Star Fox on Switch 2, Reviewed: Nintendo's Remake Nostalgia Works. Is It a Trend?

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Nintendo's remake also raises the question, with Ocarina of Time next on deck: is this the future of how we'll endlessly revisit all our games?

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Games come out, and time goes by. Movies age. Books age. We all age.

But Star Fox is back on the Nintendo Switch 2, and it's a loving remake. Definitely not a new Star Fox, though. The $50 game is a gorgeous graphic overhaul, with new cutscenes, new challenge modes, new multiplayer modes…and the same beat-for-beat level design as 1997's Star Fox 64, included for "free" with the subscription-based Nintendo 64 Classics app on the Switch already.

After playing it for an hour or two...

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