A Star Fox Adventure Retrospective 

I did see this! I actually had it in my notes but never used it. It's so cool to see her do roles like that for community projects.

​@@ZerbraxiShe still called herself the original Krystal on her twitter bio lol

Really? I knew there was a half life 2 mod. But half life alyx? Also. Isn't her VA married to the mod creator?

Pretty sure it was actually for Half Life 2...

@@richardkirkland6805Yes

Could not agree more. Adventures plus assault is amazing. My favorite games ever honestly.

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!!!!!!! I'm adding this to my project board to cover right now! This is so exciting!

@@Zerbraxi Keep in mind, stability is still lower than desired. You will still run into some crashes, of course. Additionally, don't forget that Savestates don't actually "close" the game, so the virtual n64's memory doesn't get cleared. Any memory leaks, and it can pile up on the emulated N64's part and encourage more crashes. I believe normal saving is entirely functional, savestates ar ebetter for quick redos while saves are for stability and hopping off the game.

It really might end up being that way. What's a shame is that in the age of Roguelike's and lites, it would be very easy to adapt the gameplay of Star Fox and the model set forth all the way back even in Star Fox 2 and it could be an incredibly interesting title. There are still a lot of options they could run with, but I'm not confident we'll see anything for a bit. Though I at least have at least 4 more videos to do for this series so we can have some fun with that along the way :)

@@Zerbraxi I know it isn’t starfox, but there is a game called Sky Rogue that is essentially just all range mode from SF64 but a rogue lite, also has local co op.

That's awesome! I'm still glad when others enjoy something I'm otherwise 'meh' on.

@@Zerbraxi thank you man :)

@@TevyaSmolka thank you for watching 😀

@@Zerbraxi your welcome ;)

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And now you'd probably destroy it in less than 2 seconds lol.

I understand it very good aswell. Me & my Sister were playing it back in the day and we never gotten through this point because apparently we were to "stupid" to press A fast enough. Nowdays its not a problem at all. Thx to our Mother and her fast thumb we beaten him at some point. Tho later my sister found a useful trick on the Internet that when swiping a pen over the A button it presses it also many times in a short time. Also usefull in Mario Party mashing games :D

@MauriceGS first off, shout out to your mom huh?! What a boss. Pen trick works well. Another one is to use your pointer finger only cuz the reflex is faster. That or use the thumb for A and "bounce" if off your pointer finger on the back of the controller while still pressing. Essentially doubles your presses when you get good at it. Totally how I win at every Mario Party mingame despite getting screwed everywhere else and still losing.

It's pretty wonderful huh

Nice! It's a series that seems incredibly underappreciated. I remember playing A TON of that Turok 2 multiplayer back in the day. My cousin used to be way better than me at it so I'd always beg to play Smash Bros instead so I could feel better about myself lol!

Ya...I messed this up 🙁 I wish RU-vid still had annotations so I could just make a small note there. It's a pretty embarrassing screw up.

She also did a bunch of tracks for DKC3 alongside David Wise. She’s a legend

It'd be impossible for me to not acknowledge that video in some way. It's such gold :) There are a couple little references to that video sprinkled throughout.

As much as I pick on it, please don't let me ruin your fondess for it 😀 It has some awesome moments

That's so cute. Nothing can ever overpower that feeling of a game you love as a Christmas gift.

@@Zerbraxi I know right! I got Gamecube too, so it was the biggest gift after playstation 2. It was the first game I really really wanted after the Spyro games, SMario 64 Bajo etc..

I'm so glad I'm in good company!

@@Zerbraxi you described my struggle verbatim

I could never get past that test.. and the game started off good.. I gave up after I couldn’t pass the test of strength

Bum to the bum to the bum to the bass to the bum to the boom to the Bumble

Thank you SOOO much!! I'm so glad it's made you laugh. I really hope you enjoy everything else there that I've made and what's to come.

@@Zerbraxi I absolutely do and will continue too🤙

My theory is that it's programmed in such a way that it knows if your under the age 15 and makes it agonizingly difficult just so as an adult you feel foolish when you crush it years later. Like some sort of sick joke from Rareware. I'm totally embracing full conspiracy theory on this one.

I looked into it and it's really just "mash as hard as you can". The trick is that every frame you aren't mashing, you lose ground, so it's very unforgiving.

