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Star Fox Guard
Star Fox Guard

Star Fox Guard

2016 Nintendo

Playable on

Game modes

Single player

HowLongToBeat

Main

05:15

Main +

08:45

100%

14:00

Details

First release date

April 21, 2016

Developer

Publisher

Summary

Star Fox Guard is a tower defense video game co-developed by Nintendo and PlatinumGames for the Wii U. The game was bundled as a separate disc for the first print edition of Star Fox Zero during its release in April 2016, and as a digital download code on the Wii U eShop afterwards.

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OpenCritic reviews

33Reviews74Good score

Nintendo Enthusiast

April 20, 2016

Excellent

I want more games like this from Nintendo. The visuals, music, story, and characters are all relatively bare-bones, but the gameplay is so fun and creative, I just don’t care. This is an experience that shows what amazing stuff Nintendo can do when they really try something new and crazy with unique hardware.

God is a Geek

April 20, 2016

Great

I’m glad Nintendo finally got around to letting Project Guard see the light of day. It’s a fun and unique gamepad experience that gets better the further you get into it.

Critical Hit

April 20, 2016

Good

Star Fox Guard is as unbearably tense, and frighteningly stressful as it is fun. It may look like a simple, throwaway digital game, but it could be better than the game its packaged with.

Reno Gazette-Journal

April 20, 2016

Good

Star Fox Guard is a fun entry in the tower defense genre set in the Star Fox universe. The visuals are a bit on the plain side and it doesn’t quite have the depth of popular entries in the space such as the Plants vs. Zombies. The gameplay is solid, however, serving as a refreshing take on both the tower defense genre and the Star Fox series.

GamesBeat

April 20, 2016

Worthwhile

Star Fox: Guard is a fine diversion, but I couldn’t imagine wanting to play it for more than a couple of hours. Again, that’s why it’s a great bonus for getting Star Fox Zero. It’s like a free game, and not an awful one. But when you judge on its own, it’s novelty quickly becomes tedious.

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