How Star Fox Zero Made Me Lose My Faith

I talk about the most trauma I've ever gone through. As you can tell, I have had a wonderful life.

Edited by Sam Essig and Scott Wozniak

Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz

[pokemonmanic]

I love how Scott tells this story like an old war veteran

[statesminds]

I was a devout Christian before Star Fox Zero so I heavily relate to Scott’s story.

[myriadmediamusings]

When you don’t feel like a Star Fox, but feel like a loser.

[BugsyFoga]

I was wondering what the Scott the Woz equivalent of “Shenmue 3 is a terrible game, and I wasted my life “ would be like.

[claudiobizama]

Btw: Kamiya didn't worked on Star Fox Zero since he was busy with Scalebound

Which got cancelled

[JC-hifk]

It’s crazy a year and a half into the Wii U’s lifetime is already considered it’s later years.

[pookus_]

The star fox series is like if Nintendo owned a gold mining company but they only dug up the limestone

[ZHeadHunter]

Finally, a review that's pretty much 1:1 how I felt on StarFox Zero, and StarFox as a whole. Zero really was Nintendo doing its thing, but at its worst. I'd love to see Platinum make a StarFox game with full creative control. I can see them doing a lot better.

[dataecto]

i remember at Nintendo NY when they had this huge elaborate arwing cockpit chair so you could play the game on the big screen, and every person who tried it couldnt beat the demo. The attendant was kinda tired of seeing everyone get so confused, and i remember when i tried it out and beat it he just looked me dead in the eye and went "you did it." and gave me a star fox patch. i did not buy the game.

[Tini-Stic]

Looking back at those years, I'm kinda grateful I had a 3DS instead of a Wii U.

[GreatSpaceToaster]

I felt the same way at the time. Not only because of Star Fox, but also because of Color Splash and Federation Force. It wasn't just because we didn't have many great games to play, but these three games specifically made me feel like Nintendo just would absolutely NOT do what people wanted. All three are games from franchises we were begging for, but without anything people actually wanted. Star Fox Zero? Yet another retelling of the first with gimmicky controls. With Paper Mario, they continued the formula of the widely criticized Sticker Star. Metroid, they made a multiplayer spin-off for a handheld after 5 years of nothing following Other M's mixed reception.
It almost felt like Nintendo was trying to upset fans on purpose. Nintendo frequently does odd things, but at that point in time, those odd things were almost all Nintendo fans had, and it sucked. The fact that they confirmed Zelda was basically the only game for E3 that year didn't help. I remember going into E3 kinda on autopilot, thinking "Hey, Zelda's gotta be good at least, right?" and I was blown away. I still think Breath of the Wild was the turning point for Nintendo after the Wii U. The buzz was insane, it had been a long time since Nintendo showed anything that grabbed people like that, and they were able to keep that hype going until the Switch's announcement and release.

[SmashToons]

This is so accurate, man. I remember being in college in 2014, watching Nintendo's E3 Digital Presentation in the computer lab during a class. It was so good. Even if no one around me cared about Nintendo games at the time, the time between E3 2014 and E3 2015 was so good! Smash & Splatoon arrived, Mario Maker was on the horizon... and then E3 2015 was like watching all that momentum crash into a brick wall. All that excitement was gone. Star Fox Zero didn't look great in previews. I got to demo it in the cool Arwing demo booth they brought to several conventions, and even in that kind of environment it just didn't impress. When it finally released, I beat the game, boxed it up, and have never looked back.

I want nothing more than to see a new, original, good Star Fox game again. I wouldn't mind Zero being so short if I actually enjoyed it, but man... I didn't.

[johnclark]

14:20 I find it kind of odd of Scott to skim over the 3DS’s side of the story in 2016, Federation Force very notably contributed to the doom and gloom that year while Robobot was probably the high point.

[JD-iurv]

2:00 It’s true the speculation and hype for Smash 4 was some of the most fun I ever had on the internet. The posts of the day, constant discussions, wishlists and the reactions to new fighters was perfect

[partymantis]

The marketing for Starfox Zero vs the actual game was such a whiplash,
They did awesome looking cel shaded animations & even some jim henson puppets (featuring iwata miyamoto & Reggie),
But then it comes out with no multyplayer, mandatory gamepad controls & the story is just 64 again (right after 64 3DS!)
Hope Nintendo gets Starfox in some passionate hands, untill then "a fox in space" will atleast give us our fix (storywise atleast)

[graftical]

Scott, how could 2016 be a bad year for Nintendo when it had Yo-kai Watch 2?!

[NeemiasMuondo-febz]

Fun fact: star fox zero and mario tennis ultra smash are the only two games scott didn't made a excuse in a scott the woz episode.

[LightningPie]

Y'know I believe people would have hated this game slightly less if this came out launch year for the Wii U. They were really trying to push the Gamepad gimmick and by 2015 it was to late. If it came out at Wii U's launch year people would still dislike it but just write it off as Nintendo experimenting/showing off with new tech and what to do with the Gamepad.

[EyedMite]

With this video you can tell Scott wakes up in a cold sweat thinking about this game still .

[Loonybeech]

I've never heard Scott fully cuss before and I died laughing