Thank you so much :) that's very kind of you

Super Mario World is beautiful!

@@Zerbraxi yes

Very good point Voe. Sarqso.

@@Zerbraxi Gerudo Naáe

Even playing it on original hardware it's a pretty game. Playing it on a Gamecube with an RGB SCART cable connected to my Retrotink and it's beautiful. Playing it on Dolphin Emulator upscaled to 1080p with precompiled shaders and it's absolutely GORGOEOUS for a Gamecube game. Basically, you have several options on how to play it and it's one of the best looking games of that generation regardless of how you do it.

Pssst, play dinosaur planet instead! You can download the rom or even play it on real hardware. It’s not finished, but it’s a beautiful and super interesting game. And it’s fascinating to see the original vision before it was butchered.

I think I ended up mentioning that near the end when I started going over Dinosaur Planet, but if I didn't state that then whoops!

Thank you so much. I really appreciate you coming back to leave such kind words. I'm not sure if I could ever really stop making stuff. I've been doing it for so long now, granted not always consistently, but I'm pretty sure it's an addiction at this point 😅

Even as much as I pick on Adventures, there's SOO much to love about it still and Assault, man Assault has such an unnecessarily bad reputation. I hope you enjoyed :)

Yeah I tried to make the comment there that "the details change depending on who you ask" because even internal developers at Rare have told different stories of the events over the years. However, after now having played the Dinosaur Planet prototype for about 6 hours, and have seen more of what it is in the prototype's code as available content that is playable, I'm really curious to see what things actually came over from the Star Fox game that was being worked on because SFA is VERY close to Dinosaur Planet in a lot of ways.

I wonder if there's evidence to this lost SF game before it got scrapped in favor of Adventures and combining the worlds of DP and SF into one big mess. Is there a link to this?

This could definitely work on the Test of Strength, but fear might be a bit tougher since the Test of Fear is less about endurance of any kind and more about response time. Pause strat definitely ftw though.

I'm so glad you enjoy! Those 2 are definitely large inspirations for me. They're great dudes who make great stuff.

The aiming is definitely something I don't like either. I pledged to complete Jet Force Gemini this year and it uses the same control method and I'm not thrilled about it

Great point! Also so happy see someone else giving some love to Midnight Club.

Lol it would also explain the "sexy time" sax music that plays when Fox first sees her. That scene goes from serious and eventful to weird so fast.

@Zerbraxi It gets weirder when fox says "But how do I get mine in there" when glancing up at her. You can also see suggestive posters on the Great fox when Krystal gets there. Kind of makes sense when you think that Fox probably hasn't seen any ladies in the eight year gap between 64 and Adventures

It was also his idea to make her more sexy.

@@renakunisaki That idea perhaps worked too well.

I don't wanna talk about it why is she portrayed as that on the thumbnail​@@renakunisaki

Part of the reason I'd love to do a Turok Retrospective is actually because I haven't played most of the series but I always remember loving what I did play when I was younger. Embarrassing fact, but I didn't even know there was a Turok 3 until like a year ago....yikes huh? I love exploring these series where I haven't played every entry but I have a "rough" idea of it because then everybody can kinda chime in and either set up my expectations or mess with me about things. This happened with Golden Sun The Lost Age for example which I hadn't played before and everyone's enthusiasm for it made me like it even more! However, based on the recent poll I threw out there, Turok easily won so it's definitely happening now. I just wanna wrap up Star Fox first before I start anything on Turok since I'm so close to finishing the Star Fox series. Just finished the last of the 9 endings in Command last night :)

