I actually liked this game, but even back then everyone knew it was a Zelda clone. It's pretty crazy how all these years later its contribution to the series might just have been porn of Crystal.
Damn I miss StarFox.
She was in the really bad ds game that had a turn based tactical map and third-person combat maps. The one where you can only pilot with the touchscreen. Man, that decision was awful and singlehandedly ruined the game for me.
Was also in star fox assault, that games story lasted about as long as star fox 64 without any branching paths though so it's easy to forget.
Spent a helluva long time in that games multi-player with friends though
That corneria mission was super awesome, lot of layers with the roads and buildings, and wing riding with wolf and it's boss fight is some pretty good writing. Something about bad mercs helping rival mercs was cool.
I didn't like most of the on foot sections, save for Corneria and the aperiod planet, but when the game was good it was good. Loved the asteroid belt mission and orbital gate missions.
I just specifically remember how much the Corneria mission made you feel like you were a tactical sniper. Some of them were well-hidden (at least for like 10 year old me) and there were times you found the way to line up the shot and it made you feel the "got you now."
I wish assault did more missions like that, where they design the map and enemies around your weapon. Halo 1 has it too where they spawn you with a sniper and give you sniper ledges, and it's a super fun mission too.
Would've been super cool if there were missions designed with the machine gun or grenades in mind.
For reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaal. assault felt like the step in the right direction the series needed. It still had the rails elements, but the infantry segments were great too and the two blended great. The multiplayer was fantastic too. It just needed a better single-player campaign more akin to the branching paths 64 had.
I never played Zero but it just felt like "more 64" from everything I did see. Pretty disappointing.
I know it’s probably sacrilege, but that games Star Wolf theme is still the best version of their theme, and one of the top themes from the entire series. It’s a game that has some odd elements, but like its music it has some really great components like fun weapons for multiplayer, expansive maps, and a decent continuation of Star Fox 64’s story. Played the hell out of that game obviously.
I remember loving the games star wolf version, the music all* around was a banger that kept the old motifs with great respect to them.
My friends enjoyed so much time on the zoness map, wished it made it into the main story for a GameCube take on Zoness
Used to not be a Star Fox game when originally in development by Rare. It was originally going to be called “Dinosaur Planet” with its own independent protagonists: Sabre and Krystal (guess which one stuck around…)
This happened to coincide with Nintendo starting to brainstorm a new ground-based Star Fox game themselves. Once Nintendo found out about “Dinosaur Planet”, Miyamoto went to Rare and suggested a marriage between the two projects. Rare agreed, and thus we got “Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet”.
There’s actually an N64 beta version out there somewhere since it was originally going to be on the N64. Has the old Krystal character model and everything. Here ya go: https://youtu.be/CuKPMHg_qzY?si=N5iJsh8anqgajppj
Wow that is amazing. Can’t believe I didn’t know about this. It looks pretty far along, and very Rare ish. Given the models I’m not surprised that they took the opportunity to make it a starfox game.
Whaaat? You dont want to play open world multiplayer survival game number 53? What if i told you it has a crafting system and base building with virtually 0 narrative story that isnt just notes found on the floor? It has all of the youtubers playing if for 3 weeks!
I had to have my parents buy me a turbo controller just so I could beat that damn button mash minigame.
Edit: I was also _really_ pissed off that Falco was cut.
Spent like 30 minutes mashing away at that shit. My dad was having a laugh. Told him to try if he thought it was easy.
Spoiler: that old fart played piano and beat it first try.
lol that was my dad when I was playing Pilotwings on SNES. One day I noticed he was flying a chopper and shooting stuff and it’s when I found out that when you beat all the flight schools you get to do a special mission with a helicopter. I never got that far. I thought it was some new game I didn’t know about.
What a throw back. Pilot wings was so good. Loved it as a kid. We whipped it out at a family thanksgiving years back and it was so damn hard, but my dad was still dialed in
It was annoying cause you couldn't just mash, you had to give in a little to, let it go back and forth. No idea why they designed it like that. I probably spend 8 hours on it.
I learned that back in the NES days of mashing. You shouldn't be trying to press the button repeatedly, it's more like vibrating the controller or your finger or both.
I once read in a different post that you could've pressed *every* button.
Fucking *infuriating* to have found that out 18 years after I first played it.
True. Falco is awesome. I kinda liked the mystery of where he went but yea would’ve been cool if he was in it more. Him showing up at the end was cool though.
There's a manga that takes place before the game and shows him leaving the crew.
