Star Fox Zero Review Thread: MC: 69 / GR: 68.84%

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Veknoid_Outcast said:

pokoko said:

There were definitely a few comments that seemed to imply that the score of Star Fox is the fault of open world games being popular.  Reading back over it, it's pretty clear that some people were trying to construct that as a scapegoat.

As for the genre, just from skimming the reviews I can tell that Star Fox could have gotten a much better score if it had taken care of most of the more common criticisms.  What if it had more intuitive controls?  What if it had a lot more content and been more inventive?  It sounds like they could have made a better game, regardless of the genre, and it would have gotten better reviews.

Fair enough. But I do think the market for certain "old-school" game experiences is shrinking, and the appetite for open-world action games is growing. And reviewers are reflecting that popular consensus.

Perhaps it's more an unwillingness to pay AAA prices for every game that gets sold on a disc. Maybe Nintendo should have taken a page out of Insomniac's book and released the game at a sub-AAA price. Lots of people have been calling for more price variation in new release games. There's a market for these "on-rails" games, it's just not a AAA market.