Perhaps the biggest example of being spoiled by a game’s sequel. Star Fox 64 really is just this game but better in every conceivable way. I still appreciate this a lot though, if technology never advanced past 1993 and this was still the latest technology, I’m sure I’d be throughly impressed! However, being born 10 years after this game released makes it a little hard to get used to, simply because I’m so used to the standard of every other game I’ve played that’s released after Star Fox. This feels very slow by comparison. It’s still a good time though, the levels are good and flying the Arwing is still fun. I was disappointed by how many levels force you into a first person view and have you shooting that way, though. While you still control the ship, you don’t move it around in quite the same way, which destroys a lot of what I love about the gameplay of these games.

All in all, it’s still worth a shot, especially with how short it is. At the very least, I appreciate this game a lot for its impact on the industry as a whole. I can’t imagine how crazy this must have been at the time!

Star Fox is awesome, it takes clear influence from Space Harrier and After Burner as well as being a sorta sequel to Argonaut’s X on Game Boy.

It’s a 3D on-rails shooter on SNES, with seperate paths to choose at the beginning based on difficulty with some secret stages along the way. You pilot the Arwing as Fox McLoud a member of the Star Fox group fighting against an evil threat called Andross.

Many undersell the title based on the compromised polygonal graphics that the SNES was never intended to produce, a brand new FX chip had to be put into the cartridge. I found the frame rate manageable, while no it’s not going to be 60fps fluid but for what it is creating the title is an immense success and deserves more praise.

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.

It's a good game, even competent, it's one of the very few Super FX games that has aged reasonably well, but it still has some problems that because of the low polys make it very difficult to know what the enemy is, what the shots are and What's your partner, it's a game that you need to be focused on in all directions,
But thank God the tiny screen helps a little, you can also do alternative routes, but I only did the main one, there probably aren't any alternative endings nor does the final boss change, but honestly I'm satisfied with having done just one route.