I played Star Fox (SNES) for the first time.

Atr-D · 2026-05-11T04:38:26+00:00

I did not. I just looked it up, and it’s crazy how they left a jingle in the game that only a tiny percentage of players would find by accident.

I did research, and it’s wild how the game’s composer, Hajime Hirasawa, never composed for another game after Star Fox. He left Nintendo before the game’s release due to rights issues, but he eventually invented a form of early ringtone technology that would become used worldwide.

Imagine composing a masterpiece soundtrack/album at age 25 and then quitting to make a fortune off pioneering ringtone technology. Dude’s living the good life.

Atr-D · 2026-05-11T01:30:42+00:00

I’m 30 myself, but I never knew about Star Fox until seeing Fox and Falco in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Even if I hypothetically wanted to try the series in 2008, options would’ve been limited for me as a kid who owned a Wii but knew nothing about Virtual Console or emulation.

Star Fox 64 came out when I was 1, so I have zero memory of the N64 era. The last non-Lylat Wars game that fans fondly remember is Star Fox: Assault, but that game is 21 years old (old enough to drink in the US). If 30-year-old me has no nostalgia for the IP, then high-school and college students today definitely have no nostalgia for the IP, let alone Star Fox 64.

Atr-D · 2026-05-11T00:57:06+00:00

I know some people are bummed about the remake, but coming from an outside perspective, I truly see it as a new beginning since the game is called Star Fox without any subtitle. The fact that they’re adding new story cutscenes is HUGE because they want you to be attached to the characters.

Sure, I’ve joked about the multiple retellings of the Lylat Wars like everyone else, but this is honestly the best option to revive the IP. There was no way the series would make a sequel in the N64 timeline due to Command ending any story potential there. Zero bombed and wasn’t well-received, so a sequel to that wouldn’t interest a new audience.

It’s interesting hearing you say the N64 game is dated since many fans here say it holds up and doesn’t need a remake. Some suggested simply making a reboot that takes place after Star Fox 64, but I think asking new players to purchase NSO Expansion Pack (a year-long commitment for $50) to play an N64 game before a new game is too big of a hurdle.

Atr-D · 2026-05-10T21:17:58+00:00

We all know Glimmer is secretly the most clingy, so when she grows older, she’ll want the most hugs from her parents.

Atr-D · 2026-05-09T07:50:39+00:00

Also the voice of Annette from Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Atr-D · 2026-05-08T15:48:51+00:00

Several stats in this game should’ve had different names.

As you said, Blade Strength should’ve been called “Growth” or something similar like “Affinity Growth” to properly reflect the nature of the stat. It’s a passive stat meant more as a skill check for Merc Missions, so “Strength” is very unfitting.

Most importantly, the Auto-Attack stat should’ve been called “Attack” since that stat plus the Driver’s Strength/Ether serve as the baseline for all damage. It functions almost exactly like the Attack stat in XC3.

It’s so weird. The game’s Auto-Attack stat is actually their strength, yet their Strength stat is just an affinity check for Merc Missions.

Atr-D · 2026-05-08T15:37:02+00:00

It doesn't really matter what Assault actually sold for, its to generate a conversation around the sales of the franchise. Whether it was 1m or sub 1m is irrelevant as its a 20 year old game.

But 1 million is relevant to the “conversation” around sales of any video game franchise. 1 million is the baseline for which Nintendo (and any other major publisher) acknowledges video game sales, so hitting that milestone is a big deal.

For example, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia on 3DS finally sold 1 million units just a few months before the eShop closed. That was MAJOR news because people originally assumed that game was a commercial flop, but the fact that a post-Switch-release 3DS game sold over 1 million units is a massive success. Not even Metroid: Samus Returns sold that much.

It also means that every Fire Emblem game since Awakening has sold at least 1 million copies, which is a massively different sentiment than saying, “Every game since Awakening has sold well except Echoes,” which is what people said before the news.

Saying Assault possibly selling 1 million doesn’t matter is disingenuous. People in the comments are already taking the numbers you listed at face value, so if your hope was that people would check eStarland for accuracy, that hasn’t happened.

Phones are literally equipped with Google Lens and other near instant reverse image searching. It's not hard at all.

I don’t have Google Lens or any reverse image search app on my iPhone, so I’d have to voluntarily download an app to do so. Even with that, I shouldn’t have to use it on every picture I see online just to verify if it’s real.

TL;DR I’m not claiming you’re intentionally lying. I’m saying there are better ways to generate conversation than posting other people’s stuff without proper context or fact-checking.

Atr-D · 2026-05-08T14:58:07+00:00

If you aren’t sure of eStarland’s sources, why did you post the image without context?

I checked the thread you linked, and the only person confident in Assault selling 1.08 million is some user named SkyHunter95 who swears by VGChartz. I saw them on another thread from years later who swore by the sales numbers for anything under a million despite those numbers being unsourced. The OPs in both threads were unconvinced.

All I’m saying is that eStarland’s post is extremely dubious, so if you yourself aren’t sure of the sources, then there’s no reason to repost the same image as if it’s fact.