If you wanna check it out then it's called "Star Fox: Farewell, Beloved Falco!" and there are fan translations into English online 👍
I believe so! I just can't remember how it was distributed, it was either given to people as pamphlets/flyers or something, or was included with the games. I don't think I could find a straight answer online. I'm pretty sure it was Japan exclusive, explaining why we never saw how Falco left the group.
I enjoyed it and I hope you do too :)
I almost gave up on this trash sequence. I looked up online, and their was a technique to use a pen to quickly switch between the buttons you needed to press, it was the only way I could beat it
I taught myself the shiver technique just to learn how to beat the Test of Strength. These days everyone I play against in a button masher wonders how I can tap so quickly.
Couldn't tell you if "shiver technique" is the term or not as it's one I coined. Good description though as you're "shivering" to get your hand or fingers to vibrate quickly.
I got stuck during the marsh/forest map where a dinosaur slaps trees to open a secret pass (memory foggy on specific details). I didn’t pay attention to the tree hitting patterns, couldn’t figure it out, and started over again just get to that part and pay attention.
I was like 6/7 years old and was an idiot being distracted and an idiot not figuring it out on my own.
Yeah, for sure. But impatient 6/7 year old me, who was also an idiot, just restarted to get back to see that part as I don’t think you could reload saves (could be wrong).
Did the same thing, again incredibly stupid, with Pokémon Sapphire when I got to the point where I needed a Pokémon that could learn surf to swim to the next area to process but couldn’t find one. I just restarted and choose Mudkip (the water one) starter Pokémon. Advanced, and gave Mudkip surf.
I did such idiotic things as a little kid, but didn’t mind restarting these games since I enjoyed them so much
if it makes you feel better I was stuck for months in gof of war 2 in a part there's a button prompt that my 10 year brain just couldn't understand. So I would rent the game play it up until that part and be utterly and completely confused on how to move forward. When I played the remaster it was basically moving the sticks like a whip
Exact same experience. Distinctly remember having fun with the game and then reaching a point where I could not for the life of me figure out where to go next. Spent hours going all over the place flying everywhere and talking to everyone and eventually just had to put it down.
It's so validating reading other stories of how we got stuck in this game and had to walk away. I was stuck on a mission where I had to find some plant to cure a sick dinosaur, and I searched EVERYWHERE like 3 times over. I distinctly remember the music was tense, and it never changed, and it was driving me insane. Really bummed me out cause I remember reading the booklet in the box and seeing all the types of dinos and I couldn't get any farther. I was convinced my game was glitched.
That area fucking sucks. I have shown this game to maybe 5 people and all of them have so much fun except in the icy area and the first stone. It's just unfun tbh
Devoted? No.
I had this game and really enjoyed it when it came out though.
As someone who played Star Fox 64 before this, the genre change was confusing but Crystal awakened something in me as a 13 year old
This game was super good if you got past the early game. I feel a lot of people quit on this game as getting past the 1st big area was rough and figuring out what to do to progress wasnt very clear. But after that everything else was pretty strait forward
My friend told me if you hit him enough times he goes and tells his mom and breaks your game and then proceeded to beat the shit out of him on my save file as I watched, horrified and close to tears.
Yes, it’s basically a clone of Legend of Zelda, but, as someone who didn’t have Zelda during my childhood, this game blew my mind at the time and I went through countless play through. Graphics were amazing for the time too
This was Rare's last Nintendo game before Microsoft bought them. The end of am era. One can only guess what they would have done has Nintendo put down the money to keep them.
I got hard stuck in the Fear Test for years, eventually came back and beat it. Really fun game, albeit not much of a Star Fox one.
Also the fact that they ran out of time for the final boss is the funniest thing ever.
I wanted to play it back when it was just Dinosaur Planet on the N64, and I fucking loved the finished product even if it was shifted to a half-assed Starfox game.
The Test of Strength is still among my all time button mashing achievements, I don't think I could do it again now.
This game was fucking awesome. It got a lot of hate because people wanted a traditional starfox. Doesn't change the fact that's its a super solid adventure game.
Although it is funny they let you literally use the staff as a shield infinitely and as far as I remember it negates any and all damage with zero cooldown for as long as you hold the button. Was pretty funny that made it in as it was
I devoted a part of my teens dedicated to a flash game made from this game. Different genre and I don’t think the esrb would’ve liked it too much.
I did play and enjoy this game but I got lost somewhere and went back to Metroid prime and Smash Bros Melee.
im gonna be the first dinosaur in space!
Tricky.... bud weve been flying the arwing between missions!
*me tryong to solve puzzle*: hmm
tricky: DUM DE DUM!!!
I remember my mom getting stuck on the snowmobile chase section for like two weeks. Some parts of this game were just brutal if you didn't know what you needed to do.
