The Daily Populous Thursday March 13rd, 2025 evening edition
Authored by polygon.com and submitted by Dangerous-Expert-298

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Announced Wednesday during the Humble Games Showcase, developer Chuhai Labs — the studio founded by original Star Fox programmer Giles Goddard — is working on a Star Fox spiritual successor called Wild Blue.

Shown in a brief teaser trailer and detailed via a press release and Steam page, the game will be a rail-shooter complete with animal pilots, dogfights, boss battles, and blue skies. “Soar over oceans, desert ridges, and perilous caves, battling waves of enemies and pushing back the Baron’s forces,” says the official description. “With the help of allies, you’ll fight to restore peace while experiencing the thrill of classic arcade flight-combat!”

Wild Blue is the company’s “biggest title to date,” according to company hype man Mark Lentz. Which you’d expect him to say, but given that Nintendo hasn’t released a new official Star Fox game in almost a decade — the last being 2016’s Star Fox Zero, one of Nintendo’s rare Wii U games that never made it to Switch — this looks like a great replacement.

JuliesRazorBack on March 12nd, 2025 at 23:32 UTC »

whenever someone says, "spiritual successor" these days, I hear, "nobody will remember this game".

yanginatep on March 12nd, 2025 at 22:06 UTC »

It was never actually a barrel roll, it was always an aileron roll. So they can just use the correct name if they wanna skirt any issues.

MutFox on March 12nd, 2025 at 19:39 UTC »

Didn't really show much if anything, still I love on-rail shooters.

Hope it's good.