Nintendo's New Switch 2 StarFox Feels Like the Game I Always Wanted to Play

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I played the new Switch 2 remake for a little while and it's a pretty fantastic do-over.

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The feelings are familiar. The characters, the planets, the arrival: skimming over a water-covered planet. I've played StarFox in all its previous iterations on Nintendo consoles, but my hour or so playing the new Switch 2 version ahead of its release on June 25 made me smile like a kid.

I also got a wakeup call when I told a younger CNET colleague about playing StarFox, and they asked me, "What's StarFox?" I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The Nintendo game reemerges with the regularity of a comet. The last StarFox game on the...

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