Takaya Imamura revealed that Star Fox could be called after a popular Blizzard Entertainment series and more curious details of the game.
Not long ago it came out that Takaya Imamura, the designer behind the characters of F-Zero Y Star Fox, he retired from his job in Nintendo. He was interviewed about his departure, and what he thought of the future of one of the franchises in which he worked. But on the site shmuplations.com they decided to share a talk they had in the magazine Nintendo Dream. This was published on November 21, 2002, and curious details came to light.
One of the questions the interviewer asked was whether it had been easy to decide the name of Star Fox for the first installment of the series. Hearing it, he revealed that there were actually other ideas. “Initially, we suggested names like ‘Star Glider’ and ‘Starcraft’ – we were the first to think of ‘Starcraft’ [risas]”, answered. To the above, he added “We were working around the premise of ‘star-algo’ for the title”. It is certainly an extremely curious anecdote.
Before Blizzard created StarCraft, Star Fox could be called that
StarCraft is currently one of the stellar franchises of Blizzard Entertainment. As far as is known, the company began developing the game in 1995. Instead, Star Fox in order to SNES It came out in 1993, and its development started long ago. Name Star Glider was probably inspired by Starglider, another game developed by Argonaut Software and published by Rainbird in 1986. What would have happened if Nintendo I would have chosen Starcraft?
Probably the series of Blizzard Entertainment it would have been called something else. Before talking about the name of the game, Imamura revealed that at first he wanted to create the characters of Star Fox in the style of F-Zero. “But then Miyamoto surprised me with ‘what about animal characters?’ and I was like… ‘again ?!’ “, he pointed. He revealed that he was puzzled to use something like that in such a title, but it caught his eye.
F-Zero will not return until there is a new idea
Miyamoto initially wanted a penguin and Falco is… a pheasant?
As other interviews have revealed, the idea of employing a fox came from the sanctuary Fushimi Inari-taisha close to the office where the game was played. Takaya Imamura remembered that Shigeru Miyamoto Told him “A fox, a penguin … maybe also try a rabbit”. It can be seen that the idea of the penguin did not make it to the final game. In fact, the father of Mario Y Link confused him a bit with his requests, since they were not very clear to say.
“Now by ‘penguin’ he was saying things like ‘you know, the ones with the whiskers that grow above their beak? What about that? ‘ and while I’m sitting listening like, uh-huh, sure … “, he highlighted. So ideas about animals from Japanese folklore came to mind. Imamura revealed that he designed a fox, rabbit and pheasant … the latter was Falco! “For some reason, people seem to think it’s a hawk, but… [risas]”he commented.
If you want to know more curious details of Star Fox, and other games, take a look at the interview complete in shmuplations.com.
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