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Originally Posted by Myself
But fast forward some years with the emergence of Sony and Microsoft sponsored system and we have ourselves Star Fox Adventures. Again, I'm not sure if I was old enough to understand how much the hype was and I suppose I looked enthusastic about it. But I know that deep down somewhere in myself, I was shouting "LAME!" when I saw pictures of the dinosaurs for the first time all while our hero Fox whacking the cold blooded reptiles to death with a....magic stick? But yeah, looking back, the concept sounds incredibly silly now. While the adventure engine added wasn't too terrible, simply the thought of slapping Fox in it was a shame. And a crime from our beloved Rare, of all people. While the Arwing levels were fun, it only seemed like a cruel device to tantalize our desire for more of them only to end up with Fox wandering around with a dinosaur sniffing and digging random stuff up. And while Fox plays "master" and kills jumping mushrooms for him to eat while hunting for floating blue heads and then meeting our blue furry love interest. Okay, maybe you can add an arc for this out of a ...say a game based on Fox in a series of missions, even that would have been better but to base the whole game on Dinosaur Planet, just seemed utterly wrong. It was a very cheap, low blow to the series while its mechanics, although well meaning did not feel Star Fox at all. And while I think some of us are divided between it, I felt that was a dark day in history.
Okay. The Gamecube was in its waning days and of course, there's a chance to recuperate from this mess that Rare has thrown at us(probably as its last great retribution against Nintendo), isn't there? Okay, let's give it to our friend Namco. So you have a good template-- many fans are expecting it to be a return to the old high flying, high intensity, intenstine exploding fare of the olden days, right. No, they have to dismiss the idea in their big stubborn heads and add-- foot levels where Fox takes forever to get anywhere while shooting his little lazer at ...spiders named Aparoids? Give them a mutiplayer. And oh yeah, throw in Krystal with a half assed attempt at acheiving a British accent while stripping the Arwing engine of its numerous upgrades and oh-so-great smart bombs, at least in appearence. Give a new nasal toned Slippy and less than macho/badass Falco and that is basically how I would sum where it has gone. Most of our beloved supporting characters have gone, haven't they? Even General Pepper looks like a damn zombie. And as I have said, Namco had a great template in front of their faces but refused to follow it. When will we get our fabled full length games with those awesome rail levels? Well, there's always next generation, isn't there?
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10-06-2005, 04:53 PM
