Star Fox Adventures
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[edit] Synopsis
A young girl named Krystal is searching for the truth of her parents death and the destruction of her home planet. After receiving a distress call from a distant planet, the kind-hearted vixen decides to investigate. Shortly after arriving, she is attacked by a flying Galleon captained by General Scales, the self-proclamed leader of the SharpClaw tribe, a bunch of pirates, which desire to rule the planet. After boarding the ship, she is confronted by the General and subsequently thrown overboard, only to be saved by her CloudRunner friend. Krystal senses the source of the distress call within the Krazoa Palace and after some trekking, she discovers and collects a Krazoa Spirit, a being of magical properties. However, she is shortly after attacked by an unseen presence (possibly Andross) that she seems to recognize from somewhere. This presence knocks Krystal into the beam produced by the Krazoa Spirit and is trapped within a large crystal at the top of the palace.
Meanwhile, eight years after the events of the Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64), Fox McCloud, Peppy Hare and Slippy Toad have spent their time drifting around the Lylat System, carrying out mostly tedious and repetitive missions. Falco, known for his impatient nature, left the team at some point during this period to seek out more stimulating adventures. Meanwhile, the remaining members of the team are itching to be assigned new missions, knowing that they will need the money for upkeeping; the Great Fox and the Arwing are slowly yet surely falling into disrepair due to lack of maintenance. As if on cue, General Pepper contacts the Star Fox team and informs them that Dinosaur Planet, a planet on the edge of the Lylat System is on the verge of destruction and must be saved. Fox is sent down to the surface of the planet to further investigate and lend aid to the inhabitants, among them the EarthWalker tribe, who have sent a distress call.
After rescuing the young prince of the EarthWalkers, prince Tricky, Fox learns from the Queen EarthWalker that General Scales has removed the four vital Spellstones that keep the planet from collapsing. With the help of Prince Tricky, Fox locates and gathers these stones and returns them to two sacred temples to save the planet. On the way, Krystal contacts Fox through telepathy and pleads for help. Fox somewhat grudingly decides to help her by collecting the remaining five Krazoa Spirits that Krystal never got the chance to find herself.
After collecting all the Krazoa Spirits and Spellstones and saving Krystal, the two are confronted by a revived Andross, who was presumed dead during the Lylat Wars. Fox follows Andross in his Arwing and faces his nemesis in battle once again. During the fight, Falco appears in the nick of time to aid Fox. Andross is defeated shortly after and the Star Fox team is reunited. Krystal also comes aboard the Great Fox, apologizing to Fox for her previous demeanour and thanks him for saving her.
[edit] Characters and Setting
Adventures features the core Star Fox team, with Falco Lombardi appearing only at the game's end, as well as adding new characters, such as Krystal, Prince Tricky, the tyrannical General Scales, and other dinosaurs. Krystal goes on to become a full-fledged member of the Star Fox team, while Tricky was briefly shown in Star Fox: Assault after completing the sixth mission taking place in Sauria.
Along with the series regulars, Adventures features a numerous amount of dinosaur and prehistoric characters, all of them based off of once living creatures. For example, the ruling EarthWalker tribe, featured prominently in the game, resemble Triceratops, while the rival CloudRunner tribe approximate to Pteranodons. The SharpClaw tribe, which are the major antagonists in Adventures, resemble humanoid Allosaurus. One year later, during the events of Star Fox: Assault, these various dinosaur tribes are decimated by the Aparoid attack on Dinosaur Planet, and in-game dialogue suggests that the SharpClaw may have been driven to extinction. The in-game level shows various ThornTail and HighTop dinosaurs infected by the Aparoids. It is said that only the Sharpclaw tribe was driven to extintion.
The entire game takes place on the world of Dinosaur Planet (in later games called "Sauria") and four pieces of the planet itself suspended in orbit. In order to transit to the pieces, Fox must use his Arwing and avoid enemies. These areas include various terrain and climates, such as the grassy hub of ThornTail Hollow, alien-like Moon Mountain Pass, the icy-terrain SnowHorn Wastes, and seaside Cape Claw.
