Arwing

pretty cool.

It kind of reminded me as a much better version of the Arwing levels in Star Fox Adventures.

Yeah.

So you get these cool upgrades throughout the game.

Yeah, and more importantly, with a game like this, it needs to feel like the original felt.

Especially an on-rails space fighter like this, you're going to remember the way it felt to pilot the Arwing, how snappy it is, how things move around.

They were able to match that pretty damn well, I thought.

Yeah, totally agree.

The Arwing feels great in this game.

It feels very faithful to the original, and I actually went back and played the 64 on Nintendo Switch Online just to see how Star Fox 64 compared, and yeah, it feels just as good and smooth and even better in some regards.

There are definitely a few little quality of life things that they added that I appreciate.

And for that, A reason my three-word review is nostalgia locked on.

But it only underscores how weird it is that certain things don't.

How is there not an Ochi Amiibo? How is there not a fucking Arwing? I just don't get it.

Some of these things.

If you can have...

The bloody aeroid machines, an Arwing, a Landmaster.

It just right there, isn't it? But obviously, yeah, if you don't have Sakurai making you do it, they're actually not nearly as willing to greenlight bloody great big ones, I guess.

What if we have 47 Amiibo for this niche product? We're going to create new Amiibo technology for this niche product.

the next iteration of what Star Fox 64 was.

And it, they, they trick you because they start off with an Arwing sequence, and it looks and plays just like I was dreaming it would.

Oh, no.

And then it's like, yeah, you're not gonna be in an Arwing for, like, another 10 hours at least.

Oh, the betrayal.

You're just gonna be running around on foot.

I love the idea of, like, little

Kennys playing it, and there's the part where you get in the Arwing, and you're like, what is this bullshit? Yeah.

So, like, I had no preconceived notions when I went into that game, so I'm happy.

I'm a happy camper.

Like I've, I was always fairly lukewarm on this game because I think it kind of falls apart by the end, but there's some really cool, like, kind of vintage Zelda dungeons in this game and some really interesting ideas.

And there's Arwing levels.

Like, it, it's very much by far the most fascinating entry in the Star Fox franchise, which is saying a lot because there have been s-

They've done some weird video games.

It's not as fun as the montage makes it look.

I think the combat's pretty clunky.

Uh, I think the- the- the Arwing stuff is very light in [laughs] in- in what you get to do.

A vast majority of the time is very much a...

They had an amiibo, or if you do really good, you can unlock it without amiibo.

But you get like a black Arwing, which does double the damage, but it also receives double damage.

So it's like a glass cannon mode.

And that is only in Star Fox Zero for some reason.

Fox amiibo was to get the Super Nintendo R-Wing in Star Fox Zero.

So at least they're not doing that here.

Well, they need to add Arwing skins, for sure.

That would be sick.

just got to check your blind spots

do it do it that's that's pretty much how i failed my driving test um yeah still still can't still can't drive um But, you know, I can fly in an Arwing fairly capably as long as I'm in third person.

And you know what? I mean, by and large, they do control pretty well in the original game.

Like, I would argue that there is...