For retro fans, the Virtual Console is one of the best reasons to own a Wii, at least until recently. For whatever reason, Nintendo and third parties haven’t released many games for the service, and most weeks have no games at all. It’s a bit premature to call it dead, but there’s definitely a problem.
On that note, Virtual Console still has tremendous potential, especially if Nintendo adds these six old school hits.
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Explore the enduring legacy of 'Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire' on its 27th anniversary, a game that revolutionized storytelling and gameplay in the Star Wars universe.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "I respect the hell out of Star Fox for what it was setting out to do in 1993. You gotta love how feisty Nintendo was being, proving the naysayers wrong with their whole “bit wars” schtick. That doesn’t mean I have to like this game… as a game. It’s just not very good. It was a proof of concept, a big fat tech demo. If anything, we ended up getting Star Fox 64, one of the best games of all time (don’t at me) four years later, so that alone is enough to validate the original Star Fox‘s existence. It also marked the beginning of arguably Nintendo’s most neglected and disrespected franchise alongside F-Zero. One I sure hope won’t die with that disgraceful Wii U title as its swan song, its last hoorah. Happy anniversary, you weird, ugly, barely polygonal monstrosity. At the end of the day, we still love you."
I would love it if Nintendo finally did a Chorus type Star Fox game at this point. I think with their characters and their "Nintendo Appeal" - whatever that is - they could bring back Star Fox as a main franchise.
The Chorus game design, or even a Crimson Skies style to a lesser extent, would make for a great template to get Star Fox up and running again and get the franchise out of the rut it's suffering from.
Sure, they can go back to the SNES/N64 era gameplay but...really? Meh. Maybe they can use that corridor gameplay style for a smaller game, released between the big releases, or as Boss Levels at the end of each free roaming chapter for that added "Cinematic Flair".
Star Fox certainly deserves better.
Don't you mean a No Man Sky, only not really. Bit more scripted with an open world after game just in the Lylat system.
No. The game Chorus is the perfect way to bring Star Fox out of the old ways and into the new while still retaining the charm of the series. No need to bloat the game design with a No Man Sky type of open world. That would be counterproductive and just too much of a departure for the series. We'll have another Dinosaur Planet/Star Fox Adventure in our hands and tank the series once again. No thanks.
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Go watch a walkthrough of Chorus. That's a design Nintendo could excel at with this franchise while keeping the charm and concept close to the series origins but also moving it forward enough that it can flourish in a bigger scale. It's perfect.
"It’s just not very good."
You wash that filthy mouth!
--It really was something you had to be there for and experience during the early 90's, I understand haha
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a video game that was released in 1996 and is set in the Star Wars universe. It was developed by LucasArts and published by Lucasfilm Games, and it was released for the Nintendo 64 and PC platforms.
Wow. Nostalgia hitting hard. Younger gamers, when this game came out the opening Hoth level had some of the best graphics ever seen lol. Along with Mario 64.
I'm not sure how we beat these bosses as kids. IG88 is a nightmare and I only beat him by cheesing. No clue how I beat Boba Fett and Xizor.
Will never forget on Christmas morning cracking open that game. Putting it on and being blown away by that Hoth level. That boss level with Boba Fett seems to stick out for me. Just awesome! The graphics were so dang good!
At the time the game was kinda hard to get I recall, along with Super Mario 64. Damn those were some good times!
It went for $75 at launch. People forget how SNES and N64 games regularly sold for $60-80/each.
Great games though.
Got this game ages ago for the N64 and loved it. Bought it a couple years ago on Steam for nostalgia purposes. The control scheme makes it not age well.
Had a lot of fun playing this game. There were so many codes. You could play as Wompas, stormtroopers/snowtroopers and even At-Sts on the Hoth level. Lots of good memories. I know I've said it ad nauseam but this game got me into Star Wars at a time when it just wouldn't click with me. SOTE changed everything for me. With so many Star Wars games being ported to modern consoles these days I was hopping this one would be in the cards eventually. It needs a lot of work but I'm sure it can be done.
Would kill for Yoshi's Island.
Star Fox just makes sense. Not sure what's holding that up. The way Nintendo's been acting, we may never see it at all.
Yeah, go figure, they prefer to pimp out StarFox 64...not a bad idea, but still.
Killer Instinct Gold for me :)
However, since this is a RARE title, I would prefer to see a remake on XBLA with a high def upgrade and achievements.
Nothing can save VC. It did well while it was new and people were still exited but now people figured that they can play those same games for free without being limited to what Nintendo gives them.
*Or rather it would be hard to save it at this point