I always thought Star Fox: Assault was such an underrated game. I played it so much. Probably still my favorite in the franchise. The multiplayer was ridiculously fun.

I flipping love this channel. It doesn't go for exaggerated personalities or childish insults or some other gimmick. It's just a quality video by quality people.

I really do love the Star Fox series and wish it was more successful. Personally Assault is my favourite and I didn't mind the on foot parts and loved multiplayer. I also enjoyed Zero as well, but I do think the controls are flawed. Coming back to it after awhile feels a bit awkward and it takes a bit to get used to the controls once more.

Does video lamenting lack of Metroid games --> two new Metroids announced. Does video mentioning we'd 'never get a chance' to play Starfox 2 officially --> Starfox 2 added to SNES mini Please do an F-Zero video next.

Well done. I believe Nintendo's main problem with starfox is the same problem that sega is having with sonic: They just can't stick to one style of play that people want and try to shove gimmicks down our throats instead of just giving us a decent game overall without gimmicky controls, confusing gameplay choices and unable to move the series forward without having to rehash the older games.

As a Star Fox fan I think a lot of the problems relating to newer released games sales is due to misconception of what the actual fan base is. It is a theory and not sure if it can be fully proven due to how difficult it would be to prove. It isn't meant to insult anyone. A lot of the people who were original fans of Star Fox on Snes and N64 have left the series. Lack of extra feature/accessory type thing, general loss of interest, constantly changing gameplay styles and finally the ageing of the original gameplay style being contributing factors. A lot of the current and more devoted series fans were actually introduced via Star Fox Adventures and stuck around after Assault. Now I know a lot will see that as being impossible but this is where the misconception part comes in. Over the years a number of very vocal remaining original fans of the series put forth their view N64 game play style as being the law for a Star Fox game to be a Star Fox game. To put it simply. This meant they could hate and reject the rest of the series but still call themselves Star Fox fans. As this has happened over a number of years people take this as being the norm for a Star Fox fan. Because that is considered normal for Star Fox fan when it came to making the series popular again Nintendo looked towards those fans. Which basically means they appealed towards only a small portion of the current series fans. There is also the Krystal fan factor as well. That can be a much more sensitive topic. Even more so because of Nintendo's actions towards the series so I won't go into it.

I think a good direction for the game would be to let you fly around the Lylat system in an open world. It doesn't necessarily have to be huge but I'd like to fly between planets and fight off Andross' army on each. Maybe you get alerts when there are attacks and you get money for helping which you can use to upgrade your Arwing. Anyway, loved the video and the effort you put into it!

They should do a comeback of Assault's versus mode and add coop.

They need to push the story forward imo, then make sure the gameplay is as crisp as the originals

You forgot the most popular game that Fox McCloud is the main character of! ....Super Smash Brothers Melee

Star Fox Assault was a great game and I would love to see a sequel to that and perhaps a remake of Zero with no control gimmicks if possible.

0:29 That roast from Falco, though.

Assault is actually really quite good, it's a shame the game gets so overlooked.

TBH I'm not too surprised Nintendo has been struggling to get the StartFox franchise back to a good state. People have gotten used to 3D gaming and on rails shooters are kinda a dated game type.

So I have 1/410,000 for StarFox Zero?!?! Dang that is going to a collector game

Hopefully the Star Fox team's inclusion the upcoming "Starlink: Battle for Atlas" game by UbiSoft will rekindle some interest in the franchise. I for one can't wait to try it out.

Who the flip hated Assault? It was by far the best in the series! All I’ve ever wanted from star Fox is on the ground shooter and air! Play as falco or slippy with there own unique ships and a ton of missions

To quote Peppy Slippy and Falco “NOOOOOOOO” This can’t be the end of “Star Fox”! I love the franchise!

You know, Star Fox Assault gameplay wasn't too bad, maybe if they made some improvements and along with adding a more balanced Arwing Walker. The next star fox could do great, Starlink showed that they got potential still. It's probably time to update the series with some modern shooter elements in the next game.

Star Fox 2 is on the way with the SNES mini. This might their best opportunity to redeem the Star Fox name and grab the attention of long time fans...

Sad to see starfox suffering the same fate as m.. F zero. Was about to say Metroid but NOPE! (Metroid prime 4!!)