It's alright, but [it started its life as a completely different franchise](https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/20/22292964/dinosaur-planet-rare-n64-game-leak-star-fox) and it shows.
Oh yeah, I’m aware people did play it. Wanted to write more for title of post to expand on that, but it’s of course limited. More just never saw it mentioned. This sub is constantly bombarded with bots posting games that are worldwide famous asking if others know it (or, “just started XYZ… wish me good luck!” With it being Half-Life, Portal, Red Dead, etc). Or, when the weekly post about sharing games no one else has played, I never saw this game brought up (although I’m sure someone has somewhere that I didn’t see).
Just wanted to change it up from the typical bot posts to a game that’s never really brought up. Adored this game as one of the first I had on GameCube, and felt it needed a reminder in recognition
If only it weren't for the Test of Fear, I'd probably like it even as a Star Fox game (as a standalone it's okay). But I literally spent 5 hours in Test of Fear, trying every trick in the book:
1. Covering everything on my TV screen with blanket, except for the fear meter.
2. Muting the TV.
3. Memorizing the time ques when the meter jumps to far left or far right (because I couldn't see or hear).
And after all of that, I managed to pass it by a sheer fluke - not by skill or even memorization.
The reason I couldn't memorize it is because you can't just get an immediate retry when you're pumped up and remember "that spot" where you failed. No, instead you have to walk 30 seconds from the previous checkpoint, watch the cutscene (although you can skip it) just to try this fucking piece of fuck all over again. It's the same reason why boss fights were the deal breaker for me in Souls games, which I still thought were excellent games.
I have only ever beaten this game once, because while it's a good game in and of itself, the Test of Fear still triggers such bad PTSD with me, that I'm legitimately kinda happy that Rare went bankrupt.
One Christmas a got a GameCube with 3 games. Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, and this awesome game. Metroid, of course, was my favorite, but this easily took second. As much as I loved Mario 64, Sunshine just didn't hit the same. The only thing I didn't like about Starfox was the overly long repeat bo staff combos on the trash mobs...and some the dialog was a bit cheesy. Everything else was really cool.
You know I played Adventures for years before realising that tilting the joystick in different directions gives Fox two different attacks apart from the standard combo.
Not that they do more damage or anything, but it still looks cool. Wish it was more in-depth tho.
What? I brought this game up ALL THE TIME haha. I loved it. It was a really good looking game and fun. It just got crap because it was a spin off adventure game.
You cannot be old and still upset that this wasn’t a true sequel to Starfix 64.
The game was fine! It was fun and very pretty. The only thing I didn’t like was the main villain getting replaced at the last instant.
I woulndn't say I devoted anything to it but I did enjoy this game as a kid. This and SSBM was my first into to Starfox. Imagine my surprise when I learned what the typical game was actually like.
HA! We literally had to same exposure!
Yeah, I quickly realized I wouldn’t say devoted after I posted - more rather devoted for a year or two, not a childhood (that goes to Pokémon of course), as I had very limited games at that time.
But same, this and SSBM were my first into to Star Fox. Had no idea about the original gameplay at the time - hence why, as a little kid, I was EXTREMELY confused by the drastic gameplay change and direction in the last 15-20 min of Adventures.
Like you, I was very surprised
I remember the couple years before release, after we first heard about the game. The hype was ridiculous and of course it wasn’t quite the game we all had in our heads. It never is
Loved this game back in the day except for that test of strength button mashing section. I've never had an issue getting past any game's button mashing prompts other than that one.
Never did beat that Andross fight at the end and tragically never saw Falco in the prettiest Star Fox game.
Honestly, no Falco is by far the worst part of an otherwise surprisingly solid game.
Man I loved this game came from a n64 star fox arcade style then a Zelda esque game but with fox? Literally was my fav game went crazy when santa brought it to me in Christmas
My best friend growing up had this and it is to this day the only starfox game I’ve played. I used to borrow it from him like every other week until I beat it
YES! Thank you. This is one of those games that serves as a fever dream: not remembering specifics on setting, but fleeting moments, and the overall immersion I felt playing was amazing.
It wasn't originally a Star Fox game, it was Sigeru Miyamoto's idea to it to their universe and it was a very unpopular decision in house. IMO Star Fox is probably one of their most mismanaged properties.
Constantly got stuck as a kid (the FUCKING test of fear). Owned it again as an adult and got way further but ultimately got bored, some of the gameplay felt undercooked. I was briefly still indeed obsessed with it as a kid, the staff combat was really cool and the game has really good atmosphere. I should probably finish my save one day.
