Star Fox reveal? Putting together the pieces.
Alright. Over the past year it has been a horrendous battle to try and make some sense of just what the fuck is going through Shigeru Miyamoto's head. We've been getting all this hype since the freaking Wii first came out 3 years ago about how cool a Starfox game would be. Add this to the fact that last year's E3 was sorely disappointing, about 10 articles just this year with news about possible Star Fox games (one of them being a game developer asking for Nintendo to come to his office and point guns at his head and force him to make a new StarFox game...) and you end up with one of the craziest years in history for trying to predict a Starfox game. So, let us take a look at the facts: (In Chronological order)
Miyamoto on future Starfox Wii
Takaya Imamura Interview
Foreign Website claiming a new SF (doesn't pan out, but did prove that the domain name for http://www.starfox.com was renewed just this year after Nintendo had destroyed the domain.)
Infendo has a Source
Dylan Cuthbert on SF
Miyamoto on post-64 Starfox sales
Miyamoto says best is yet to come, and "Me too" for want of a new SF game
Bayonetta and Okami creator Hideki Kamaya Article
Dylan Cuthbert changes his mind?
Former Nintendo employee asserts (rather roughly) that Starfox is coming, and it won't disappoint
Same guy, continuing to assert the same idea 2 days ago
Gamesradar lists Starfox in Top 7 for E3 Speculated games
With that out of the way, here are my thoughts. Ever since the Wii was released Miyamoto has been going on and on about Starfox in one way or another. First he says how he would apply the game to Wii (before the Wii was even on shelves!), then he expresses his frustration with how Starfox games after 64 have done poorly in the market, to finally commented on how his best is yet to come, and he really wants a Starfox Game.
Enough about the big man on campus. On to the developers. I have a bit of a bone to pick with that asshole Cuthbert for his comments about Starfox, but those aside, only 6 months later he comes out with another interview totally contradicting himself, saying he'll make any game Nintendo wants "including Starfox". Seems to me he can't make up his mind.
Most interesting of all was Hideki Kamaya's Tweets after finding out about Miyamoto's love for Starfox. Okami and Bayonetta creator commented that he wants "them to come to Platinum games, point guns at us and tell us to make the next Starfox game" he goes on to talk about how much he has loved Starfox 64 and even gave up on his own space fighter game because he thought Starfox covered it all.
Developers aside, there are also several 'sources' beginning to peek out of hiding to squeak about a new Starfox game and then going into hiding again. The latest from Rick Mears (12 year employee of Nintendo and NCL) quite confidently asserts that there -is- a game, and it -is- going to be at E3, so far as saying that we 'Adventures-haters' won't be disappointed by the new game. Earlier in the year, Infendo had a source saying basically the same things- a travel back to the roots of the series.
Many other journals and articles from around the gaming community have expressed their desire for a new Star Fox game, reaching a pinnacle a few days ago with GamesRadar listing Starfox in the TOP 7 for wanted games at E3 next week. So what does this all amount to?
Miyamoto, nor any Nintendo employee, has ever denied that there could be a Starfox game in the process. If there is, and Mears is correct in assuming it will be 'playable at E3 2010 and in stores for Holiday 2010', then that means Nintendo has been working on it for a great while. Not to mention, that means it has been kept -secret- for a very long time. It all adds up to this next Starfox game either being the biggest and most fundamental kept secret in gaming history, or the most epic fail any gaming company has ever accomplished. And don't forget Rare already made Adventures-- that's gonna be hard to beat.
Miyamoto on future Starfox Wii
Takaya Imamura Interview
Foreign Website claiming a new SF (doesn't pan out, but did prove that the domain name for http://www.starfox.com was renewed just this year after Nintendo had destroyed the domain.)
Infendo has a Source
Dylan Cuthbert on SF
Miyamoto on post-64 Starfox sales
Miyamoto says best is yet to come, and "Me too" for want of a new SF game
Bayonetta and Okami creator Hideki Kamaya Article
Dylan Cuthbert changes his mind?
Former Nintendo employee asserts (rather roughly) that Starfox is coming, and it won't disappoint
Same guy, continuing to assert the same idea 2 days ago
Gamesradar lists Starfox in Top 7 for E3 Speculated games
With that out of the way, here are my thoughts. Ever since the Wii was released Miyamoto has been going on and on about Starfox in one way or another. First he says how he would apply the game to Wii (before the Wii was even on shelves!), then he expresses his frustration with how Starfox games after 64 have done poorly in the market, to finally commented on how his best is yet to come, and he really wants a Starfox Game.
Enough about the big man on campus. On to the developers. I have a bit of a bone to pick with that asshole Cuthbert for his comments about Starfox, but those aside, only 6 months later he comes out with another interview totally contradicting himself, saying he'll make any game Nintendo wants "including Starfox". Seems to me he can't make up his mind.
Most interesting of all was Hideki Kamaya's Tweets after finding out about Miyamoto's love for Starfox. Okami and Bayonetta creator commented that he wants "them to come to Platinum games, point guns at us and tell us to make the next Starfox game" he goes on to talk about how much he has loved Starfox 64 and even gave up on his own space fighter game because he thought Starfox covered it all.
Developers aside, there are also several 'sources' beginning to peek out of hiding to squeak about a new Starfox game and then going into hiding again. The latest from Rick Mears (12 year employee of Nintendo and NCL) quite confidently asserts that there -is- a game, and it -is- going to be at E3, so far as saying that we 'Adventures-haters' won't be disappointed by the new game. Earlier in the year, Infendo had a source saying basically the same things- a travel back to the roots of the series.
Many other journals and articles from around the gaming community have expressed their desire for a new Star Fox game, reaching a pinnacle a few days ago with GamesRadar listing Starfox in the TOP 7 for wanted games at E3 next week. So what does this all amount to?
Miyamoto, nor any Nintendo employee, has ever denied that there could be a Starfox game in the process. If there is, and Mears is correct in assuming it will be 'playable at E3 2010 and in stores for Holiday 2010', then that means Nintendo has been working on it for a great while. Not to mention, that means it has been kept -secret- for a very long time. It all adds up to this next Starfox game either being the biggest and most fundamental kept secret in gaming history, or the most epic fail any gaming company has ever accomplished. And don't forget Rare already made Adventures-- that's gonna be hard to beat.