Line #9 Trivia/StarfoxAdventures


1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** Estelle Ellis voices Krystal, Queen [=EarthWalker=] and Mother [=ThornTail=].
3	** Kevin Bayliss voices both Tricky and King [=EarthWalker=].
4	** Chris Seavor voices Slippy Toad, Peppy Hare and Chief [=LightFoot=].
5	** John Silke voices General Scales, General Pepper, the Warpstone, ROB 64 and several minor characters.
6	** Steven Brand voices the Shopkeeper, the [=ThornTail=] gatekeeper as well as some background characters.
7	** Ben Cullum voices Falco Lombardi, the dying [=EarthWalker=] in the game's prologue, the Krazoa spirit and some one-off characters.
8	* AshcanCopy: Microsoft's purchase of Rare Ltd. meant that, unlike other in-development titles at the studio, ''Star Fox Adventure'' was on a timer due to its inclusion of the Nintendo owned ''Star Fox'' brand. The game came out one day before Rare's sale was completed and if it had come out any later then there's a legitimate chance it would have been indefinitely stuck in legal limbo.
9	* ContentLeak: On February 20, 2021, a very late and mostly playable prototype of the original ''VideoGame/DinosaurPlanet'' incarnation of the game (dated to December 2000) was leaked onto the internet. Interestingly enough, this prototype has not Saber as the male lead, but rather Fox as a "Royal Knight of the Lylat System", making the change to a Star Fox game much earlier than expected.
10	* DeletedScene: The disc for ''Adventures'' contains several voice clips absent from the game itself which indicate that Krystal originally had a more prominent role and would have teamed up with Fox to help him navigate through the final dungeon (in the retail version, she is playable only for a few minutes at the beginning of the game, imprisoned, and then released just before the end). The romantic subplot between the two is also slightly expanded upon; [[spoiler:after Andross is defeated]], Fox asks Krystal to join Star Fox, and she agrees on the condition that he kisses her first. Samples and transcriptions of the deleted audio can be found [[https://krystalarchive.com/audio/adventuresvoiceacting/#UnusedKrystalVoiceClips here]]. There is also some cut dialogue such as Fox and Tricky talking after beating Galdon or ''Falco helping Fox against General Scales.'' You can find those clips [[https://tcrf.net/Star_Fox_Adventures/Unused_Voice_Clips here]].
11	* DummiedOut: A lot of things were dummied out both as ''Dinosaur Planet'' and during its transition as ''Star Fox Adventures''.
12	** Parts of the story were vastly changed, including how Tricky had [[{{Expy}} a twin named Rocky]] who joined Krystal in the first boss fight before she gets Kyte, [[spoiler:how the Queen [=CloudRunner=] is killed in her encounter with Scales, and Kyte would've [[PassingTheTorch taken her place end-game]]]], how Sabre would've been trapped with Galdon with a choice between freedom or the [=SpellStone=] before Galdon is killed, many dropped characters (such as Sabre's brother, father, and Randorn), [[spoiler:an actual fight with Scales, Andross and the Arwing segments being nowhere in sight]], and it being Fox's choice to save Krystal (complete with extra dialogue for her) rather than needing all the Krazoa Spirits to save the planet in addition to the [=SpellStones=] (also, Krystal may have been released much earlier).
13	** A boss fight for [[spoiler:General Scales]] was also originally planned for the game. However, the impending Microsoft acquisition of Rare forced them to rush development and replace this battle with the cutscene we got in the final product. Unused audio also implies that [[spoiler:''Falco'' would help Fox take down Scales.]]
14	** The [=ShadowHunter=] tribe, the carnivorous dinosaurs from the Krazoa Test of Fear, were originally planned to be in Walled City where they used to be imprisoned along with the [=RedEye=] tribe, according to an unused briefing by Peppy.
15	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: As of 2023, ''Adventures'' hasn't been re-released on another platform outside of the [=GameCube=].
16	* MovedToTheNextConsole: It infamously started out as the original title called ''VideoGame/{{Dinosaur Planet\|Rare}}'' for the Nintendo 64. It was moved to the newer [=GameCube=] to take advantage of the system's greater hardware and the larger storage capacity of its optical discs compared to cartridges.
17	* NoDubForYou: The Japanese release of the game includes the original English language dialogue.
18	* OrphanedReference: The very start of the game when Krystal boards Scales' Galleon. In the original Dinosaur Planet, she was specifically trying to find the Galleon to rescue Princess Kyte and hijacks it to free her. In Adventures, after being ambushed by it and damaging it, there is no discernable reason Krystal why boards the Galleon, other than a tutorial. Granted, there is still an imprisoned baby Cloudrunner on board in Adventures, but it was not mentioned if Krystal knew of it beforehand and after Scales throws her overboard, she simply flies off on her adult Cloudrunner, with no further attempt to free the Cloudrunner child anyways.
