It's no secret that the Millennial demographic is primed for nostalgia-bait purchases these days. If you re-release or remake something that was popular in our childhoods, we're gonna scoop it up — especially if it's video game-related.
Case in point:
Still, remaking a 33-year-old video game multiple times ... I mean, really, Nintendo?
An impressive-looking new Star Fox remake has just been announced for Switch 2, via a shadow-dropped, dedicated Nintendo Direct broadcast.
The game is simply titled Star Fox, and is a ground-up remake of Star Fox 64 (known in some regions as Lylat Wars). ... Once again, you'll be piloting an Arwing over the skies of Corneria and other planets alongside Falco, Peppy and Slippy. Level layouts will be familiar to anyone who has played the original Star Fox 64, though the game has received a huge graphical overhaul.
Here's the release trailer showing gameplay, including the classic banter between Star Fox squad-mates:
Yep, that looks like the game I played back in 1997!
It's true, the whole thing has been graphically overhauled. It all looks very modern. Everything is smoother, more polished, faster, cleaner.
But this latest release will be essentially the fourth version of the same game.
By some measures, the 2016 entry Star Fox Zero was also a sort of remake/reboot of Star Fox 64, which means that this game could technically be considered the FIFTH iteration of the same game.
I don't know about you, but in the very rare instances that I play video games these days, I'm not keen to keep playing the same thing over and over.
My feelings about the gaming industry's ability to innovate these days:
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