All systems go! Moviegoers around the world have seen Fox McCloud take to the skies in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie – soon players can blast off with Fox and his allies on the Nintendo Switch 2 system. In today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo announced that Star Fox, an action-packed adventure based on Star Fox 64 for Nintendo 64, will be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on June 25. Experience new gameplay modes (and rediscover returning ones) as you embark on a dangerous mission to save the Lylat System – which can now be explored in greater detail thanks to a complete visual overhaul of the game.
Maniacal scientist Andross seeks control of the Lylat star system, and only Fox McCloud and the Star Fox team stand in his way. Pilot your Arwing and travel the system battling opposing forces and performing thrilling aerial maneuvers, like barrel rolls and somersaults, to shake off enemies. Find alternative routes through the Lylat System during multiple playthroughs, taking on new missions and varied challenges. Plus, team up with friends in the new 4-vs-4 multiplayer Battle Mode.
Star Fox is a cinematic take on the Star Fox 64 game, featuring newly overhauled character designs, freshly revamped looks for each stage, plus detailed cutscenes, fully voiced dialogue and a sweeping orchestral soundtrack. The game also includes Joy-Con 2 mouse controls and a brand-new GameChat feature that puts you in the cockpit as your favorite characters from the Star Fox universe.
- A Modernized Adventure: Star Fox is based on the Star Fox 64 game and features a complete visual overhaul that takes full advantage of the power and performance of the Nintendo Switch 2 system. Explore diverse planets and the insides of a nebula within the Lylat System, from the vibrant world of Corneria to the desolate, polluted oceans of Zoness. There are also all-new cinematic cutscenes featuring fully voiced dialogue and never-before-seen mission briefings between stages, where you can learn even more about the characters and worlds that make up the Star Fox universe.
- Intense Space Combat: Hop into your Arwing, a high-performance aerospace fighter, and use laser blasts to take down opposing forces. You can also brake in mid-air to get enemies off your tail (no pun intended), deploy a Boost for added thrust, do a somersault and, of course, pull off barrel rolls to defend against incoming fire.
- New and Returning Game Modes: Star Fox features a variety of different modes, including:
- Campaign Mode: Travel to a wide variety of planets, navigate through asteroid fields and engage in free-flying dogfights. Choose between Easy or Normal difficulty at the start and hone your skills to earn all the medals needed to unlock the Expert setting. The objectives you complete, foes you defeat and other actions you take can alter your route and what you do in each stage. Taking different routes can also affect the stages you encounter on your path through the system, so there’s always a reason to revisit each mission.
- Challenge Mode: Replay stages you’ve cleared and take on a variety of new objectives and challenges, some of which you won’t find in Campaign Mode. Challenges are available in either Normal or Expert difficulty settings.
- Battle Mode: Gather up your crew to compete in all-new 4-vs-4 dogfights, with up to eight players divided between Team Star Fox and Team Star Wolf. This mode features three stages with different objectives: secure control of a designated zone on Corneria, collect energy crystals on Fichina, or retrieve cargo from space pirates in Sector Y. Join team battles online via private matches, or match with players from near and far. With GameShare, up to four players can take to the skies locally or online through GameChat. While GameShare online is only available for Nintendo Switch 2 systems, local GameShare allows sharing of compatible games with both Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch systems.
- Additional Nintendo Switch 2 Features:
- Joy-Con 2 Mouse Controls: If you are playing the game solo in Campaign Mode and/or Challenge Mode, you can swap seamlessly between button and mouse controls with the Joy-Con 2 controller. The mouse control feature allows for more intuitive aiming, and if a friend joins in, either on the same system or through GameShare via GameChat, they can assume gunner duties while you focus on flying (or vice versa!).
- GameChat Character Avatars and AR Filters: Appear as Fox McCloud or any of his crew while chatting with friends using an interactive avatar that mirrors your expressions and movements in GameChat. With the game’s AR Filters, you can also add a pair of Star Fox-like ears or a Falco-inspired beak that moves when you talk.
Are you ready to blast off for Corneria and save the Lylat System? Squad up for Star Fox on Nintendo Switch 2 June 25.
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It looks really really good. But I have mixed feelings on some of the characters designs and the fact that it’s another starfox 64 remake.
Everyone who clowned on Nate the Hate looking pretty dumb
@Morons
No, people clowned on him for not taking accountability when he’s wrong and blaming everyone but himself when he does get things wrong which is like 90% of the time. People tout him like he’s a god of leakers.
What he said. He still believes the game still exists and “Timing for reveal was off the mark & wrong. That’s a miss by me.”
I think thats called – taking accountability
Well I mean he’s a leaker. When things “go wrong” it’s almost certainly due to the info he received or a change in plans. There’s really nothing to take accountability for, he received information from a genuine source, it either is true or it is not and that really has nothing to do with Nate. He’s not a “god of leakers”, he’s just someone who clearly has actual sources.
