♪ (old-school video game music) ♪
- "Star Fox Zero." I've never heard of this before.
- I don't know. I feel like I've heard of it,
but I'm not entirely sure. I know I've never played it.
I can tell you that.
- Oh, Star Fox.
Man, I haven't played this in a long time.
- Oh, nice! I'm a big Star Fox fan.
- Oh, I remember this! Oh my god, is this a new game?
- I've only ever played the one on the Nintendo 64.
- I'm a '90s kid, so Nintendo 64.
Star Fox 64, I would destroy.
But this is obviously the updated version.
- I loved the original Star Fox. Let's go.
I have not played this one.
"Do a barrel roll!"
- Yes, the whole-- what is it-- The Lylat System?
- You know, the old Star Fox, this is just like memory lane right here.
(hologram static)
- "General Pepper."
- (Fox) Urgent message from General Pepper.
- This is, like, what I remember. The intro screen.
- (Gen. Pepper) We're under attack from Andross' army!
- We're under attack.
- (Gen. Pepper) We need your help immediately!
- Got it.
- (Fox) We'll take the job.
Andross won't be getting his way this time.
- (announcer) Good luck. - There we go.
- Corneria, okay.
- "Enter Star Fox." All right, let's do this.
I'll barrel roll the shit outta this thing.
(starships glide) - Oh yeah, this looks amazing.
All Star Fox games start off like this.
- It looks beautiful!
- "Hurry to Corneria City." Okay.
- I gotta get this controls down.
All right, lasers.
- Let's get the hang of flying first.
- You have to shoot. There we go.
(lasers blasting) - Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em!
There we go. Come on.
It's all right. I can make this happen.
- What is that? I don't know what that is.
Oh, I'm getting shot from behind.
- The way it glides, it's the same.
The 64, like how you're going over and under.
- It's familiar but it's still different.
(lasers blast)
- (Fox) We're entering Corneria... - And apparently, me going like this
is totally gonna help me navigate.
- This is bringing back a lot of memories and frustration!
- Let's go!
- (Slippy) Follow me. - Let's go.
(lasers blast)
- (Fox) Slippy, get back here!
- Slippy, Slippy always get into trouble.
- I think I remember Slippy was always causing trouble
in the last game too.
- I remember the little rings that you'd fly through.
- (Slippy) Whoa! - Okay.
- (Slippy) Watch out, Fox! - Shoot.
- (Slippy) Use your boost. - I'm trying.
There we go.
♪ (adventure music) ♪
I'm trying to follow my friend over there.
- (Slippy) Fox, help! - Gotta get this.
- (Slippy) I'm being chased! - There we go.
- (Slippy) I'm being chased! - Well, fix it yourself.
- Get off of him.
- (Slippy) Not you too, Fox! - Sorry.
- It definitely feels a lot like the original,
where crashing into stuff hurt a little bit.
- (Slippy) You'll be okay, right Fox? - (chuckling)
It's so hard. I can't seem to understand this controller.
- It feels super similar to what I remember
just because you're kind of flying around
and obviously you don't want to hit buildings, which I do.
- Is there...? Oh, I did something good.
(shooting lasers rapidly)
- Ah, he got me. Oh, what's this?
Oh!
- (trooper) We're taking the coastline. Keep up if you can.
- Gotta get these.
There we go. Get the mines.
Oh, now I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of it again.
- The mechanics are really darn close.
- No, you don't.
Barrel roll that baby. Barrel roll that baby, yeah.
- Am I supposed to be hitting everything, or is that just extra points?
- (Falco) Looks like they sent a welcoming party.
Should we say hello? - (sighs) There's a lot going on.
I don't want to say hello. (laughs)
- (Falco) ... let's take the back way. - Okay!
- I completed the pha-- okay. I completed a phase.
- "Phase 1 Complete." All right.
- (Peppy) Is everyone all right? - Yay, I completed phase one.
All right, so I didn't die and everybody seems okay.
- (Gen. Pepper) Star Fox, I'm glad you made it.
- Me too! - (Gen. Pepper) ... on the top floor.
You must help! - Okay.
- (Fox) Switching to all-range mode.
- All right, all-range mode?
- "Protect General Pepper." You got it, okay.
- (Falco) Let's swat some flies!
- (parroting) Let's swat some flies, boys!
- (Falco) Think you can take down ten of 'em, Fox?
- No. I'm just trying to stay alive.
Don't tell me to take down anything.
- Ten? I gotta take down ten.
- So just kill all the little guys. Okay.
