Star Fox 64 always seemed larger than the boxy CRT television I played it on. Star Fox, a Nintendo Switch 2 remake of the Nintendo 64's 1997 rail shooter, has the same effect. Thrusting beneath tumbling skyscrapers, barrel-rolling between lasers, trying desperately to keep a rival pilot in my crosshairs – it's as if I'm stepping through the screen and into the cockpit, rather than sweatily hammering every button on the handheld.
While Star Fox's arcade-style intensity has aged marvelously over the decades, this remake targets areas that haven't kept as hot. A visual overhaul goes far beyond traditional texture reskins, reimagining war-torn cities and vast space battles with a level of detail the N64 simply couldn't offer, while glossy CG cutscenes turn the original game's barebones connective tissue into a cinematic Top Gun-style action flick. It all makes for a complementary remake, and if you're thinking of jumping in off the back of Fox McCloud's stint in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, I'd recommend starting here instead of the clunkier Star Fox 64 on Switch Online.
