Star Fox Adventures - What Happened? 

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, GENERAL SCALES!!"

I find it interesting that Krystal's original outfit was pretty modest/normal. I wonder how different things might've been had she never been given her iconic skimpy bikini outfit.

now I REALLY wanna see Other M because holy shit I desire an explanation for how ANY of that could happen

I was one of those who really liked this game. I appreciated the world-building.

Fun Fact: Star Fox Adventures was released on September 24th 2002, literally the next day Rare was officially bought out by Microsoft

Woolie: I have experience fighting giant space faces... Matt: That look like Andross... OH MY GOD! The LP will always live on in my heart.

This game has a special place in my heart as it kicked off one of my favorite game series, Legend of Krystal

I loved this game! Kinda weird how Link was a fox now, but seeing a Sci-fi Hyrule was cool.

I was introduced to Starfox by this game. While it and it's predecessors are vastly different, and I can understand people's frustrations, this game still brought me alot of joy and I enjoyed my time with it. Except the Push-the muscle-dino-into-the-failure-pit, because that mini game sucked.

A real shame they didn't refine what they had with Star Fox: Assault. It was solid and had loads of potential. The giant and detailed levels were impressive too. If they weren't gonna do it themselves they could've gotten Namco to make the next game again. Could've had Project Aces work on it too maybe, although they were pretty busy throughout the 00s. Nintendo are simply clueless, they don't know what to do with Star Fox, just like they didn't with Metroid for a long time and F-Zero still, and yet it'd be so easy. Too bad.

"What Happened?: Jump Force" when?

Oh, I SO hope the inclusion of Metroid: Other M footage isn't just some empty tease. So many things went wrong with that title that I just *have* to know how and why. Just the story alone has so many problems, not the least of which being the utter character assassination of Samus Aran -- the badass armor-clad Super Missile shooting bounty hunter who nearly exterminated an entire race of space parasites...reduced to a monotone, subservient dork who gladly takes orders from (and awaits authorization from) someone who she doesn't work for (despite technically having all of her powers available to her throughout the entire game's story), narrating with basically no emotion in her voice for 99% of the game about babies and motherhood and her hero worship of Adam, all while being scared shitless to the point of paralysis at the sight of Ridley, despite that reaction not lining up with how she'd reacted to seeing Ridley at any other point when she'd fought and defeated him before that. And that's all before the fact that the final boss battle is literally just pointing your crosshairs at the game's Big Bad, who then gets frozen by another NPC, and then gets killed by *A COMPLETELY SEPARATE GROUP OF OTHER NPCS*, so you don't even get to actually defeat the villain of the game yourself.

I still think that Starlink devs should make the new Star Fox, the gameplay is already perfect for a full on Lylat System game

I really wish people appreciated this game more. It had a certain charm to it that made it fun despite its flaws. I’ve always wished for a Star Fox Adventures 2.

You should do a "What Happened" on Earthworm Jim 3D.

NO BODY BRINGS ME GIFTS ANYMORE... serious matt, i just went back to replaying this game. those dang flying laughing bats

I can't wait for the Episode with Other M.

Krystal turned me into a partial furry.

This game was amazing..still replay it with my nieces and nephews to this day

How I wish Nintendo would re-release this and Assault on Switch.

People's Furry (Crush) Experience Starter Pack: - Krystal - Rouge the Bat - Renamon

The only plus I could think about that came from SF Adventures is the sequel: Star Fox Assault. It's my personal favorite because of it's concepts to walk on Ground and Fly in the Air at the same time, that also carried to SF Zero from Star fox 2. And it's Multiplayer is actually fun, you can fight on Ground or Air! Heck, you can stand on your buddies Wing while he flies the Ship! And also... Finally A Villain Who Isn't Fricken *Andross!!*

*Reads title* "Oh fur fuck's sake..."

That goddamn button-mashing test of strength still haunts me to this day.

STAAOP! YOU DON HAZ ENOUF SCARFS! My heart skipped beat when I saw my requested game in the thumbnail! Thanks!