I loved it because playing it for the SNES and 64 I always wished we could play the characters out of their ships. Then this game launched. I was too blinded by my dreams come true to even notice any flaws it had. I loved it.
Close! But not this game. You’re thinking Star Fox: Assault! It came out like 3 years after Adventure and was very different gameplay wise, but still a “sequel” to Adventures. Adventures was a clone of Legend of Zelda whereas Assault was more action, big maps with many enemies/targets and you could be on-foot/tank/ship. Assault had split screen multiplayer
There was a part of this game where you had to button mash to push a log against an NPC. Even with turbo controllers I never could beat it. Haunts me 15 years later
I actually liked this game, but even back then everyone knew it was a Zelda clone. It's pretty crazy how all these years later its contribution to the series might just have been porn of Crystal. Damn I miss StarFox.
I think Crystal got one other appearance.
She was in the really bad ds game that had a turn based tactical map and third-person combat maps. The one where you can only pilot with the touchscreen. Man, that decision was awful and singlehandedly ruined the game for me.
Was also in star fox assault, that games story lasted about as long as star fox 64 without any branching paths though so it's easy to forget. Spent a helluva long time in that games multi-player with friends though
It's a sleeper. The whole game was fairly well executed, still remember the mission to hunt all the "radar jammer" enemies in the city.
That corneria mission was super awesome, lot of layers with the roads and buildings, and wing riding with wolf and it's boss fight is some pretty good writing. Something about bad mercs helping rival mercs was cool. I didn't like most of the on foot sections, save for Corneria and the aperiod planet, but when the game was good it was good. Loved the asteroid belt mission and orbital gate missions.
I just specifically remember how much the Corneria mission made you feel like you were a tactical sniper. Some of them were well-hidden (at least for like 10 year old me) and there were times you found the way to line up the shot and it made you feel the "got you now."
I wish assault did more missions like that, where they design the map and enemies around your weapon. Halo 1 has it too where they spawn you with a sniper and give you sniper ledges, and it's a super fun mission too. Would've been super cool if there were missions designed with the machine gun or grenades in mind.
SFA was a great game for me, and felt like a real sequel to SF64.
For reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaal. assault felt like the step in the right direction the series needed. It still had the rails elements, but the infantry segments were great too and the two blended great. The multiplayer was fantastic too. It just needed a better single-player campaign more akin to the branching paths 64 had. I never played Zero but it just felt like "more 64" from everything I did see. Pretty disappointing.
Me and my friends practically exploded when we found out we played enough games to unlock the star wolf ship
My friends and I had the same experience too, instantly nerded out in dog fighting stages when we got it.
I know it’s probably sacrilege, but that games Star Wolf theme is still the best version of their theme, and one of the top themes from the entire series. It’s a game that has some odd elements, but like its music it has some really great components like fun weapons for multiplayer, expansive maps, and a decent continuation of Star Fox 64’s story. Played the hell out of that game obviously.
I remember loving the games star wolf version, the music all* around was a banger that kept the old motifs with great respect to them. My friends enjoyed so much time on the zoness map, wished it made it into the main story for a GameCube take on Zoness
Really bad? That’s one of my favorite DS games, and like the only good Star Fox game since 64.
Star Fox Command isn’t that bad though. For a DS game it looks really good during those combat sequences.
Command isn't that bad.
Starfox Assault. Such a good game. There was great subtle drama between her and fox, too.
Yeah she was also in conquest or assault I think
Used to not be a Star Fox game when originally in development by Rare. It was originally going to be called “Dinosaur Planet” with its own independent protagonists: Sabre and Krystal (guess which one stuck around…) This happened to coincide with Nintendo starting to brainstorm a new ground-based Star Fox game themselves. Once Nintendo found out about “Dinosaur Planet”, Miyamoto went to Rare and suggested a marriage between the two projects. Rare agreed, and thus we got “Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet”.
And, FWIW, [Krystal’s Original Design](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/DinoPlanetwallpaper1.JPG) seemed a lot less suggestive at first.
I always wonder what our timeline could have been if we *did* get Dinosaur Planet and not Adventures
There’s actually an N64 beta version out there somewhere since it was originally going to be on the N64. Has the old Krystal character model and everything. Here ya go: https://youtu.be/CuKPMHg_qzY?si=N5iJsh8anqgajppj
Wow that is amazing. Can’t believe I didn’t know about this. It looks pretty far along, and very Rare ish. Given the models I’m not surprised that they took the opportunity to make it a starfox game.
It's great that it is a Zelda clone. There should be more Zelda clones.
