Following the recent Nintendo Direct, the official website for Star Fox Guard had launched. The website contains a ton of new details on the game, along with extra gameplay footage. There’s a bunch of new screenshots, too. Feel free to check out everything released below.
Star Fox Guard will be bundled for free with Star Fox Zero. Both games will launch worldwide on April 22nd.
- Genre: Surveillance camera shooting
- Players: 1
- Save data: 1 per user, requires at least 1.5MB
- Sound: Surround (Linear PCM)
- Controllers: GamePad (not compatible with Off-TV)
- Online: share enemy patterns with other players via the internet
- play as the new employee of Corneria Precious Metals Co., Ltd., a mining company specialised in rare metals
- protect the base from robots, who are trying to steal the precious metals
- use special cameras called “ProteCam” (Protect + Camera)
- these allow you to keep an eye out for enemies and shoot them with a laser
- take control of any of 12 different cameras
- place cameras in various locations to keep an eye on your base
- TV screen lets you see footage of all cameras
- select a specific camera on the touchscreen of the GamePad to shoot the enemies down
- over 100 missions
- two types of missions: regular story missions that involve various places in the Lylat system like Corneria and Titania
- extra missions have different rules and are more challenging
- extra missions include:
Sniper: defend the base with a limited number of shots
Airborn: enemies are parachuted directly into the base
Tottori Tour: control a camera which is placed on top of a robotic bird - Enemy robots include
Attack type: their goal is to reach the center of your base. - Attacker: when they’re shot, the top part of the robot falls off, but the bottom part keeps moving forward, which causes them to move faster
- Shielf: these robots defend themselves with a shield that you cannot shoot through. You have to get their attention with a camera, and then switch to another one in order to shoot them in the back
- Jammer type: “jam” your cameras with various tricks
- Hi-Ho: they don’t take many shots to be destroyed, but if they get near the Control Tower, they automatically explode
- Jack: they use a special signal to jam your cameras, and replace the footage with some dancing robots
- Smog: when you destroy them, they release some smoke, obscuring your vision;
- Green Tank
- Invisible Robots: are invisible, and you need to shoot them to make them appear. You can hear them when they’re near one of your cameras
- game will also have boss battles
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This made the Direct for me. Sounds like one meaty package. I was optimistic about SFZ, but this bundle managed to make me get it.
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Eh, I believe an online mode could’ve been made with the same amount of work put into Guard but oh well. It’s not like an online mode for this game would’ve been totally awesome or anything.
Yeah! Fuck online multiplayer with space battles & shit for you & other people across the globe to take part in because who wants a Star Wars like game where you have awesome space battles! That would be dull & boring so fuck that shit! /s
-||Atleast the Electrons failed even worse with Battlefront||-
Yeah. I guess I shouldn’t have expected EA to give the game a nice, awesome story or awesome space battles. Star Wars Battlefront is nothing more than a mini-game game like Nintendo Land was, using hype & nostalgia to sell. I like nostalgia, too, but I wanted a god damn original story mode for me & others to follow. We need more online multiplayer games with an actual story & not just mindless battle simulators. Maybe as long as people buy Star Wars Battlefront while still making it known to EA that they wanted more than just a bunch of mini-games with self contained stories that they might make the next game more to the liking of people like me. Personally, I want a new Rogue Squadron game. :/ I’ll even take the original game getting an enhanced, HD edition where they redo the old stuff into HD with better graphics while also extending the game’s story… But I must remember this is EA so I should keep my expectations low.
It looks interesting to me.
Nah what a shit game
Star Fox Guard sounds like it could be pretty darn fun. I always thought project guard looked very interesting. I like when Nintendo makes unique experiences like that. Also, I like what it says the genre is.. “Surveillance camera shooting” lol.
“Tactical surveillance camera action”
Another game that is shut yo Nolin tendon where are the games at
It doesn’t come free with the game. The bundle with it is more money than that of ZERO alone by itself.
How do you know that? I haven’t heard anything one way or the other about the additional game being free in the bundle. Serious question.
For what is worth, Amazon added a new Star Fox Zero entry to their listing after the Direct. It doesn’t have a picture, but it’s a couple of euros more expensive than SFZ. I’m assuming it’s a placeholder for the first print run.
Thanks for the info… So am I going to have to reorder it to get the bundle you think?
I think so. I’ve already switched my order, just to be sure. I’m keeping an eye on Amazon and the UK Nintendo store so as to not miss the preorder window.
Nintendo Life usually makes a post about new preorders with links to each item, both for America and Europe. I don’t recall how consistent (or fast) this site is when it comes to this kind of info, so you might want to check NE on a daily basis.
I check that site too. Although I almost never comment on there. But ok, I’m gonna change my order too. Thanks.
No problem. Glad to help.
I hope that this game REMAINS bundled with Star Fox Zero, and that it’s not just a limited edition thing. Because sadly, I doubt that I can buy Star Fox Zero right when it releases. I’ll be buying a PS4 next month, and that will massacre my wallet.
They will be sold separately after the first print is gone. Be glad that it’s not another Bayonetta scenario.