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Frogger on 13 December 2016
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Kai_Mao said:
spemanig said:
Here's my theory on the OT: He's not talking about games.

I think games are related but I agree that there could be more that he wants to do with these series. He has started with the Pikmin shorts and the Star Fox anime short but maybe we'll see more down the pipeline since Nintendo has started its initiative to utilize their IPs in other medium.

There's a lot of reason to believe that he's specifically talking about video content. The most obvious is that the question he is responding to is about characters, not games. He said Fox McLoud, not Star Fox. It's likely the same with Pikmin. He's literally talking about the Pikmin themselves, which are basically Nintendo's "Minions."

I think he's talking about movies and not games. Like, I'm sure there will be games, but I think when it comes to making the characters more resonant and mainstream, it's movies. Which is obviously exciting. I wouldn't be surprised if Star Fox and Pikmin where the first two films.

I just hope to God that it's not anime. Anime is NOT mainstream, and will NOT resonate in the west. It should be CGI like with Pixar films, and this is coming from a hand animation/anime connoisseur. I also hope that the Nintendo films all end up sharing a universe with a consistant art style and I hope that that universe is independant from the games, even if they take story ideas from them. They should have their own movies and then come together for an Avengers-like Super Smash Bros. movie. I also hope that there are no specific Mario movies. He's big enough that he doesn't need it, and it would make more sense for Super Smash Bros. to be the ones where he's the star.

They can make:

1. Star Fox

2. Pikmin

3. The Legend of Zelda (Give Link the personality of Yasuri Shichika from Katanagatari plz)

4. Star Fox 2

5. Luigi's Mansion

And then "Super Smash Bros.: The Movie" with Mario as the leader. Then they can continue one with sequels afterwards until the next one.

1. The Legend of Zelda 2

2. Metroid

3. Star Fox 3

4. Pikmin 2

5. Metroid 2

And then Super Smash Bros. 2, and so on. All in the "Smash Bros" CGI character trailer art style.

mZuzek said:
spemanig said:


What if the Switch one let's you play a Star Fox game that's actually modern and uses all (most) of the new advances and polish in gameplay and story that has developed over the past nearly 20 years instead of restricting itself to 64-bit design philosophies?

You know, like Breath of the Wild is probably doing for Zelda.

We can only hope, but it is unlikely Nintendo is ever going to spend big on Star Fox with how bad the games have sold... which is a shame, because the games used to sell very well before Nintendo fucked them up themselves.

Yeah, it's a catch 22 situation, honestly. Star Fox needs ambition, high production, and a new team working on it. They can't keep using it as experimentation fodder. It's not fair, and bad for the franchise's perception.