Yesterday a friend of mine dropped by to play some games, and as he was about to leave he asked me to play Star Fox Assault because he had never played it.

While playing through the first level he was quite impressed by the scenarios and the amount of ships that would pop up on the screen just to get smoked by him. Things were great until he got to the second level when he had to go for a walk using Fox. Then joy turned into disappointment.

He started to ask me if all the missions were like that and where were all the amazing dogfights. I told him that almost half of the missions took place inside the Airwing but on some of them you had to walk. I wasn't surprised when he decided not to play it for any longer.

Suddenly a conversation about Star Fox 64 began. We started to recall all those wonderful moments when we tried to find a way to get to a different level. I still remember the day my friend discovered how to enter the waterfall in Corneria, he quickly called me to go to his place and check it out. Afterwards we started to trailblaze new paths and each time somebody found a new path we would let the other one know, until we had all the game figured out.

I also remember the amazing bosses that made us all struggle for days until we killed them. You can call me nostalgic but most of the newer games do not manage to make us feel the same way.

I wish Nintendo went back to the old Star Fox instead of trying to recreate a series that doesn't need any of that.