That’s interesting. I have a similar story in regards to Half-Life where for a very long time I had yet to play the series. But, it still had a really big impact on me because I’d watch a bunch of lore videos, some let’s plays, Half-Life 2 Beta recreations, and some other things. The Half-Life series was pretty ingrained into my psyche and because of this Doom 3 was my favorite of the Doom games because the overall tone and set up was basically Half-Life 1 with demons instead of aliens. The Aliens series is also something that had a big impact on me despite the fact I’ve only seen one of the films, and bits and pieces of some others (mainly because as a kid I wasn’t allowed to watch rated R movies, and I just haven’t gotten around to it as an adult). I’ve watched numerous lore videos, played a few of the games, read several comics, and my cousins had the action figures. There was also this really cool AVP Minecraft mod I really liked. There’s some things like that where even though it took me a long time to experience the main thing they still rubbed off on me. Recently Turok has kind of been doing that. I’ll DEFINITELY play those games when they go on sale. Good luck with those videos, especially on the 2008 one that tried to be a mashup of different shooters of the time and failed miserably (assuming you do that🤣🦖). I think a big chunk of why I find Turok so appealing is because I LOVE the Lost World setting/genre because I watched the Peter Jackson King King a bunch as a kid, and that weird Land of the Lost movie with Will Ferrell (that movie is so atrociously bad it’s good😂). Good luck on the rest of your Star Fox retrospective. It will definitely be good to have that past you. Fr what I’ve heard Command is really fun, but it gets repetitive fast so you only want to play it in short bursts. I watched a let’s play and aside from story beats not logically lining up with your ingame actions it was fine for the most part. Most of the characters acted like they normally do and it would’ve been a decent sendoff for the series. Unfortunately, the terrible endings and the sections with Krystal tank the game. I don’t really have to go into detail why because it’s pretty self evident. Good luck on that video. It will be interesting👍

Thank you! :) Oh this definitely won't be the last time I talk about Rare.

Lol!!! I really hope it was a good 55 minutes and you had fun 😀

@@Zerbraxi that feeling when you ate a bad ass meal and you’re left on couch like damn that was intense. That That right there . Thanks for the video!!

Jeez...wow...I never imagined I could make someone feel like that. Im... honored!

Yeah the visuals are absolutely insane still. Granted this footage wS using some upscaling but even on my original gamecube hardware in 480p native wide-screen it's easily one of the best looking games of that generation, if not the best.

@@Zerbraxi I know it will never happen but I wonder how much a remake could improve it

@@thepixeltavern Rare is working on EverWild.

Honestly, I just spammed as fast as I could and it ended in less than 2 seconds.

That last bit of trivia is super interesting. I did know about Jet Force Genini and SFA but had no idea DKR and MSUSA were all the same engine as well. Thank you so much for sharing that!!

Waiting for its release is the reason I wake up each day.

Nice!! You seem to be in good company based on a lot of others similar feelings in the comments.

Ya the difference the 2 is staggering.

The Test of Strength is this wild ride of emotions and memories for so many people considering how tough it was. However, you'll then get to that point as an adult and wonder if your child self just lacked hands considering how easy it actually is lol.

It's on my list to do. Trying to wrap up the Star Fox series at the moment but I hope to start working on Turok this year maybe.

Sweet dude@@Zerbraxi

That's really cool. I also really miss the Rare from this time period. I've debated doing an entire retrospective episode on just them in particular. Maybe someday...

The story behind the development of the game is equally as interesting as the response to it. It's truly the culmination of so much that either lands as a love it or hate it scenario. I also would love to see a return to this style in some capacity. It would be controversial yet again, but even a hybrid gameplay setup with Adventure and Arwing sections could provide to be an incredible experience. I mean heck, an NES game called The Guardian Legend did a very similar thing with Adventure and Rail Shooter gameplay where you back and forth and it's actually awesome!

Oh? I had thought there was still some content not yet accessible. I'll have to check back in the discord then.

​@@Zerbraxiwell, last i checked, the game went into "beatable" status, allowing people to see all the content there is in the rom. Probably some good 20 hours of gameplay If you know exactly where to go and what to do. Would love to see a playthrough.

What is this double thumb black magic you speak of? I'm all about that on floor index finger slamming action!

It's not the ultimate release we want, but thankfully it seems like everything from the Dinosaur Planet prototype is fully playable. I will DEFINITELY be covering that at some point for sure because I share you sentiments about it.

I didn't even know Turok 3 was a thing until like last year....yikes. I'm pretty excited to try it out though and your comment makes me even more excited.

HYAAHH!!

Ya that Test of Fear was WAY harder than I recalled. I don't know why the Test of Strength was the piece I struggled with back in the day but have no memory of having any difficulty at all with the Test of Fear.

This time around I failed the Test of Fear maybe 3 times? Definitely harder than strength. We'll definitely get to Zero. I try to be as fair as possible and Zero is just so complicated to talk about so we'll see how that goes.

