{"id":1615555,"date":"2026-06-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/star-fox-review"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:00:00","slug":"star-fox-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/star-fox-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Fox review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/star-fox-review.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I recently finished reading Keza MacDonald&#8217;s excellent Super Nintendo, a largely celebratory book about the company that &#8220;helped the world have fun&#8221;, which nevertheless sounds a note of understandable caution at its conclusion. The author is concerned &ndash; and it&#8217;s a concern I share &ndash; that Nintendo has been playing things too safe of late, that its release slate (with the odd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/yoshi-and-the-mysterious-book-review\">exception<\/a>) has become alarmingly conservative. It&#8217;s time, surely, for the next<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/splatoon\">Splatoon<\/a><em>, <\/em>and by that I don&#8217;t mean Raiders<em>. <\/em>As hardware goes<em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/platforms\/switch-2\">Switch 2<\/a> is no big swing, and so far its software has generally followed suit; Super Nintendo rightly laments the loss of the &#8220;freewheeling creativity&#8221; of the Iwata era in particular. &#8220;Nintendo knows well the power of nostalgia,&#8221; MacDonald writes. &#8220;But unless it continues to create <em>new<\/em> ideas alongside honouring its legacy, Nintendo won&#8217;t be able to keep its cherished position in popular culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/star-fox-review\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/star-fox-review\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished reading Keza MacDonald&#8217;s excellent Super Nintendo, a largely celebratory book about the company that &#8220;helped the world have fun&#8221;, which nevertheless sounds a note of understandable caution at its conclusion. The author is concerned &ndash; and it&#8217;s a concern I share &ndash; that Nintendo has been playing things too safe of late, that its release slate (with the odd exception) has become alarmingly conservative. It&#8217;s time, surely, for the next Splatoon, and by that I don&#8217;t mean Raiders. 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