Video: Here's How Star Fox On Switch 2 Compares To The N64 Original

It's just about all I could have hoped for, except that it's the same game I've beaten hundreds of times already, but if this sells well and we get a sequel that looks and plays like this just in a different galaxy then I'll be one happy camper. I just hope we don't have to wait forever, I found a gray hair yesterday.

one my fav n64 games. my 10 year old does it have games share. and ill go halfs on it withyou

Have never played a game like this and have no idea if I'll enjoy it. I'll wait and see how the reviews are, but I'm growing quite tempted.

I'm afraid I'm one of those weirdos who thinks the low-poly abstraction of the original never needed to be changed. I was lukewarm on the reveal yesterday – if they were going to change it this much, they could have done a new damn Star Fox.
Still, if it sucks a new generation into the primal thrills of Star Fox 64, then...

Strange looking marks on the ground behind the landmaster in the new game,(in the image shared above) I know the landmaster leaves track marks as it goes but it seems like the game engine has mistakenly put track marks on metal plating that's on the floor, maybe some mistakes with DLSS or just the engine needs a bit of refining still.

Also check out the extra little details Nintendo added into the N64 version of the game... look at the in cockpit view, look down at the monitor in front of you... that fake reflection, so awesome.

Yeah, but, Zero was also just a remake, wasn't it? We should see comparisons with that.

I love when games offer 1st person perspectives and the little details they can provide. Like Metroid Prime's visor and helmet bobbing, looking in the rear view mirror in a car in Forza, or Star Fox 64's cockpit view and seeing all the controls.

I always feel more immersed and I am glad they kept that view for the Arwing in the remake. Curious if the other vehicles will get the same treatment...

This is the first time I’ve thought I may want to get a Switch 2 someday.

The green, purple and orange skies are just stunning!

Also the music sounds much better, although I never liked this soundtrack as much as the SNES game. Nothing is as memorable to me as the menu music and Corneria in that game!

Wish they remake starfox assault

The reflections in the cockpit are interesting, you can see the light of the various controls reflecting off the metal, probably SSR and not ray tracing if I had to guess.

I’m realizing I’ve never gotten very far in this game. I guess I’ll try again.

At least the original game had splitscreen multiplayer. Truly baffling that they ditched that feature.

Man, apart from the wonky overtextured characters it looks SO GOOD! Wow. Blown away.

I hope hope hope we get some kind of "TotK" direct sequel with all new stuff after. Would that be sweet. All the main work is done now, so it would just be designing new levels and story!!

A visual treat, for sure! I keep forgetting that the Switch 2 can pull off these graphics.

I've been longing for something short to pick up and play at night. I've played it a million times before but still, this might fit the bill.

It looks really great but I just feel like with how far they’ve gone with the visuals and new cutscenes etc. they might as well have just made a brand new game especially after the last two releases were a straight remake and a quasi remake. Can’t argue with the price though so even though I would prefer something properly new I’ll be there for it.

Having just watched a GameCube retrospective though it is hard with all these remakes Nintendo have been making lately not to miss the days where they would routinely push their franchises in new directions. You could never really predict where they would go, and that’s still true of today but not quite in the same way. I would have never bet on another SF64 remake happening for example 🤷‍♂️

The remake looks exactly how my nostalgia remembers the original. The visual leap is as impressive as link's adventure remake.

@AussieMcBucket Zero is a remake of 64 (and by extension the original then) in the same way Ocarina of Time is a remake of A Link to the Past.

You get three stones. Princess gets kidnapped. Master Sword. Dark world version of the light world you swap between at will. 7 more dungeons. Ganon's Tower.

Star Fox, 64 and Zero are Andross attacks the system, start on Corneria, end on Venom.

I remember loving the original N64 game's rumble pack feature, but the actual games choice of colors were so muddy, dark and dready vs the the more futuristic pastal colors of the SNES original before it. Flash forward to the 3DS Remake, and ya, that's when I finally saw it to the end. It was a pretty good time, but i know good and well the stereoscopic 3D lent a great hand at making it that much more enjoyable than it would of been without it.

I'll most likely hop on this, but it's a little less exciting and enticing just because it's another remake/remaster. Maybe if 3D TV's existed I'd be a little more enthusiastic.

That video does a lot to make me excited + nostalgic, it’s a gorgeous remake and the OG was one of my favorites.

Random Notes:
(1) the added option of gunner and pilot looks fun.
(2) Fox looks a little off but Falco looks fantastic
(3) I hope this very safe move by Nintendo preps their game design team to make a future, BOTW-level Star Fox game - they need to revisit what made this game great, refine the character models a bit more, and figure out a bold new step that gamers will love. New Star Fox by 2028/2029? I hope so

I feel like a side by side comparison with the 3DS game would be more pertinent.

Looks amazing I so can’t wait. Hopefully we’ll get some star fox GameCube drops soon too.

There is a lot of thought goes in to @NintendoLife article taglines… and we appreciate it 😆

Remaking an original is the safest bet to keep the franchise alive. Still, I'm wondering if it will be enough. As for me, it's not. Considering Panzer Dragoon Zwei on the Sega Saturn, I'm still waiting for an on-rail shooter that gives me such highs as that game did.