You seem to have a Midas' touch with these franchise reports: first Metroid gets not one but two new games announced shortly after your Metroid status report and then it is announced that Starfox 2 is getting released for the first time ever merely about a week after your Starfox status report! Please tell that you are planning a Golden Sun status report...? And as always, a great quality video you've made. I'm always looking forward to new content from you.

Adventures and Assault are my favorites

Seeing the sales figures for Assault made me sad, because I only played a demo of Assault in a Toys R Us and I thought it was going to be the return to form for the franchise.

It's such a shame how much Star Fox has suffered over the last twenty years due to its mismanagement. Star Fox 2 should never have been canceled, mutating Dinosaur Planet into something it was fundamentally incompatible with was a shit-head move, Assault felt half-assed and incomplete, Command took bad controls and mixed them with all the least fun aspects of Star Fox 2, and Zero (which I have not played, so I'm going by things I've heard elsewhere here) spent half of its time shoving motion controls in your face while spending the other half of its time reminding you that 64 exists. If Nintendo wants to make another Star Fox game, then they need to stop, sit down, and rethink everything. And that's... difficult. I don't know what the series needs. How should a Star Fox game play? The assumption seems to be that it is a rail-shooter at its core, but Star Fox 2 has effectively no on-rail sections to speak of and it's a fan favorite. How should the balance between story and gameplay be? Should there be more focus on plot, complex character development, and world-building? Who is the series FOR? Nintendo seems to have been marketing it toward kids and teens, but the popularity of stuff like "A Fox in Space" suggests the fan-base is older than that. Star Fox is in crisis, and it's essentially on life-support now if not straight-up dead. It needs major retooling if it's ever going to be relevant again.

i really liked assault. i think most starfox games after that have been fun and enjoyable. i haven't played command but it looks fun with all the multiple open endings. starfox 64 3ds was a great throwback and starfox zero is very fun to play althought it takes some time to get used to the controls. but after that it's a blast. The main problem i think it's that the series has become so stale, the story has pretty much stayed the same since 64. I really liked assault for that part bcus it progressed some characters further. Then there's almost no promotion for starfox at all, at least from what i know which is not much. It seems to me like starfox games just happen then fade away and there's no incentive to build a fanbase again that wants those games. That mini series that was made for starfox zero was amazing and i think nintendo should have continued it to promote the series again. those are my thoughts on why it's so obscoure currently... sad bcus i rly like star fox :(

WOW Zero sold less than Command? THAT is impressive lol. I've always been a big fan of this franchise but it's not purely the space shooter aspect that I like - it's the characters and universe too. I've enjoyed every entry from 64 to Command (yes, even Command and Adventures) but I didn't even give Zero a chance. But honestly the reason I didn't give Zero a chance wasn't because of the controls or reviews, it was because they were rehashing the fucking Lylat Wars yet AGAIN. As soon as the reveal trailer made it clear it was yet another reimagining of 64 (and by extension the SNES original) all my hype for Zero deflated instantly. I love this series and want more new stories set within it. The Star Fox content in Starlink was enough to push me from passive background interest in the game to pre-ordering it just because it's actually a new adventure for Fox and his team. I only hope that if this franchise gets another shot at its own game they push forward from a story standpoint.

It's because starfox's legacy has now become very dated and unimpressive to modern gamers. Starfox is still popular to fans and non fans with the series being one of the most fan creations created (mostly by furries) Nintendo, Platnium games also im gonna bring out Koei Tecmo (for zelda) is that these two third party companies and nintendo are just too stuck in the past and like to reboot the stories again or reference the past alot. This is why I still defend and say that Starfox Assault is the best entry in the series because it continues the story, I actually liked the long missions though I admit they are very clunky and not aged well. It's still a game that tried to do something new and to me it suits my fancy. Starfox adventures imo is a charming game but i wouldn't care if it didn't exist because ever since i was a kid I did love this game but when I already knew in magazines that this game and by fan articles that this is built from Dinosaur Planet with starfox branding slapped on just to sell copies felt very disrespectful to everyone at RARE and from what I heard from another source is that alot of RARE employees who worked on this game hated turning this into a starfox game because these guys wanted to create more original games and not just keep on clinging onto Nintendo brand names all the time. To this day I still like the starfox franchise I've played and owned all of these games except command I sold that after a few playthroughs because it's crap (I'm sorry boys but that game pissed me off) I still have fun with the snes games, the n64 entry, those wierd entries on the gamecube and I had some enjoyment with Zero. If zero was advertised as casual friendly with normal controls like the previous games, also don't reboot the whole story again and if it wasn't on the WiiU then Zero would've sold better. I still think that Nintendo should port everysingle WiiU game to the Switch since the WiiU is a sunken ship.

