“Longtime Star Fox players know that to reach the secret route on Corneria, you need to successfully kill the bogeys on Falco’s tail and then fly under a group of archways, which will impress Falco and cause him to take you on an alternate path,” Logan Plant wrote in a mostly glowing preview. “This isn’t really hinted at whatsoever in the old script, but now, Falco explicitly tells you that the archways look like a good obstacle course, directly referencing the secret. It’s not a huge deal, and maybe it was overly obtuse before, but it feels a bit less like a special discovery waiting to be found and more like a clearly telegraphed objective.”
The Switch 2 will be just over a year old when Star Fox comes out, and there haven’t been many games that make the most out of the console’s graphical improvements. Star Fox, with its hyper-realistic renderings of furry and feathered hotties, feels like one of the first titles to truly test how good games can look on this new Nintendo console. And the game does look good. It’s really impressive to see an Arwing rendered with detailed panels, rivets, and exhaust ports, instead of the baby-smooth flat surfaces I remember from my youth. But we’ll find out whether this version of Star Fox has more to offer than nostalgia in a shinier and prettier package when the game launches on the Switch 2 on June 25th.