Star Fox Guard

Star Fox Guard
Star Fox Guard
Developer(s)	Nintendo EPD; PlatinumGames;
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Yugo Hayashi; Teruaki Konishi;
Producer(s)	Tadashi Sugiyama; Atsushi Inaba;
Designer(s)	Tomoaki Yoshinobu; Abebe Tinari; Taegun Kim; Taisei Imade; Masaki Yamanaka;
Programmer(s)	Yuji Hagiyama
Composer(s)	Naofumi Harada; Kensuke Inage; Ryuta Yoshioka;
Series	Star Fox
Platform(s)	Wii U
Release	JP: April 21, 2016; NA/EU: April 22, 2016; AU: April 23, 2016;
Genre(s)	Tower defense
Mode(s)	Single-player

Star Fox Guard^[a] is a 2016 tower defense video game co-developed by Nintendo and PlatinumGames for the Wii U. The game was bundled as a separate disc for the first print edition of Star Fox Zero and as a digital download code on the Wii U eShop afterwards.^[3]^[4]

Gameplay

Star Fox Guard is a 3D tower defense game in which players must protect various bases, owned by Slippy Toad's uncle, Grippy, from oncoming attackers by monitoring security cameras. The television displays footage from all of the available security cameras while the Wii U GamePad features an overhead view of the base. To defend the base's core, players must watch the monitors carefully for any oncoming attackers and switch control to one of the available cameras in order to fire its weapon. Enemies are divided into two classes; Combat robots, which must all be defeated in order to progress, and Chaos robots, which hinder the player by tampering with the cameras, such as obscuring the view or showing fake footage. The game features 100 missions and an editor mode that allows players to edit the behavior of enemies in levels and share them online.^[5]

Development

Star Fox Guard was announced by series creator Shigeru Miyamoto at E3 2014 as Project Guard.^[6] The game was rebranded and renamed as Star Fox Guard during a Nintendo Direct presentation in March 2016.^[7]

Reception

Star Fox Guard received mixed to positive reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.^[8] Jose Otero from IGN praised its "clever enemies", controls, and extra missions, but criticized the "simple campaign" and "bland graphics".^[11] Jonathan Harrington from Nintendo Enthusiast praised its gameplay, variety, and online sharing, but criticized the lack of humor, low budget visuals, and music.^[14] Stephen Totilo from Kotaku stated that despite it having "just about nothing to do with the aerial shooting gameplay people associate with Star Fox", it was "one of Nintendo's most distinct games in years".^[15]

Notes

^ Japanese: スターフォックスガード^[2], Hepburn: Sutā Fokkusu Gādo

References

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^ Totilo, Stephen (10 June 2014). "One of Shigeru Miyamoto's Weird New Wii U Game Ideas Is Excellent". Kotaku. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
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^ ^a ^b "Star Fox Guard for Wii U Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on August 17, 2024. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
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^ ^a ^b Ryckert, Dan (April 20, 2016). "Star Fox Guard Review". IGN. Archived from the original on April 20, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
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^ "Star Fox Guard Review for Wii U". Nintendo Enthusiast. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
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