Star Fox, released as Starwing in Europe, is a 1993 rail shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo, with assistance from Argonaut Software, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The first game in the Star Fox series, Star Fox follows Fox McCloud and the rest of the Star Fox team defending their homeworld of Corneria against the attacking forces of Andross.
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A decent concept that suffers from hardware limitations mostly.
It's just not for me.
Bem inovador para a sua época,a Nintendo usou muito bem o chip Super FX que deixava os gráficos poligonais,porém dá umas travadinha que nem dá pra notar, porém de resto o jogo é fantástico
For some reason I had a really hard time getting used to the control scheme (any of the control schemes really) and would play the practice level over and over again and get really frustrated. Eventually it just clicked and I had a lot of fun breezing through the levels. There are still a lot of issues, notably framerate problems and obstacles popping up out of nowhere right in front of your arwing. You really get the feeling that this was pushing the SNES hardware to the absolute limit. But despite, or maybe because of all that, there is an irresistible charm to the abstract geometric aesthetic. It really feels like those retro-futuristic 80s sci fi targeting computers and shit in Star Wars. And the soundtrack and sound effects really elevate that aesthetic.
If you get used to the 10 fps (achually 20) the game is fun and satisfying. Impressive for the times, that's for sure. Played on original hardware with no rewind and save states is a good challenge alright.
I appreciate Star Fox as a game for its time in the 90's, but as a modern-day experience, it falls flat due to its controls aging poorly. This game feels like a custody battle between you and the game controls.