Yeah really. I am on board for Nintendo adding new levels to some of their old games instead of making new ones. Fuck it. Add more to Star Fox 64. Add another mansion to Luigi's Mansion. Make Earthbound a real video game.
Sure, but just don’t reuse the same stuff over and over. A different group of villains, a different set of planets, visual themes, stage elements, maybe a new move or two… nothing radical, just the stuff that’s expected from a sequel.
There's already a mod for that I'm pretty sure, voiced by the same VA who voices Krystal in Event Horizon...and literally every fan related content out there that stars Krystal. Yes, even that one. Which one? Well if you think it, she's probably in it.
Knowing how wonderfully fast (not) game development is nowadays, there could be a good chance this starfox game was supposed to be on the original Switch and it just kept ethier not getting to completion on the intended release date they internally had or just had a skeleton crew to make it, then the Mario Galaxy movie happened with Fox in it and ethier they decided to fast track it to release it ASAP to strike while the iron's hot or decided to just release it anyways since the niggercattle only know StarFox ethier through Smash obligitorily throwing Fox and Falco in, and now the Mario Galaxy movie, if there isn't a small handful who remember the brand for only one game it keeps being remade because they seemingly have no ideas on how to make an on-rails shooter and the other games in the franchise is StarFox Adventures, which is the way it was because Rare couldn't say no to Shiggy's demands to turn Dinosuar Planet into a StarFox game, Assault was Namco and still on the GameCube in 2005, so not many cared when there were major games like Resident Evil 4, Star Wars Battlefront II (the No-EA one), and Kingdom Hearts II that people actually wanted to play, and StarFox Command is StarFox Command.
To play devil's advocate: TTYD was always like this on the original JP version as well with the troon plotline...not saying that makes it good, but it's far from being something recent; the original American Gamecube version was the only one who tried to fix this mess. As unfortunate as it may be, it was only logical for them to bring it back to appeal to the nintendo tranny tourists that started to get really big in 2023 for some reason.
Yeah, this doesn't look that great. It's certainly highly detailed and it's interesting in a way to see how the levels made with N64 graphics could be recreated with so much more realistic detail, but it's not necessarily "better" looking. A lot of shots look overly cluttered and too dark. Incidentally, the lip-syncing is terrible and I bet it's supposed to match the English voice lines and not the Japanese ones. Given how low effort this is from a gameplay design standpoint and how "hire this man" the aesthetics are, I'm suspecting that almost all of the work on this was outsourced to some random American dev team.
I don't think it'll be a good comparison. Metroid II was a fine game, but not particularly beloved by Metroid fans or gamers at large since it was so much more primitive compared to Super onward. The remake was a massive overhaul that basically only shares the plot premise and basic boss ideas from the original game. It's otherwise completely different and way longer. And while most of the work on it was outsourced to MercurySteam, there was still series veterans in the Producer, Director, and Supervisor roles. We have no idea so far if anyone of pedigree is involved in this Star Fox remake.
No, they rewrote things in both languages for the remake to make it troonier. To summarize
Wait, so its true that in the original JP version Vivian was more of a femboy than a actual tranny? I never confirmed myself.
Well, and let's not forget Goytendo had to try and Kill AM2R during Metroid's 30th birthday because it was a better Metroid 2 remake than they could ever do. Fans doing what nintendon't really made the multi-national billion dollar company seethe.
Personally, I think they needed a clean slate, though I agree just doing 64 again was not exactly how they should have gone about it. They should have treated it like a capeshit IP where you get the origin of 64, so all the basic details like James Death, Andross, maybe even same planets, but take a new spin from there.
Yes. In fact, the changes are worse than I thought from the comparisons I'd seen before, judging off looking up stuff on Japanese sites just now. In the Japanese GameCube version when the Shadow Trio introduce themselves and Vivian calls themselves the Shadow Sisters, Beldam (or Majorine in Japanese) admonished him that they're aren't the Shadow Sisters because Vivian is a boy, and Vivian shrinks back by saying he got carried away. In Japanese Switch version, Beldam just insists that no, they're the Shadow Trio, while avoiding directly saying Vivian is a boy, and Vivian responds by saying he's their sister in his heart.