【Star Fox】Squiggy's SNES First Level Quest (First Level Only of Super Nintendo Games) Episode 005

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Published on June 7, 2017 5:30:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX5uMDh6YaI

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Star Fox (1993)

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Let's Play

Duration: 12:13

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It's Star Fox, possibly the best early 3D game ever made for a console. Not even possibly, it just is. It's that good.

The graphics are so far ahead of their time. It honestly looks like a bad game for an N64 rather than a great game for the SNES. The fact that the SNES can even render 3D this well still blows my mind, especially when you put it side-by-side with other SNES titles. That Super FX chip really does wonders.

I don't even know what to say other that I flippin' love this game. That's really all there is to it. I will 100% be going back to beat this someday, hopefully in a commentated playthrough rather than the silent ones I've started doing in my spare time. I like making those just to beat old games, but they don't make good videos to upload and share and this one deserves a playthrough.


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Star Fox (スターフォックス? Sutā Fokkusu), released as Starwing in Europe, is a rail shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The first game in the Star Fox series, Star Fox was released in Japan on February 21, 1993, in North America on March 26, 1993, and in Europe on June 3, 1993.

It was the second three-dimensional Nintendo-developed game, behind 1992's X, also developed by Nintendo together with Argonaut Software. Star Fox was Nintendo's first game to use polygonal graphics. It accomplished this by being the first ever game to use the Super FX graphics acceleration coprocessor powered GSU-1. The complex display of three-dimensional models with polygons was still new and uncommon in console video games, and the game was much-hyped as a result.

The storyline involves Fox McCloud and the rest of the Star Fox team, who must defend their homeworld of Corneria against the attacking forces of Andross. This storyline has been re-imagined in three reboots/remakes: as Star Fox 64 on the Nintendo 64 in 1997, Star Fox 64 3D on the Nintendo 3DS in 2011, and Star Fox Zero on the Wii U in 2016.

Star Fox is a rail shooter in a third-person and first-person 3D perspective. The player must navigate Fox's spacecraft, an Arwing, through environments while various enemies (spaceships, robots, creatures, etc.) attack them. Along the way various power-ups are placed in the stage to help the player. The player receives a score at the end of each level based on how many enemies have been destroyed and how well the player has defended his/her teammates. At the end of each level there is a boss that the player must defeat before progressing to the next level.

Star Fox possesses certain unique elements that differentiate it from the standard scrolling shooter. Most scrolling shooters force the player forward at a constant speed. While this is also true for Star Fox, there are thrusters and retro-rockets on the Arwing that allow the player to temporarily speed up and slow down. These can be used to maneuver around enemy attacks and other obstacles.

The damage model is another difference. In the standard scrolling shooter, touching almost any object results in the immediate destruction of the player's craft. In Star Fox, the Arwing has a certain amount of shield energy that represents how much damage can be absorbed before the destruction of the craft. The game also has a small degree of locational damage detection: If the ship's wings clip against obstacles or the ground too much, they will break off, adversely affecting the craft's handling and removing the ability to upgrade weapons.


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Squiggy's SNES First Level Quest is a series where I attempt to beat the first level of every SNES game. Some will be chosen randomly, some chosen because I liked them when I was younger, and some chosen by viewer request. This isn't necessarily a review or first impression or anything - the only true goal is to first define "What is Level 1 in this game?" and then beat it.

You can find the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmx77jI3k0GERGUCJuvO5wM2ZNP5knNXE

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