That's what's so bizarre about the remake's ultra-realistic style. Illumination did a really cartoony Fox. You'd think Nintendo would want greater brand synergy
Mmm, yes and no. Each game has its fans but Star Fox 64's the only one that sold really well.
It depends on when the remake started production. They might have locked everything down before the movie was up and running.
Star Fox 64 is the only game with any mainstream presence, every other Star Fox game is either a historical curiosity or only popular amongst people who actually like Star Fox as an IP.
Just let the girl enjoy her sandwich ffs.
First SF sold about 3 million copies, 64 sold 4 million, and Adventures sold just under 2 million, but no later game has ever breached 1 million (unless counting 64 3D, which just barely squeaked past 1 million and technically puts 64's total sales at 5 million). Just going off that, Adventures definitely was a tier up in market penetration than any later game, even if a tier below SF1 or 64. The main issue you could argue with Adventures being "mainstream" isn't so much that people didn't play it, it's that it was unfinished and generally considered kind of mediocre, so hence the main pop culture takeaway from it was just Krystal.
My argument here is that sales figures don't really matter, what matters is presence. James Cameron's Avatar was for a time the highest grossing film in history and for a couple years was a global phenomenon, fifteen years later and no one remembers it unless you specifically bring it up. Star Fox games are like that, the only one that lives in people's minds and is brought up in casual conversation is 64, the game is so synonymous with the IP that when people say "Star Fox" they are typically referring to 64 rather than the extended IP. Some people might bring up The original SNES game but more as a historical curiosity, some people might bring up Adventures as the weird one with the smoking hot fox babe that was actually a totally different game until Nintendo interfered did you know that fun fact? Did ya? Did ya?
Assault sold well enough to be Player's Choice. I think a game has to sell a million copies to be Player's Choice.
People had a problem with it because it was just a Zelda clone, and a shitty unfinished one at that. That's why people welcomed Assault as a return to form even though it wasn't really a return to form, either. It had about as many pure Arwing levels as Adventures did, it was short and didn't have features like branching paths that made the original Star Fox and Star Fox 64 compelling.
See, the thing is, they can change or tweak a game's visual style even late into production, and the Mario movie probably would have been longer in pre-production than a Star Fox 64 remake which likely shares the same source code as the N64 game.
Because Assault was core Gamecube and nobody really had a Gamecube, Command was DS and nobody really plays portable games, Zero was Wii U and really nobody had a Wii U and Star Fox 2 only got released for the first time on the SNES mini.
Well, yeah. Making games today takes at least 5 years. Can't have diversity hires working hard longer than 2 hours. Or worse, having to fix their mistakes.
Yeah but you're thinking of a completely new, from the ground up, game. This is really just the N64 game with a new coat of paint. Same source code. Cosmetic differences. If they're adding stuff like new cutscenes, new voice acting, new multiplayer mode, doesn't take that long to make at all. Maybe a year, maybe two.
True, but my point is that the long times are because devs are incompetent. Japs are also infamous for throwing away their stuff once the game is out, especially Nintendo, like that time they recycled a pirate ROM for their online Mario NES game.
I mean it wasn't really out of nowhere in the og game because it had an actual fleshed out storyline and lore.
Not necessarily. I remember games used to take about five years to develop even in the PS2/Gamecube era when devs were still competent.
Yeah but that's not the case here. The source code is probably well preserved. After all, they've already done one remake.
They'd just retcon it. Illumination, in making a Star Fox movie A) would have to expect that furfaggots will be drawn to it like a moth to the flame and B) would be turning down money by not including their favourite blue furry fap fantasy in some way
I remember that was the exception, not the rule. Games could take 2-4 years, depending on the size and scope of the project. In this case, since it's a remake of a simple game, perhaps it was 2 years in production and no-one told the devs of the movie's art style for Fox. Plus I recall reading somewhere that the new release is aiming for an older audience by making the characters look gritty.
Didn't know that.
It's still an all-ages movie, and the gay stuff is getting less and less tolerance these days. Plus they only see each other while fighting.
Not only that, but Peach acted OOC and in a completely reckless way for a princess by essentially ditching her subjects to follow a stranger. It would have made more sense to have Peach ask Mario to do the search for her, or even assist her and thus have everyone leave the kingdom at the same time, but that would make too much sense.
I think Nintendo is adjusting the timeline a bit with the '26 release, as Fox is 18 once again, brash and eager to prove himself. I don't recall being such a time gap between the first game and Adventures, but either way it doesn't matter here: Krystal will show up even if it's barely a cameo, as she's too famous to be ignored.
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I really wonder how the people believe that Krystal's existence as character somehow single handedly caused all the problems in the Star Fox games she appeared in and don't think that she was often handled meh because the games were messy in the first place. (Particularly Adventures and Command, Assault was perfectly fine.)
Nobody gives a flying fuck about Star Fox lore nor does anyone in the mainstream even know it exists.
I think it's the furshit. Which...any series which features cute cartoon animals is bound to attract a bunch of weirdos who want to fuck them.