Test of Strength was legit trauma for any child back then. Therapy for years to overcome those insecurities.

If I ever get a chance to chat with a Rare developer from that era, this is top3 questions I'm asking

Preach it!!

Ya, I touched on that later in the video and the change from Princess Kyte to random tutorial bird is so odd.

@@Zerbraxi oops, can you tell I commented before finishing the video 😆

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LOL!!

I'm glad!! What's your favorite part?

I'm very looking forward to doing Assault. Goldeneye is definitely a product of its time but it's impact on the industry is undeniable. Thanks for the discussion here. Definitely hoping to be able to cover Dinosaur Planet more thoroughly in due time. 😉

@Zerbraxi Good luck on the Assault video (You should include the clip from e3 where they showed it off as a fps and it got booed and was later changed to a third person shooter. I wish that they would’ve added in the option to toggle between first and third person). Assault is definitely my favorite game in the series. I really liked how you could jump in and out of vehicles. I just wish it was a little bit longer and there were more rail sections. I remember for the longest time I assumed it was the last game in the series because it had this feeling of finality and I didn’t think they’d try to make a game that would top them fighting bootleg Borg. Then I learned Command was a thing and the story for that is a complete dumpster fire (it’s sad because from what I’ve heard the gameplay was really fun and had it been handled better it would’ve at least been a good send off for the series). If I could have any of the Star Fox games be remade it would be Assault. A while back there was a rumor about a potential Assault remake. But, that was based entirely upon people having wild speculations that Namco putting out a job listing to remake GameCube games for the Switch could potentially lead to that. Even if that is true we won’t know for several years and it could easily be canned halfway into development. Something I’d like to see in a potential Assault remake would be a side story that shows what Bill and Katt were doing during the game (there could be a starting mission where they also take on Andrew’s forces while Star Fox deals with them. One set on Corneria as it’s being taken over. As well as a space one where it shows the fleet being destroyed before fleeing towards the end. It would also be nice to see some Star Wolf missions). I’d also love to see more maps, playable characters for the multiplayer (if that was online it would be a blast), weapons, vehicles, and other content to better flesh out the game. Too bad that almost certainly won’t happen. I can see that about Goldeneye being a product of its time that is nostalgic for a lot of people. There’s some games from my childhood I really liked that people now aren’t big fans of. Or certain small aspects of games that haven’t aged well, but like you said they set the foundation for more to come. If you want more Star Fox content that isn’t official there’s two really cool fan games you should check out. The first is Star Fox Event Horizon made by UndyingNephalim/IceCreamMan. It’s a reimagining of the 64 continuity that uses characters and ideas from all three reboots. It’s a mod for Freespace Open, which is an open source game so it’s 100% free. Last year the guy got in contact with Krystal’s original voice actress and she’s going to do voice work for his game. He also found Bill/Wolf’s 64 voice actor to reprise his roles. The SNES/64 arc is almost done. The guy just has to add voice acting and rework/rebalance certain levels. He’s also setting the stage for the Adventures arc, which will include lore/plot points from Dinosaur Planet. The game is super fun. Unfortunately, due to engine limitations there’s no rail sections, you can’t transform vehicles like in 2/Zero, and you can’t hop in and out of vehicles like in Assault. Luckily the core gameplay is still really good, but those do kind of drag it down. There’s also a few bad/weird story changes here and there (killing off Fara. For the longest time I just assumed that she was some oc that got really popular until I learned she’s from a 90s Nintendo Power comic that almost nobody read). Thankfully those don’t drag down the experience too much. The other is this reimaging of Adventures called Star Fox Remadventures, being made by Esphirian. I’ve talked with the guy in the comments and he has a bunch of cool ideas for the gameplay as story. For one thing Andross is dead and there’s just a military alliance between Scales and his remnants. Krystal is going to be along for the journey and we’ll see her bond with Fox over the course of the game. The Great Fox and it’s crew will play an active role in the conflict. For gameplay it’s going to be like BOTW where there’s a big open world and you can do objectives in any order you want (I’m assuming there will also be some Metroid elements where you’ll need an ability to access certain areas). You’ll be able to swap between Krystal and Fox like in Lego Star Wars and you’ll need their unique abilities to solve certain puzzles (I think that certain enemies will be weak towards a certain character’s abilities so that would also encourage you to swap between then). Fox will play more like Assault, and Krystal will play more like Adventures. In his version Randorn and Sabre are now Krystal’s biological family and blue. The Cerinians are also now native to Sauria/Dinosaur Planet and they’ll have a “special connection” to the Krazoa similar to Bungie’s version of the Forerunners that will explain their powers (in CE Guilty Spark mistakes Chief for a Forerunner implying that an armored human is indistinguishable from a Forerunner. He also calls humans Reclaimers, which means to reclaim something that was once yours. In Ghosts of Onyx the Sentinels speak Latin, which is the language of the Forerunners and the Covenant already understands that because they’ve been dealing with Forerunner tech for so long. Only humans can operate Forerunner tech without first taking it apart and reworking it. In the storyboards for Halo 2 the Ark (later turned into the portal to the Ark in 3) was located in East Africa where modern humans first originated some 100,000 years ago. This just so happens to align with when Forerunners disappeared from the galaxy. In the original Halo 2 ending the “big reveal” would where the Arbiter is taken by Guilty Spark to the Data Vault, which was this room that contained a sarcophagus with a Forerunner skeleton that acted as a holotype for the Ark’s machines to guild development of indigenous life to a desired point. I couldn’t be anymore blatant unless I was outright telling you what Bungie had planned. Gee, I sure do wonder what kind of a crazy revelation will explain why Krystal can interface with Krazoa artifacts and has powers related to them. It truly is a mystery). Scales is also misinterpreting the Krazoa as gods and I’m assuming his plan is to ascend and join them as a divine entity. Unfortunately, there’s no playable builds/demos at this point because it’s so early in development and Esphirian doesn’t want Nintendo to strike it down. You should check out the videos the guy made for it. It’s really cool. Good luck on a potential Turok retrospective, assuming you do that. I unfortunately haven’t played the games because they were before my time and I haven’t gotten around to it. It’s really too bad that series is gone. Those games look like so much fun. I just LOVE the INSANE premise and all the crazy weapons that are super cool but would be horribly inefficient in real life. I wish more games would use Dinosaurs. It’s too bad that we won’t get a neo-Boomer shooter reboot like Doom did. There’s a lot you could do with that setting.

