Star Fox

STAR FOX

Star Fox was a new series for Nintendo created during the SNES era that dabbled a bit in the developing 3D technology, and acted as an on-rails shooter where you played as a star fighter pilot fighting his way through a number of space battles. The plot is a sort of "Star Wars with furries," where you follow a team of star fighters led by Fox McCloud as they take down a mad scientist trying to conquer their solar system.

Our main character is Fox, a fox, and his team consists of resident Raphael-type Falco Lombardi, a falcon; the team's tech expert Slippy Toad, a toad; and wise old mentor Peppy Hare, a hare. None of them appear outside of their Arwings, so moveset potential is drastically limited at the moment. That said, the ships come with lasers, bombs, thrusters, and retro rockets, and you can do a barrel roll to defend yourself. I think some of Fox and Falco's moves in Smash pull from these, so there's at least that.

The only main support character is General Pepper, a hound dog and the commander of the Cornerian fleet who hired your team for this job. After that, Andross, a monkey, is the main villain, a mad scientist operating out of the planet Venom. He fights you in the form of a giant polygonal head that spits tiles at you, sucks you in, and shoots laser beams.

All enemies consist of various enemy ships and craft, which are fairly limited in their weaponry so not much there, and a couple creatures. These include the Attack Carrier, the Destructor, the Meteo Crusher, the Slot Machine (yes), the Blade Barrier, the Atomic Base, the Monarch Dodora, the Dancing Insector, the Professor Hanger, the Plasma Hydra, the Spinning Core, the Phantrons, the Metal Smasher, the Galactic Rider, and the Great Commander.

You have a sort of branching order of missions that get you from start to finish. You always start out at Corneria, your home planet, and end at Venom, Andross's base of operations. From there, you can go to Asteroid (an asteroid belt), Space Armada, and Meteor (a meteor). Another route takes you through Sector X, a desert planet called Titania, and Sector Y. The third will take you to the dinosaur-inhabited planet Fortuna, Sector Z, and the factory world Macbeth.

That's about it really. Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

Fox/Falco/Slippy/Peppy: lasers, bombs, barrel roll, rockets, thrusters, shield

Andross: tiles, inhale, lasers

Stages:

Corneria

Venom

Asteroid

Space Armada

Meteor

Sector X

Titania

Sector Y

Fortuna

Sector Z

Macbeth

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