#corneria

You can give a bird a cracker, but you can’t make it check it’s g-diffusers.

It would be nice if we did get to see more playable Star Fox characters in Smash Bros, especially Krystal who did at least get to appear as an assist trophy.

“It’s about time you showed up Fox! You’re the only hope for our world!”

I just kinda… forgot to start posting the rest of my Star Fox pieces from last year, huh? Well thankfully I’m still very Star Fox brained and this was the second piece I did last summer, showcasing members of the Cornerian Defense Force - Commander Bill Grey, Beltino Toad, General Pepper, Fara Phoenix and Captain Shears. The last time I drew these characters back in 2016, I skipped on the last two because I wasn’t that familiar with their media, but this time I included them as a challenge to myself.

I much prefer General Pepper as a bloodhound, my first game in the series was Adventures and my favourite is still Assault so I will always have that bias. Even though I have mixed feelings regarding Command I did love Bill’s updated design (along with his theme, absolute banger). Fara being a Fennec fox she had to be suitably shorter than the rest of the cast.

To some degree, I think people are being way too harsh on it. I think the visuals look great, and adding more story is interesting.

But the moment the announcer lady said "stage layouts have been kept the same" I'll admit I felt really disappointed. A more detailed retelling of this story is a great idea. I won't object to that.

Because it is a significant upgrade. As hard as it may be to believe, Star Fox 64 for the 3DS was 15 years ago. Which, in itself, was 14 years after the original Star Fox 64.

I just want more planets. More routes. More gameplay. Let me walk around The Great Fox. Let me install different guns and bombs on my Arwing. Let me swap out members of my team.

Don't tell me "stage layouts have been kept the same." I even see the crummy mandatory tutorial level from the 3DS game in there:

Peppy tells you the controls as you play! And this stupid tutorial makes you listen to this stupid raccoon tell you everything TWICE before letting you start the actual game. So that means you hear all of this "push Y to use a bomb!" dialog THREE TIMES. Wrong thing to remake, Nintendo!

It just feels like... one step forward, two steps back, you know?

"Emergency, Emergency! Incoming enemy fighters, prepare for launch!"