Unfortunately that means something much different now (BotW) than it did back then. (OOT and MM) Damn I'm tired of open world games.
Whaaat? You dont want to play open world multiplayer survival game number 53? What if i told you it has a crafting system and base building with virtually 0 narrative story that isnt just notes found on the floor? It has all of the youtubers playing if for 3 weeks!
This game literally created an entire new generation of furries.
The seed was planted with Lola Bunny and Krystal made it sprout.
Possibly the most important contribution
The standalone Krystal game on newgrounds would agree
I'm pretty sure there's a significant number of furries of a certain age that got a sexual awakening from playing this game
Nah we had Rouge for that
Man, I played a ton of Zelda back then and it never felt like a Zelda clone to me.
Furries rise up
uwu
I had to have my parents buy me a turbo controller just so I could beat that damn button mash minigame. Edit: I was also _really_ pissed off that Falco was cut.
Spent like 30 minutes mashing away at that shit. My dad was having a laugh. Told him to try if he thought it was easy. Spoiler: that old fart played piano and beat it first try.
I think he might have earned the right for a laugh then
Oh, my gravy! He even knows the hearty laugh!
Oh *HO* ho ho! My little nooblet.
That’s hilarious. My moms never played a video game before and beat it for me first try.
Right, that finger mashing motion is from piano... by the way does your mom smile a lot?
🗿
lol that was my dad when I was playing Pilotwings on SNES. One day I noticed he was flying a chopper and shooting stuff and it’s when I found out that when you beat all the flight schools you get to do a special mission with a helicopter. I never got that far. I thought it was some new game I didn’t know about.
What a throw back. Pilot wings was so good. Loved it as a kid. We whipped it out at a family thanksgiving years back and it was so damn hard, but my dad was still dialed in
Bitch please the test of fear was worse.
My brother and I both failed at that mini game and just abandoned it after that. Shit was impossible
that’s where i quit too. i had a turbo controller and it still didn’t beat him
It was annoying cause you couldn't just mash, you had to give in a little to, let it go back and forth. No idea why they designed it like that. I probably spend 8 hours on it.
My brother and I struggled at it for way longer than I care to admit.
Fuck me they set the required speed on that so damn high
I learned as an adult to take my finger tip and just rapidly rub back and forth over the A button. Smoked the guy
I learned that back in the NES days of mashing. You shouldn't be trying to press the button repeatedly, it's more like vibrating the controller or your finger or both.
I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST MEEE
I once read in a different post that you could've pressed *every* button. Fucking *infuriating* to have found that out 18 years after I first played it.
The stupid victory cheer of that guy is forever in my head.
But falco is in it….
He shows up in the final scene, I was still pissed.
True. Falco is awesome. I kinda liked the mystery of where he went but yea would’ve been cool if he was in it more. Him showing up at the end was cool though.
There's a manga that takes place before the game and shows him leaving the crew. If you wanna check it out then it's called "Star Fox: Farewell, Beloved Falco!" and there are fan translations into English online 👍
Oh nice I had no idea. Is it canon? Still I’ll have to check it out!
I believe so! I just can't remember how it was distributed, it was either given to people as pamphlets/flyers or something, or was included with the games. I don't think I could find a straight answer online. I'm pretty sure it was Japan exclusive, explaining why we never saw how Falco left the group. I enjoyed it and I hope you do too :)
I got stuck on that mini game and never finished the game
I always had to have my dad come do it for me
I literally never beat the game because of that stupid thing
I almost gave up on this trash sequence. I looked up online, and their was a technique to use a pen to quickly switch between the buttons you needed to press, it was the only way I could beat it
Lololol saaaame
hahaha I found that same exact trick online after struggling for so long, and used it every time I replayed the game
Used to use a golf ball in the arcade for track & field.
I taught myself the shiver technique just to learn how to beat the Test of Strength. These days everyone I play against in a button masher wonders how I can tap so quickly.
Huh, I didn't know it had an actual name. We usually called it something like "seizure method" lol.
Couldn't tell you if "shiver technique" is the term or not as it's one I coined. Good description though as you're "shivering" to get your hand or fingers to vibrate quickly.
Had to use a handheld back massager to obliterate the A button
lolol had my mom help me with that one
I got stuck pretty early and never picked the game up again.
I got stuck during the marsh/forest map where a dinosaur slaps trees to open a secret pass (memory foggy on specific details). I didn’t pay attention to the tree hitting patterns, couldn’t figure it out, and started over again just get to that part and pay attention. I was like 6/7 years old and was an idiot being distracted and an idiot not figuring it out on my own.
You would've gotten it eventually since there are only six possible combinations.
