This is one of my favourite childhood games, Starfox, or also called Starwing in some parts of the world. All of the Starfox games are great and really fun to play but I picked this one for the Nostalgia ;D I'm going through the complete third route here, and also without using any powerups (double laser, nova bombs, shield). It's also the longest one, since it has 7 levels, the other 2 routes only have 6 levels. Now a short overview of what I think of each level (one + means I find the music bad / the boss easy and vice versa, up to 4 +): Corneria 3: Difficulty + Music ++++ Boss Difficulty + Looks like: a huge airport or something like that Nothing difficult. Asteroid Belt 2: Difficulty + Music +++ Boss Difficulty ++ Many enemies who shoot these homing laser orbs at you, as well as many asteroids to avoid, some of them have a face on them and try to fly into you. Fortuna: Difficulty ++ Music +++ Boss Difficulty +++ Looks like: first, a grassland with giant flowers and insects, then you fly over a sea with some fish and bird enemies, and lastly a wasteland with the same giant flowers as before I like this one very much but those dragon heads in the water area are hard to avoid at times. Same for the boss. Sector Z: Difficulty +++ Music ++ Boss Difficulty + The only thing I hate about this are all these spinning bars. Macbeth: Difficulty ++ Music ++++ Boss Difficulty ++++ Looks like: under the surface of a volcanic planet The level itself is pretty simple, many shootable things such as homing rockets, burning rocks and those turrets which shoot those homing plasma orbs at you. The second phase of the boss is soooo damn annoying, I have no idea how to avoid the rotating iron balls and thus died a few times :/ Venom (Space) 3: Difficulty ++ Music ++ Boss Difficulty +++ Basically all you do in this stage is shoot all the incoming enemies, there are really many of them. The boss is also a big pain in the ass, because the weakspots are so hard to hit, you somehow have to shoot a little above them to hit them. Venom (Surface) 3: Difficulty +++ Music +++ Boss 1 Difficulty ++++ Final Boss +++ Looks like: a dark version of Corneria with storm clouds everywhere This final level is filled with all kinds of obstacles, like big floating plates, red pillars with the ability to fly, white blocks that appear out of nowhere and some more. The boss is the same as from the previous level but this time he transforms into some kind of robot. When it starts spinning around, it shoots an almost endless stream of iron balls at you, which is very hard to avoid as they randomly fly high or low. I died twice against him but after the spinning part it gets easier. In the final part before Andross, there's a double laser power up which I had to grab, because if I hadn't, I'd have had to fly through the closing gate and that would have hurt really bad. Andross wasn't too hard but still I thought I would die at least once against him.

• published: 25 Feb 2011
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