I’ll edit this comment with any corrections that arise in the credits. Oh, and allosaurus.

EDIT 1: It turns out that Tricky CAN attack enemies with his fire, I just never saw it happen in my gameplay. I wonder if it needed to be activated to happen, which I never thought or had a reason to do. Thank you @mz3player for the correction!

EDIT 2: Thank you to @RainingMetal for the following corrections!

There's disagreement among the community on whether Tricky's color affects how many Blue Grub Tubs he uses. This is stated in forums and on various Wikis, but I did not see a difference in my playthrough due to resources not needing to be managed in the first place. I'm inclined to believe it is a myth.

The voice acting cutting out in the first visit to Krazoa Palace appears to be a glitch. It has been observed elsewhere.

The dino language cheat changes the subtitles, not the voice acting (which makes way more sense in hindsight). Apparently, there are different versions of the manual that were released, some with the cipher and some without. Curious.

I watched an walkthrough of the game with developer insights. He said because of the time crunch at the end. Walled city onwards had to be rushed. Dragon rock was supposed to be longer and flush out more with voice acting. Also we were supposed to have a one on one fight with General Scales for the spirit but was cut to save time.

Pepper: "Sorry Fox, can't bring a gun. You can't just aim-shoot enemies here."
Fox: finds a magic staff, whacks a couple enemies in the face, gets rewarded with the fireball spell, which does literally what a blaster would have done

The fur tech in this game is honestly still impressive even 23 years later. But ESPECIALLY for 2002 seeing fur like that was wild. Like imagine going from the N64/PS1 to this game in 2 years. It was such a massive leap graphically and still one of the most impressive games visually of that generation

I remember getting this for Christmas. Grandma was in my room, so I slept in the living room on the couch with the TV, so I stayed up all night playing it! Good memories. I enjoyed your video - thanks!

20:32 This has to be my favorite joke in the entire game. Five minutes in, Fox asks why can't he bring his blaster, and after getting Krystal's staff and entering our first magic cave, the first ability we earn is...
The fire blaster.

Good job, General.

It's nice that you kept pointing out the especially beautiful parts of the game; there really is a lot of beauty. But you should have mentioned the gorgeous soundtrack. I listen to it till this day, my fav game soundtrack by far!

I really enjoyed your take and personal experience on this. Subbed!

0:50 "I think somewhere in his mind, Miyamoto’s always pictured Star Fox as somewhat mature, and he’s been saying things like 'wouldn’t it be good to add a slightly sexy character?' since the beginning".
- Takaya Imamura (Character Designer)

Thank you a lot for taking me with you on this nostalgia trip. I also played Starfox Adventure a lot as a kid and just hearing the music again was so incredibly nostalgic

Nice video! But I 100% remember using Tricky's flame in combat - he'll actually target enemies with it. Also, if you whack him with the staff enough, he'll complain and then eventually use flame without depleting his hunger meter (it can damage you, so presumably he's trying to get back at Fox, but it still works for puzzles and combat)

Also wanted to give a shout out to the music, it's a great soundtrack

Hey man, this is a great video! So good to see someone give this game a fair look. It’s a weird one but I love it so much.

Oh man. Time to replay this for the first time in 20 years.

The editing, structure and flow is impeccable! I also really like how you told us about how you experienced the game during your childhood while staying objective.

favorite star fox game hands down and i don't care what anyone thinks.

Did you know that originally the final boss of dinosaur planet was supposed to be Drakor? And yes, general scales was intended to be a battle, but only as a lead up to the final battle.

This was great! I really enjoy your style of review. It brought me back to playing this game as a kid when it first came out while also providing solid analysis.

As far as the game goes, the soundtrack is excellent, and the visuals still look great. I remember how exciting it was to explore each new area, they looked so cool; especially after being used to SNES and N64 graphics. I don’t plan to replay it, but it’s still a nostalgic game. Thanks for the video, subscribed!

15:15 Tricky can help you in combat if you command him to breath fire while you are fighting

There's a lot I can say about my experiences with Star Fox Adventures. Star Fox on the SNES was one of the few games I had for that system in my early childhood (the others being Super Mario All Stars, Super Mario World, and Super Mario Kart). Back then I hardly had the means to get past the Space Armada boss (because you're constantly rotating in the ship core and need to shoot down targets that move around to damage the core). We didn't have an N64 during its era despite me being the right age for it (chalk it up to prudish parents). It was the Gamecube generation that I truly got back into playing console video games. Star Fox Adventures felt really different compared to what I had experienced on the SNES, as was the case for everyone else who didn't know at the time that it was given the Doki Doki Panic treatment until much later. Not being familiar at all with the Zelda franchise there were points where I struggled to figure out what to do next, and couldn't get past Galdon's second phase without consulting a magazine guide. Even with the guide, I didn't get past CloudRunner Fortress for reasons I forgot before we sold our copy of the game. I still kept the magazine for nostalgic reasons, and in reading it, spoiled a lot of story elements without playing through the game proper until much later.

Years later, I borrowed the game from a friend and used the magazine guide that we still kept all this time to beat the game from start to finish, and later still I bought a copy of the game from a secondhand seller. Knowing the troubled development history behind this game is an adventure in of itself.

The idea of Tricky's color changing when playing ball affecting his abilities is a myth; it's been proven that this doesn't affect how much energy he uses at all.

I've seen other players run into the audio glitch when Fox warps to Krazoa Palace before, but never encountered it myself using my physical copy of the game. Did you use an emulator to record your playthrough? It could be a cause of this.

The dino language cheat only affects the subtitles that the game uses, and even then there are consistency errors. Speaking of, I could have sworn that the manual that came with my old copy of the game had the cipher article, but the one I currently have does not. Could this be a result of the possible release differences that you spoke of?

One of my favorite fanfiction subgenres is rewrites of Star Fox Adventures, mostly in which Krystal isn't trapped at Krazoa Palace and joins Fox and Tricky throughout the events of the game. I'm actually in the process of writing (or rather, releasing) one of my own, which also addresses various story loopholes from the game's proper release (such as segregating the final chambers of each temple where the party places the spellstones).

This game was amazing