So did y’all see the announcement last week? There’s a new remake of Star Fox 64 coming to Switch 2 just called “Star Fox”. You might not know this about me, but there are is an incredible soft spot for me with the Star Fox franchise with the main soft spot being for Star Fox 64. I’m even hyped for the new character designs although I did have to warm up to some of them…and have yet to warm up to all of them…
As I’ve previously mentioned, I love space and the entire vibe of it. That’s why this week’s VGM pick of the week is the Main Menu music from Star Fox 64.
This calm little theme I remember opening Star Fox 64 and just hanging on the menu so I could listen to this theme. I’m not sure if it’s the instrumentation or the simple melody or the “echo” in the bassline? Something about this song just evokes “space” to me. It says “you’re floating through space and this is its background music”
Even the 3DS version of the theme works great for this, although the instrumentation is less ethereal:
Nintendo did a really cool thing too and released a preview of some of the music from the Switch 2 release of Star Fox. One of the tracks happened to be this menu music. It’s almost orchestrated, and it evokes similar to the original but with the added instrumentation to be something you could hear in a music hall:
Are you excited for Star Fox [Switch 2]? Do you have a favorite song from the soundtrack? Let me know in the comments or let’s talk about it in the music channel in Discord!
