chocobo u rock!
You, sir, are the best poster EVER.
Seriously, you bumped TWO almost SEVEN year old topics...
with a three word post complimenting one of the posters who hasn't posted since June of '08. SERIOUSLY?
AND you bumped a topic written in '04! Come on, dude. You can do better than that.
But in all seriousness, I love the Star Fox series.
-COMPLAINTS >:(-
Original: AUGH HOLY CRAP THIS GAME IS TOO HARD! For real, I make it to Stage 6 on Route 1 and get the crap bombarded out of me just out of entering the level.
2: (Yes, I played it. DON'T ASK HOW.) On Nintendo, for not releasing it. Really? I know the N64 was coming, but the game was roughly 96% finished. There was NO excuse for that.
64: That's all? Really? Normal mode was THAT easy? All 3 routes simply aren't hard enough. Of course I realize they were trying to make amends with worse gamers (such as myself) by making the normal mode easy, but...
I know about the expert mode, which you can only unlock by getting all medals in every level.
To all you Assault and Adventures haters (myself the later), this game introduced 3rd person on-foot shooter Star Fox. Not really a complaint, but get every medal on Expert. Go to multiplayer.
Adventures: You know, I'm not even gonna say anything about this game.
Okay, fine. Why tack Fox onto a completely unrelated game? I'm lookin' at you, Nintendo, for making this happen. On a related note, Nintendo, stop pawning the Star Fox games onto other developers. Rare? NAMCO? FREAKING Q GAMES!? (I know, the guy who founded it worked at Argonaut, which made the Super FX chip.) Really, that's just lazy. Thanks to Krystal still being in the game, we have...the plot for Command! But I'll get into that later. Oh, and not to mention the voice acting, generic, often stock sounding (at least to me) sound effects, and plain odd sounding MIDIs.
Assault: It just had this...bland atmosphere to it. It didn't have the same excitement as Star Fox 64 with the Arwing portions. Don't say nostalgia filter, I played Assault first. Krystal RETURNS? Oh, come on! I know furries think she's hot, but she wasn't originally a Star Fox character. and now...
Command: The fuel really bugged me. The stylus controls, like that of Phantom Hourglass, was annoying.
And now, the plot. Please, Star Fox has Action/Sci-Fi, not all this Soap-Opera crap. It tries to be complex sometimes, but oh lord, it just gets more irritating. Please, bring back the simple "Andross! Kill him!" General Pepper is dead. WHAT!? Peppy leads the army now, and has a daughter. Slippy has a girlfriend. Another new guy named Dash. Falco leaves AGAIN. Krystal breaks up with Fox, but is still in the main plot. Come on, now. A complete lack of Landmaster of Blue Marine missions.(Speaking of which, the Blue Marine needs much more love.)
-COMPLIMENTS :D-
Original: First 3-D polygonal console game. Also features a kickin' soundtrack, to boot.
64: Great graphics for it's time, another good, oft-underrated soundtrack, and the best voices in the series, at least emotion-wise. Most fun gameplay.
Adventures: Awesome graphics. Uh...not much else to say here. Oh, the voices are so bad they're actually pretty funny.
Assault: Pretty good graphics. (Noticing a pattern, yet?) Very nice (if slowed down for whatever reason) sounding orchestrations of Star Fox 64 music (Not to mention some pretty good original music.) and the best VOICES that get pretty good emotionally near the end. I really like the ability to switch between the Landmaster, Arwing, or on foot at ease.
Command: Very good graphics for a DS game. (Yep, it's back.) Don't remember much music, so I can't talk about that.
But, when broke down to the basics, they're all really good.
So, uh...yeah?