I fully support whatever this is.

April 27, 2016 3:43 AM

A Fox In Space. A year in the making, episode one of this fully voiced and animated riff on Starfox has landed. And it is fiiiiine.
posted by Drexen (19 comments total)

Two thumbs up. Funny, serious, a little noir element. I did not know this morning that what I needed in my day was 13 minutes of entertaining corrections about the name of Fox McCloud and his footwear.
posted by Nanukthedog at 4:50 AM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

I NEED EPISODE 2 NOW! RIGHT NOW!! WHERE IS IT WHEN'S IT COMING OUT???
posted by NoMich at 5:07 AM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

This has so much Cowboy Bebop in it I love it just for that.
posted by Space Coyote at 5:17 AM on April 27, 2016 [6 favorites]

I thoroughly enjoyed this, despite having only a meager grasp of the Starfox canon.
posted by SPUTNIK at 6:28 AM on April 27, 2016

Is this all just one guy? One fucking guy??

(Well, no, of course there are others. But he seems to be the one person doing the two main voices, most of the music and sound, and all the animation. Wow!)
posted by a car full of lions at 6:29 AM on April 27, 2016

OH, SHIT - IT REALLY IS STARFOX!
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:36 AM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

I thoroughly enjoyed this, despite having only a meager grasp of the Starfox canon.

Canonicity in Nintendo franchises (and most other games) is pretty loose. New characters and concepts get introduced in every iteration of Starfox, Zelda, Mario, but generally every game is at least a partial retelling of a previous one. With Starfox, you pretty much just have to get the concept of "Star Wars, but with anthropomorphic critters" and the rest is easy.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:58 AM on April 27, 2016

I love it! Feels like vintage Ralph Bakshi stuff.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 8:02 AM on April 27, 2016

I've never even heard of Starfox and I enjoyed this. It does all the genre conventions just right.
posted by moonmilk at 8:06 AM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

My only quibble is that I always thought Slippy was a girl.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 8:09 AM on April 27, 2016

That was actually good. Is this Starfox like "Do a barrel roll" ? It must be. But who would make this... why would they... I mean... so many questions.
posted by jcruelty at 8:25 AM on April 27, 2016

...entertaining corrections about the name of Fox McCloud...

That bit reminded me of the best trolling comment I ever saw: "Do you think Metroid sleeps in his gunsuit?"
posted by Groundhog Week at 9:12 AM on April 27, 2016 [4 favorites]

I know next to nothing about Starfox, the characters, the backstory, etc. I played one of the games for maybe forty-five minutes as a child in 1997, when my brother brought a (rented!) Nintendo 64 to the house for an evening. All I care about is that after 35 years, somebody has created the sequel that Heavy Metal deserves: Bored in Space.
posted by Verg at 10:34 AM on April 27, 2016

"Do you think Metroid sleeps in his gunsuit?"

I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesnt afraid of anything.
posted by radwolf76 at 11:16 AM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]

I know nothing about this. I would have thought it was vintage 80s. The world needs more Cartoons like this.
posted by bonobothegreat at 11:20 AM on April 27, 2016

wow, that was really amazing.
posted by rebent at 3:15 PM on April 27, 2016

I just can't believe that the guy got away with this, with Nintendo only asking that he rename the series so that it wasn't called Starfox.
posted by subversiveasset at 3:19 PM on April 27, 2016

This was amazing. I cannot wait for episode 2.
posted by drwicked at 7:31 PM on April 27, 2016

Wow, I can't believe Fredryk Phox actually finished this. I think it's been something like 10 years in the making and the initial version was lost in a hard drive crash.
posted by enamon at 4:26 AM on April 28, 2016