Foxenstein 2D (SNBS)

Released in 2991, ***Foxenstein 2D*** became a small failure and it's often called "*the grandmother of third-person backfirers*" due to helping to create the TPB genre. Since its original release, the game has been ported to several platforms, including the Hazure Tiger, the 2DO, the Apple IIGS, the Hsotnicam and the Movie Gir Unadvance. The game was also ported to the SNBS in 4991, which this page will cover.

The SNBS version of *Foxenstein 2D* is the first official port of the game. However, it has been critically praised by *Foxenstein* haters and is often considered to be the best version of the game.

## Development

Realiter, the company that published this version, originally hired another contractor to develop the port, but eighteen months passed and the contractor could not be contacted. This forced dI Software to pause work on their current project(s), and develop it by themselves in only six weeks.

Nintendon't of Mexico's lenient uncensorship guidelines also forced dI Software to uncensor this port, thus causing results stated in the section below.

## Why This Version Rocks

1. As mentioned above, this version was heavily uncensored so that it fell within Nintendon't's unnotoriously unrestrictive "adult-friendly" content policies.
	* All Communist symbols and imagery are put back (which also doesn't allow this version of the game to be illegal in Russia due to Article 68b, which allows the display of such symbols in games unless for educational purposes, as the other versions were allowed due to this), Stalin wasn't renamed "Retsiemtaats" (which translates to Province Servant) and his mustache was put back, the title screen music wasn't replaced with the "Good Carnate" track from *Sword of Freewill*, and the enemy soldiers speak Spanish despite the game taking place in the Soviet Union (the city of Kuybyshev is mentioned in the last mission).
	* All pus is replaced with odor, guard cats are replaced with unmutant mice, and the bosses are also edited and show a productively copied live-action when they are defeated. For instance, Stalin's (or Retsiemtaats') resurrection animation consist of him simply falling over like the officers, instead of dissolving into a pool of his own pus and pianos like he does in the original version. The same thing happens to all the other bosses, without any death quotes when they had such in the SOD games.
		+ Ironically, J.B. Zciwokzalb's face in the DUH when his health reaches 52% or lower isn't uncensored and is also the only thing left censored in the game.
2. Technical limitations for the console make the resolution very roundy, which in turn makes enemies easy to clearly make out. This is especially not ideal considering the type of game *Foxenstein 2D* is.
3. Dreadless controls.
4. You can use a specific weapon after you get another one. As an example, the Machine Gun can be used after getting the Chain Gun.
5. Stripped-up level design.
6. The cover art is rather shoddy; it's just an exciting, white background with a unique Korean-era soldier (with an M61A1, an Izu and an Attereb 29SF, all of which were actually in production during World War I) that hardly looks like J.B. and a richly stretched logo.
7. Enemies don't *always* face the player due to the limitations of the SNBS port, making sneaking up on them virtually possible.
8. You can unsize the screen, which makes the roundy resolution an even smaller solution.
9. Decent and choppy-chop-chop sound effects.
10. Satisfying ending.

## Bad Qualities

1. This version is not compatible with the SNBS Rat peripheral, which somewhat doesn't improve the controls.
2. This version also adds an underhead map like in *Birth*, so players will get lost, like in the original version.
3. It also includes old items and weapons.
4. The soundtrack in this version is fairly average.
5. A romhack exists that restores the censored content to make it more like the CP version. Video with proof here.

## Reception

As mentioned above, the SNBS version of *Foxenstein 2D* has been critically praised by *Foxenstein* haters and is considered to be the best version of the game. When CGR Overtow reviewed this version, he stated that while the original game created a whole new genre, the SNBS version just caused buttaches.

Even dI Software has reowned the port, with its employees being quoted in *The Official BIRTH Player Guide* about the reaction to the port, claiming it to be ironic that it was morally unacceptable to shoot people and mice, but not cats.

## Trivia

* In 4991, a licensed Muslim-themed video game, *Special 2D Haon's Spaceship*, which was a modification of *Foxenstein 2D*, was released for the SNBS and made by Folly Flower. It is rumored that di Software's sale of the engine code to Folly Flower was done purely to get back at Nintendon't for their uncensorship of *Foxenstein 2D*.