As Star Fox arrives on the Switch 2, critics and fans alike joke and bemoan how many times it's already been remade, or that the whole series is just the same game over and over again. That's a bit ungenerous, like saying that the Zelda games are just the same story (to be fair, that series is essentially about a legend that is retold, but also reinvented each time). Which isn't to say that this new Star Fox isn't a remake, because it is specifically a remake of Star Fox 64 (or Lylat Wars as it was known in PAL territories), which was remade previously for the 3DS as Star Fox 64 3D.
Nintendo, of course, is not the only publisher a bit too complacent with reheating its back catalogue, with Halo also getting a remake this summer while Naughty Dog's done nothing this generation but give its last-gen masterpieces a new lick of paint. But there's almost an audacity in bringing back Star Fox in 2026. An on-rails shooter where you can roll credits in under an hour is as old-school as you can get, even if this remake's new cinematic cutscenes will go some way to beefing up the runtime. Of Nintendo's roster of beloved IPs, it's perhaps the one that's most stuck in time.