[edit] Voice cast
| Role | Voice |
|---|---|
| Fox McCloud | Steve Malpass |
| Krystal | Estelle Ellis |
| Prince Tricky | Kevin Bayliss |
| General Scales | John Silke |
| Falco Lombardi | Ben Cullum |
| King Earthwalker | Kevin Bayliss |
| Queen Earthwalker | Estelle Ellis |
| General Pepper | John Silke |
| Peppy Hare | Chris Seavor |
| Slippy Toad | Chris Seavor |
| NUS 64 / ROB 64 | John Silke |
| Queen CloudRunner | Currently Unknown |
| Garunda Te | John Silke |
| Belina Te | Currently Unknown |
| Andross | Duncan Botwood |
[edit] Plot
Star Fox Adventures takes place eight years after Star Fox 64 on an ancient world of Dinosaur Planet, located on the side of the Lylat system opposite of the planet Corneria. Krystal, a vixen looking for answers to the destruction of her home planet, Cerinia, and the murder of her parents, lands on Krazoa Palace after receiving a distress call from the planet. She discovers that the planet had been attacked by General Scales and his SharpClaw army, and decides to help by collecting all of the Krazoa Spirits and returning them to the palace, which would supposedly tilt the war in the dinosaurs' favor and stop Scales. However, after releasing the first one, General Scales (who was following her) pushes Krystal into the spirit's path, thus she is trapped in a floating crystal atop the Krazoa Palace and thus trapped until all the spirits can be returned.
Meanwhile, Fox McCloud, Slippy Toad, and Peppy Hare receive a mission briefing from General Pepper to go to Dinosaur Planet and reattach pieces of the planet that had broken off, as the current state of the planet posed a threat to the welfare of the Lylat System. The team, realizing that they are low on cash and that the Great Fox and Arwings are in dire need of repair, not to mention the departure of Falco Lombardi due to boredom, decide to accept the mission. Fox flies to ThornTail Hollow and recovers Krystal's Staff, which she had dropped earlier due to being attacked by General Scales' floating galleon. Fox learns from the Queen EarthWalker that he must find the GateKeeper for each of the four areas that had broken off from the planet in order to gain access to them, and travel to those areas to retrieve the SpellStones, which must be placed in Force Point Temples to keep the planet together, and which had been previously removed by Scales, causing the planet to be torn apart.
After being warped to Ice Mountain by the Warpstone, Fox meets the Queen EarthWalker's son and his new partner, Prince Tricky, in SnowHorn Wastes. Together, they free the GateKeeper to DarkIce Mines and travel there to retrieve the first SpellStone. After defeating Boss Galdon and getting the SpellStone back, Fox travels to the Volcano Force Point Temple, where he places the SpellStone. Upon leaving the temple, the Krazoa Spirit who was released by Krystal informs him that he must also collect the other spirits and release them at Krazoa palace in order to save Krystal's life.
Now finding himself having to not only save the planet but the mysterious blue vixen as well, Fox collects the second Krazoa Spirit in Moon Mountain Pass and releases it. A scene is shown of him seeing Krystal for the first time, he is speechless at her beauty. He then locates the next gatekeeper, the queen of the CloudRunner tribe, at Cape Claw. He gains access to CloudRunner Fortress, encounters General Scales there for the first time, and loses to him in a brief struggle, allowing the general to escape. He collects the second SpellStone and releases it at the Ocean Force Point Temple back on Dinosaur Planet.
