After Star Fox was announced as a guest character for this game, I took a better look at all the footage we got from the game.And yeah, while we will obviously get a much better idea of what the game will be like in the next few days, if you take away the toys part, Starlink overall idea could have made for an excellent Star Fox game.I mean, look at the space fights, then you have the movements from the ships, which would innovate the gameplay idea of Starfox by not making it be solely a on rails game(you can hover around and "dodge" enemy attacks).And the game seems to be going for a strong narrative.

If Nintendo wishes to do so in the future and take the concept idea of Starlink and apply to Starfox, we could be seeing a rebirth of the IP.I mean, Retro might be doing that already, but Im seeing this as if that wasnt true.So what do you guys think?

Edit: Footage of some of the gameplay from Starlink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=224&v=ZsuNdcN89EA

I think we saw with the Wii-U that Nintendo doesn't want to make a game that just uses modern tech and the bigger scale that comes with that.

Have you ever heard about a game called The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? 

If not, google it. It's a very interesting one.

If Starlink turns out good, Nintendo should let Ubisoft devs make a full fledged Star Fox Game instead of making it themselves.

Did you read that this thread is about Star Fox?

Only reason the franchise got another game on Wii-U was due to the new way to play which came from the game pad.

Well, I didnt play every single StarFox game, but if I never heard anything about the hover and dodges and all, it must probably be because these games werent anything special.

I just dont get this hostility.It dosent matter if Nintendo didnt develop internally Star Fox for how many years, what matters is that they have mismanaged the IP, thats all.And when I saw more of Starlink, I thought that this game could bring in fresh ideas to the IP that could really make it work.

Anyways, thats more of an idea for a future title, assuming that Retro game is true.

I kind of think Starlight is supposed to be a substitute for Starfox. Instead of Nintendo making their own game they are just letting Ubisoft use their IP. Of course, Nintendo could prove me wrong tomorrow. We'll see.

Star Fox 64 was the last great Star Fox game and the only masterpiece in the franchise.Being honest, thats also the only entry I have ever played, and I loved to hell.But Im sorry, Star Foy, at least as far as 64 and Zero is concerned, is on rails.Yeah sure that it has its all range mode at times, but it is a pretty much rails game.This is not an issue by itself, and it surely wasnt when 64 launched.That game was simply flawless.The problem is, Starfox can do more, become more.I dont mean that it cant have the on rails moments and occasional all range modes that are mostly exclusive to an area for that specific moment.Star Fox Zero would be a good game without the messy controls, but it would still only just be an okay game.Starfox needs and deserves better.

And for it to reach that status, it needs to be reinvented, like Mario and Zelda are every once in a while.It needs to grow in another words.And I feel like what Starlink does is what Starfox should do in order to achieve that.Of course it would need the Nintendo touch and it would make for an even better game, but the ground work is there.And Im sorry, but If you arent willing to watch the gameplay of the game, I wont be able to argue with you and it will feel like that Im just trying to discuss with someone that is stuck in his ways.

And who said Retro game is a spin off?The way that i see it, if Retro game is successful, and I mean really successful, that will become the future of Starfox, or at least that will define the main series, with maybe the occasional spin off that plays in the classic way.Starfox has been having so much difficulty to become mainstream again, that Nintendo probably gave it to Retro to reinvent it.They probably said "you can do whatever you want and if it works, thats what starfox is going to be from here on out".

About the stupid rule about no thread to express what you think my advice is:Just ignore it.Its a foolish decision.They want to stop the forum from being overloaded with threads, but few threads are being made.So just go for it.

When you have a beloved and well-established franchise, and a third party starts from scratch, and executes it much better than shoehorning awkward controls and providing low budget and scope.

Capcom did a fantastic job with the Zelda games on handhelds. That was long ago though, now they suck.