Comment on How are you liking the Star Fox 64 remake?
master_of_unlocking@piefed.zip 1 week ago
Played through a friend’s copy and loved it. I play the old one a lot and other than getting used to the dpad instead of c buttons, didn’t have to adjust at all to play this one. The multiplayer streaming to the switch 1 worked impressively well too.
My only complaint is that the voice acting isn’t as good but it could just be nostalgia.
For the most part I think the new English voice acting is good, but it’s Fox’s in particular who feels more phoned in, which is unfortunate when he’s the main character.
Falco’s VA on the other hand I think captured the character’s personality perfectly.
Guitar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I actually feel like they nailed the voice acting. I think we just have 30 years of nostalgia for how the lines were delivered in the original. The new one tries to keep the spirit of the original, while giving it a new coat of paint.
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I remember the line from Slippy in the trailer “Cover me while I fine-tune my sensors!” and then the ensuing “Oh! You got em? Thanks.” to be so much more needlessly forcing in his engineering personality. No particular issue with voice acting, I think esp coming off the FF7 Remake, I just get annoyed at Japanese devs trying to overcomplicate a script.
Guitar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I actually think that line is perfect. It’s right at the very start of the game and it’s establishing the character personalities to the player who may or may not be familiar with these characters. As the team flies in Slippy mentions something about needing to fine tune his systems check. Peppy calls out an enemy to Slippy, who has decided to take this terrible moment to fine tune his equipment. So he calls out to Fox to cover him, showing how he is such a detail oriented gear head that he finds it more important to fine tune equipment than to avoid getting shot. It shows he loves his work, but is a careless liability. Right at the start of the game. It even ties back in later when Falco is getting chased. He says something is wrong with his G-diffuser, even though in the intro he shrugged off the systems check and said everything was fine. So he takes a little damage, that’s when Slippy mocks him with “that’s why you don’t rush a systems check” reinforcing to himself that he was right. I think it’s a good little back and forth piece of writing that deserves a little more context than just the single line. All of it together really tells the player all they need to know about the members of the team in just the first level.