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Speaking of which, the version of Super FX which was to be included in Star Fox 2 was more powerful than the one which powered its predecessor.

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'The series was never intended to be limited to linear 3D scrolling stages, and he will often say that the only reason they did that was to get the best speed and performance out of the Super FX Chip.' 'He often says Star Fox is his 'test bed' for new ideas,' continues Cuthbert.

'I think you can tell from Animal Crossing that he likes that kind of iterative, exploratory style game, based on algorithms.' Miyamoto was fully in favour of the shift, seeing it as an opportunity to experiment with new styles of gameplay. 'Eguchi-san wanted to investigate a more 'Rogue-like' structure to the game,' Cuthbert explains.

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'That guy in the front is the chief programmer of Star Fox 64 too, Morita-san - he's now an exec at SRD, the old-school programming company Nintendo used for Zelda, Mario and Star Fox 64, plus other titles.'Д®ventually, it was decided that Star Fox 2 would eschew the linear, level-based design of the original and introduce a more tactical and open arrangement, with random elements that would make every play-through different. Bear in mind, this is a long time before Super Mario 64 and Shigeru Miyamoto was very interested in this part of the game.'Д¬uthbert with his Nintendo co-workers during the development of Star Fox 2. While we were researching the overall loop of the game, we got to work on the Arwing's transforming abilities and I developed a 3D platforming prototype. 'Katsuya Eguchi was driving for a more iterative kind of space game based only very vaguely on an old Famicom title called Star Luster.

While most sequels tend to rigidly adhere to the format of their forerunner, Cuthbert reveals that there was a degree of uncertainty in those early months of planning, and no one really knew what kind of shape the final game would take. 'After a month back in the UK, we started back up pretty much immediately,' he tells us.

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Following the success of the 1993 SNES original it was almost inevitable that a sequel of some kind would follow, and the second title - seen by many as the 16-bit system's swansong - was heavily promoted in the gaming press prior to its eventual cancellation.ДЄccording to Dylan Cuthbert, who was employed by UK studio Argonaut Software and worked with Nintendo on both Star Fox and its sequel, production on the follow-up began almost as soon as the dust had settled on the first game. With this new entry looming on the horizon like a massive space dreadnought, we thought it would be the ideal time to take a look back at perhaps the most famous unreleased game in Nintendo's history - Star Fox 2. It's an indication of how popular the franchise is with fans that last year's relatively detail-free E3 announcement was one of the biggest stories of the entire event, and while Nintendo is doing a commendable job of keeping its cards close to its chest about this all-new Wii U instalment, that has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of dedicated followers of Fox McCloud. This year will see the launch of another entry in Nintendo's long-running space battle series, Star Fox.

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To celebrate the announcement of the SNES Classic Mini, we're republishing the full story behind the cancellation of Star Fox 2, which first appeared on the site back in May 2015.

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