Cool to hear the story behind this game! Never knew all of the crazy twists and turns and it's Dinosaur Planet origins. I had a great time playing it back in the day when it came out!

I very clearly remember a line from the game, not too long after you first touch down on the planet, where Fox asks Pepper why he can't use his blaster at all, and while I don't remember Pepper's exact response I distinctly remember 12-y/o old me hearing it and thinking "That's bullshit". lol

"So, this is where all the cloud [people] live."

I never realized the Zelda connection as a kid! As an avid Legend of Zelda fan, it's no wonder I loved this game back then.

Final Fantasy XIV would make a good episode of "What Happened?" that has a rare happy ending, but its story has also been covered to death in extreme detail including developer interviews, so I don't know if you'd be able to bring anything new to the table other than your personality. But I watch any video I see about it, so I'd gladly take another.

Adventures, and Assault were the perfect way to continue the storyline for Fox and his crew. I think incorporating some of the things that Zero did, without the rebooting storyline could've helped out Star Fox. Alas, Nintendo didn't know what to really do without Andross.

Am I the only one who really enjoyed this game ?

I really hope one day Playtonic will revisit the Dinosaur Planet idea. I remember being really excited about it when I read previews for it in Nintendo Power and Game Informer, and being disappointed it turned into Adventures.

"HIYAA" -Fox McCloud, voicing disapproval of Adventures

Loved how Matt brought up Rare’s LJN published games before their snes/n64 classics

I'm simple man: I see Matt uploading, I go and give a like. Just for amount of effort being put in those videos. Good job Matt.

That last quote from Phil Tossell was really sweet tbh 😊

I could never beat that part of the game where you have to keep the scare meter in the middle! Lol. Overall I thought it was a decent game but Star Fox Assault was my game of choice!

This travesty belongs within the film part of What Happened, but Fantastic Four (2015) would be an insane topic to cover!

So Krystal was supposed to co-star the game with the guy. I'm gonna guess that since Fox was then made the protagonist Nintendo didn't want him to share the role. This ended up putting Krystal in less than an NPC role since she only appears in the prologue, then at around half of the game once, and then at the end to say like 3 or 4 lines.

Now I really wish the original game envisioned on the N64 could have been completed with all the time needed to polish the experience. This of course also means no Starfox crew, only the original ideas like Swapstones and the pterodactyl that allowed flight, having Crystal be an optional playable character throughout the entire game, and give General Scales the proper final boss conclusion he deserved.

I really don’t like how Miyamoto feels the need to shoehorn his own ideas into other people’s projects. Dinosaur Planet would’ve been more unique if it wasn’t a Star Fox game.

I wonder if the suggestion to turn Dinosaur Planet into a Star Fox game was before or after Microsoft began negotiations about buying Rare. If it was after negotiations began, I wonder if Nintendo didn't want to give Xbox another exclusive series, so by turning Dinosaur Planet into Star Fox Adventures, Mircosoft would have one less series they own. Or maybe it's so that the game couldn't be brought over to the Xbox if it was already a Nintendo license game, so Rare had to finish it because they already turn everything into a Star Fox setting.

I would love to see your breakdown of the mess that is Ark: Survival Evolved.

I honestly never felt like the arwing sections were as shoe-horned in as everyone makes them seem. Theyre a small part of the game sure, but while I was playing them I never felt like they weren't supposed to be there. And im glad they added the andross boss because its the only classic starfox boss there is. Every other boss is fought outside of the arwing

I could never beat this game as a kid. I was stuck on this strength challenge, where you had to push someone in a hole by tapping the A button , but I could never press it fast enough lol 😓

5:51 that sure looks like comic sans being used unironically in an early 2000's E3 footage

Of all games covered on What Happened? this is by far the one I love the most in a personal sense.

