Star Fox is the Switch 2’s most impressive visual showcase yet

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The biggest Switch 2 exclusives so far have largely been about scale. Mario Kart World introduced a wide open continent to race across, Donkey Kong Bananza let you smash basically everything around you, and Pokopia brought an expansive Minecraft-style creative experience to the Pokémon universe. Star Fox is different. A remake of a Nintendo 64 game, Star Fox is an on-rails shooter, with tightly choreographed action and spectacular set-pieces. This more linear structure has let the game’s designers craft what is perhaps the best-looking game yet for the Switch 2. Considering that Star Fox is at its best when it makes you feel like you’re right in the middle of a gorgeous sci-fi movie, those visual flourishes make a big difference.

Star Fox follows the same basic blueprint of the game it’s based on, Star Fox 64. The game has you taking control of an anthropomorphic fox pilot...

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