One of the original programmers behind Star Fox 2, which has never been released but will finally be playable with the SNES Mini, has expressed his surprise and excitement to Kotaku about the fact that gamers will finally be able to play the game. Kotaku caught up with Dylan Cuthbert via email to ask him how he felt once he heard the news:
“It made my day. It’s bloody awesome!”
“Totally weirded out and totally psyched, I mean, I had completely given up on the chance that it might come out. I spent two years of hard work making it and loved every minute. Finally people get to see all the little cool tweaks and things, all the touches and special ideas we threw in there. This game had so much experimentation at the start and that really shows in some of the encounters you’ll come across.”
“I hope people don’t think they cleared the game with just one play through! In that sense, it is a very unique game.”
star fox zero about to get exposed
This is beyond awesome! Great job Nintendo
I agree, Non-Specific toy.
I now give ZERO fucks about sfz thanks to this game. I’m so happy for starfox fans finally getting what is effectively a new game! I’d get it myself if the snes classic wasn’t so damn hard to preorder -_-
Knowing the Internet and whatnot… someone is bound to hack the SNES Mini and leak the ROM for this game online.
It seems the SF2 ROM is around for almost a decade, which is very surprising for me.
I’m very surprised that this game finally getting release.
Inb4 people ask for mother 3
Yeah right, your about 10 years too late for that comment….
lol I’m saying before people ask why didn’t they put mother 3 in that bundle
Well, when the Game Boy Advanced Classic Edition comes out….
Gameboy Advance, not Advanced
What is this “bloody”? :p
I want to play this lost game so bad; Nintendo better not pull any shortage bullshit on this.
In addition to shortages, there is the risk that Nintendo is not making these to meet demand. It might just be another “collector’s item” and not being produced for Nintendo gamers. Just Collector’s willing to pay hundreds of dollars, in which case they would be shafting actual fans again.
I hope that isn’t the case this time around. We’ll know soon.
What I want to know, is who the two new characters are. Are they new wingmen (wingwomen?) bringing the group up to six fighters at once?
And also, will we ever see this game again?
If I remember right, one is Fay and the other is Mia. Don’t recall which one is which though.
And no Krystal =n=
Of course no Krystal. She didn’t exist when Star Fox 2 was in development. In fact, she wouldn’t even be a Star Fox character today if Miyamoto didn’t talk Rare into turning Dinosaur Planet, which went into development after Diddy Kong Racing released, into Star Fox Adventures.
I know I know. She’s still my fave starfox character though. XP
Krystal wasn’t even born when they made Star Fox 2. lol
I’m aware. Still wish she’d show up again. XP
Shut up.
Bitch please? Got nothing else to say other than shut up? Stop being a baby and get back to work!
Same.
Of course not, considering she wasn’t even created at the time. But I kind of understand, I was a bit sad to see she wasn’t in Zero either. When I was a little girl she was the reason I even showed interest in the games, lol.
Hey, look! It’s Bill & Katt of Star Fox 64 before they became Bill & Katt! And Bill apparently went through a sex change.
I’m honestly just as excited! I can’t wait to finally play this game. Sure it’s a dated game, but no doubt it will be a fun one to play through.
On a side note, I wonder if Nintendo will count this as official lore. Technically this takes place after SF Zero (SF 64). I think it’d be cool if they did. I mean games have done this before where games releasing back then are sequels to games coming out now in terms of story progression, so it wouldn’t be too weird.
I’m wondering that myself. Will Star Fox 2 be put into the canon or will it continue to be ignored even though it’s finally getting released?
This has much more in common with Zero than it does 64, especially considering the transforming mechanic which SF2 also has. I hope it becomes canon… at least until Miyamoto decides to retcon the storyline yet again.
Yeah. When something goes to shit, instead of fixing it, let’s just ignore it, move onto something new (Wii U to Switch,) or fully erase it from history by retconning the entire thing (this will sadly be Other M which had some good ideas for story but just did a shitty job with portraying Samus’s breakdown scene with no fucking in-game explanation of why she broke down in the first fucking place afterwards by way of another monologue! We went most of the game with Samus explaining what’s going on in monologues yet suddenly it’s not a good idea for one! It’s like they were intentionally trying to piss off most of the core Metroid fans with that scene!)
Star Fox Zero was actually one or two ideas away from being a great game- the dual perspective mechanic just muddled the whole experience. I still play it from tine to time; I’ve decided to hang onto it as it was the last SF game my friend and I played before he perished in his accident, and for the tribute to Iwata at the end.
This is a good game for children and people who never played Star Fox 2 before. lol
This game has never released
It has though. The rom of the game has been released a long time ago already. This isnt anything new lol.
The completed version was never released only betas
This makes me wonder just how many games that Nintendo fully completed, but never released. I’ll never forget my extreme disappointment when Earthbound 64 got cancelled. Though it eventually became Mother 3 in Japan (and on a handheld, which doesn’t have the same impact).
I’m SO glad that I’m a fan of the Star Fox series. At least, a moderate fan. It’s the only space shooter sort of game that I’ve ever cared anything for. It seems almost unreal to be able to play a previously unreleased first-party Nintendo game.