I'd love to see a What Happened with Star Fox Zero and The Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes

oh oh oh do the four horseman of the apocalypse! I remember seeing that in Game Informer around the early 2000s but it never came out :(

That tricky bit just make my whole day

this was my first star fox game and subsequently my favourite no other star fox game scratched the same niche because uh literally no other game scratched that niche, so entirely different to every other star fox game

I personally still enjoy this game, I didn’t know for the longest time it was originally something else when it came out, and I do wish that version of the game had been made.

WHA HAPPUN?: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE

I remember this game confusing the shit out of me as a kid

Starfax temperatures finally gets a review

“Nearly every non-Kinect pitch shot down by Microsoft” yeah, besides kameo, grabbed by the ghoulies, both viva piñata games, and banjo kazooie nuts and bolts (it was good shut up)... i think you just weren’t paying attention

Really does sound like what Rare had in mind for Dinosaur Planet would have been pretty damn cool, and does in Retrospect seem pretty short sighted of Nintendo to think rebranding the game as a Star Fox game would make it more succesful considering Rare had a great track record up until that point.

2:13 Oh god I thought Fox was riding on Krato's back.

Giving Samus different vision modes was actually a nice idea.

Nintendo should follow the starfox assault line. For me Adventures and assault are my entire childhood, i love them.

They are my favorite games ever made but... The Ratchet and Clank Future series. The turbulent mess that was Tools of Destruction's development alone would make for a juicy video.

It really does feel like Nintendo and fans have very different ideas of what Star Fox is. SNES/64-style experience that players want (perhaps w/ the story continuing on from 64) being not much more than a technical compromise by those who worked on it, w/ traditional on-rails segments being treated more as a fanservice nod at this point with central game design being centered around ideas that took root in Star Fox 2. In that way, Star Fox Zero seemed to be not only Nintendo's definitive statement on their perceived Wii U philosophy but also their idea of what Star Fox is "supposed to be." Since customers mostly rejected that, and they don't seem interested in delivering the game I described at the beginning, the series has laid dormant outside of Starlink.

*Rare's* dark years include both Viva Piñata games, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts... that doesn't seem that dark, if ya was mad about Nuts & Bolts, fine, but that seems fairly solid.

I literally cried like a whiny little baby when I finished donkey kong country because it was so awesome to my stupid child brain and also life kind of sucked out of my 1985 toshiba tv with dials, my nes and snes at the time... to be fair no one was around.

I absolutely loved this game and would love to see more of it. The Star Fox series in general really.

I liked Star Fox Adventure. I haven't played it since release but I have good memories of enjoying it completely. Played Mario Sunshine, Star Fox Adventures, and then Metroid Prime back to back to back and that was a good six months for gaming

...I can't be the only one who legitimately liked this game right? It has it's flaws and isn't a good direction for Star Fox, but as a stand alone game I thought it was fine. Also Assault was amazing and should be the blue print for future Star Fox games, I don't care what anyone says

i actually really enjoy this game. i know it's not perfect, but i think it's a pretty solid adventure game, the graphics still look damn good, especially the fur, and the soundtrack is so good

Even as a kid I could sense that this game had production problems. What a strange decision to make it into a Starfox game. I feel like it would have been better received if it had stayed Dinosaur Planet. I did like Assault however, even the on-foot bits. It just felt like Starfox. Was a bit short, though.

I loved this game as a kid! I was never able to beat it though. I think I got stuck in a pitch black area without a torch and then saved the game without thinking, which meant I couldn’t try again. I’d like to try again as an adult. I don’t really like flying shooters like regular Starfox, so adventure games like this is probably the only way I’d be able to experience the franchise.

A wha happun on Midway Games? That would be amazing

I was looking for this video 3 days before it came out. Felt like a fever dream seeing it pop up.

I played Starfox Adventures as a kid not knowing all this mess and super enjoyed it, to this day is one of my favorites.

