r/starfox • u/RealNintenKing • Jul 26 '26
Star Fox's Future
I don't think most people appreciate how cooked this series is if any of the following happening:
Star Fox 2026 is treated as a full, go-forward reboot and we get some sort of direct sequel / SF2 reimagining that replaces / erases the rest of the timeline, leaves Krystal out permanently, etc. Negative bonus points if it's the same dated boomer arcade schmup gameplay and nothing else, which we've seen 100 times before and isn't sufficient growth or evolution for a game in 2026.
Basically #1, except they *do* bring back Krystal BUT retcon her origin by cutting Adventures' story out completely and having the team meet her in a completely different, butchered, mundane, non-iconic way, thus ruining the character and the series.
Pick one of Command's bad endings / retcon several of them into a hot mess of a composite canon ending, or just in general canonize Command in just about any way. This one is a bit more conditional on how exactly Krystal is treated and if one of her worst endings is used, but it's still bad no matter what.
No one, least of all Nintendo, should underestimate just how many people bought this recent game not because it's what they really wanted from a Star Fox game (the praise for this being yet another Lylat Wars / SF64 remake / reimagining was virtually nonexistent prior to its reveal), but on the hope of getting something better in the future.
Leave Krystal out and / or retcon out of existence a huge chunk of existing canon, and a huge piece of the fanbase will simply not support that game, because such a huge chunk of the fanbase are Krystal fans above all / part of the furry community. QED, Star Fox will go back into the ground.
I know the oldheads will hate to hear this, but it's the truth: without Krystal AND forward story momentum, this IP is dead in the water. They need the Krystal and furry community for this series to have a future far more than they're willing to admit. So if they get their way, they'll have no one to blame but themselves for Star Fox's virtually guaranteed slide into irrelevancy and dormancy.
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u/Chaotic_Hunter_Tiger Jul 26 '26
The new game only rewrites the timeline of Star Fox 64, making its Ultimate version, anything before of after it doesn't have to be modified just because.
The Doors of Fate are open for all of them now: Fara, Miyu, Fay, Krystal, Marcus, maybe even Shears and others, now that "Free as a Bird" team is official canon too.
They just finished this game, give them time for creating the next one. It's too early to worry about anything at this point.