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.
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.