(lasers blasting)
- Let's shoot this guy.
(lasers blasting)
- (Peppy) Don't get greedy, Fox! - There we go.
Now we're starting to get 'em.
- (Falco) Hey, you're being tailed. Try doing a somersault.
- Oh, here we go. Mm-hmm!
- (Falco) ... doing a somersault. - Oh, how do I do a somersault?
(gasps) Oh.
I think I remember that from the older game.
- (Falco) Find your own targets, Fox!
- (scoffs) Sorry, man!
- Yeah! I got you.
My score, two outta ten. I'm so proud.
- Okay. Wait!
I just tra-- what is this? It's like a chicken dinosaur.
- (Katie) So when you press A, you transform your Arwing into a walker.
- Oh, okay.
- (Katie) If you press A, you can actually try out
a different combat mode. - Press A.
Oh! I walk. Ha ha.
- I'm gonna take a little different approach here.
- Die! Die! Die!
Four! Okay, six more.
- (Caiman) He shot down that many already?
- Kid, shut up.
"Shot down that many already." You know what they're really thinking:
"You suck. Hurry up." (giggling)
- I'm just gonna keep charging up. It's better than having to aim.
- There is a lock-on feature, so it actually does help a little bit.
- Right.
(lasers blasting)
One more, come on.
- Yeah! Oh my god. I am so proud.
Is that my ten? Yes.
- (Caiman) Retreat! - Woo-hoo, I got them.
- (Caiman) Let the bugs handle the rest!
- That was actually really fun.
You know, it definitely brings back some of the nostalgia of it.
- (Falco) Hey, something's coming from above.
- Oh man, the boss.
- Oh goodness.
So it looks like the mothership is landing.
- (Granga) I'll squash you like the insects you are!
- "Weaponized Flying Fortress: Androsa."
- (Fox) Target mode engaged. Let's take down that enemy ship.
- All right, he's mine. Let's do this.
- Let's go, Star Fox.
- So it looks like there's some target deal--
(gasps) Ohhh, okay, so I have to take down their weapons first.
- I'm assuming we're gonna be hitting the targets.
(strong laser blast)
Oh, are they gonna be hitting us?
(lasers blasting)
- Okay, so we gotta use-- it looks like we might have to use
first-person for this mode.
- Whoa!
Oh, that's cool. That's so much easier.
- All right, shooting the things with the red arrows.
Now, there's more that you can see on...
Okay, from that view I could see the other ones.
- Wait, there's some on the bottom? Okay.
- Come on. Come on, baby. Come on, come on, come on.
- (Granga) We're not going to fall that easily!
- Aaah, speed up! (laughing)
- (Peppy) ...use your motion controls.
- There's one down. Woo, goodness!
- (whimpering) - (Peppy) C'mon, Fox. Don't give up!
- I'm just crashing into them. Hopefully, I kill them.
- (Granga) ...right back?! - Oh, that was it?
- (Peppy) Use your motion control!
♪ (adventure music) ♪
- Did I get it? Oh my gosh! (laughing)
(lasers blasting)
- (Granga) Curse you, Star Fox! - All right.
- All right, Star Fox. - (Granga) ... next time!
- That was good.
They did a good job with this.
- Wait, what am I supposed to be hitting?
Oh, I think I've got to go inside.
All right, let's do this trench run.
Use the Force, Luke.
- (Granga) They breached the hull! Don't let them in!
(alarms blare) (lasers blasting)
- All right, I gotta figure out what I'm supposed to shoot next.
I think I'm getting it. I think I'm getting it.
I'm using the-- I'm tilting the gamepad in order tilt up and shoot.
(tensely) I gotta shoot the last one!
Got it.
All right, now I gotta fly my boy out of here.
Ah, it's on auto-controls.
- (Granga) My emperor!
I failed you! - Yeah, that's right you failed.
I got you. Darn monkey.
♪ (victorious music) ♪
All right.
- My boy Star Fox, mission complete.
There we go.
- Hurray, I beat it! (laughing)
Mission complete!
- I remember going to my friend's house
and we'd play all the video games and I'd be like, "Can we play Star Fox?
Can we play Star Fox?"
And this just brought back a lot of memories.
- It felt like I was playing the original with just some updated graphics
and I love that.
That was really taking me back to my childhood.
- The graphics looked beautiful. It was so smooth.
It still kept that same feel, the same art style,
but kind of brought into the new generation.
I had a blast!
No pun intended. (laughing)
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- Bye guys! Do a barrel roll!