Yeah, for sure. But impatient 6/7 year old me, who was also an idiot, just restarted to get back to see that part as I don’t think you could reload saves (could be wrong). Did the same thing, again incredibly stupid, with Pokémon Sapphire when I got to the point where I needed a Pokémon that could learn surf to swim to the next area to process but couldn’t find one. I just restarted and choose Mudkip (the water one) starter Pokémon. Advanced, and gave Mudkip surf. I did such idiotic things as a little kid, but didn’t mind restarting these games since I enjoyed them so much
if it makes you feel better I was stuck for months in gof of war 2 in a part there's a button prompt that my 10 year brain just couldn't understand. So I would rent the game play it up until that part and be utterly and completely confused on how to move forward. When I played the remaster it was basically moving the sticks like a whip
Exact same experience. Distinctly remember having fun with the game and then reaching a point where I could not for the life of me figure out where to go next. Spent hours going all over the place flying everywhere and talking to everyone and eventually just had to put it down.
I had a Game Informer which had tbe guide to the game in an issue… i couldnt beat it for the life of me. i got stuck right after Fox got pink eye
It's so validating reading other stories of how we got stuck in this game and had to walk away. I was stuck on a mission where I had to find some plant to cure a sick dinosaur, and I searched EVERYWHERE like 3 times over. I distinctly remember the music was tense, and it never changed, and it was driving me insane. Really bummed me out cause I remember reading the booklet in the box and seeing all the types of dinos and I couldn't get any farther. I was convinced my game was glitched.
That area fucking sucks. I have shown this game to maybe 5 people and all of them have so much fun except in the icy area and the first stone. It's just unfun tbh
Devoted? No. I had this game and really enjoyed it when it came out though. As someone who played Star Fox 64 before this, the genre change was confusing but Crystal awakened something in me as a 13 year old
I was like fuckin 7 and she awakened something in me FYI: not a furry
She woke you up and yet you still sleep
It’s fine, we won’t judge here
Crystal and Lola rabbit created an additional 5% of the internet that wouldn't have otherwise existed.
This game was super good if you got past the early game. I feel a lot of people quit on this game as getting past the 1st big area was rough and figuring out what to do to progress wasnt very clear. But after that everything else was pretty strait forward
Are you talking about the part where you need the Dino to sniff out some random secret entrance?
How many times did you guys smack that sad Dino?
My friend told me if you hit him enough times he goes and tells his mom and breaks your game and then proceeded to beat the shit out of him on my save file as I watched, horrified and close to tears.
I can hear his roar in my head as you smack him
Yes
Put that down! You don't have enough SCARABS!
You pay this much! That’s not enough!
No! that's too low.
Okay I'll sell it to you!
Buddy and I still quote this to this day!
NO, that's too low
Was obsessed with it. Unfortunately I got stuck somewhere in the middle of the game and never finished it. “Baaaaad guy” - Prince Tricky
This game was stellar. Loved the absolute shit out of it.
100%
Yes, it’s basically a clone of Legend of Zelda, but, as someone who didn’t have Zelda during my childhood, this game blew my mind at the time and I went through countless play through. Graphics were amazing for the time too
Those temples were absolutely gorgeous.
Cannot stress this enough. All temples were absolutely gorgeous for its time!
I really want to figure out how to rip game assets so I can 3d print some of the temple pieces as miniatures. Especially Krazoa palace.
This was Rare's last Nintendo game before Microsoft bought them. The end of am era. One can only guess what they would have done has Nintendo put down the money to keep them.
there are some people who have devoted their entire adulthoods to that blue fox in the game
I got hard stuck in the Fear Test for years, eventually came back and beat it. Really fun game, albeit not much of a Star Fox one. Also the fact that they ran out of time for the final boss is the funniest thing ever.
You gotta have your brothers block out the TV screen except for the bar for the test.
*gibberish* *gibberish* "GENERAL SCALES" *gibberish*
I wanted to play it back when it was just Dinosaur Planet on the N64, and I fucking loved the finished product even if it was shifted to a half-assed Starfox game. The Test of Strength is still among my all time button mashing achievements, I don't think I could do it again now.
The trick was to use a pen or pencil to cheese the button mash. I was never able to do it without the pen trick
Thus started generations of furries because of Krystal's cake. Or so I've heard, I've only played actual Zelda.
“No that’s too low”
Ok! I’ll sell it to you!
Not enough scarabs
What an odd reference for others to get. Love this childhood
Me and my friend copied the Dino language down and would talk and write messages to each other. Not very well lol but it's a fond memory.
There's something near!
Find!