Ah I was just rechecking through your stuff today, Ramy. Glad to see you back and with the highly-anticipated Star Fox video too! Great moves, keep it up.

These franchise report videos are excellent! You deserve more subs for your work

This was great! Would love to see something similar for the Paper Mario series.

SNES Mini was announced and it includes the unreleased Star Fox 2.

Keep up the great work! Quality work and deserves much more attention!

So to sort of counter you a little... -Adventures isn't a spinoff title, it's actually part of the mainline series. This is because the Japanese copies of the game included a comic in the case that had a plot that took place a few years after the events of 64, then leads to the start of Adventures. Why this comic was never included in US and EU copies is a mystery, but you can easily find it to read. Regardless it's part of the mainline titles. A spinoff would be like Guard or some dating sim featuring Krystal, Katt, and the other girls. -The on foot combat was actually in 64, the thing is virtually every player didnt know this as the requirement for getting it was ridiculous (both needing to unlock Expert which required getting all medals, then getting a medal on Venom in Expert) --The on foot was strictly for multiplayer, but my guess is even if say someone did get it, nobody really used it as they neither used the landmaster (maps were more tailor made for the arwing) -Zero isnt a reboot no matter how hard some may try to say, it's a remake of 64. It's gotten to the point where the reboot term has become a near buzzword

StarFox Adventures was originally Dinosaur Planet that had nothing to do with the StarFox series. It was meant to be RARE's attempt for a Zelda Ocarina of Time game but with their own RARE personality. Sadly Miyamoto got involved saying that the main character Sabre looked like Fox McCloud. They ripped most of the story out of the game except for Krystal's version of events that were about as close to the original Dinosaur Planet that remained in the game. While I loved Krystal's redesign in the GameCube version from the N64 original design. However as long as you understand it was never meant to be a StarFox game, you can still enjoy StarFox Adventures being as it was the last ever RARE game for a Nintendo console as Microsoft brought RARE during the final few months of the Game's Development.

Wow. I thought youd have a series of these videos but seeing how you barely have any videos im very surprised how high quality these videos are. Keep Up the good work.

I love the StarFox series so much to the extent that it is my favourite Nintendo franchise and universe! I was born in October of 1996 so I was introduced to Fox and the gang in Smash Bros Melee, which then lead me to get: Adventures, Assault then later Command etc. It wasn't until StarFox 64 3D until I was actually introduced to the considered build and "gameplay law" of StarFox. What I want personally, is a game that focuses on all the gameplay styles, similar to Assault! This way will (hopefully) please all of the fan base because they will be addressing each favourite style. I like Fox as an elite mercenary working ground based missions, it's cool! It adds more to the character making him more of this elite individual he is. I'd be a upset if they were to isolate him to just the cockpit but don't get me wrong!! I enjoy the Arwing space shooter gameplay too. If they were to put the same budget, time and effort into the next StarFox game similar to that of LoZ: Breath of the Wild, I really think they could have something special!

Nintendo & Miyamoto just needs to stop forcing "innovation" and "fun" into Star Fox and just allow it be a good video game with a better story telling than SF64.

Amazing! Keep doing this great work!

That guy created starfox adventures... the guys a ledgend... true legend

Great videos! Subbed and look forward to catching up on your other videos.

Nintendo should realize that the larger Star fox fan base comes from the Star Fox Assault title. I enjoyed it & even till this day I try to replay it. It's a mix of the original Star Fox gameplay & the more modern boots on ground fights. I'd really love to see Star Fox get bigger.

Star Fox zero is a beautiful hidden gem, fucking love it

Subscribed. Entertaining watch, great vid!

so crazy star fox adventures was my life back in the day

Keep up the work man! I know you will gain the subscriber count if you continue to put out quality content like this.

Star Fox Zero was amazing for me, but the controls were to much complicated for casual gamers (and even many hardcore gamers), and that is far from what Nintendo usually tries to accomplish. Really hope that we see a new Star Fox on the switch . . .

If they would release Zero for the Switch I'll buy it

It's such a bummer that Zero didn't sell as well as the other games in the series. it may not have been thier most enjoyable game to play, but it certainly wasn't the worst. The motion controls in Zero seemed more daunting than they really were. It really didn't take long to have a firm grasp of the controls. It's just a shame. Great job on this informative video.

