Star Fox 2

Damn, I'm really surprised this is rated so low. I used to play the leaked ROM of this game all the time when I was a kid.

The leap in quality between this and the first game is insane.

I feel like if this game was actually released when it was supposed to it would have a MUCH higher rating. I don’t get people that like the first game but not this one.

it's fine

an actual masterpiece

Feels more like a tech demo than anything else (you can argue the same about the first game, but I much preferred the on-rails shooting segments to all the open combat stuff here).

The RTS elements, visuals and sound are cool, but the individual segments are generally pretty shallow and uninteresting (repetitive and short first-person missile/Star Wolf shootouts, walk on buttons to open doors, shoot stuff to open more doors, etc.). Not to mention that you can finish a run in 45 minutes! I'll admit I found the ground walker segments to be the best part here. Archaic controls aside, I found you had better control over it than in the star wing portions.

ehh

great, still unfortunately held back by technical limitations. would have loved to see more of this on a game like 64, zero did absolutely no justice to these ideas