I don't normally do this, but I wanted to put out a few thoughts I had on Star Fox Assault, this is such a fascinating mess of a game. First and foremost, read this interview, it's very illuminating- they briefly considered making this a multiplayer-only game! shmuplations.com/starfoxassau...
You can tell in the final product as the open-arena, multi-vehicle segments are clearly repurposed multiplayer stages, and that wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so bloody *huge* and empty for a single player! As pointed out by my chat, the lighting also makes it hard to spot places you need to go.
The visual / sound feedback on shooting things is also really weak (except for when you send enemies flying with the Landmaster, that works well) and all this combines to make the on-foot segments really not fun. I see what they were going for- an all-out war scenario- but it didn't work for me.
It's a shame 'cause there are parts that work, and the story is pretty daring (the General Pepper fight especially) but as well as the game being such a chore to play 80% of the time (the on-rails sections are excellent), the voice acting for Fox and Falco especially is real rough,not enough emotion
Not everyone, mind, the person voicing Panther was clearly having a whale of a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_BF... I'm glad I got to experience this game with support from chat, but whoof, what a complete mess. A fascinating, tantalising mess!
It's funny and sad that Assault kinda suffers the same problem Adventures has in that it was clearly something else that ended up being torn to shreds and haphazardly bashed together as its development raced against a doomsday clock to get something out the door.