- “We called it Arwing because it was like one big wing shaped like an A.” - Miyamoto
- Miyamoto's initial inspiration to use animals came to him because he wasn’t interested in using robots or monsters like other sci-fi products
- “Star Fox has a lot of scenes in which the fighter goes through arches, which reminds one of the gates at Shinto shrines called torii.”
- the torii reminded Miyamoto of the gates at one of the most prominent shrines dedicated to the Japanese god, Inari
- there was a boys’ baseball team in the area called “Inari Foxes” as well, which is what inspired the name
- “So it was the English word "fox" from the start—not the Japanese word kitsune.”
- Falco and Peppy were designed as a bird and a hare due to inspiration drawn from Japanese folk tales
- General Pepper and Andross were designed as a dog and monkey in reference to the Japanese phrase about “fighting like dogs and monkeys”
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