I think one of the main problems in the starfox series is that it has too many remakes and not enough new stories, besides the controls I think zero suffered from being a remake of star fox 64 and that story has been done to death.

If they stopped attaching this series to gimmicks, only then will the series move forward.

Honestly with all that happen, I wouldn’t be surprised if star fox was permanently retired after zero

thanks for the sourcing very professional

Man, I don't care what they say, Star Fox is the best games I ever played, no matter which one it is

While the titanic drop in sales for the series after 64 was mostly justified, Command was an amazing game that should have sold way more considering the DS was the highest selling system of all time. Only real issue imo is that the story went a lot of ridiculous places, mostly with Krystal, but the idea of 9 different endings and branching story was executed really well.

Great video, I'd love to see one for the F-Zero series.

Aaaaaaaaand Star Fox 2 is now getting released.

Best Chanel ever! Keep it up :)

Kid Icarus: Uprising feels like spiritual successor to Assault and Adventure doesn't it?

I'm surprised no one is talking about Starfield: Battle for Atlas. I actually thought that was actually a pretty fun Star Fox game. The idea of an All Range Mode that you can freely move from planet to planet, along with an upgrade system that allowed you to make your ship more powerful as you progressed, was something that I always wanted in the Star Fox franchise. It was something unexpected coming from a developer company like Ubisoft.

Great! Keep it up!

Awesome video! I really hope Nintendo will make another Star Fox game in the future, it's always been one of my favourite Nintendo games. I liked Zero, even with it's controls, but I would be the first to admit that they were not the right thing to do. You shouldn't have to get used to controls, or feel uncomfortable playing in any way, it should always feel natural right from the moment you pick up the controller, which Zero failed to do. I would bet that if they re-released Zero again for the Switch, and ditched the Wii U's control scheme, it would probably end up being one of the best selling games in the franchise. Here's hoping Star Fox will make a triumphant return.

Top Quality videos! sometimes we as fans don't put attention to the sales figures and that sould change.

Great work on this video, you earned yourself a sub! Anyway, this makes me sad. I'm hoping if/when Nintendo decides to launch a new Star Fox game that it sells way better than the other games. I really think if they port Star Fox Zero to the Switch with normal controls and online multiplayer, that they would have a solid entry on their hands to hold us over until they decide to do another true sequel. Star Fox and F-Zero truly need amazing comebacks!

What'd you make the Star Fox dialogue animations in? After Effects?

Star fox 2 coming in the snes classic september good luck getting one i barely got my hands on the NES classic hoping to luck out again

i love me some star fox :)

Please do F-Zero Franchise Report..

JUST MAKE A RAIL SHOOTER. No weird transitions into different perspectives, no ventures into different genres like Adventures, JUST MAKE A RAIL SHOOTER!

This video and channel is quality. Great work. My first Star Fox game was Assault (9.5/10 very fun) and my last was Command (6/10 meh).

maybe Miyamoto isn't aware of Fox's popularity in Smash Brothers LOL

Sometimes Miyamoto needs to understand that some people need something more other than "fun"

Great video! Would love a franchise report on Zelda

Nintendo: What do fans want from the star fox series? Fans: Basically star fox 64 with updated grafics, and a new story. No new gimmicks. No open world missions. Just fly, shoot, discover new paths. Nintendo: Ok, let's do all of that...Except let's also add a bunch of extra "content" to make the gsme better. And changed how to control the game. And change the fun. And ruin it.

Assault was so good tho.

I wish Starfox spent more time with the Playstyle of Starfox adventures. exploring the world of Sauria was a blast

The idea of Star Fox coming to an end saddens me. Granted it didn't have a great track record after 64, it is still a beloved series in my book. Fox McCloud, we need you.

I love the Star Fox franchise so much, I loved all the games....except Star Fox Zero obviously, Star Fox 64 is still my favorite N64 game and I miss the Star Fox games so much

F-Zero next?

Dammit slippy!! You're fired!!

Imo, Assault still has the best art style and music in the franchise. Would love for them to learn their lesson and just make a Command style fighter-focused game

The two best designs of fox are dead center of the thumbnail.

Five years since this video and still no new Star Fox.

I love the on foot gameplay. I want more.