If you like playing on original hardware it's thankfully not too expensive to pick up since it sold very well. That, or you can explore the ocean and find the undersea animal Dolphin and play it on one of those :) I'm really excited to jump into Assault because I've not played it in such a long time but I remember playing the multiplayer SOOO much. Probably even more than 64.

All that frustration just for the twist ending... it's rough

I never imagined so many people would actually want to see a Turok series retrospective LOL. Agreed with your sentiment. I hope I was still able to point out its strengths while expressing my struggles and frustration.

Wow!! Thank you so much. I'm definitely not confused about how thankful I am 😀

I was pissed when I beat it for this video lol. All of that frustration for all these years... for nothing....

LOLOL!!! In this here country it's shot, or get shot brother. My NES Zapper aint failed me yet. Thanks for subscribing though. That means so much to me. :)

It was SOOO hard to not say that!

Nothing would make me happier than a game finally eclipsing Star Fox 64. I'm still holding on to that hope. :)

Do you still love it as a rather big shite nowadays?

We'll probably never know the exact details of the how and why. Maybe in time though we'll get more of Dinosaur Planet to play and have our cake and eat it too.

@@Zerbraxi Maybe Miyamoto didn't want Fox to use a sword??? So Krystal was removed and Fox was given the staff.

Thank you so much!

Interesting. I know I keep saying it, but I mean it, I really want to jump into Panzer Dragoon Saga. If it wasn't for this nagging thing in the back of my mind that wants to play it on original hardware, yes I'm way too aware of how expensive it is but I want to still, then I would've done it already. Maybe this year will be the year I get over not being able to own it and just play it anyway.

It looks like they're almost there too. Once it's 100% I'll definitely be back to give it a final go.

It won't be the last time I cover Dinosaur Planet. Looks like all of the content is now accessible from the prototype build, as long as you do things in a very particular way, so that alone will have me return to cover everything there is about the game.

