Nintendo announces Star Fox 64 remake for modern platforms

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Nintendo is looking to revive the genre with Star Fox — a remake of 1997's Star Fox 64, a hugely enjoyable, approachable blast through an interstellar conflict between anthropomorphic space animals, heavily inspired by Star Wars and retro anime. It's an odd move by Nintendo, motivated more by the merchandising potential of the characters than a desire for rail shooters to make a comeback, I daresay. But it's still a welcome spotlight on a thrilling breed of video game that gets little love these days — and that, in its heyday, was often found in the vicinity of the medium's technological and aesthetic bleeding edge.