Its a Rare-rity

Have just watched a youtube video upload of Rare's scrapped game and the end result of said game with Starfox Adventures playing side by side. I have never seen the original game in motion before and can state it looked quite good and probably would had gotten my interest a whole lot more than what it ended up becoming.

The then planned Nintendo 64 title has Krystal trying to rescue the child of a dinosaur princess (thus why you see it inside a cage when confronting General Scales,) and playing all the way up till she gets "swapped" by the giant stone man to continue the story with Sabre, its second protagonist of the game who its on his journey to rescue Tricky here. Yeah, she was never meant to be captured and just tossed aside apparently and she even could fight off enemies with her staff while the other character used a sword in its stead.

The prototype game announces Sabre but here it places Fox McCloud who even introduces himself by name, claiming to be a "royal knight" of the Lylat System (???.) However if you see closely you can find that his profile icon doesn't remotely look like him, making it seem like Sabre was indeed going to be in said game after all. I guess by then Nintendo was already asking Rare to convert it into Starfox Adventures, althoug this is my opinion.

All in all it seem like a nice title that could adorn N64's library with other Rare games, but I guess there is nothing to gain in complaining of that cannot be changed.

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jerec - February 25, 2021 (04:19 PM) Yeah, it's an interesting tale. I remember getting very excited about this game when it was first announced back in the N64 days - Rareware doing a Zelda-like game with dinosaurs? Hell yes! I remember slapping down a $10 pre-order deposit at my local EB Games, because I was a naive 15 year old. When the game kept getting delayed, I ended up getting that deposit back. The Starfox change seemed odd, but I guess it made sense from a business perspective, but at the expense of the story and world they had already been working on. The end result - Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube - was a really frustrating adventure/platforming game that I never finished. It definitely lacked the magic and vision that the initial trailer had promised.