It just doesn’t come together as well as Star Fox Zero’s rocket-fueled missions through livelier planets of the Lylatt System.īig boss battles are Star Fox Zero’s best moments, and each one feels different. Zoness squanders a lot of its potential with uninspired design, which often sees enemies conveniently patrolling around explosives or other hazards that made them trivial to destroy. In it, I had to man a frustratingly slow craft and deploy a personable-yet-dull robot companion to deactivate enemy defenses. The one lame trip in my tour through the galaxy was Zoness, a plodding stealth level that felt more like busywork than an action-packed Disneyland attraction.
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The hyperspeed trek through the Gamma Sector is a delightful trip through a tight spaces and deadly obstacles, while the tumultuous trek through the desert planet of Titania is full of falling debris and loaded with enemy ships to shoot down with the firepower of an awesome tank at your disposal. Others levels in Star Fox Zero pull off impressive scale and spectacle. Carefully prodding and poking stages for secrets is the only way to unlock all 20 campaign missions. These hidden pathways crisscross through the galaxy, opening up challenging new courses featuring powered-up enemies or massive alternate bosses that must be defeated before a timer runs out. For example, some excellent skirmishes offer lots of targets to shoot, but if you keep your cool you’ll spot clever side exits that lead to entirely new areas. The campaign can be completed in roughly five hours, but you won’t see everything on your first pass, and it does a lot to encourage more playthroughs so you can collect hidden medals and post high scores on the leaderboard. Zero’s story is a predictable re-tread of the N64 original, but it does a good job of refreshing it for a new audience.
It taps into these one-note personality tropes with plenty of quips and one-liners that would please a writers’ room of Saturday-morning cartoon producers, complete with plenty of “I’ll get you next time!” threats from villains. Overall, Star Fox Zero pulls it off, and part of that is thanks to the inherent charm from its zany cast of fly boys and their intentionally cheesy banter during the campaign.
Yet even without elaborate graphics, the frame rate dips noticeably under the weight of large explosion effects in a couple of bigger combat arenas. However, it takes the retro look a little too far in places, with a lot of plain-looking enemy ships and tall tanks made of simple geometry and dull textures that looks out of place in an otherwise-modern 2016 game. On one hand, this is a faster-paced space combat game running at a high frame rate (a “target” of 60) and it tries out some fun new level ideas. This radically redesigned Star Fox pays homage to its vintage late ‘90s source material, but the results of the modernization are mixed.
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