Yeah, some people are going to try to justify this by saying it's some kind of throw-back game, that it's supposed to be limited, but Star Fox really deserved a lot more.  Why not bring it forward and do something big and interesting with it?  

I see nothing intrinsically wrong with a game being a throwback. God knows we have enough dead serious cutting cinematic blockbusters to go around. It's a nice change of pace to play something old school and whacky in my opinion. If you ask me, it's throwing back to a time when games were, on average, better than they are today. Certainly less cynical and unimaginative.

Could Starfox Zero have been better? Absolutely. But it should remain true to what it is supposed to be; a vehicular arcade shooter inspired by the likes of Thunderbirds and the original Star Wars trilogy. It doesn't need to try to be Mass Effect or No Man's Sky, those games already exist for those who want them.

"Yeah, some people are going to try to justify this by saying it's some kind of throw-back game"

That's what I said.  Not that throwback games are inherently bad but that people use the term to defend something that is lacking in effort and ambition.  Also, in no way does making Star Fox into a stronger IP mean that it has to be "serious cutting cinematic".  Those two things are entirely separate.  Just look at Insomniac's success with the new Ratchet & Clank.  They brought the IP forward and lost nothing of the charm.

where have you seen Starfox 3D (3DS) for 10-20$? the loose cartridge alone is like 30$ everywhere online, complete like 50$. I think they stopped manufacturing the game or something (like Kid Icarus and Ocarina of Time 3D) as the price has stayed up

sad to hear about the reviews.

not totally shocked though, enough of the weird controls Nintendo! also as soon as I heard this would be a remake of the N64 franchise making title, I knew they had went the wrong route. Should have made a complete new experience. the N64 game is still insanely replayable and controls great. They prepared themselves for failure by making a better looking game than the old one that controls worse. just strange 

I wouldn't judge the potential of the developers on Star Fox.  This seems to be a game that was sent out just to fill a spot and to keep a massive dead zone from forming in the release schedule.  Star Fox was likely built with a limited budget.

If anything, I'd lay most of the responsibility on management.  It seems like there was no ambition behind this and that's a real shame.  Yeah, some people are going to try to justify this by saying it's some kind of throw-back game, that it's supposed to be limited, but Star Fox really deserved a lot more.  Why not bring it forward and do something big and interesting with it?  

At first glance it looks like they just made this the HD version of Star Fox 64, just with some level changes here and there. That is fine, no problem with trying to copy perfection. But then we get to the excitement of the original, which this does not seem to have.

 1. What is this? Everyhing is sooooo slow! Enemy ships hover around like they are trappd in syrup. Flying around the second sector fees like the main point of the level is to test your patience waiting to get to the end. I thought I won the game when I finally made it to tne last ship in the debri field. 

But that was not the end, and sadly I think only the begining of a tedious game, did I hear that the director quit or moved on? No wonder! His name will be linked to this forever. How do you get this so wrong?

2. Controls. Everyone has talked about it for months, is it a surprise? It really gets bad with the horrendous walker mode, but that was not the start. It started when I had to slowly take out maybe a dozen Snes era looking spiders before they ate the general that looks somewhat like a dog in the first tedious level. Motion control was an idea that must have been thought up in one of Miyamotos nightmares as a child. Done terribly in this game and sadly the only hope of even finishing this game or having any enjoyment with it. If I do not spend hours mastering these horrible controls then this 62 dollar purchase will be wasted. When we talk about difficult controls we think of the last Kid Icarus game. Right?

But this is on a whole other level. There is no technical learning curve, just a learning curve in dealing with poor control design. I know they wanted to bring back the spirit of the N64, but poor controls could have stayed in the past.

I hope I grow to enjoy this game, but so far, besides the cute characters and actually decent visuals in most cases, I do not enjoy it.

Please Star Fox do a barrel roll and shake off the FUNK!

The game was done in mind with the Gamepad. You can't just throw the Pro Controller by delfault like that.