Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins

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Star Fox Zero – The Battle Begins

Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins

Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins is an animated short film which was released online on April 20, 2016 as promotion for the release of Star Fox Zero. The short is based on the events of the game of the same name and was produced by Japanese animation studio Wit Studio, with assistance from Production I.G and Nintendo's lead producer and supervising director Shigeru Miyamoto.

References to the series

• The short movie is based on the events of Star Fox Zero. Fox narrates that he inherited the business after James went missing five years ago, and the defense of the tower and the battle with Androsa are based on the first stage of the game. Pepper and Peppy have a discussion concerning a device which Andross dared to rebuild which likely eludes to the teleportation device that Cornerian Command confiscated from Andross that plays a key role in the game.
• Fox repeats his G-Diffuser system checking and rock and roll quotes he uses in Star Fox 64.
• Falco plays a flight simulator styled on the original SNES Star Fox game and a Slippy version of the game over plays which annoys him. This nod to the games was previously seen in the Farewell, Beloved Falco manga. Peppy's nagging persona and lack of tolerance for tomfoolery seen in the manga was also carried over into the short.
• Fox and Falco leap elegantly into their Arwings to prepare for takeoff references the identical scene played in Star Fox: Assault, but instead of Slippy landing face first in his Arwing, Peppy takes his place so that Slippy misses the Arwing altogether. Fox notices this and says: "That old gag again?"
• Slippy recalls that the team just entered Cornerian air space after coming back from a ten-day flight from Sauria. The fact that Slippy uses the name Sauria contradicts the name not being used in Star Fox Adventures but in games that followed, or the Star Fox team knowing nothing about the planet before arriving. Slippy also complains about eating nothing but canned food would seem wasted when edibles health pickups existed in the Adventures gameplay. These changes can be seen as the effect of developer change.
• The new targeting aid headgear that Slippy invented for flight combat can be seen as a call back to the identical headband visors that were first worn by the characters in Star Fox Command.

Trivia

• The magazine which Slippy reads list the names of four planets: Floria, Aqualiss, Mecheye, and Halfmoon. These are four of the planets which appear as stages in Kirby Super Star in the Milky Way Wishes mode.
• There is an error in the scene with Peppy and Slippy's comms onscreen, where the former's last name being misspelled as Hair instead of Hare.
• There is a pink Cornerian who resembles Katt at one minute and 22 seconds into the short.

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name
Japanese	(スターフォックス ゼロ ザ・バトル・ビギンズ Sutā Fokkusu Zero Za Batoru Biginzu?)
Spanish	Star Fox Zero: Comienza el combate
French	Star Fox Zero : Le combat commence
Italian	Star Fox Zero: La battaglia ha inizio
German	Star Fox Zero: Der Kampf beginnt