Star Fox Zero

sligeach · 28-03-2016 7:35pm

Star Fox Guard Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=392lf7OzC7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=392lf7OzC7E

And details of amiibo functionality.

http://nintendoeverything.com/falco-amiibo-unlocks-the-black-arwing-in-star-fox-zero-multi-lock-on-take-three-times-the-damage/

Happy Easter everyone!

sligeach · 30-03-2016 9:04am

Star Fox Zero: First Print Edition is available for pre order at GAME for £50 plus £3 postage. That's nearly €68 when converted. Not sure why I'm acknowledging them seeing as I despise them. And I ordered Devil's Third from them almost 2 weeks ago and it still hasn't arrived. Last game I ordered from them a couple of years ago didn't turn up either and I swore I'd never deal with them again. Anyway.......

http://www.game.co.uk/en/star-fox-zero-first-print-edition-only-at-game-1122943

sligeach · 30-03-2016 4:35pm

Star Fox Zero | Game Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0BLjwtdpFA

Pac1Man · 31-03-2016 8:47pm

That has Platinum Games written all over it! Can't wait.

sligeach · 05-04-2016 1:21pm

Star Fox Zero - Let's back up the squadron (Wii U)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A04ZN4qA740

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A04ZN4qA740

Still waiting on a good deal for the First Print Edition and there's less than 3 weeks til release.

sligeach · 05-04-2016 7:23pm

We Played a TON of Star Fox Zero - IN-DEPTH Hands-On Preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2K0xWVWOXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2K0xWVWOXA

Seems mostly positive but the controls are still an issue.

CiDeRmAn · 05-04-2016 10:34pm

I can't wait now, about 2 weeks out isn't it?
Fingers crossed Game Collection won't take too long shipping it.

EJ22 · 06-04-2016 12:58pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I can't wait now, about 2 weeks out isn't it?
Fingers crossed Game Collection won't take too long shipping it.

Just to give you an idea on how their shipping is as I ordered Twilight Princess HD amiibo bundle from them, it was shipped on the Wednesday where as release was on the Friday, I received it via An Post on the Monday however, I know of one other user who ordered the same bundle via TGC but got it sent to parcel motel instead and he got it late friday afternoon instead.

I'm looking forward to this game and seeing as amazon.co.uk never seemed to get the first print edition in stock, I'm glad I bit the bullet and ordered it from Amazon.fr when it went up there. 67 quid for it delivered is grand, despite definitely not getting it on release date.

CiDeRmAn · 06-04-2016 1:16pm

A couple of days after release is fine, it's not like I haven't got a multitude of games baying for attention from the pile as it stands!

Cantstandsya · 06-04-2016 3:15pm

sligeach wrote: »

Star Fox Zero: First Print Edition is available for pre order at GAME for £50 plus £3 postage. That's nearly €68 when converted. Not sure why I'm acknowledging them seeing as I despise them. And I ordered Devil's Third from them almost 2 weeks ago and it still hasn't arrived. Last game I ordered from them a couple of years ago didn't turn up either and I swore I'd never deal with them again. Anyway.......

http://www.game.co.uk/en/star-fox-zero-first-print-edition-only-at-game-1122943

According to that the First Print Edition is exclusive to themselves and nintendo.co.uk in the UK... Hence it never showing up on amazon.co.uk I guess.

I was caught napping and missed it on amazon.fr so I've taken the chance and ordered it with Game. Hopefully I'll get it sometime before June.

sligeach · 06-04-2016 6:21pm

Is the exclusivity deal with GAME not limited to the high street? I've ordered previous games that were supposedly GAME exclusive from other .co.uk websites. Maybe they were just UK in domain name but operating from another country.

Edit: Coolshop have a UK domain but send their games from Denmark usually. But there only recently I ordered Devil's Third from GAME and of course it took well over a week to arrive but interestingly it shipped from Sweden.

EJ22 · 10-04-2016 1:49pm

Star Fox Zero - Foxy Fox Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAn5AgdPkCo

Just going to leave this here...

sligeach · 10-04-2016 2:15pm

There was a reason I didn't post that.....

