Headscratchers / Star Fox Adventures

• If the Warpstone can't warp dinosaurs, what the hell is he doing on Dinosaur Planet?
  • Maybe he was somehow there before the dinosaurs. Or just was there but rather useless. It would explain why he bitches at Fox for waking him up after a thousand-year rest, or why the one dinosaur calls him "a disgrace".
• Speaking of Dinosaur Planet, what the hell was Scales hoping to accomplish by removing the Spellstones and blowing up his own planet?
  • Nothing. He was possessed by Andross. And that guy is just a DICK.
    • But returning the spellstones and Krozoa spirits allowed Andross to be revived. Maybe he's actually a Magnificent Bastard, but Fox is just better.
    • Wait a sec, if putting the Spellstones and Krozoa spirits back was what it took to revive Andross, why would he remove them in the first place?
    • Perhaps what Andross needed was the energy that would be released when the Spellstones and Krazoa Spirits were specifically used? Perhaps the energy wave that restored the planet was key.
  • You're all forgetting the biggest question: How does a spacefaring species MISS AN ENTIRE PLANET IN THEIR SYSTEM until it's in danger?
    • We've been in space for like... 4 decades and only found out about Eris 5 years ago. How a species that can readily travel between planets missed it, however...
    • Perhaps it wasn't "missed" so much as "overlooked". No valuable resources, not a strategic point, no species advanced enough to make contact, thus it was simply passed over for more valuable planets and ignored
  • Look at the chunks of planet that were hacked apart. By removing the Spellstones, General Scales successfully divided the planet, to keep the dinosaur tribes separate. Andross had found out about the Krazoa spirits, and hung around until some hero shows up to put together the planet. He catches Krystal, who can channel the power, then just has to taunt Fox with the idea of rescuing a hot vixen. Bam - he's got the dude who beat him before unknowingly working his tail off to revive him.
• Why does Krystal's staff work on so many things? It's like a universal lock pick on Dinosaur Planet. There are even places all around the world where you can upgrade your staff using compatable magic. However, Krystal acts like the staff is hers and has been all along, like it came from Cernia. So why is it that her staff interacts so well with Dinosaur Planet?
  • In fact, a lot of things don't make sense on Dinosaur Planet. The warpstone, for one, all the doors that the dinosaur inhabitants can open but YOU can, why they needed gatekeepers to access places on the planet when the planet was still in one piece (and why you need them in order to fly up into space, when you have a perfectly functioning starship), how the Dinosaurs built ANYTHING given the whole "No Thumbs" deal...
    • Possibility one regarding Gatekeepers: Contingency. They knew the planet was being pushed apart, hence the Spellstones and Force Point Temples. Possibility two... well, have you seen any paths that lead where the chunks go? I mean, I understand why they wouldn't want to use up disc space on it, but it would have been kind of neat to be able to walk to the spots where they were, or for that matter, when you're on a chunk, walk down the path that would connect it to someplace in the foot-accessible world. As it stands, without Gatekeepers, the chunks are isolated regardless of whether they're in orbit or returned to the planet.
    • One possibility is that the various areas WERE connected, but by paths that Fox wouldn't be able to make use of (being a small, bipedal Canidae, rather than a Saurian species)
  • Maybe Krystal's ancestors on Cernia colonized this planet long ago, but either died out or moved on?
    • Or, possibly, the inverse. Perhaps the would-be Cerinians originally came from Sauria a long time ago (either leaving voluntarily for some reason (cultural schism, ecological shift, etc), or were forced to flee (perhaps in the event that split the planet)).
• How do the locals shop at the Thorntail Store? Even Tricky never enters. The Lightfoots (Lightfeet?) seem the most capable of patronizing it, though they'd probably end up trying to force the Shopkeeper to play that minigame, only to give up on account of teleportation. Anyway, it seems like 100% of business comes from Fox.
  • I should clarify. "That minigame" is not the gambling one, but the one where the Lightfoots tie you to a totem pole and surround you with Lightfoots with spears, rotate the pole some random amount, and have a Lightfoot approach and jab you with a spear if you haven't fended him off, rotate it again, and so on until you're all the way dead or all his troops have given up. This is apparently what they do to thieves, and the Shopkeeper is demonstrably not above theft to gain wares for his shop; at least three of his items were stolen from others: Tricky's Ball, the Hi-Def Display Device, and the Golden Root. (I would even count it likely that the Fuel Cells he stocks are some of the ones ROB beamed down.) Given this propensity, he would likely run afoul of them... but as he can teleport, they wouldn't be able to hold him for long.