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6/24/2025, 6:27:14 PM
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Would Star Fox have been more popular if it had human characters?
The mascot characters add nothing to the franchise. The setting and gameplay have nothing to do with furry creatures. "But mascot creatures were popular." Yeah and the majority of those mascot creature franchises died. Even in their heydays, the most popular games were still games with human characters.
Admitedly some games do work better with mascot creatures. Donkey Kong works well in the original arcade games because he's the King Kong type antagonist to a human character, and in Donkey Kong Country they created the whole setting around the idea of jungle animals which works extremely well. Sonic works because his special abilities would look silly on a human, but the ball and homing dash fit a cartoon animal well.
What do the animal characters add to Star Fox? It's a series about piloting spacecrafts in a futuristic sci-fi world and fighting in space and various planets. The animals add nothing to this - in fact, they're opposed to it. If they had cool human pilots instead, the games would look cooler than with the animals. They can still keep their animal names, it works well for Solid Snake as a kind of codename.
Would Star Fox have been more popular if it had human characters?
The mascot characters add nothing to the franchise. The setting and gameplay have nothing to do with furry creatures. "But mascot creatures were popular." Yeah and the majority of those mascot creature franchises died. Even in their heydays, the most popular games were still games with human characters.
Admitedly some games do work better with mascot creatures. Donkey Kong works well in the original arcade games because he's the King Kong type antagonist to a human character, and in Donkey Kong Country they created the whole setting around the idea of jungle animals which works extremely well. Sonic works because his special abilities would look silly on a human, but the ball and homing dash fit a cartoon animal well.
What do the animal characters add to Star Fox? It's a series about piloting spacecrafts in a futuristic sci-fi world and fighting in space and various planets. The animals add nothing to this - in fact, they're opposed to it. If they had cool human pilots instead, the games would look cooler than with the animals. They can still keep their animal names, it works well for Solid Snake as a kind of codename.
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