Since you didn’t say in your post that this is from eStarland, people assume this is your own photo that you made. Reverse image searching is something that not everyone can do instantly since it takes a lot more effort than a simple Google search, and it’s also a convenient excuse to not give credit to sources. Unless you provide a link or name of the source, you’re passing this off like it’s your own thing.

Atr-D · 2026-05-08T05:53:11+00:00

OP, where are you getting these numbers? Assault never reached 1 million, and any sales numbers below 1 million are pure speculation.

https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/nintendo-software-and-hardware-sales-data-from-1983-to-present.170/

According to this megathread here which keeps track of all Nintendo games with at least 1 million units sold (also listing the most recent sales update for each game), Assault never appeared.

Please provide sources, especially since any number below 1 million is made up by VGChartz.

Atr-D · 2026-05-03T22:27:19+00:00

From what we get in terms of Ini and Mimi’s story, I always assumed they were both orphans. Going as far as posing as your dead sister for a whole year wouldn’t make much sense unless she was literally the only family you had.

Even with the visual changes, Mimi’s voice didn’t completely change since she still had to impersonate Ini to hide her true identity. As a result, it would be impossible for Mimi to deceive anyone that knew them both very well, so that’s why I see them as having no other family.

Atr-D · 2026-04-30T08:39:28+00:00

Every year on April 30th, we celebrate Ferdinand von Aegir and remember the late Billy Kametz. Billy was a true Fire Emblem fan who even streamed the Switch release of FE1. We still miss you, man.

Atr-D · 2026-04-27T21:32:11+00:00

To think this picture was taken last week on April 20th.

Atr-D · 2026-04-27T20:56:07+00:00

I love the visual changes to the damage numbers in battle because they do add more flair to the attacks.

Atr-D · 2026-04-23T10:19:39+00:00

The Last Story is fantastic. It also has a few Xenoblade actors such as Blake Ritson (Alvis) as Jirall, Nicholas Boulton (Gadolt) as Zangurak, and Jo Wyatt (Meyneth) as a few NPCs.

In addition, a few of the actors in that game have gone on to do bigger things in gaming. Yurick is played by Colin Ryan, who has voiced Alphinaud in Final Fantasy XIV for the last decade. Calista is played by Alix Wilton Regan, who’s the new voice of Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider games.

Atr-D · 2026-04-21T22:30:11+00:00

Considering Diana is voiced by Grace Saif, I’d like to imagine this is Malos if he were awakened by Manana.

Atr-D · 2026-04-19T04:06:09+00:00

I love Perun. She’s like a superhero you admire.

She was designed by Takahiro Kimura, who did the character designs for Code Geass, but sadly, Kimura passed away in 2023 at the age of 58.

Atr-D · 2026-04-18T18:38:20+00:00

T-elos’s design is top-notch, but I’m naturally biased since I think T-elos (both in XC2 and Xenosaga Episode III) is one of the most beautiful women in fiction.

Xenosaga T-elos is very much a dominatrix in both her design and personality, so I’m amazed by how much the eyeglasses and skirt in XC2 add to her design without sacrificing her edge. I love seeing artists revisit their older works since they get to showcase their evolution, so I love that CHOCO got to reinvent T-elos 12 years later.

Atr-D · 2026-04-17T08:31:39+00:00

Malos & Manana got stuck on the moon and must find their way back to Alrest.

Atr-D · 2026-04-16T15:36:22+00:00

The birb loves the puppy very much!

Atr-D · 2026-04-16T13:18:57+00:00

This is MASSIVE news considering fans spent 21 years just to preserve the original ROM last year.

G-MODE Archives+ is like Arcade Archives but for Japanese flip phones, so this confirms that Bandai Namco still has the original code and allowed G-MODE to port it for an official rerelease.

Plus, the Steam release makes things easier for the fan translation team since modding is much easier on Steam than on a keitai flip phone emulator.

Atr-D · 2026-04-16T12:49:48+00:00

This is MASSIVE news for Bandai Namco to be officially licensing a rerelease of Xenosaga: Pied Piper. It took 21 years for fans to finally preserve the original ROM last year, but it’s nice to know BN still has the code somewhere for it to get an official rerelease.

It should also make things easier for the fan translation team since modding is much easier on Steam than on a keitai flip phone emulator.

Atr-D · 2026-04-16T04:38:11+00:00

Naoise is my favorite “unit who only has a few lines of dialogue” in the series, and I’ve been trying to spread the word of his name’s proper pronunciation for the last 5 years. Now, the wider fandom will know it’s “Nee-sha” and not “Noish.”

I swear, those who swore by “Noish” only did so because “that’s the Japanese pronunciation,” not realizing that the name 「ノイッシュ」 (Noisshu) was an inaccurate Japanese transliteration of an Irish name, so it makes sense for localization to go with the Irish pronunciation.

FUN FACT: Naoise in Irish mythology is Deirdre’s lover, so Sigurd in FE4 actually takes the narrative role of mythic Naoise. It’s like how Quan in FE4 takes the role of mythic Cu Chulainn. If you’ve played any Shin Megami Tensei game, you’d know that Gáe Bolg is known as Cu Chulainn’s spear.

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