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Ex-Zodiac’s demo is Star Fox through and throughDo a barrel roll!
Do a barrel roll!
A couple of weeks agoI wrote about Whisker Squadron, a Star Fox-like with procedural bosses. Commenter ‘treat’ suggested that we should also look atEx-Zodiac, another indie Star Fox homage - and they were right.
First check out this trailer:
Ex-Zodiac TrailerWatch on YouTube
Ex-Zodiac Trailer
The checkerboard floor, the polygonal enemies, the aliased edges and flashing weak spots. Ex-Zodiac even has Star Fox’s hibber-jibber voices when folks talk to you over the radio. You can customise how it looks - making those jagged edges smooth, for example - but if it’s Super FX nostalgia you want, then Ex-Zodiac is a trip.
It also feels great to play. The demo features two worlds to fly and shoot through, and the second world jumps straight to spectacle as enormous machines burst from the floor and ceiling to block your path. Each world ends with a boss fight - the spinning claw-blades of the lobster bot pictured above in world one, and a snake-like behemoth that did me in at the end of world two.
You can find the demo onEx-Zodiac’s Steam pagenow. It’s a fun 20 minutes.