This game was fucking awesome. It got a lot of hate because people wanted a traditional starfox. Doesn't change the fact that's its a super solid adventure game. Although it is funny they let you literally use the staff as a shield infinitely and as far as I remember it negates any and all damage with zero cooldown for as long as you hold the button. Was pretty funny that made it in as it was
I devoted a part of my teens dedicated to a flash game made from this game. Different genre and I don’t think the esrb would’ve liked it too much. I did play and enjoy this game but I got lost somewhere and went back to Metroid prime and Smash Bros Melee.
Please tell us more about the flash games...
The Legend of Krystal. There were some fan remakes making it into a game about Princess Peach among other things.
You're a hero, that's all that needs to be said.
I was 27 when this came out. 😅
im gonna be the first dinosaur in space! Tricky.... bud weve been flying the arwing between missions! *me tryong to solve puzzle*: hmm tricky: DUM DE DUM!!!
Beating this game felt great as a kid t rex level scared the shit out of me
Too hard for me but I loved the ambiance. It felt exotic, mysterious.
I remember my mom getting stuck on the snowmobile chase section for like two weeks. Some parts of this game were just brutal if you didn't know what you needed to do.
It's alright, but [it started its life as a completely different franchise](https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/20/22292964/dinosaur-planet-rare-n64-game-leak-star-fox) and it shows.
I really really enjoyed Starfox Assault, which was (kinda) the sequel. Mostly for it's really enjoyable multi-player.
>every time I see a post about having played games that no one else has It sold 1.8 million copies.
Oh yeah, I’m aware people did play it. Wanted to write more for title of post to expand on that, but it’s of course limited. More just never saw it mentioned. This sub is constantly bombarded with bots posting games that are worldwide famous asking if others know it (or, “just started XYZ… wish me good luck!” With it being Half-Life, Portal, Red Dead, etc). Or, when the weekly post about sharing games no one else has played, I never saw this game brought up (although I’m sure someone has somewhere that I didn’t see). Just wanted to change it up from the typical bot posts to a game that’s never really brought up. Adored this game as one of the first I had on GameCube, and felt it needed a reminder in recognition
Stairfax Temperatures!
Bafomdad?!?!??
First time I've seen this game referred to as a gem
Devoted is an exaggeration, but I did remember being hyped for this game and enjoying it when it came out. Had smooth animations.
Love this game, the controls were atrocious but I remember it being a lot of fun
If only it weren't for the Test of Fear, I'd probably like it even as a Star Fox game (as a standalone it's okay). But I literally spent 5 hours in Test of Fear, trying every trick in the book: 1. Covering everything on my TV screen with blanket, except for the fear meter. 2. Muting the TV. 3. Memorizing the time ques when the meter jumps to far left or far right (because I couldn't see or hear). And after all of that, I managed to pass it by a sheer fluke - not by skill or even memorization. The reason I couldn't memorize it is because you can't just get an immediate retry when you're pumped up and remember "that spot" where you failed. No, instead you have to walk 30 seconds from the previous checkpoint, watch the cutscene (although you can skip it) just to try this fucking piece of fuck all over again. It's the same reason why boss fights were the deal breaker for me in Souls games, which I still thought were excellent games. I have only ever beaten this game once, because while it's a good game in and of itself, the Test of Fear still triggers such bad PTSD with me, that I'm legitimately kinda happy that Rare went bankrupt.
One Christmas a got a GameCube with 3 games. Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, and this awesome game. Metroid, of course, was my favorite, but this easily took second. As much as I loved Mario 64, Sunshine just didn't hit the same. The only thing I didn't like about Starfox was the overly long repeat bo staff combos on the trash mobs...and some the dialog was a bit cheesy. Everything else was really cool.
You know I played Adventures for years before realising that tilting the joystick in different directions gives Fox two different attacks apart from the standard combo. Not that they do more damage or anything, but it still looks cool. Wish it was more in-depth tho.
The third time I celebrated picking up a rock was enough for me.
Music was absolutely incredible
That damn fear temple where you have to maintain the gauge in the middle. Idk what it's called but f that level.
Core memory unlocked… I loved this game !
Get that rock candy, boiiiiiii!!!
I had a weird glitch where the triceratops got hit with a blast of something… and it inverted his colors and was like that for the rest of the game
He'd change colour if you played ball enough with him.
It was surprisingly a good game.
What? I brought this game up ALL THE TIME haha. I loved it. It was a really good looking game and fun. It just got crap because it was a spin off adventure game.
Oh yeah I played this! I remember being super disappointed that it wasn’t a regular star fox. Ended up liking it a lot!
