Since F-Zero GX, Nintendo has made time to produce three mainline Pikmin games in-house, and zero non-GBA F-Zeros. Every mainline Pikmin game has sold worse than every mainline F-Zero game.

Now don't get me wrong, I like Pikmin. I like Pikmin a lot... but all of those games are highly similar, so the usual Nintendo reasoning that there needs to be some exciting new gameplay justification for a new entry rings pretty damned hollow here, when a Tetris/Mario/Whatever 99 style online multiplayer high speed high fidelity F-Zero seems like the biggest no-brainer technology-enabled gameplay reason for a new F-Zero game one could possibly imagine, but lets assume for a moment that current online infrastructure, even with rollback netcode, simply could not handle such a thing.

Listen. If the world can't handle the online yet, then just let Sega make an F-Zero Yakuza where Falcon pummels alien freaks and has drinks with Samurai Goroh. I don't even care if there's racing it. Please. Just please... somebody do something. PLEASE.

I think this is the best racing game ever made, and one of my favorite games. Hard as fuck, but so so so rewarding when you push it. Awesome tracks, awesome ost, the f-zero aesthetic is so cool, a story mode with like one bad mission, and so few games make you really feel like you're hauling ass.
You will never feel like you mastered a track in this game until you hit the point where you're flying outside the map. There will always be more ways to push it, and it's so so good. Please play this game, it's gonna beat your ass but the payout is so good.

Finally finished this on an emulator after wanting to play it for ages. It is an amazing game. One of the best racing games I have ever played. I played through the Grand Prix's and the story mode and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The tracks and music selection for the Grand Prix mode is excellent.


While the story mode is really cheesy with horrible voice acting and rough animation, I find it charming in a certain way. I kinda like how weird and silly it is.

While I do love the game I think I enjoy the original F-Zero for SNES slightly more. I love the simplicity and even the graphics of that game more. And while the music is great in GX, I personally perfer to soundtrack of the original.

This is an incredible game and there's nothing quite like it.
The thrill of the speed of the races, with courses so tightly designed and difficult to master that one mistake could be costly and your vehicle flies off the track. The risk vs reward when on lap 2 you get boost power which drains your health in exchange for more speed. The boost mechanic is genius as it adds an extra layer of strategy to the races. Do you boost when your health is low and risk blowing up from crashing into a wall? Do you risk boosting near a corner and fly off the track? It all adds to the intensity that F-Zero races bring. Add into that the ability to destroy other racers by either side or spin attacking them and you have even more power at your disposal. There's nothing quite like catching up to someone and side attacking them into oblivion. All of this makes the standard grand prix mode exhilarating to play through, but this game goes above and beyond for replayability.

Beat a grand prix with a character and you earn a nice little interview scene where you can ask them a question to find out more about them. Why did they become a pilot? What's the story behind their machine? The answers may be short but it adds an extra something to characters that are normally stuck behind the wheel. Not only that though, every pilot in the game has a bio section with a description on them and every single character has their own unique theme. Seriously, they didn't need to do that for 30+ characters but they did!

GX also includes a story mode which does give a nice insight into the actual world of F-Zero, from canyon challenges to bet races, there's a nice little bit of world building gone into the game. Now the main issue with story mode is that even on the lowest difficulty, Normal, it's blooming hard as nails. It will take a lot of patience to get through it but it is a nice thing to have in the game.

There's also unlockable content from the arcade game F-Zero AX, but that requires beating stuff on the hardest difficulty..... or taking your memory card to an AX arcade machine......

This is the ultimate F-Zero, you can tell a lot of love was put into making this game. It may be very difficult and challenging in areas, but if you stick with it, learn the courses and how to handle the immense speed of the vehicles, then you'll find one of the most satisfying racing games out there. It's a shame the series has never stepped into the online era because 30 player online races would be very cool to see.