Mr E · 10-04-2016 2:19pm

On the latest IGN Nintendo Voice Chat, they did a 30 minute preview. Largely positive. Controls have a bit of a learning curve, but they seemed to overall like it. I expect a score between 7.5 and 8.5 from them. Not the disaster they were expecting.

Cantstandsya · 10-04-2016 3:19pm

EJ22 wrote: »

Just going to leave this here...

For some reason that reminds me a little of the old (very old) NES/SNES ads. I like it.

sligeach · 10-04-2016 5:50pm

Mr E wrote: »

On the latest IGN Nintendo Voice Chat, they did a 30 minute preview. Largely positive. Controls have a bit of a learning curve, but they seemed to overall like it. I expect a score between 7.5 and 8.5 from them. Not the disaster they were expecting.

While I very much enjoy the IGN Nintendo Voice Chats, I find that they're always in a rush to be at another meeting. Yet their site output is bare bones, especially when you look at blog sites that do so much more. And they for the most part take ages to upload them to Youtube, sometimes not at all. I'd love to know what they do every day. IGN used to be my number 1 site back in the day of Matt Casamassina, now I rarely if ever go to their site, only to watch their podcasts and visit the Wii/Wii U forums.

murphyebass · 10-04-2016 5:55pm

I really want this day one but the controls talk is scaring me. If this is motion based crap I'll be sorely disappointed.

sligeach · 11-04-2016 3:29pm

The end credits pay tribute to Iwata.

MilesMorales1 · 11-04-2016 6:26pm

sligeach wrote: »

The end credits pay tribute to Iwata.

I wasn't ready for these feels

Mr E · 12-04-2016 3:29pm

Famitsu Scores are in.

Star Fox Zero (Wii U) – 9/9/8/9
Star Fox Guard (Wii U) – 7/8/8/8

http://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-review-scores-41216/

CiDeRmAn · 12-04-2016 5:08pm

Mr E wrote: »

Famitsu Scores are in.

Star Fox Zero (Wii U) – 9/9/8/9
Star Fox Guard (Wii U) – 7/8/8/8

http://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-review-scores-41216/

Well colour me impressed with the main games scores and surprised that a mini game should score so well in pervy Grippy's game.

Not too long now, only 10 days... so, assuming Dark Souls 3 arrives tomorrow, that's 9 days to finish it before Corneria needs my help.... and I've to finish Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 first.... and Arkham Knight....

Bugger...

sligeach · 12-04-2016 6:10pm

Famitsu =

I think the review embargo ends next Wednesday.

Edit: 8p.m PT, 3p.m ET, so early hours of Thursday here, 4a.m. Or probably what it all goes by, midday in Japan.

MilesMorales1 · 12-04-2016 7:01pm

Dark souls 3, mario bros U selects, ratchet and clank and starfox and alienation, then yokai watch, then uncharted...

kevin2me · 12-04-2016 10:33pm

Great Scores in Famsitu. Glad it was well liked.
As StarFox fan id be happy with 8/10, as fanboy in me bring it up to a 9

Looking fwd to both games Gamepad uses.

Cool Article on here too. Good read.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/04/preview_star_fox_guard_just_may_be_the_scariest_game_of_2016

Project Guard could be up there with some of Nintendo like style great mini games. Ive gotten hours fun at house parties with people that never seen Wii U from NintendoLand (AnimalCrossing Game) and Raving Rabbits on the Wii.

murphyebass · 13-04-2016 7:50am

kevin2me wrote: »

Looking fwd to both games Gamepad uses.

Project Guard could be up there with some of Nintendo like style great mini games.

Couldn't disagree with you more on the gamepad usage.

I'd love if all they with the gamepad is off screen play or maybe an inventory at a push.

Unfortunately they seem to be adamant to implement something that such a small minority of their audience want.

As for project guard I'm looking forward to seeing what they've come up with here but wouldn't be holding up much hope of more than a few hours of pick up play and forget about it.

Nice to see a good score though, that's positive.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2016 8:01am

I'm going I can just use the regular controller, and to hell with the motion controls.

murphyebass · 13-04-2016 8:11am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm going I can just use the regular controller, and to hell with the motion controls.

