One of the most appreciated N64 classics, I remember being a little disappointed by it when I first tried with the 3DS remake... I am not sure why, I remember it not feeling it that much, I suppose.

Replaying it after years, more specifically on the Nintendo Switch Online, mad eme revaluate it a lot.
Despite the years, this title is able to capture an amazing feeling of action, with a fast-shooting adrenalinic gameplay and stages that offer always new challenges and cool gimmicks (my favorite being Titania with the Landmaster and the cool bossfight, Sector X creepy atmosphere and Venom with the great endgame encounter and the MONKE temple). I admite I don't really like the way you control the Arwing in the open stages, like Corneria's boss or the stages where you battle Star Wolf... I feel the controllers thare are never been my favorite, and I always found them really janky.


But for anything else I feel it's great to this day: the way the story open different paths depending on your failures / decisions is incredible and offer an incredible amount of replayability, that even makes you want to go back to levels that you already beaten over and ove again (something that I cannot say for other titles that offer these similar split pathways), and this is helped for the always fresh gimmicks and cool environments showcased (though none of the stages are winners, I particularly despise Solar's whole gimmick of "just take damage").

The writing and voice acting is also iconic and incredibly cheesy, but able to be enjoyable from start to finish.
People always argue that Slippy is an annoying brat, but... I like that aspect about him: I like that the game puts you literal allies as obstacles, that you have to help and protect in order to keep them around and possibly even unlock new stages.
Falco, Slippy and Peppy not only add a lot of charm to the story, but they also forces you to not go completely berserk and shoot every single object on screen: it adds a lot of carefulness to the stages, since you want to keep and manage your resources for the rest of the run.

Overall Star Fox 64, as probably stated by many already, is an iconic title that is able to be enjoyed even today, a title that deserves its reputation as one of the greatest N64 titles (even though it's not among my personal favorites)

King of the genre in my eyes, excellent varied environments, a simple story with a fantastic cast of heroes and Villans, and iconic voice lines and appropriate voice acting, especially innovative for it's time

The ability to go down different routes adds insane replayability, when I was younger I thought only the easy route existed and the other planets on the map were just there for decoration, finding out about the hard route years later blew my mind

Gameplay is fantastic, I think even non rail shooter game players would find joy in this game, beautiful graphics as well for the N64, remember watching the old N64 ad for the rumble pak that was included with this game and the hype was unreal

Excellent game that I come back to all the time, it's short length, insane replicability and tight satisfying gameplay keep this one a classic in my eyes and still hasn't been topped. Nintendo keeps trying to chase this high but hasnt come close except with some stages from Assault

9.5/10

Some good clean fun.

Played as part of the Switch N64 collection of games. Despite its age, it doesn't look half bad. The enemies are mostly indistinguishable but that's more of an "of it's time" kind of thing.

I was a Sega kid through and through growing up, but I did manage to play tiny bits of this at a friend's house. It's great to play it in full and experience the complete game. The mechanics are simple to pick up but there's definitely a degree of skill involved with mastering them to get through the hard route.

There's a lot of replay value thanks to the short length and the increasingly difficult routes. It's just not enough to keep me coming back. At least for a while anyway.