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Star Fox creator praises Super Mario Galaxy movie's Fox McCloud design

gamingMay 8, 202640169

Takaya Imamura, the former Nintendo art director WHO created the Star Fox characters in the 1990s, said he prefers Fox McCloud's appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy film to the Fox shown in Nintendo's newly announced Star Fox game. The film's Fox leans on classic proportions and color choices from Imamura's original work, while the game's reveal presents a sleeker, more modernized redesign. Imamura's endorsement matters because the original creator's preference spotlights tension between preserving nostalgic character aesthetics and Nintendo's current redesign and cross-franchise promotion strategies.

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