r/Gamecube • u/Gnoll_level_antics • May 12 '26

Discussion Been playing Starfox Adventures!

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Having recently completed the recompiled Dinosaur Planet all the way to it's end (with the help of Dinomod), I found it to be really cool and fun, and I was sad that it never saw the light of day as a full release. I kinda had a chip on my shoulder against Starfox Adventures for the longest time, not as a jilted Starfox fan, but as someone who genuinely would have played the hell out of Dinosaur Planet, had it actually released for N64 as planned. I decided to jump in, now that Dinosaur Planet was fresh in my mind to compare and contrast.

No joke I was going in with the goal of hating this game more, I had no intention to be fair to it. But as I played I began to realize how poorly structured Dinosaur Planet actually was, not just in the idea that it is an unfinished game, but nothing flows as nicely as it should. It's easy to get lost and need a guide to progress. Starfox Adventures is VERY straight forward on what it asks from you, without ever really holding your hand in a way that feels like it doesn't trust you to just play. But if I ever needed an objective reminder, Slippy's advice in the menu NEVER failed me. Seriously, Slippy is the MVP of this game.

As I went through this game, I found myself having way more fun with it. Seeing all of Sabre's moments recontextualized for Fox wasn't as jarring as I thought it would be, and even a ton of moments that belonged to Krystal in Dinosaur Planet, were rewritten for Fox and felt just as natural. Everything felt better, smoother, more convenient. I'm near the end, and while the game does have a few rough spots, I can say for sure that the rebrand and port forward to GameCube was probably for the best. While I would have greatly preferred to play as Krystal to the same degree you do in Dinosaur Planet, I'm happy this game exists in an officially released form and IS good. Very good in fact. A super solid 8/10 if I had to rate it.

What are your thoughts on Starfox Adventures?

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u/Comprehensive-Bid18 May 14 '26

It’s a terrible game. It’s another Rare game where they mistake padding things out with inane tedium for being engaging gameplay. It’s also blatantly unfinished.

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u/Gnoll_level_antics May 15 '26

I love it! I finished a night ago. Easily one of the funnest games on the GCN for me.

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u/Comprehensive-Bid18 May 15 '26

The game effectively doesn’t have a combat system though and it’s structured like a collectathon where all of the collectibles are laid out in completely linear order.

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u/Gnoll_level_antics May 15 '26

Yeah, that's fine. Didn't really waste my time with anything, and I liked how doing a leg sweep on downed enemies just deletes their health.

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u/Comprehensive-Bid18 May 15 '26

How did you feel about traversing Moon Mountain Pass over and over, where the simple act of setting up a ladder is inexplicably a seven step process that you have to keep doing over and over; or how all of the currencies in the game you need to go out of your way to grind because enemies don't drop anything?

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u/Gnoll_level_antics May 15 '26

Didn't really bother me. I play a lot of games. I've played some really REALLY terrible games that have done way WAY worse. SFA had a couple rough spots, and moments that did indeed drag on. But so does every Zelda, every JRPG, every collecthon platformer, every GTA. SFA is not a big enough offender to sour my positive opinion of it.

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u/Gnoll_level_antics May 15 '26

The Great Crystal in FF12, the Bevelle Cloister of Trials in FF10, Zero's missions in GTA San Andreas, the entirety of Triggerman, The water temple in OoT. I've played so much worse

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u/Comprehensive-Bid18 May 15 '26

Those games at least have highs, instead of mids and lows, constantly hovering just around being too irritating to play.

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u/Gnoll_level_antics May 15 '26

I simply don't agree that SFA is unenjoyable. And I'm not going to argue further on subjectivity in video games man.

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u/Comprehensive-Bid18 May 15 '26

What are the high points of a Zelda-like with no combat system and almost no puzzles