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I feel like the whole barrel roll thing has diluted the genuine recognition of Star Fox 64 as a game with seriously great voice acting. I don't know what else you'd call a game where every other line is a joy to quote out of context.

Despite my general dislike of the Nintendo 64 as a console, Star Fox 64 is one of maybe four or five games for it that I will vigorously defend as legitimately excellent. If they don't make a real sequel that does it justice, I will cry.

I currently have a space-themed franchise/series bible tech-demo-to-get-us-jobs-game in the works; if years down the road people cared about it and I told someone that Star Fox 64 was a big inspiration on that exact series, I’m sure the most common reaction would be “what?” due to general unrelatedness.

Beyond just an admiration for those low-poly designs and hamtastic lines (involving some seriously good localization work), I just love how it fits comfortably between a few gameplay genres. So for the most part, it kinda sits in its own. Granted, it also happened to arrive there from the SNES incarnations, but I never got to see those as a kid.