Is this Cat Quest in space, but with dogs? :P

Or maybe something closer to Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender in space and with dogs, I guess...

In any case, long live the K9 revolution!

Looks like an Afterburner/Star Fox clone with anthropomorphic pets. I'll take that.

Yes, it looks quite similar to Dakka Squadron, gameplay-wise. Just more colorful and comical.

In the vein of the venerable Star Fox, that really started all. It might work even for playing in family as well. They do not aim at teens that look for baddie looks. This is all about gameplay and being a cute show for those watching.

To be fair, Afterburner and Afterburner II were both before Star Fox. While those didn't take place in space, they were definitive of the game play in Star Fox.

So it's like Star Fox, but designed to make my eyes bleed?

A Barrel...roll?

Were they? Interesting, thanks for the info. Used to play some Afterburner, it was very fun. It used sprites, IIRC, while Star Fox was based on a 3D engine that was actually designed for free flying. However, Miyamoto Shigeru had this epiphany and decided that a series of windows would frame the flight of the starfighter within a 3D environment, with solid objects made up from polygons :)

Right, dogs do no dices.

Imagine if this game is called Doggo Squadron instead.

Woah, woah, don't belittle the polygonal experience that was Star Fox & Star Fox II by comparing to them what is a missionless wave survival game; Afterburner doesn't even have bosses so far as I've known.

No, but the base gameplay loop of an "on-rails aircraft shooter" is the same. I mean, we could argue the differences, but Star Fox was a revolutionary title that was ahead of its time. I'd have loved to get a real remake since it was a good game, but ran like a slide show on the SNES.

I'd say 'slide show' is a bit disingenuous, the game did bog down a fair bit but it still ran at a playable framerate, the worst slowdown happened during cinematics. Emulation is notorious for misrepresenting the game these days too, even the SNES Mini has some harsh slow down that does not happen on real hardware.

However, hacker extraordinaire Vitor Vilela is currently working on a patch for the original Star Fox that will bring the framerate up to a constant 20FPS (The highest framerate the system's DMA will allow) without affecting gameplay speed.