Back when it came out on the N64 I played it non stop for months. I had memorised the enemy waves so well it became like a complete muscle memory playthrough each time. The cinematics that were there were also so impressive at the time too.

It will hopefully lead to a proper sequel too as the last one was Star Fox Assault. I don't count Zero as it was a retelling of the original just like Lylat Wars/Star Fox 64 was. Hopefully this sells well enough to actually warrant a new game after.

Ya the Arcade Shooting flying is return !!

OG has soul... the remake? Looks ok, but a little to realistic for my taste, and the character models are ugly.

How many remakes, for this game ?

Yet, I'm here every time. i'll be there day one, off course !

(But the 3DS remake was already pretty great, if you ask me)

I LOVE Starfox. I am a life long Nintendo fan. I've been there since the beginning. I will not be buying this.

I hope they add fog-mode

@Stormcloudlive Just me assuming here, but I'd say it's kind of like how wet tires in the later MK games don't immediately become dry upon hitting dry ground. It takes a little for the water to "clear off".

Out of all generations we've had, the PS1/N64 is by far the most affected by the test of time. Apart from very few games like Zelda, Paper Mario, Chrono Cross, that had a very good art direction, they look so bad and bland nowadays.
Not saying the games are bad, they just look terrible. Pixel art is so much more timeless and got ditched hard back then.

Can we resurrect Factor 5 and get a new Rogue Squadron while we’re at it?

I mean there was nowhere to go but up from how awful the original looked but the remake does look really good

Having played the original countless times then the 3ds one countless times, I'm going to be ridiculous at this one. Either way hope it'll be fun. As pretty as it looks hard to pass on it even after playing the originals so many times.

@McGuildicuff I mean the 3DS version is a lot closer to the n64 version, what I don't why didn't they remaking the original SNES Star Fox instead? Or use ideas from Star Fox 2 as in the new characters, better yet just make a new game, if there gonna keep remaking N64 games can we get Super Mario 64 remade? It's been 22years since the last one would love them to finish the idea of 4 player coop story like the DS was gonna have reason why Wario and Yoshi were playable characters

It still looks worse than the 3DS version.

Truly was one of the very best games on the N64 and this could tip me to finally get a S2 and ive been dead set on not getting one until an oled was released. I might just not be able to hold out now.

Love em both equally, can't wait to play on Switch 2 though

I did play the 64 version, but never played it much, so for me this is a good time to now complete the original, so I’m happy. I didn’t play all the in between versions either. Just 64 and the snes one when it came out and that’s it. So I’ve been on a big star fox hiatus for a good while, so this will help me massively ahead of next years big new 3d one. However, I still wanted star fox 99, a 2.5d battle brawler which would be great!

@Haruki_NLI I didn't really play Zero, so I can't say. Was it not the same levels as all the other games? I know it says "reimagined."
Besides, yes, those Zelda games share the same basic premise and even numbers of objectives. But they're a far cry from the beat-for-beat rehashing of all these Star Fox games. Seriously, it's the same levels over and over with new coats of paint.

@AussieMcBucket Zero wasn't the same levels, nor is the original Star Fox. Corneria and Venom stay the same, but the order, level design, objectives and gameplay are all different between games.

So, is this the Mass Effect-like bravado you've always dreamed of, Alan Lopez?
Indeed looks like a dream come true

While I am not as strongly anti-remake as some ( partly because I understand the marketing logic, partly because I never actually played 64 ). . . I do hope that there is some new and unrevealed added content. Optimally, take a couple of the locations that were conceived but not implemented, and add them as new levels. At minimum, take the existing levels and add a few new events and routes to them.

Been playing The N64 one most of the day. Finished the easy path. The hard paths are more tricky and I hope to get used to no quick save for Switch 2. Not sure if I am playing this anymore today as it back to Diablo 4 and Pokopia.

Good news for people who never played the original obsessively but i have absolutely no interest

I played the original to death enough that even when I bought the 3ds version I never actually got around to playing it

@Haruki_NLI

Except Ocarina being in 3D drastically changes the gameplay.

Come on…. If it’s a remake of the N64 game then it REALLY isn’t a new Star Fox game, now, is it.

@Haruki_NLI Oh really? Huh, I feel like I've always heard otherwise. Well, that's interesting.

@AussieMcBucket it wasn’t a remake…. More of a reimagining (if it could be called that)… but in no way the same game. Not even close.

It was more of a completely new game but with similar story beats to 64

@Ganon821 you know you will

@Yoshi3 Oh, curious. I did not know that.

I'm hoping maybe they add some new missions to this remake. Maybe give us the privilege to finally play the Star Wolf team for once from their perspective maybe as a post game contents or free DLC.

@AlanShore Peppy Hare confirmed.

@AussieMcBucket you don’t even have the same vehicles. In star Fox zero there are stages where the arwing transforms into a bipedal type of robot…. And there are helicopter stages too.
They don’t share even a single stage similar to each other 😅

I wish the lasers would bounce off you when you did a barrel roll like they used to in the old one.

@Yoshi3 I recall some of the vehicles being different. But I was under the impression that the levels were the same if not tweaked a little.

@antdickens I really hope that’s true

@antdickens brilliant, have a great time, whoever the winner is they’re generally all top quality 👌