I want to use regular controls but there has been a LOT of motion control talk throughout development of this game which worries me.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2016 9:34am

murphyebass wrote: »

I want to use regular controls but there has been a LOT of motion control talk throughout development of this game which worries me.

Say it ain't so!
It ain't so!
According to this article the motion/gamepad controls can be disabled but you aren't going to be able to hit all the targets, so if you are a 100% kind of completist then you are going to have to live with them.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/06/nintendo_says_that_star_fox_zeros_gyro_controls_can_be_turned_off

Me, not so much, regular controls all the way!

murphyebass · 13-04-2016 9:53am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Say it ain't so!
It ain't so!
According to this article the motion/gamepad controls can be disabled but you aren't going to be able to hit all the targets, so if you are a 100% kind of completist then you are going to have to live with them.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/06/nintendo_says_that_star_fox_zeros_gyro_controls_can_be_turned_off

Me, not so much, regular controls all the way!

Ok I hadn't seen that. Thank god is all I can say.

I just remember seeing pictures of them holding the gamepad up with cockpit view etc.

If it can be turned of that's fantastic news.

Probably should have this preordered but there just still a part of me not ready to pull the trigger on it.

I don't know why but I just don't trust them with it.

Hopefully I'm proven madly wrong and it's a great game.

Being a big starfox64 fanboy I'll always make a comparison to that which is hard to live up to let's be honest.

That said update the graphics and give me more starfox 64 and it'd be a day one purchase all day long!!

Don't get fancy on me Nintendo! Don't make a mess of this!

sligeach · 13-04-2016 9:58am

The file size for Star Fox Zero is 6.2 GB's, with an additional 1.5 MB's needed for installation. Star Fox Guard is 2.1 GB's. I'm surprised at the size of Star Fox Guard.

murphyebass · 13-04-2016 10:11am

sligeach wrote: »

The file size for Star Fox Zero is 6.2 GB's, with an additional 1.5 MB's needed for installation. Star Fox Guard is 2.1 GB's. I'm surprised at the size of Star Fox Guard.

Maybe good news. Maybe a decent amount to it as apposed to a tack on idea

MilesMorales1 · 14-04-2016 6:03pm

TGC says 'awaiting stock/release' thats pretty exciting.

CiDeRmAn · 14-04-2016 6:13pm

Well, we'll all be out of our misery in a week, hopefully Parcel Motel won't screw up and it'll be on my desk here waiting for my next Wednesday!

EJ22 · 14-04-2016 8:36pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Well, we'll all be out of our misery in a week, hopefully Parcel Motel won't screw up and it'll be on my desk here waiting for my next Wednesday!

Hoping Amazon France doesn't take an age to deliver it either tbh, I want my first print edition lol

CiDeRmAn · 15-04-2016 7:53am

EJ22 wrote: »

Hoping Amazon France doesn't take an age to deliver it either tbh, I want my first print edition lol

I'm for the vanilla edition, steelbooks do not rock my world at all.

I just hope that, regardless of how good it is, I can find the time to play it!
Much of the awesomeness on the WiiU has gone unfinished in my house

EJ22 · 15-04-2016 8:14pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm for the vanilla edition, steelbooks do not rock my world at all.

I just hope that, regardless of how good it is, I can find the time to play it!
Much of the awesomeness on the WiiU has gone unfinished in my house

Normally i'm the same, but I had to get the starfox one mainly due to the exclusivity of it honestly. Either way I'm looking forward to the game and can't wait for a few reviews to come out

OwaynOTT · 15-04-2016 9:07pm

I got it because it was in a cardboard box. Love Nintendo cardboard.

jos22 · 15-04-2016 11:07pm

EJ22 wrote: »

Hoping Amazon France doesn't take an age to deliver it either tbh, I want my first print edition lol

think last time I used Amazon France they shipped it out on thurday and had it following Wed

CastorTroy · 15-04-2016 11:22pm

So with Gamestop selling for €64.99 now and the Game price working out at over €60, where is a good place to get this game? May just go with gamestop

MilesMorales1 · 15-04-2016 11:26pm

Might just go with Gamestop. I'd be paying TGC like 40 quid anyway.

