Original Star Fox Dev Says He'd Like To Make A No-Nonsense Sequel

It blows my mind that Nintendo never had the idea of making a Star Wars-esque (a touchy story of love/good/evil,space battles,huge battleships,escape missions,rescue missions,a grand finale) Starfox game.

A missed oportunity imo

Someone needs to make a fan game and leak it before Nintendo reaches them with a C&D. We won't get a proper one until the people calling the shots age out.

We're literally waiting for the people in the way to die of old age before we get a proper game.

Please branch out & make a StarFox type game for all the consoles like the SNES, N64 & especially the GameCube games. I would buy 10 of them if they existed!

Not going to happen. Nintendo has stated time and time again they have no interest in making the same game over and over again. They are insistent and remaking the wheel in there games. Don't get me wrong I would love a new Star Fox game. Sadly its not going to happen and if it does it won't be a "no nonsense sequel".

What I think a Star Fox sequel should have:

•A big giant world map with lots of levels. At least 20.

•Tons of branching paths.

•Awesome Boss fights. Keep the "all range" segments for some of them.

Sadly this would do little to attract new fans. Like it or not the Star Fox games are seen as archaic by todays standards. Look at Metroid Dread. People are already in arms about it costing $60 simply because its a 2D game. Now this doesn't mean we have to reinvent the entirety of the formula. We just have to expand on it.

How I think the Star Fox games could be expanded:

•Some form of squad control. Let us issue orders to the others in the squad.

•Refine and expand the on foot segments. Slow them down add more weapons and have them work in tandem with the air battle above. So much prospect for cool gameplay here. Especially the the ability to issue orders. However the vast majority of the game should still be in the air.

•Branching upgrade paths for both the Star Fox team and their vehicles

•Drop in drop out multiplayer. Let other players join your game in control of one the squad.

Uh yeah, this is what people have been asking from Nintendo for almost 25 years now. They've repeatedly used the excuse that they have to include a new gimmick every time which is why they can't make new games, which has always been a laughable excuse given they apply it unevenly to their different properties. And as a result we're still waiting for a Star Fox game as good as 64.

I think that there are a lot of folks who would appreciate a "no nonsense sequel" to Star Fox, especially considering that a lot of folks seemed to enjoy Star Fox 2, despite the fact that it really wasn't exactly what you'd call a completed game, just an abandoned game that they hurriedly finished into a working game then released as a sort of bonus incentive for the SNES Classic.

Sadly, since this is just a sort of what-if scenario regarding what the co-programmer would like to do if he were to be put in charge of designing a new Star Fox game rather than something that he's actually working on or even plans on pitching to Nintendo, it's a practically meaningless sentiment. Frankly, I think that if he really wants to make such a game, then he's better of Crowd Funding a game that's "Inspired by Classic Star Fox Games" with a knockoff title like; "Captain Canine 2064" starring Fawkes McLeod. Because unless someone from Nintendo reads this article and is extremely interested in making a "no nonsense sequel" to Star Fox, chances are it isn't going to happen.