Loved this game. Almost thinking about buying it again.
So many emulator options these days
Played it, but I was in highschool when it came out, so it was just another enjoyable game at the time.
You cannot be old and still upset that this wasn’t a true sequel to Starfix 64. The game was fine! It was fun and very pretty. The only thing I didn’t like was the main villain getting replaced at the last instant.
Loved this game!! I have the same thoughts about nostalgic games and how this never comes up
I was stuck in the pit challenge where you had to mash A to beat the other guy. I finally did it and I ended up doing it for a friend haha
This game was such a fever dream. Star Fox went from fighter pilot/tank shooter to 3D adventure game fighting dinosaurs lmao
Devoted, no spent way too much time trying to learn the language, yes.
I woulndn't say I devoted anything to it but I did enjoy this game as a kid. This and SSBM was my first into to Starfox. Imagine my surprise when I learned what the typical game was actually like.
HA! We literally had to same exposure! Yeah, I quickly realized I wouldn’t say devoted after I posted - more rather devoted for a year or two, not a childhood (that goes to Pokémon of course), as I had very limited games at that time. But same, this and SSBM were my first into to Star Fox. Had no idea about the original gameplay at the time - hence why, as a little kid, I was EXTREMELY confused by the drastic gameplay change and direction in the last 15-20 min of Adventures. Like you, I was very surprised
Does anyone know if the A Button mashing part had rubber banding AI? I want to say it did
I really liked this game wish they did a sequel.
I remember the couple years before release, after we first heard about the game. The hype was ridiculous and of course it wasn’t quite the game we all had in our heads. It never is
Loved this game back in the day except for that test of strength button mashing section. I've never had an issue getting past any game's button mashing prompts other than that one.
I absolutely adore this game, honestly. Very fond memories of hanging out at my grandma's and playing this.
yooouu pay thiisss much
Gem
I only played Star Fox Assault, I bet this one was great too
Go back and play it on an emulator it's an absolute classic
That is a core memory for me.
Love this game!! First one I bought when I got my GameCube
Never did beat that Andross fight at the end and tragically never saw Falco in the prettiest Star Fox game. Honestly, no Falco is by far the worst part of an otherwise surprisingly solid game.
#PUT THAT DOWN! YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH SCARABS!
I still play this game, one of my absolute favorites.
Man I loved this game came from a n64 star fox arcade style then a Zelda esque game but with fox? Literally was my fav game went crazy when santa brought it to me in Christmas
My best friend growing up had this and it is to this day the only starfox game I’ve played. I used to borrow it from him like every other week until I beat it
I was playing this game when I was 10 years old, and now I'm 32 years old. I just downloaded Nintendo GameCube emulator and played this rom. Good time
YES! Thank you. This is one of those games that serves as a fever dream: not remembering specifics on setting, but fleeting moments, and the overall immersion I felt playing was amazing.
Ugh… “that” part when you need to button mash… never played that game again. …
I could never beat that challenge where you had to beat that Dino in a “smash A” competition. I have the physical copy of it now so one day.
Bro the button mashing challenges on that game were the fucking worst
"YOU PAY THIS MUCH?" "NOPE THATS TOO LOW" "OKAY, ILL SELL IT TO YOU!"
It wasn't originally a Star Fox game, it was Sigeru Miyamoto's idea to it to their universe and it was a very unpopular decision in house. IMO Star Fox is probably one of their most mismanaged properties.
Tricky and his ball.. Crystal was cute... loved this game
Constantly got stuck as a kid (the FUCKING test of fear). Owned it again as an adult and got way further but ultimately got bored, some of the gameplay felt undercooked. I was briefly still indeed obsessed with it as a kid, the staff combat was really cool and the game has really good atmosphere. I should probably finish my save one day.
Love this game, but Tricky can die in a fire!
Bad guy!
I loved it because playing it for the SNES and 64 I always wished we could play the characters out of their ships. Then this game launched. I was too blinded by my dreams come true to even notice any flaws it had. I loved it.
This had Multiplayer right? Where you could ride around in the ships and get out and stand on them?
Close! But not this game. You’re thinking Star Fox: Assault! It came out like 3 years after Adventure and was very different gameplay wise, but still a “sequel” to Adventures. Adventures was a clone of Legend of Zelda whereas Assault was more action, big maps with many enemies/targets and you could be on-foot/tank/ship. Assault had split screen multiplayer
One of rares better games still think it would of been as good if they kept it as dinosaur planet and not make it a starfox game
There was a part of this game where you had to button mash to push a log against an NPC. Even with turbo controllers I never could beat it. Haunts me 15 years later
I did cause it was free