EJ22 · 15-04-2016 11:28pm

jos22 wrote: »

think last time I used Amazon France they shipped it out on thurday and had it following Wed

Thanks! last time i ordered from amazon.fr was for my n3ds last year so i can't remember how long it took.

CastorTroy wrote: »

So with Gamestop selling for €64.99 now and the Game price working out at over €60, where is a good place to get this game? May just go with gamestop

if you're looking for the normal edition, thegamecollection are selling it at £29.45 + £2 delivery to ireland directly, otherwise they do deliver to parcel motel as well which would be free delivery from them.

http://www.thegamecollection.net/star-fox-zero-wii-u.html

CastorTroy · 16-04-2016 12:10am

May as well go special edition if I can. was in two minds about getting it but decided I may as well

sligeach · 16-04-2016 1:09am

I'm still looking for a good deal on the First Print Edition. I don't think €65 is good when compared to other bundles that were €50. Gameseek had the solus game for £28, about €37.75 delivered. So even with Star Fox Guard that's €15 and then a steelbook case, is it worth €12? I don't want to pay €65, better Wii U games and bundles were cheaper. I don't like missing out on games but it's the only way to get Star Fox Guard. Nintendo know what they're at.

MilesMorales1 · 16-04-2016 1:10am

Is guard not being released digitally?

jos22 · 16-04-2016 1:14am

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Is guard not being released digitally?

yup the retail version is a download code in a box. the limited edition only way to get a disk based copy of Gaurd

Cantstandsya · 16-04-2016 10:22pm

Just changed my order to Gamestop. More comfortable picking it up in store on the day than relying on Game to send it over from the UK.

65 isn't a great deal but it's acceptable. 80 quid was embarrassing.

sligeach · 16-04-2016 11:16pm

Cantstandsya wrote: »

Just changed my order to Gamestop. More comfortable picking it up in store on the day than relying on Game to send it over from the UK.

65 isn't a great deal but it's acceptable. 80 quid was embarrassing.

It's like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea. They're both, putting it politely w@nk€r$. Is this allowed under EU law, it's like anti competitiveness? Well it must be or it wouldn't be happening. Gamestop in Ireland have been the UK equivalent of GAME on some of these "deals". This isn't by far the worst offender, it seems Nintendo may have set a higher price than usual. Yet Amazon France are selling it for €60.

MilesMorales1 · 16-04-2016 11:18pm

Well I mean, it is technically 2 games and a steelbook. Its not unusual for the price to be higher, blu rays do it all the time.

jos22 · 16-04-2016 11:19pm

sligeach wrote: »

It's like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea. They're both, putting it politely w@nk€r$. Is this allowed under EU law, it's like anti competitiveness? Well it must be or it wouldn't be happening. Gamestop in Ireland have been the UK equivalent on some of these "deals". This isn't by far the worst offender, it seems Nintendo may have set a higher price than usual. Yet Amazon France are selling it for €60.

I believe since that time Nintendo got Slapped with price Fixing fines by EU courts
it was left to each retailer to set the prices.

Cantstandsya · 16-04-2016 11:29pm

sligeach wrote: »

It's like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea. They're both, putting it politely w@nk€r$. Is this allowed under EU law, it's like anti competitiveness? Well it must be or it wouldn't be happening. Gamestop in Ireland have been the UK equivalent on some of these "deals". This isn't by far the worst offender, it seems Nintendo may have set a higher price than usual. Yet Amazon France are selling it for €60.

Yeah I really hate exclusivity deals but I suppose since we're able to buy it in from other EU markets they're not doing anything wrong.

I remember years ago absolutely dying to play Company of Heroes 2 and pre-ordering it in Gamestop. Ending up paying something like 45 quid (it was 25 on amazon.co.uk). I was so desperate to play the game that I forked it over regardless, just to have it day 1... but I promised myself I'd never by from them again. Next week I break that promise :-(

Star Fox Zero

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