As always, just don’t get so emotional about leaks. Things are only confirmed when Nintendo confirms them.
Why are they dumb? He predicted a new Star Fox game announced last month. Instead, we got a Star Fox 64 remake announced this month. Major L for Nate.
Nate claimed that a new Star Fox game is in development for a June release, intended as a “classic style” revival for the new Nintendo console.
If its a remake….. guess what. Its still a new game.
Keep holding that L.
It’s not a new game. It’s a remake.
Funny how he said it’s a remake of OoT and NOT Star Fox. And got the month wrong.
🤓
Remakes are built from the ground up. They’ve added multiplayer and more story.
Therefore, its a new game.
Lets be straight. Nintendo clearly pushed it back a week.
What part of this is challenging for you ?
10 years since the last star fox game, which was also a star fox 64 remake. Really hope this is just a medium to test the waters for an fully original title, and that we don’t wait another 1-2 console generations for another remake
Yeah me too. Many people in the comments on YouTube saying that Nintendo has run out of ideas for a new game instead of a remake.
That’s what I think they are doing
Indeed. It looks like they’re a mix of the puppets used for the SNES game box art with a dose of realism- I get what they were trying to go for but something seems… off about it. Falco’s not even wearing boots- his talons are exposed, that’s the thing that really creeps me out.
To be fair, over half the Starfox series is remakes. 64 is a remake of the original, 64 DS is a remake of 64, Starfox Command reuses the gameplay of Starfox 2, and Starfox LCD was a downgraded Starfox. I’m not sure about Zero, but I heard its story was just Starfox 64 again.
I’m not counting Dinosaur Planet or Guard for obvious reasons.
I like Starfox 64, my issue here is that anyone familiar with the original or anyone good at games for that matter will beat the game in no time..
There should be extra levels, extra difficulty mode, enemies/bosses that are less predictable. But it’s Nintendo, if anything they’ll probably give items to make it easier..
If there was an extra mode that acted like a sequel on top of this, now that would’ve been really great. As it is though it looks pretty good I guess, just too samey.
If difficulty sounds like an issue for you, then play on Expert mode.
I have some gripes with it being a remake too, but at least this time they’re making it more cinematic with deeper character interactions than the original. It’s also super cool visually.
Was really annoyed at first that it’s a remake but I think this is to get people excited about the franchise again. It does look really good.
A Star Fox 64 remake was not on my 2026 bingo card. I’ll take it, but like some people have already mentioned, I’m sort of disappointed it’s another remake of Star Fox 64. Anyone who has played the original will easily clear the game quick. I hope they at least come up with DLC content to add more variety.
Same my friend.
Yes me too.
A 4th Star Fox 64 remake? And it’s just the same exact levels but with HD visuals and cutscenes added??
I’ve never been a Nintendo doomer but this feels like a really bad sign. This is feels like the epitome of, “We have no new ideas.” Seriously, it’s a short game by design (which worked for it’s time and platform) but that will be very noticeable in 2026… and they seem to be solving this issue by saying, “Let’s just add cutscenes to pad the short runtime.”
I think they remade 64 because it was the most iconic star fox game and it was the safest bet to take. It depends on the price for me. I want to pick this up, but I just hope that it’s not 70$.
Probably $70 for the digital version, $80 for physical.
And I gotta say, this AAA dev decision makes me think there’s actually a possibility now that Nintendo would actually remake OoT in 2 parts.
Ok, ranting over.
I was wrong btw. It’s up for preorder on the eshop and it’s $50 digital, $60 physical
Looks like it’s $50 digital, and $60 physical according to the website. Not too bad
Vamos a bailar al compás del fox!!!
And you know what would have been cooler? A Kid Icarus Uprising remake getting this treatment.
Kid Icarus can go to hell, star fox for the win!!!
I mean I guess he did since he went to close to the sun and his wax wings melted.
Frostie, you don’t need to reference the Greek myth. In the Kid Icarus games, there are literally levels in Hell. In fact the first game is you starting the game in hell and climbing out of it and, infamously, the first levels are like the hardest in the entire game.
But Uprising was so much better than Star Fox 64. It’s only weakness was it’s touchscreen controls which could easily been fixed in a port. Oh, and it’s only been released ONCE on the 3DS. Not 4 (arguably 5 times) like Star Fox 64.
Uprising better than fucking Star Fox 64? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You gotta share whatever the hell you’re smoking.
It’s not that hard to understand. It’s a rail shooter followed by a foot segment followed by a boss fight. Pair that with better and more characters, better banter, multiple weapons and weapon classes with unique drops and a decent “forging” system…. yeah. Way better than an arcade rail shooter than can be beaten in one sitting.
