGC, Cuthbert said he’s “sure” that the series will return at some point, and said: “They keep trying, don’t they? They keep trying, not quite achieving the original.”
He elaborated on this and stated that he thought it was a combination of the 1991 3D rail shooter,Starblade, the 1993Star Warsarcade game, Amiga games such asCarrier Command, and Nintendo’s family-friendly touch that ultimately formed the original 1993 SNES game. He thinks that some of the newer games missed out on one or more of these key parts that made the first game feel like it did.
“It’s the combination of all those things that I suppose was what madeStar Foxwhat it was,” he speculated.
“So some of the more recent titles - maybe, say, the Namco version, for example - are all great games, but there’s always that one element missing, that sort of UK old-school 3D shooting game element missing from it,” he continued, referring to the 2005 GameCube title,Star Fox: Assault.
Not countingStar Fox 2(which was developed in the 90s but wasn’t actually released until 2017), the most recent mainStar Foxgame was 2016’sStar Fox Zero, which was released exclusively on the Wii U. With an average critic score of6.9 on Metacritic, reception was rather mixed, and it remains one of the few major Wii U titles that still hasn’t received aNintendo Switchport (alongside the likes ofXenoblade Chronicles XandPaperMario: Color Splash). No furtherStar Foxgames are currently known to be in development.
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