Star Fox fans are eating well this year. Fox McCloud is in movie theaters and returning on Switch 2, but what are furry merc fans without a Switch 2 to do? Play Wild Blue Skies instead.
Chuhai Labs and Balor Games announced that Wild Blue Skies, an on-rails dogfighting action game in the mold of Fox McCloud’s adventures, will be released on Aug. 13 for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X.
Wild Blue Skies follows Bowie Stray (a dogman) and his group of ace pilots, the Blue Bombers, as they battle Grimclaw’s intergalactic forces. As this description implies, the game seems to be aiming for a Saturday morning cartoon tone. As for gameplay influences, a press release specifically mentions “classic on-rails aerial shooters of the N64 and PS1 era,” calling to mind Star Fox 64, alongside deeper cuts like Omega Boost and Novastorm.
As for some obvious similarities to Nintendo’s series, the game will feature secret paths through its on-rails levels, there will be a scoring system to encourage replayability, banter with squadmates appears in text boxes at the bottom of the screen, and perhaps most importantly, you can do a barrel roll. Everything from the aiming reticule to the spaceship designs is clearly meant to evoke a certain quest through the Lylat System. The studio behind the game, Chuhai Labs, previously released the generally well-received roguelike Cursed to Golf.
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