Starfox for the SNES
Ah Yes Starfox, This game is already set in Video Gaming History it was one of the first to use 3D polygons, thoughout almost the whole game. Here is my Review on Starfox for the SNES
First thing when you turn it on is a very omnious sound followed by a few ships being shot at by a giant ship going overhead(Star Wars, anyone?) which eventually shows that its an Attack Carrier and come towards you and fires…..Title Screen: You see STARFOX above the whole team with a spinning Arwing(their ships) behind them. You Press Start and It lets you try the controls schemes(I love that) and then you can choose to go Training or to the Game. The training consists of you flying though hoops and shooting cones. Then the real game comes up. It shows you three routes you can choose, those are difficulties top route is medium, middle is Easy and Bottom is Hard, you always start at Corneria. When it puts you out in the world of starfox it gives you the single laser which if you do certain things can be doubled(and MUCH more effective). You shoot enimies and try not to get killed till the end where a boss comes up(you actually hear some english finally saying ‘Incoming Enemy”) where a new song starts and you battle it until you somehow defeat it, it totals up your score by how many kills you got and you blast off to the next level where you might have to dodge things, or kill GIGANTIC enemies! There are a variety of “Generic Enemies” as I call them. Only difference is what they shoot, some shoot the diamond looking lasers, some shoot little donut looking things at you, and some just simply ram into you(I hate those). The easy route is almost too Easy, The medium is alright and The Hard is actually pretty damn hard.
Because I don’t want to explain EVERY level i’m gonna just review it as a whole. The Controls are god-like. They’re easy to use and you can aim pretty damn good, and Barrell rolling is easy. The Enemies are pretty generic you shoot them, they shoot you they blow up, its the bosses that are awesome each one has a trick to defeating it, Like The Dancing Insector(big ass spider) you shoot its legs out, then you can go for the body. The bosses are one things that make this game great. The soundtrack…Oh my this is one of the best soundtracks ever, especially for an SNES game, I love this soundtrack to death. Gameplay even though its almsot the same thing everytime you’re always entertained somehow like Sector Y its has sticky things you have to Barrell Roll off. The end is epic you fight a full fledged Polygonal faced Andross, and he looks nothing like he does in 64.
This game is really great. I really think you all should Play it
Bottom Line: Great game. Period.
I give Starfox for the SNES a 4.5 out of 5.