Starfox is one of those franchises I desperately want to see resurge. Start the story off from 64 and really expand the lore! Starlink Battle for Atlas would be a fantastic way to go with this franchise. In addition, I bet a Star Fox cartoon would really drum up some appeal to the younger audience.

Star Fox Assault is best

Honestly, the Star fox games have been very unlucky lately, the gamecube didn't sell well at all so the two Star fox games for that console would sell less by default, the ds one isn't that good and is in a hand held console and even though the ds sold well a Star fox game in a hand held console is not optimal, the 3ds one sold better probably because, a) is a decent game and b) it's called Star fox 64 3d (emphasis on the "64") and for Zero i think the main reasons for its failure the really poor sales of the wii u and obligatory motion controls (i still love Zero tho).

Thanks, great video! ..hey, do you guys see Star Fox Zero going to the Switch?

first-person mode was actually introduced in Lylat Wars (or SF64). You could unlock it for multiplayer mode.

I still think that they should get the best features from adventures and assault and put it into one game with a new story that hopefully makes command not cannon.

Star fox assault doesn’t get the credit it deserves have you played the multiplayer

What I think has held the series up is how Nintendo has ran Star Fox almost like a tech demo, emphasising the new hardware more than anything. I think 64 did so well because A) it was coming off of the original which sold well and B) it only had the Rumble Pack to play with, meaning more time was put into the core and basics of the gameplay. I may be completely wrong, but it makes sense to me.

No Star Fox 64 remake will ever compete with flight action games like Ace Combat. It doesn’t do anything but offer fans a taste of nostalgia from a fan base that gets smaller every year. Adventures 2 anybody?

but StarFox Assault and Adventures were both financially successful making back more money that their budget, and more specifically breaking the one million sales landmark, even 643D was profitable.

I personally loved Star Fox Adventures...

I don't care what you all say, StarFox Adventures will be amazing in my heart. I still own the game and play it everyday ♡

There's been a lot of videos analyzing Star Fox's overall validity as a series lately because of Zero, and it's unfortunate cause I kinda feel like Miyamoto here. I really like this series and kind of wish it were more popular than it is, some of the interpretations from fans like the Fox in Space short or that old, surprisingly good Nintendo Power comic of it from way back that was a little grittier all kinda make me love what this series' universe could be. ...but at the same time a lot of said videos like this have sort of really laid out how turbulent this series has been since even it's earliest years. Another video kind of put it best, the series is marred with installments that were ruined by gameplay features that had no business being there other than to sell a function. Command could have been one of the gems of the series if it weren't for the intrusive Stylus controls forced on players during flight sim parts. Zero was sort of screwed unfortunately, because they released it on the Wii-U right during it's death (which makes Reggie's "huh? how'd it fail *shrug* " comment almost infuriating. lol), but it wasn't helped critically by the intrusive touchscreen pad functions forced on players. Some games like Assault, which I kind of unironically love but at the end of the day...was just victimized by some really bizarre decisions in design and linearity (really though, Assault should have and could have been the best.), and Star Fox Adventures being another game forced to be a Star Fox game...are more just critical flops due to in-game issues, and the series is unfortunately always going to be niche I think, but overall I think a big problem is Nintendo has to stop treating the series like a platform to show off or test hardware functions even at the cost of an individual games' gameplay coherancy. Unfortunately now, we have a series that is so turbulent and pulled in so many directions that I don't think anyone has ever really felt like the series had a chance to find it's "default" stride. Zelda is at its default, an adventure rpg. Mario for all its spinoffs, has its default as a platformer. You'd think Star Fox's "default" would be "flight simulator", but given how spotty the series has been that's actually debatable now. Playing a bit of the previously cancelled, and only recently officially released Star Fox 2, and seeing just how much individual parts of it were cannibalized by later games, it kind of sums it up for me. SF2 is a really strong game because all was the sum of all those parts, that sum being a strong space shooter and it kind of makes me wonder what could have been if the series had gone more in this direction of sticking to a stronger bottom line more often.

The biggest problem is that they treat the series as a testing ground for new gimmicks. If they kept the controls smooth and simple and released the games on relevant systems sales would most likely be higher and grow in popularity.

They could easily take what makes Splatoon 2 's combat so great and and use it for a star Fox game, similar to Assault. With that, and the top notch space combat the series is known for, with decent music and a branching "Galaxy" where to fight, they can renew the Star Fox fever and begin their slow but steady way out of the hole

even though Zero may have been rushed...it was actually still good...