How Star Fox Zero Made Me Lose My Faith

I love how Scott tells this story like an old war veteran

I was a devout Christian before Star Fox Zero so I heavily relate to Scott’s story.

Those were dark times indeed.

I was wondering what the Scott the Woz equivalent of “Shenmue 3 is a terrible game , and I wasted my life “ would be like.

When you don’t feel like a Star Fox, but feel like a loser.

It’s crazy a year and a half into the Wii U’s lifetime is already considered it’s later years.

The star fox series is like if Nintendo owned a gold mining company but they only dug up the limestone

Scott became a Nintendo-atheist?

Btw: Kamiya didn't worked on Star Fox Zero since he was busy with Scalebound Which got cancelled

Finally, a review that's pretty much 1:1 how I felt on StarFox Zero, and StarFox as a whole. Zero really was Nintendo doing its thing, but at its worst. I'd love to see Platinum make a StarFox game with full creative control. I can see them doing a lot better.

Looking back at those years, I'm kinda grateful I had a 3DS instead of a Wii U.

This is so accurate, man. I remember being in college in 2014, watching Nintendo's E3 Digital Presentation in the computer lab during a class. It was so good. Even if no one around me cared about Nintendo games at the time, the time between E3 2014 and E3 2015 was so good! Smash & Splatoon arrived, Mario Maker was on the horizon... and then E3 2015 was like watching all that momentum crash into a brick wall. All that excitement was gone. Star Fox Zero didn't look great in previews. I got to demo it in the cool Arwing demo booth they brought to several conventions, and even in that kind of environment it just didn't impress. When it finally released, I beat the game, boxed it up, and have never looked back. I want nothing more than to see a new, original, good Star Fox game again. I wouldn't mind Zero being so short if I actually enjoyed it, but man... I didn't.

Star fox: Zero faith

I felt the same way at the time. Not only because of Star Fox, but also because of Color Splash and Federation Force. It wasn't just because we didn't have many great games to play, but these three games specifically made me feel like Nintendo just would absolutely NOT do what people wanted. All three are games from franchises we were begging for, but without anything people actually wanted. Star Fox Zero? Yet another retelling of the first with gimmicky controls. With Paper Mario, they continued the formula of the widely criticized Sticker Star. Metroid, they made a multiplayer spin-off for a handheld after 5 years of nothing following Other M's mixed reception. It almost felt like Nintendo was trying to upset fans on purpose. Nintendo frequently does odd things, but at that point in time, those odd things were almost all Nintendo fans had, and it sucked. The fact that they confirmed Zelda was basically the only game for E3 that year didn't help. I remember going into E3 kinda on autopilot, thinking "Hey, Zelda's gotta be good at least, right?" and I was blown away. I still think Breath of the Wild was the turning point for Nintendo after the Wii U. The buzz was insane, it had been a long time since Nintendo showed anything that grabbed people like that, and they were able to keep that hype going until the Switch's announcement and release.

i remember at Nintendo NY when they had this huge elaborate arwing cockpit chair so you could play the game on the big screen, and every person who tried it couldnt beat the demo. The attendant was kinda tired of seeing everyone get so confused, and i remember when i tried it out and beat it he just looked me dead in the eye and went "you did it." and gave me a star fox patch. i did not buy the game.

This Scott guy sure seems to have a lot of negative feelings towards Nintendo's game output in 2015 Maybe he should do a 3-part series delving into that Maybe see a therapist about it

14:20 I find it kind of odd of Scott to skim over the 3DS’s side of the story in 2016, Federation Force very notably contributed to the doom and gloom that year while Robobot was probably the high point.

Scott, how could 2016 be a bad year for Nintendo when it had Yo-kai Watch 2?!

2:00 It’s true the speculation and hype for Smash 4 was some of the most fun I ever had on the internet. The posts of the day, constant discussions, wishlists and the reactions to new fighters was perfect

The marketing for Starfox Zero vs the actual game was such a whiplash, They did awesome looking cel shaded animations & even some jim henson puppets (featuring iwata miyamoto & Reggie), But then it comes out with no multyplayer, mandatory gamepad controls & the story is just 64 again (right after 64 3DS!) Hope Nintendo gets Starfox in some passionate hands, untill then "a fox in space" will atleast give us our fix (storywise atleast)