Nintendo is out here trying to finesse the community with this new Star Fox remake that dropped on June 24, 2026. They are asking for $50 for the digital version and a straight-up disrespectful $60 if you want the actual physical cartridge. For sixty dollars, you expect a game that keeps you hooked for weeks, but this campaign is so short you can wrap the whole thing up in one to two hours. It is the same old rail-shooter from back in the day, just wrapped in high-end graphics and some uncanny-looking photorealistic animal models.

The story is the exact same one they have been reheating since the 90s. Fox McCloud is trying to run his dad's old mercenary crew three years after some fake friend betrayed his father and handed him over to Dr. Andross. They turned the classic text boxes into fully animated mini-movies, but once the nostalgia wears off, you realize you are playing a game that is over before your pizza delivery even gets cold.

And let us talk about how they did Fox's face. When the trailer dropped, fans were clowning his look all over the internet. Even his original character designer—who did not even get a check for this remake—said he looked better in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. On top of that, the cockpit lighting is terrible. It casts this gross green glow on Fox's face the entire time you are flying, making him look sick instead of heroic.

To try and cover up how short the game is, Nintendo wants you to play it over and over again to find secret paths so you can get the "true" ending. They claim this quadruples the runtime, but nobody wants to grind through the same short levels four times just to get a complete story.

Then they got this weird cooperative mode that is pure garbage. Instead of just letting a second player aim with a joystick like they did in Donkey Kong Bananza, they made it so you have to split your Joy-Cons. One person has to steer the ship while the other person uses mouse-style controls to shoot lasers. It is completely awkward and ruins the flow of the game just for the sake of a useless gimmick.

If you want to play the 4v4 Battle Mode, you can forget about sitting on the couch with your homies because there is no local split-screen on the same system. You have to go online to capture points and collect meteorite energy. They did add a webcam feature where you can raise your eyebrows or puff your cheeks to make your character do the same in GameChat—like making Slippy Toad inflate his chin—but that is just a flashy distraction from a game that lacks real depth.