The new Star Fox is ugly AF.
Nintendo surprised fans with a new Star Fox game — the first in over a decade. It will be launching on the Nintendo Switch 2 on June 25th. based on the classic Star Fox 64 game, it’s basically similar gameplay but with a brand new look. And this includes hideous redesigns of the main characters.
Star Fox and Falco have particularly gotten flack, looking like disgruntled GameStop employees who solely have the job in hopes of interacting with teen girls who just want to get Tomodachi Life and be left alone. I’m only covering this because Super Smash Bros. pros and fans have been roasting the hell out of these ugly characters for the past day and it’s hilarious.
I guess the characters are supposed to be considered “realistic,” although that’s not the problem. Some people have said that Japanese fans just like “realistic furries,” but nobody is upset they’re realistic. They’re upset that they’re ugly AF.
“I Prefer the Movie Version”
Former Nintendo art director, Takaya Imamura, who designed the original Star Fox characters in the 1990s, is not a fan of them either.
If it were up to him, the characters in the new game would look more like Fox McCloud in that stupid Super Mario Galaxy movie rather than the one who saw in the trailers.
While he expressed joy in seeing Star Fox’s legacy continue, he was not a fan of the art style. Who is? I don’t usually play games with anthropomorphic animals in hopes that they will look like someone who got kicked out of a Dungeons & Dragons squad for being an annoying know-it-all.
“I suppose this is what happens when I’m not overseeing it,” he tweeted.
Even though he prefers the film version, he does like the overall direction of the new Star Fox game. He isn’t alone. The strangely lifeless, overly human-like faces of Fox and Falco are quite haunting.
Nintendo has threatened us with a new cutscene, so we’ll see even more scenes featuring these dumpy new versions of Fox and Falco.