19	* TheOtherDarrin: Literally nobody from ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' reprised their roles in this game, as Rare used their own vocal talents from Britain instead; much of the voice acting is outright recycled from an earlier prototype of ''VideoGame/{{Dinosaur Planet\|Rare}}'', but with less compression thanks to the [=GameCube's=] better sound chip.
20	* SparedByTheCut: In the original ''VideoGame/{{Dinosaur Planet\|Rare}}'', Queen [=CloudRunner=] was killed by General Scales. Due to the sequence being revised in ''Star Fox Adventures'', she is rescued by Fox and survives the final game.
21	* SwanSong: ''Star Fox Adventures'' would be Rare's final game for Nintendo before the former was acquired by Microsoft.
22	* TwoVoicesOneCharacter: The Krazoa spirit is voiced by Ben Cullum while [[spoiler:Andross]] is voiced by Duncan Botwood.
23	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
24	** The game was originally going to be on the Platform/{{Nintendo 64}}, was titled ''VideoGame/{{Dinosaur Planet\|Rare}}'', and, based on the cartridge size (512 Megabits), would've probably been the most ambitious game yet on the system. Eventually, it was decided that the game was a little ''too'' demanding for the system's limited hardware and would've come out dangerously close to the end of the console's lifespan, so it was released on the [=GameCube=] instead. Some early material from the original game concept such as screens, gameplay and trailers, can be seen [[https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/04/dinosaur_planet_n64/ here]]. Curiously, some content that seems like a fairly obvious ''Star Fox'' insert was actually present in the original, such as the entire segment on Ice Mountain, ''including the hoverbike chase''!
25	** Before the game became a ''Star Fox'' title, the game was originally intended to be a GenreShift sequel to ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'' with the main character being Timber as shown in the files for Sabre's character. If they hadn't replaced Timber with Sabre, Nintendo might have shoehorned DK into the game instead with Wizpig taking Andross's place (in fact that was the ''original'' intention to begin with) while Tricky the Triceratops would have been in Tricky's role in the main game.
26	** In 2021, a leaked Nintendo 64 build of ''Dinosaur Planet'' from late 2000 was released online. In it, Sabre had already been reskinned into Fox [=McCloud=] and many, though not all, lines of cutscene dialogue had been replaced to accommodate the change and explain his presence but otherwise the story and gameplay is nearly identical to how it was before the change. This likely means that the decision to make the game be completely ''Star Fox'' focused occurred after the move to the [=GameCube=].
27	** Krystal's original ''Dinosaur Planet'' design is vastly different from her finalized design. She wore a simple brown dress and brown boots, had a white face mask, and (due to N64 hardware limitations) had no FurryFemaleMane or even a TuftOfHeadFur.
28	** Krystal was a fully playable character in ''Dinosaur Planet'' and was the main of the two playable characters. When the game became ''Star Fox Adventures'', voice clips imply she had a greater role earlier in development (likely remainders from ''Dinosaur Planet''). Ultimately, she was DemotedToExtra and became a DamselInDistress instead, with poor Sabre being written out of the story entirely and replaced by Fox.
29	** Earlier plans for Drakor had him act as TheManBehindTheMan to Scales, having a history with the Krazoa spirits. In the final version of the game, he is a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere that acts as the boss of the fourth major area (Dragon Rock), replacing the Kamerian Heart boss that was originally intended for that area, and he himself was replaced by Andross in his role as the TheManBehindTheMan to Scales.
30	** In ''Dinosaur Planet'', Krystal had a separate sidekick from Sabre: a green pterodactyl named Kyte. In ''Star Fox Adventure'', Kyte is reduced to the dinosaur Krystal saves in the tutorial.
31	** ''Dinosaur Planet'' had two Swap Stones used to switch between Krystal and Sabre. ''Dinosaur Planet'' removed one of the brothers and only has one Swap Stone. He was renamed the "Warp Stone" due to his role changing.
32	** Originally one of the cheats for the Scarab Wells for the final game was a Saber skin for Fox as a DevelopmentGag but this idea was scrapped.
33	** Scales was originally going to have a boss fight in this game as well. Remnants of his boss fight have been found within the game's code, along with a few unused animations of him slashing and jumping back as well as unused dialogue, but it was cut due to the rushed development cycle of this game. Interestingly, there seem to have been two intended ideas for a Scales boss fight: the unused dialogue seems to take place on the galleon seemingly against Fox's Arwing, while animations for an earlier version of his on-foot battle are present as well. Scales being intended to be a boss actually dates back to the condensed story draft of Dinosaur Planet that was leaked online. Also, there is no boss fight against Scales in the leaked build of Dinosaur Planet, so it might have been cut for time then as well.
34	** ''Dinosaur Planet'' had ''Brachiosaurus'' and ''Stegosaurus'' characters which were both cut out of ''Star Fox Adventures''.
35	* WorkingTitle: Other than the ''Dinosaur Planet'' name for the [=N64=] prototype, the final release was originally titled ''Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet''.

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