User Reviews

I remember how it felt to be playing this for the first time many-a-moon ago on my sweet Super Nintendo where I knew it as "Starwing." I thought it was so much epic fun as you spiralled and dodged your way through those wonderfully trippy terrestrial and interstellar polygonal environments and blasted away endless enemy ships, I thought the whole thing was so glorious and thrilling to play, and the music was excellent and engaging and it really made you want to keep playing and kicking ass! I loved the instantly appealing cartoony faces and silly-sounding voices of the fox, eagle, frog and rabbit as they constantly popped up and gave pointers and reminded you if you were accidentally shooting them! I thought it was very different and good solid gaming experience and I wasn't even into shooters, platformers and RPGs were more my thing but this game was brilliant to me and I still have that fond childhood viewpoint of it whenever I'll see it around on the net these days. Times may have changed a lot and the style of the game is now antiquated, but I still find that the game today remains effective and still has a considerable wow factor and there's still a lot to like about it, although the graphics are not exactly detailed whatsoever or textured; there's still something unique and special about its visuals and the atmosphere despite the limitations, what still remains is a fun action rail-shooter that's quite unlike any other. When you look at it today, or at least when its fans do, you can still see how it was one of those games that were a big revolutionary step at the time, this much hyped game really did deliver the first 3-dimensional adventure on a Nintendo console, which it accomplished through a special FX chip that was built into the cartridge that showcased amazing and unheard of polygonal graphics for the system. This is one challenging and addictive video game that deserves to be rediscovered and enjoyed to this day. Some games will live forever as classics and to me this is definitely one of them. "Good bye!" (Or is it "Good luck"?) x

Starfox is a great gem of classic gaming, the graphics are amazing with the early type of 3D used and the polygon graphics really make the game-play effective. The game's name was changed to Starwing in the UK because of another game using the title of Starfox on another console. The game has you playing as Fox McCloud who is the leader of Team Starfox, a group of animals that fly in high-tech spacecrafts doing missions for General Pepper in the Lylat System,. The villain Andross is on planet Venom and you're mission is to assault planet Venom and defeat Andross, at the start of the game you have three routes to choose from. Picking one of them begins the game and you go through that route to Planet Venom. The game-play is fun and easy to pick up since before you start you get a control select option and you can pick a training mission. You fly through levels shooting the enemy and dodging various obstacles that are in your way, you're partners also help out by shooting various enemies but you also need to help them when they're under attack. When you reach the end of a level you encounter a boss, defeat the boss and you progress to the next level of the route you chose.

Starfox (Starwing) is a great classic on the SNES that doesn't disappoint with the action and skillful levels. Check this out. 10/10