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The MinnMax Show

Star Fox Returns, Mixtape Review, Xbox's Gigantic Asterisk

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 162 minutes

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https://www.patreon.com/minnmax - Support MinnMax at the $5 tier on Patreon and we'll DM you Steam codes for EVERY Deconstructeam game: The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, Many Nights A Whisper, Gods Will Be Watching, Essays on Empathy, and The Red Strings Club. Offer ends 5/11/26. We'll update this description if we run out of codes.

We include a bonus snippet of Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, and MinnMax's production assistant Nick Stefanacci's reaction to the new Star Fox game on Nintendo Switch 2 before diving into the main show that has Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, Jacob Geller, and special guest Kahlief Adams from Spawn on Me diving into the excellent new game Mixtape from Beethoven & Dinosaur in a spoiler-free review. Then we revisit Saros on PlayStation 5 (codes provided by PlayStation), share early impressions of Dead as Disco's rhythm combat, compare the upcoming NBA The Run to NBA Street, and then try to wrap our minds around Xbox'x shifting messaging and the state of gaming news. After all of that, we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

Please watch and share the new MinnMax Spotlight on Virtue and a Sledgehammer from Spain - https://youtu.be/oWntPAOyH8g

Check out Kahlief Adams' Spawn on Me podcast here - https://www.spawnonme.com/

Here's a link to the video version of this episode - https://youtu.be/7nxS-s-jlR8

Watch our Star Fox reaction stream here - https://youtube.com/live/0HnYlU71PFA

Learn more about the BDS Xbox boycott here - https://bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-microsofts-xbox

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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:03 - Star Fox Reactions Highlights

00:07:02 - The main show begins

00:11:26 - Check out the MinnMax Spotlight - Virtue and a Sledgehammer

00:14:29 - Mixtape

00:44:25 - Raycon

00:45:45 - Saros

00:59:10 - Dead as Disco

01:09:39 - NBA The Run

01:25:20 - Xbox's messaging

01:53:13 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:55:09 - Community questions

02:31:32 - Get A Load Of This

Janet’s GALOT - https://www.kodak.com/en/consumer/product/cameras/digital/charmera-keychain-digital-camera/

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.weezerpedia.com/w/index.php?title=Shrek

Hanson's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminreeves.bsky.social/post/3mkt547rz722p

Kyle's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/kylehilliard.com/post/3ml4baped5s2c

Community GALOT - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX78Au6xATz/?igsh=d2djZWY4cnB5OGVm

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Ben Hanson from Minx here.

0:03.4

There was a Star Fox emergency right after we recorded this episode of the MinMax Show podcast.

0:07.9

And so we jumped in for a live reaction stream with Kyle Hilliard and MinMax's production assistant Nick Stevenacci, who is a huge fan of Star Fox.

0:16.0

So you can check the link in the description if you want to see our full reaction.

0:18.6

But in this big reveal of the surprise Nintendo Direct, they announced they're making a Star Fox game for Switch 2, and it's just

0:25.8

called Star Fox, but it is another remake of Star Fox 64. And it has a redesign of all the Star Fox

0:32.9

characters, and they're shockingly realistic. They're going for a more animal look here. Some people say they're going for the puppets on the Super Nintendo box art. It's different from puppets. They're going for more animal-like with these depictions of Star Fox. So big reactions all across the internet. But just as we can cover it on this week's episode of the podcast, here are snippets from that reaction stream before we get to the meat and potatoes of new stuff for the MinMAC show this week.

0:56.7

We're also, of course, joined by Nick Stevanacci, MinMex is a production assistant and world's biggest Star Fox fan. Hello, Nick. I'm about to have a freaking heart attack. Don't have a heart attack. Don't have heart attack. Just survive. I'm genuinely worried about Nick

1:08.7

Like truly

1:09.3

Like are you gonna be okay?

1:10.5

My heart's counting so much

1:11.1

I don't know

1:11.6

I might cry

1:12.5

I

1:12.9

I

1:13.2

Alright let's jump up

1:14.7

We don't know. I might cry. I, I, I, I, I, all right. Let's jump it. We don't know what the hell this is. This is, as fresh as it can get. This is looking 64 really, right? That's what he said, yeah. It is. Oh, no! What? Oh no! Oh no, no! What? I think I like it. I think I like it. The weirdest thing about this, other than it just surprise, direct, which, if this is the new standard for them, planning for podcasts, it's screwed. But, like, the weirdest thing is, like, the leak said new Star Fox game, and the visuals are, like, awesome, Or, like, there was something about, like, the visuals are... Impressive. I think they said they're impressive. Impressive. I was... I could not imagine. What? I was so excited for thinking of, like, oh, I think that it means it's going to be more stylized. And for it to be the almost exact opposite of stylized is the part that I just could not. I like the idea of like realistic animal pilots, right?

2:04.6

Like I think that's fun, but I just don't, I, they do need to be a little more humanized, I think.

2:10.6

So strange.

2:12.6

I'm just, I'm shaking up because you guys say stylized and we just got off of the,

2:17.5

the Mario Galaxy movie and that style is insane.

2:20.5

I thought it would be more like that, but this is, this looks like something straight out

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