Star Fox: Zero

Even Nintendo are jumping on the reboot-train

Finally, the first brand new Star Fox since Star Fox DS back in 2006. And we are back to space battles (with some occasional other vehicle battles on land and space, as of this moment I haven't seen if they brought back the Blue Mariner for some underwater action). Besides the Arwing and Landmaster two new vehicles have been built. The Gyrowing for stealth missions and an alternate mode for the Arwing, the Walker. Fine and dandy, but what everyone talks about is the controls. Since the Wii U has two screens Nintendo decided to force it upon us to use it. So for precision shooting it's recommended to look at the gamepad and to get an overlook over the battle watch the TV. You can possible just do it with the gamepad, but I notice the TV is preferable to watch most of the time due to the overview. Which causes this game to be one of the several Wii U games I probably won't play as much due to not having a TV to use alone since their is more people in the household for the moment. The next thing is that the gyro in the gamepad controls the lasers. A bit like Splatoon and once you get a hang of it it works rather fine. It at least takes away the problem of you needing to be a target for enemy fire to get in a hit or two. 

For a game called Star Fox there doesn't seem to exist a fox vechicle

The story then... it's just the same story as Star Fox (Starwing) and Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars), but with teleportation devices. Apparently what Andross was working on was teleportation devices that he began using for... no, he didn't want to share them so General Pepper had him locked up on Venom... no, James McCloud put him on another dimension with the teleportation devices where he somehow built an army and then dragged the whole planet Venom with him to launch the attack on Corneria. It's a reboot basically and the story wasn't much to write home about anyway. I can't say it stuck much with me afterwards either since nothing is really new. Star Fox: Assault was better in my opinion with Pigma's transformation, Peppy and Peppers sacrifices, even Star Wolfs sacrifices and the enemy was interesting and a bit scary... for a borg ripoff. It missed something and really, how much of a surprise was it that Venom disappeared when we have the teleportation holes all over the game? 

Looks like someone been watching the Terminator-series

The graphics looks nice and the music is fine, still prefer the soundtrack from the original game and apparently you could get access to it by either stepping up your game and 100 % percent it with collecting medals and highscores and with it unlock the original look of the Arwing as an alternate mode together with the music... or just use any Star Fox amiboo. I'm mighty tempted since I clearly can't bother spending the 40-100 hours I would need to actually train myself to get good at this game. Eh, it's not a bad game and you get used to the controls, it's just... I suck at these games.