Fox has a brief run-in with the LightFoot tribe, who accuse him of stealing an artifact from them. They attempt to execute him, but a CloudRunner fends them off, eventually forcing the tribe to let Fox free. Subsequently, Chief LightFoot orders Fox to break MuscleFoot's records in speed and strength. After that Chief LightFoot dubs Fox "an honorary member of tribe." Fox locates and collects the third Krazoa spirit in the LightFoot Village, and releases it at the palace. He then travels to the third broken piece of Dinosaur Planet, Walled City, after locating the powers of that area's GateKeeper, Tricky's father. Fox defeats the RedEye tribe there, including the King RedEye, in order to claim the third SpellStone. He travels back to the Volcano Force Point Temple once again to place the SpellStone where it belongs. He later ends up traveling to SnowHorn Wastes again, where he finds another Krazoa Shrine and collects the fourth Spirit there.
After finding the final SpellStone at Dragon Rock and placing it at Ocean Force Point Temple, the planet does not come back together. Fox realizes that he must release all the Krazoa spirits to bring the planet back together. He travels back to the Walled City, where he finds another Krazoa Shrine at the top of the large temple, and obtains the spirit there. He heads back to Krazoa Palace, where he releases the spirit and discovers that there had been another shrine right on the roof of the palace. He collects the final Spirit after confronting Scales (who, instead of facing off against Fox, is mystically killed by a strange being with a voice Fox deems familiar) there and releases it, however, instead of freeing Krystal, the Spirits enter her body and exit again. The crystal shatters, and Fox narrowly saves Krystal from falling to her death.
She takes her staff back, and the two discover that the real enemy was not General Scales, but Andross, who reveals himself to them in the form of a giant head (the same way he was portrayed in Star Fox 64) and flies out into space, supposedly to conquer the Lylat System. Fox chases after him in his Arwing, and defeats him with the help of Falco, who suddenly flies in to assist him, after being absent from the Star Fox team for years. After Andross is finally defeated for good, Falco rejoins the Star Fox team. Krystal flies over to the Great Fox in order to thank Fox for saving her. Fox is too shy for her and everyone laughs at him. R.O.B. senses that his temperature is rising and asks if he is OK, and Fox replies that he will be fine.
Fox and Krystal smile to each other, showing they've fallen in love, marking the end of Star Fox Adventures.
[edit] Development
Star Fox Adventures was originally slated for release on the Nintendo 64 under the title "Dinosaur Planet." Originally, Krystal was going to play the protagonist role, the adopted child of a wizard-like character by the name of Randorn alongside another character who was named Sabre, who resembled Fox, and befriends a young triceratops named Tricky (Possibly a reference to the Triceratops Tricky from Diddy Kong Racing). It was developed by Rareware, then a second-party developer for Nintendo, and appeared a few times at E3 and other such events. When it was noted by Miyamoto that Sabre was similar to Fox and that they needed a new Star Fox title anyway, Dinosaur Planet was scrapped and changed to a Star Fox title, while still keeping many of the same elements (Prince Tricky, Dinosaur Planet, etc., though of course without the previously made plotline).
It is believed by some that beta cartridges of the original Dinosaur Planet still exist, but there is no evidence to support this. When Nick Burton, the lead engineer on the project, was contacted recently in early 2008, he commented that it was not his place to discuss the matter, and that Nintendo would take it further if they pleased so.
[edit] Reception
There was mixed response to this game, however, it was generally positive with it recieving an 81 average score on Metacritic. The game was praised by many for its amazingly realistic graphics and long play time, while the criticism was mainly focused on the fact that there is little to no Arwing piloting, which had been a key element in Star Fox games this far. Another problem that was mentioned was the slightly repetitive scavenger missions that Rareware was notorius for in previous games. Regardless of that, it revieved Nintendos Players Choice for the large amount of copies sold.
[edit] Legacy
One thing which made this game popular is its introduction to Krystal, who has become known as one of the most loved "video game babes" to date. Such response has made fans request her appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, to which she only got a cameo as an unlockable trophy.
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Other: Star Fox 2 | Star Fox Wii | Star Fox Arcade | Cameos
