The Short Version- Remember what I said about Last Raven Portable? I don’t take it back, it turns out that game is just dickishly hard. AC3 is a much more reasonable/satisfying game.
It probably didn’t bode well that the very first time Nintendo tried to follow up StarFox, it resulted in an aborted project. Luckily, things picked up with the second StarFox game to see actual release. StarFox 64 is basically the reason I got a Nintendo 64 in the first place (though in the end, the only game I actually owned was San Francisco Rush) after playing loads of it at friends houses and lots of re-rentals.