No, but the they were at least cute and/or aesthetically pleasing. The new ones are not either imho. I saw someone bring up that the new designs are very similar to the original puppets, and while I can see that, the puppets had a charm that the new designs don’t. Perhaps if they had gone for a rendering style that gives the characters a stop-motion look they would look better. But also puppet Falco didn’t have realistic bird legs like the new one does…
Thanks, I went to check. Despite having been a Nintendo fan for years, I haven’t been keeping up with their latest news.
Damn, didn’t expect them to make a Star Fox release, especially after the Star Fox reference in the new Mario movie. I get what they are saying, but I don’t think this was the reason why they did this. I think it has to do with two different things. The first one is the expectations that new Nintendo Switch 2 games are trying to meet. People who bought the Switch 2 expect better graphics and performance that on the OG Switch, so most exclusive titles have been trying to do more visually impressive graphics. “Photorealistic” animals just seems to be part of this team’s idea of visually impressive graphics. The second reason is that, from what I’ve gathered, Star Fox 64 has already had one remake and one “reimagining” before this new title, which will also a remake of Star Fox 64. If this new game looked anything like either Star Fox 64 3D or Star Fox Zero, people would just say “eh, who cares, this is just more of the same that we’ve already got”, and wouldn’t be as excited to buy the game. So they changed the characters’ designs, to make it look different.
Slight tangent: this is essentially my theory for why they went with those terrible new starfox character designs.
im not sure honestly.
the old designs werent very… umm— how do i put this…
they werent very spicy to begin with, no?
No, but the they were at least cute and/or aesthetically pleasing. The new ones are not either imho. I saw someone bring up that the new designs are very similar to the original puppets, and while I can see that, the puppets had a charm that the new designs don’t. Perhaps if they had gone for a rendering style that gives the characters a stop-motion look they would look better. But also puppet Falco didn’t have realistic bird legs like the new one does…
Just wait. Those models will get ripped, and used for some scandalous things. They might even be improved in the process.
Wait, what new Starfox character designs?
For the remake that was just announced for the Switch 2
Thanks, I went to check. Despite having been a Nintendo fan for years, I haven’t been keeping up with their latest news.
Damn, didn’t expect them to make a Star Fox release, especially after the Star Fox reference in the new Mario movie. I get what they are saying, but I don’t think this was the reason why they did this. I think it has to do with two different things. The first one is the expectations that new Nintendo Switch 2 games are trying to meet. People who bought the Switch 2 expect better graphics and performance that on the OG Switch, so most exclusive titles have been trying to do more visually impressive graphics. “Photorealistic” animals just seems to be part of this team’s idea of visually impressive graphics. The second reason is that, from what I’ve gathered, Star Fox 64 has already had one remake and one “reimagining” before this new title, which will also a remake of Star Fox 64. If this new game looked anything like either Star Fox 64 3D or Star Fox Zero, people would just say “eh, who cares, this is just more of the same that we’ve already got”, and wouldn’t be as excited to buy the game. So they changed the characters’ designs, to make it look different.