I think Nintendo iso ing to shorter games that are cheaper as well as big titles ie the new splatoon and this which will probably be 50 bux digital
This isn’t a smaller budget game, even though the main campaign is short. Heck, they’re even dropping AI Starfox filters for online with it. It’ll be a full price Switch 2 game… maybe even MKW tier. I’m guessing $70 for digital, $80 for physical but really, if it was $10 cheaper than my prediction then that would be the absolute lowest it could launch at.
From what I’m seeing it’s already been confirmed to be $50 digital, $60 physical.
Well, I was wrong. It’s on the eshop now for preorder for $50.
Bro see, I know Nintendo like the back of my hand, I’m telling u there going for smaller budget games and then they’ll drop a triple a title full price every now and again
Maybe. But I don’t think that’s exactly the case with Star Fox. There’s no way they’re putting all this work into just a $50 remake. I think given the new plain “Star Fox” title, Fox’s appearance in the SMG movie and rumors of a Star Fox movie… they seem to be set on rebooting the franchise. Honestly, I doubt they’re even going to wait for the sales to come in for the game… they’re probably making the sequel right now using all the assets they built for the remake release. I think they are making some big bets on Star Fox becoming the next big Nintendo franchise to join Mario, Zelda, etc
Yeah definitely, they’re trying to get people familiar with the franchise again and using the new overhauled graphics on the remake allows them to build capital while saving as much money as possible I expect another fully priced new starfox this generation cycle
Absolutely agree
The game looks really decent with new approaches but not really feeling it on the realistic designs.
Wow they really are out of ideas, huh?
Pros:
-FINALLY, another Star Fox game after a decade, after Zero was mediocre at best
-These graphics might be among the best we’ve ever seen from a Nintendo-developed game- to the point where I question how it’s running on Switch 2
-Battle Mode looks fun as hell, 4v4 matches with different objectives than only deathmatch
-AR avatars that could get me to actually use the camera functionality
-Looking at its store page it lists for $50 (and presumably will be $60 for physical), which is cheaper than I expected
Cons:
-It’s Star Fox 64… again
-Something about the hyper-realistic designs of the characters feels off… almost uncanny-valley levels of off.
-Doesn’t seem to be free-for-all multiplayer mode, only team-based; also, only 3 maps?
There’s nothing here that I don’t think post-launch updates can’t fix, like adding more multiplayer maps or modes. I’m looking forward to getting into the pilot’s seat again after nearly 10 years.
A Remake of Star Fox… again? Not going to buy it. These remakes nonsense is getting out of hand. And Falco‘s legs look awful.
Why are you looking at falco’s legs?
Because it is a part of the whole character and it looks disgusting!!!
Nate was not right, he had mentioned a “new” Starfox, but here it is just yet another remake… if he had talked about a remake instead of a new game, he would have been right, and he was also wrong about the date and the way it would be released (which I already found absurd…)
Coming back to the game, I wasn’t expecting this and honestly, I don’t like it… it looks like Nintendo is testing the waters for a new game or they are just pleasing a few “fans”…
It’s mostly a way to introduce the franchise to a new audience due to the movie.
But that begs the question: why didn’t they use the movie design to begin with, instead of the godawful puppet designs from way back when?
The OG game came out 30 years ago. You guys understand that the target audience for this release is modern gamers in their teens and not the people that played the original, right? Stop whining about everything.
And you are well aware that the tastes of teenagers 30 years ago are different from those of today, aren’t they?
That’s exactly the point why a remake is needed. Because Star Fox 64 is not on par with modern releases. Heck all of the N64/PS1 games have aged like milk and are barely playable. No one except of retro enthusiasts or people who grew up with them would play them in their original form.
“…aged like milk and are barely playable.”
Ladies and Gentlemen… we found a troll!
Then you must think only the graphics matter because they said the level design is the same and the controls are also clearly the same if you can play it with a N64 controller.
I don’t love but don’t hate the fact this is a remake. The last remake was over a decade ago and this is by far the most they’ve ever done in terms of changing up presentation and whatnot. However, the designs really do not gel with me and I think expanding on something like Starfox Assault with modern technology would’ve been better. Overall, Starfox is my favorite 64 game. but even if this game is a perfect remake I doubt it’ll gain that big of a following that the franchise can see a revival in the way Pikmin did. An on-rails shooter no matter how good does not typically have the staying power or playtime in the modern market that’ll make people latch onto the series in my opinion. Pikmin, mentioned earlier, changed the gameplay a lot in the fourth entry, but particularly in a way that made it more accessible and fun for newcomers. I feel Starfox needs similar treatment, I certainly don’t hate this announcement, I don’t love it, like I said I love the OG but $60 physical sounds kinda steep. Branding it as just Starfox will be good for sales in regards to people who learned about Fox from the movie, but even though I hope it does well sales-wise I’m not sure it will.