Topic: Star Fox Zero - OT

@NintyMan: The trailer itself showed me that it significantly got improved.

After this, I still don't understand why many think that the game looks awful.

I have no interest in Star Fox, but this presentation definitely looked a lot better than the e3 trailer.

My gripes with the new SFZero trailer:

1. What's up with the smart bomb, where is the effects? I didn't see it going off. All I saw was a bunch of enemy ships burnt up.

2. Snow level looked like it was designed by a 5 y/o. Seriously a bunch of bumps with a white texture makes a level?

You just did. Anyways, Hashimoto said it's possible Krystal will return for a sequel. Why? B/c THe FOrCE AWAKENS has A FRIGGEN FEMALE WARRIOR PROTAGONIST!

Btw, what's up with the new octagonal crosshair? What does inidicate when the crosshair switches from the classical square?

I'm very perplexed by this game. From what I see here, SFZ looks to be a serious game meant for teen gamers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoOhlqbSsts

Then, you have levels like the snow field (a bunch of bumps in the ground) that could only bewitch little toddlers, nothing like tha seriousness in the above vid. Very perplexing game this SFZero!

@hirobo2 Is this multipost Monday?

Oh wait it's saturday... Gotta get the dates right man.

too nice

too nice... graphics improvements to StarFox Zero! Rewatched the (gameplay) trailers in HD. Here's wut I have to say now:

1. Sexy lookin hit count font.
2. That scene of Falco getting chased by two ship is a knock off of the X-wing engaging Tie Fighters above a lake in Ep VII. But, damn, those enemy ships chasing Falco look cuter tha any Tie Fighter.
3. I like alot of the neon-colored werdly shape ships. the last I'd seen anything so creative was in SF SNES (not sarcasm, it'd true, SF SNES [+SF2] had the best model designs in the etire franchise thx to Tsuyoshi Watanabe the designer. It was him that created the X-shaped Wolfens that we see today).
4. I hope they could improve the Walker areas a bit, they look like the most uninspired [aka boring] parts of the game. The Gravmaster looks to be a lot more fun than morphing the Arwing into walker mode.
5. Teh search lights still need a lot of work. They don't look like rays of light bouncing off dust particles, but translucent textured tubes.

Two slightly new gameplay videos have showed up on the Japanese website. Unfortunately, the videos are not at 60 fps.

How not to do a space shooter:

This thing looks so intimidating (ie. confusing) to new comers. Aren't you guys glad SFZero doesn't look anything like that?

@hirobo2: It's a bullet hell shooter, nothing alike Star Fox...

Nope. StarFox Assault looked exactly like that: an on screen jumbled mess of pretty colors, which was why it sold poorly as it also looked intimidating to new comers:

It's...still nothing like Starfox Zero. They're both completely different genres. The only things they have in common is that they're both auto scrollers and they have ships

@hirobo2: Still isn't a bullet hell shooter... It's all background and you can only interact with a limited amount of objects.

GameSpot published a feature article on Star Fox Zero today: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/breaking-limits-with-star-fo...
It's mostly stuff we already know, but it's interesting to read that the development of Bayonetta 2 gradually made the Platinum-Nintendo collaboration on Star Fox Zero possible.
Can't wait for this game.

to be honest, that doesn't surprise me too much that a highly praised game with Star Fox references on Wii U lead to them working on the Wii U Star Fox game.