I've not played all of them but I'd love to go back and play through the whole series. Embarrassingly I didn't even know there was a Turok 3 until like last year....

​​@@Zerbraxiea people flip out when I bust out my N64 copy when I get asked whats an obscure game I own

@@wangchung2157 I've been slowly working to acquire physical copies of every Turok game so I can now join you at least in our Turok 3 N64 weirdness lol I think the only games I'm missing now are Turok 2 and 3 on the Game Boy Color.

Dang! That's big praise!

@@Zerbraxi yea I played it like a thousand times and I agree what you said about you having problems with the strength part I need it a pencil or a toy to help me pass that level and I did and I also asked my dad to help me with that level because he’s so strong and he did pass the level too

I was really not expecting to read something this kind-hearted today. Thank you so much. These types of comments are motivation enough for me so thank you 😊 I wish you well on your journey into videos! It's a fun ride and will grow you in far more ways than you might expect. Remember to have fun with it!

@@Zerbraxi Glad I could give you a good feeling. I am also an artist since I was a little kid and I know it way too well, when barely anybody cares to leave some words, especially some, that have any kind of a meaning. I haven't yet watched many of your videos, I kept a few saved for when I have time, but so far, I couldn't find real flaws. I dunno what you were aiming for, feels like a mixture of AVGN and good old JonTron, however not as unhinged. But I understand, it is hard to go that nuts in today's RU-vid world. I've got 2 little pieces of advice: 1) Some of your sounds are only on the left channel. Are you using DaVinci for editing? If so, those sound files may be mono and you forgot to set them to Stereo, the program only plays mono files on the left channel (very stupid standard behaviour). If I am right, just select all mono files, hit F12, audio tab, change to stereo and activate the right channel. 2) I enjoy foul language and my channel will be full of it. However, the way you are using it so far seems...... uneven. For the biggest part, your content seems rather family friendly, so having a few bleeped bombs randomly doesn't seem fitting to me. Since I don't think using more foul language would help your channel, I suggest to use less harsh words, which you may not need to bleep and they would fit better with the rest of the content. But only a suggestion, it would not be a killer factor if you kept it as is. =) Having mentioned the audio thing, your editing seems rather clean. I am a professional editor myself, so I know the field. Still, if you could use tips for more cool stuff in the edit, feel free to hit me. I am also graphics designer, so if I can help you with something in this field, let me know as well.

*increment bid by 1 scarab and try again*

It would be awesome to see him be able to be the primary antagonist and see what he's really capable of.

I was using the internal scaler in Dolphin to do 1080p from 480p. I did also use the HD texture pack from CYB3RTR0N which a quick Google search will get you to the right place. The HD texture pack I mostly used for the UI elements as the actual in game textures scale so dang well then there's little difference between the pack and without. The internal scaling did more than enough. Just be sure to use the "Precompile textures" option or else load times can get pretty long and you'll get some stuttering. I'm hardly a Dolphin expert and only use it on things I know I'll capture footage for, but hopefully that can get you started :)

Yeah, I think for this game to have worked it would've needed to just stay Dinosaur Planet, or there needed to be a Star Fox Adventures 2 to implement what they had learned. I also had a load of fun playing Dinosaur Planets prototype for this video. It was a surprisingly good time considering how unfinished it is. Maybe one day Dinosaur Planet will make its way back. I mean, the possibility isn't 0% at least.

Someone mentioned to me, and I've been following the Dinosaur Planet discord, but it would appear that all of the data on the prototype that was discovered is fully playable. It's probably the best we're ever gonna get and the most Dinosaur Planet we'll ever see.

Lol!!! I'm not confident exactly when it will happen because I want to finish Star Fox first, but as of this last month I've secured every game including ports so I'm fully prepared and ready to go!

I'm gonna be going through Jet Force Gemini fully this year at some point and I want to try and more carefully analyze the controls. Not sure if I'll make a video on it, but possibly since it's Rareware and I'd love to cover everything they ever made on the N64

Krystal not being more involved is probably the biggest sin of this whole game. Especially when you consider that she actually never gets to shine in the entire series...like at all...ever! If not for Dinosaur Planet I'd honestly have like nothing to say about Krystal at all but her setup is clearly good but never paid off. It's a real shame.

