I disagree with the “I can see why it was cancelled” takes; I think Star Fox 2 could have stood on its own as a game for aging systems as most people were already engaged in the 32-bit era. There’s a lot of DNA with the likes of Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Command. It takes about an hour or less to beat even if you don’t know what you’re doing, but the replay value comes from improving your end rank as well as playing on higher difficulty. Game magazines of the time probably would have shit on this, but if you were a loyal SNES owner of the time, this would have been a definite favorite.