Starlink review embargo is over, here's GameXplain's review.
They "Liked" it. The game is really fun until you realise that every planet is basically the same in all but aesthetics with little in the way of unique level design mechanics for different planets. Combat is also too simple to remain engaging for the full length of the game, and it suffers from the usual open-world Ubisoft trapping of a lot of repetitive items to collect en masse and basic enemy camps to clear out and such. So I guess it's more or less what I was personally expecting. I wasn't gonna be able to afford it regardless but I will probably be hard pressed to buy this at full price, especially since it being toys-to-life jacks up the price.
As for the Star Fox content, the actual exclusive Star Fox quest line is only an hour long in total. You don't have to do it all at once since it's treated like any other side quest, though the actual scale of the missions is more like a main story quest. Other than that, the Star Fox crew show up in some cutscenes in the main story but mostly just for a quick one-liner and sometimes they literally just stand in the background. The actual gameplay of Starlink is very different to Star Fox despite both of them being spaceship piloting games (GameXplain put it as Star Fox being more of a fast-paced action game, with Starlink being a slower-paced adventure game that also feels more like a third-person shooter at times), so don't go into this expecting a Star Fox replacement or thinking it's "basically a new Star Fox game". While the Star Fox content is great, you need to derive some level of enjoyment out of the Starlink gameplay to really get into it.
Overall, the presentation is the game's strong point with really well animated cutscenes, fun radio chatter, and pretty graphics that look good even on Switch.
This seems like a pass for me for now. The game looks good, but it isn't wowing me. It's a typical open-world Ubisoft game but in space.ships instead of as an assassin or something. And even if the Star Fox stuff is neat, it doesn't justify picking up the game just for that since the Star Fox content is only a small part of the overall package. It ultimately looks like one of those games that could get a much better sequel to flesh out the mechanics, though I wonder if they'd be able to keep the Star Fox tie-in at that point.