It's often said of remakes and remasters that the most effective ones are not the most dazzling, but those that look like the images the originals conjured in players' heads. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is a great example of a remake that might be light years ahead of the originals technically, but that also has a deeply comforting familiarity; this is how your rose-tinted brain remembers it looking. The Shadow of the Colossus remake by Bluepoint (RIP) and Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD get close, but miss by a whisker due to subtleties of shading and texture. They look too new, too sharp and three-dimensional.

I'm not sure that Star Fox passes this test — visually, at any rate. It's a pretty game that follows the blueprint of the original Star Fox 64 with painstaking care, but in my head, I don't think Star Fox 64 had this cinematic sheen, or this much hard detail.........

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