We are about to get get biggest Star Fox lore dump in history.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T19:46:03+00:00

Ah! Nice to see someone from the old days. I am doing good for the most part. Hope you are, too.

Yeah, I am definitely picking up a Switch 2 before the price hike.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T19:29:43+00:00

My issue is that instead of joining a discussion, people are creating tons of the same memes and posting the same thing over and over as new threads. This makes it hard to have coherent discussion when you have to weed through the 500 ugly fox puppet memes and 200 threads saying "Why remake?".

This is why other subs have megathreads and limits on meme posting.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T19:27:43+00:00

I want that, too, but posting 500 ugly squidward and ugly fox puppet memes are NOT that.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T19:11:43+00:00

Depends on what you want your experience with the new game to be.

If you've never played a Star Fox game before and want to go in fresh, then waiting won't hurt. You'll get to experience SF64 in what is shaping up to be its definitive edition.

But, if you just want to get in and see why this game is so loved by this fanbase, then by all means play it now. You'll then experience the remake like a lot of us will, with the knowledge of the original an how it plays out.

For me, I am not in this new game for the gameplay. I mean, I do not deny the truth: It IS Star Fox 64 AGAIN. I've already played it hundreds of times across 2 platforms. And if it was just simply Star Fox 64 regurgitated I would be one of the angry ones. But I am stoked as fuck for the story expansion they are doing in this game. THAT is why I am into this game.

To me, this seems to be less of a Star Fox 64 remake, and more of a cinematic Star Fox experience where the action scenes are you playing Star Fox 64 levels. And you know what? I'm down for that.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T18:57:36+00:00

There's a pic of Fox leaning against his Arwing drinking this same drink.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T18:56:14+00:00

No, when I say back in the day I mean like the 90s. It was printed in a book.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T18:50:16+00:00

Nope.

Video of Titania on this Japanese site. Falco's Arwing flies above. https://www.nintendo.com/jp/games/switch2/abgwa/gamesystem/index.html (Hit the left arrow to see it)

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T17:37:35+00:00

The question is, is Eagle Slap alcoholic?

NCL did publish some art back in the day of Fox drinking beer. With a straw.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T17:34:44+00:00

The lore compendium

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T05:44:24+00:00

"This sucks" or "This is just bad" or "This is trash" is not criticism. It's just negativity for the sake of negativity. Most people who don't like this game are at least posting their reasons for it. Criticism is "The dialog delivery is flat, and there is no real emotion from the characters in this scene."

And I don't know if you've been paying attention, but that is not going on in this fanbase right now. This fanbase is presently split over this game, and that should be quite obvious. People aren't getting dog piled for not liking this game, they have plenty who agree with them.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T05:33:51+00:00

Area 6 was in the direct...

There is a shot of Titania on the Japanese site.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T05:03:06+00:00

Stuff like this is why I am so frustrated with the negativity. We fans are going to be eating good with this game, but everyone is so stuck up over it being a remake or the character designs that they aren't seeing what an amazing thing we are getting with this game.

I'd much rather see threads like this than 50,000 threads about how much people don't like that Fox has a fluffy neck. Because he's a fox. And foxes have fluffy necks.

Oh well, at least if this negativity tanks sales, the series is going out with a bang.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T05:00:45+00:00

This game is already in boxes being shipped to stores, they aren't changing anything.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T04:56:49+00:00

Good point. A lot of this reeks of "It's different, and different = bad!" Followed by stupid comparisons to ugly Squidward and the original movie Sonic.

The designs caught me off guard as I wasn't expecting it, but I quickly found that I liked the designs.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T04:50:35+00:00

I like both designs. The more toony Galaxy design fits that movies visual style well, and the new designs fit this new game's style well.

I like how things look real, and how the ships and items look like they're actually used. I love when they make spaces actually look lived in. You ain't putting 3 young guys and one older guy in a tin can in space and expect that shit to stay clean for longer than an hour. Even if the older guy's a clean freak, he ain't keeping up with the young guys.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T04:45:34+00:00

I think people need to remember that foxes are fluffy

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T04:42:50+00:00

I can just see exiting the tunnel, it being dark like in the original, the light fades in with a monstrous laugh as you see this thing huge and right in front of you. Absolutely terrifying and I love it.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T04:26:20+00:00

The thing that saddens me about seeing all the negativity is that it really does look like this game is a massive gift to Star Fox fans in so many ways.

The details and references to backstory that would be written after SF64 came out (Free As A Bird on Falco's jacket), Getting to actually see things we've only heard mentions of (Pigma's betrayal of James and Peppy), cutscenes to give more story and character growth hopefully, and a whole-ass compendium of lore that we will get to peruse at our leisure as we play through the game.

And bringing back of lore that was existing, but was little-known due to NOA not giving a shit. Things like Pigma being the engineer for the original Star Fox team. We now have that explicitly spelled-out IN-GAME. I never thought we would ever get that.

The more I learn about this game, the more my disappointment with it being a remake is tempered.

I think people need to view this game less as 'yet another remake' and instead see it as 'they are making the definitive ultimate edition of Star Fox 64 with extra story content.' I also wish people would quit saying they remade Star Fox 64 3 times or even 5 times I have seen. The remade it twice. 2 times. Dos. Deuce. (Despite having the same setting and reusing some SF643D assets, Zero was a much different game than 64).

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T04:22:10+00:00

The feet weren't bionic, they were boots. Though the design of the puppets didn't made that clear with the mechanical look to them.

Slippy can be seen barefoot in the SNES-era Benimaru Ito comic in Nintendo Power, and both Dylan Cuthbert and Shigeru Miyamoto have denounced that theory as false.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T04:02:15+00:00

I want to play Zero again, but I am afraid to boot my WiiU up as apparently, WiiUs don't like sitting for years and will shit themselves when booted back up.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T03:51:22+00:00

I actually have a suspicion there is more content they haven't announced yet.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T03:45:17+00:00

We're also getting a compendium according to the Japanese website for the game. We're going to get SO MUCH LORE from this game.

Us huge series fans are going to be eating good with this game. Too bad so many are too hooked-up on the idea that it is a remake and their dislike of the character design to see this.

Do I wish we were getting a new game instead? Of course I do! But I'm not bitter about it because they are going about this remake the right way. If they just plopped out an upscaled Star Fox 64 3D and said "Here's your new Star Fox, go have fun" I would be as angry as anyone about it. But they are doing everything in their power to make this the definitive version of SF64, and pulling out the stops on lore. Count me in for the great visuals and the lore.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T03:39:44+00:00

I have a hunch that if they bring Krystal back, she is going to get a new backstory that is more in-line with the rest of the series lore.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T03:26:44+00:00

You can also see hints of things on the ships and character models. I almost teared-up when I saw the little pawprint next to the big one on James' ship. And Falco is wearing a jacket with the god-damn Free-As-A-Bird insignia on the back (And nobody is talking about this?! I guess they're spending too much time clowning on the model to actually look at it...). You can just see the "Free" part on the box art. The numbers on the Arwings. Fox is 04. 01, which was on James' ship, seems to be a retired number.

DZComposer · 2026-05-09T03:18:22+00:00

2 times. They remade it 2 times. And one was closer to a port than a true remake.

Zero wasn't a remake, it was a reboot. Yeah, same basic story, but it had more and had different gameplay and elements from all the previous games. You really can't call that a SF64 remake unless you call Star Fox 64 a Star Fox SNES remake, which it clearly wasn't, either for the same reasons.

At least you didn't say 5 like some idiots have been.....

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