I really enjoyed Star Fox Adventures back in the day. It gave more life to the characters we didn't know too much about other than what we learned from them in the cockpit. Sure, the game had it's flaws and I would have loved if they made the flying segments longer and more involved. I really hope they make a brand new Star Fox game for the Switch in the style of Lylat Wars, but as a continuation of Lylat Wars instead of a remake.

I think I quit maybe 1/3 of the way through the game because I got stuck looking for 5-6 baby dinosaurs or something.

Honestly, I think if this became a full StarFox spinoff series, it wouldn't have been too bad.

I’m a furry Krystal fanboy and love her as Fox’s love interest, but I would have loved to seen dinosaur planet as it was. God I hope a beta goes public some time.

was wondering when you'd cover this game! excellent job! small correction tho: it was Nick Southam who did many of the concept sketches for Dinosaur Planet; Lee Schuneman was the director for the project, but iirc i don't think he ever did any art for it?

0:30 You thought I wouldn't see that? I want to know what happened with Devil's Third and the misguided autuership of a man so unimportant and self-involved that I've already forgotten everything he did before or after it.

The thing that blown my mind the most is after a "Duke Nukem Forever' development limbo the game turned out to be quite good! Sure, it had it's flaws, but it looked good, played stable and has one of the most relaxing soundtracks of any game I've played!

About time, ever since this show started, I’ve been waiting for this!

I actually really liked this game and have replayed it a couple times.

Idk why as a kid i really liked this game, i could never finish it though lmao

You know what Nintendo product desperately needs a Wha Happun? The Wii U A console that Nintendo killed off 4 years into it's life, and has been trying to made obsolete over the years with some of it's games being ported to the switch.

I have to say that Starfox Adventures and Assault were my first games of that franchise and because of this, I probably never felt that disconnect, fans of the previous games surely felt.

Hey look, it's Fox from Super Smash Bros.

If we could see another take on this with better story, gameplay, characters and dialogue that naturally blends well with the StarFox lore, it would be very amazing.

The thing I truly wish we knew is why the hell Nintendo felt they had to sell Rare at all! They made a successful trilogy of beloved DK games, several classics like Perfect Dark and Banjo Kazooie and yet instead of keeping that talent and letting it thrive, they just get rid of it like an unwanted step child...there's some rumors saying Miyamoto was demanding of them and kept expecting them to do their own thing differently and they were desperate to leave Nintendo to get away from the old man's neurotic control so they were fine with being sold off. But this is just rumor, not fact. But it remains fact that years later, we still all feel the sting of Rare having left and what could've been that can never be again.

Some of the boss sections were so confusing and the tug of war/spin the joystick as fast as you can for 2 minutes to beat the computer was hard as shit

And yet, with all of that, I loved the game and finished it in a couple days.

The main sin of this game was being the breeding ground for a whole generation of furries

StarFox Adventures? I think you mean: *STAIRFAX TEMPERATURES*

I bought this game day 1 and luckily i was friends with the game store workers so i brought it right back

I miss Rare so much. The old Nintendo partnered Rare. ❤️.

Honestly Starfox Adventures is not a bad game, and playing the game growing up I have a lot of fond memories playing the game. The Graphics for a 2002 GameCube Game are stunning and still hold up for a 2002 game. Gameplay wise while the game does play like a Zelda clone that doesn’t automatically make it a bad. The gameplay is easy to understand and for what it is works very well with a couple of exceptions in regards to aiming projectile weapons (which was a universal issue for many 4th and early 5th generation gaming consuls). Ultimately this is a fun game and I had many great experiences playing the game.

How about an episode on Umbrella Corps? Imagine my shock when I found out this turd, this disgrace to the Resident Evil franchise, was developed in-house at Capcom's Osaka headquarters, *not* outsourced to some shitty mobile studio. Wha the hell happun, Capcom?

I bought this because I liked Star Fox 64, and knew nothing about the behind the scenes stories. I played it literally once, and it has pretty much vanished from my memory. I don't remember hating it, I just remember being disappointed

Do Starlink after this. I think it's still going because the sets are still on stores.

Your videos are too addictive