@@Zerbraxi It would be nice to see her star in her own game just for that reason. I just hope that the devs don't mess it up if they do that.

LOL, that seems like a commonly shared opinion :)

I would love to see a return to some older Rareware IPs but I just don't think it will actually happen. They do like to acknowledge their history and legacy but practically none of those original staff still exist at Rare, and understandably so the new teams want to focus on new creations. Though I still can't wait for the Dinosaur Planet prototype to be fully playable with what's available in the rom!

Unfortunately I have a feeling it would've been stuck as an unused IP similar to so many other Rare franchises at the moment. As much as I love Rare's stuff, if Banjo Kazooie is dormant I just imagine everything else will stay that way as well, unless Nintendo owned it like DKC then perhaps.

I'm excited to cover Assault. I know it's another "controversial" entry but it's a more focused conversation around the game itself rather than like Star Fox Adventures being a Star Fox, Rareware, and Dinosaur Planet all muddied up and everything.

I think we were all weak. You're in good company 😀

Oh no... he ripped you off didn't he?

That seems to be a very common feeling towards the game, which honestly isn't that bad. Not replaying something is pretty normal so as long as the first playthrough was enjoyable enough then that's good at least 😀

1) True. Not sure why I even said that honestly lol 2) To be quite honest, I don't think you can look at Fortuna even on the SNES version and say it's dinosaurs either. It's a pretty wild array of creatures, some of which are dinosaur clearly in nature, but others are pretty bizarre. 3) The story mistakes and plot holes could be a video in and of itself 4) It's a different VA? That really didn't sound like Joanna Dark to me at all. Wow....I had read during writing that it was the same VA but double checking it now...you're totally right. Whoops!!! Though I think the main point still stands but that definitely is a separating variable. 5) Nice! I was not expecting some paleontology to get thrown at me and I love it! Though...to be fair... It's not a Pterosaur either, but a Cloudrunner :P Thank you for the kind words and also this wonderful comment. I'm humbled and glad you liked the video enough to write all of this out!

I just love that line. "They don't belong there." Lol

To give them a little slack, people were pretty upset when this came out mostly because a game like Assault didn't actually exist yet. Honestly, I think the hate on it is pretty overblown almost entirely because several other great Star Fox games do already exist.

Ya I think the reason I end up less and less interested as time goes on is very much because of Dinosaur Planet. I hope I was able to convey that well enough.

@@Zerbraxi hey at least Dinosaur planet can be played through now, to see what Rare initially envisioned.

I'm glad you enjoyed! I hope you enjoy everything else to come as well.

Just swap Sabre for Fox and done. Make it a side story and no one would care. Well...people would still care but it might have still come out more interesting

It's all good. You can just own it. Krystal fans seem very welcoming lol 😆

It's funny because I'm pretty sure I made this exact comment as well in the video.

oh yea i was just tricked by the part where you pretended to have that dumb opinion@@Zerbraxi

The fact that the key point your bringing up is game "feel" kinda inherently makes it opinion based. Feel is probably about as emotional of a word to possibly use when describing something. You at least acknowledge we agree about the Arwing sections. Sure, I equally share the cynical viewpoint that they only feel so good because there isn't enough time for any of their flaws to show, but that's just smart design overall. I don't like most of Star Fox Adventures. If I never play it again I'll be incredibly happy. However, it clearly has a ton of love from a ton of people so exploring the aspects people love through their perspective is just something I enjoy doing because I get to see what they see. It's kinda why I joke about Krystal in this video, and the Assault one...AND the Command one. I don't understand the love for that character, but I don't mind trying to explore someone else's experiences to see if perhaps I missed something, or maybe we just disagree. Disagreeing just comes with the territory and thanks for sharing your thoughts. Not seeing eye to eye on everything when discussing an art form is FAR MORE interesting than an echo chamber so I love it when people expressing opposing thoughts.

You're wrong

They definitely hit different, but I don't think it's always better. There's something to say about having the imagination of a child exploring these worlds and having no expectations. However, I also notice I appreciate games more as an adult and they tend to hit me harder now. A part of it is to return to playing games back in that child like mindset of just letting yourself experience something.

What? I don't even have a beard... did you watch the video?

So good the comment came through twice.