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In an October 5, 2023 interview with the game's director and producer Yu Suzuki published in the Gematsu website, he stated that he was a long-time fan of Dutch musician Valensia when he asked him to compose the game's soundtrack, and thought that his music went really well with fantasy. When the development team had the Air Twister prototype in hand, Suzuki matched up gameplay from it with some of Valensia’s songs and was convinced that it was the best fit. While Suzuki didn't know if Valensia was still active as an artist, he looked him up on social media to get in contact with him, introduced himself, and straight out said he wanted to work with Valensia, leading to the collaboration.
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This is Mattel Media's first adventure game to be based on the character Barbie. The game's financial success would lead to them developing further games aimed at young girls over the next few years.
PC Mag - March 10, 1998:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Mptk_eahfJ4C&q=barbie&pg=PA344#v=snippet&q=barbie&f=false
Billboard - February 19, 2000:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CQ4EAAAAMBAJ&q=ocean+discovery&pg=PA72#v=snippet&q=ocean%20discovery&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=Mptk_eahfJ4C&q=barbie&pg=PA344#v=snippet&q=barbie&f=false
Billboard - February 19, 2000:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CQ4EAAAAMBAJ&q=ocean+discovery&pg=PA72#v=snippet&q=ocean%20discovery&f=false
subdirectory_arrow_right Star Fox Zero (Game), Star Fox: Assault (Game), Star Fox Command (Game), Dinosaur Planet (Game)
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Star Fox Adventures primarily takes place on a planet filled with dinosaurs known simply as "Dinosaur Planet". It would return or be referenced in future games like Star Fox Assault and Star Fox Command, as well as "Star Fox Zero - The Battle Begins", a promotional anime released to commemorate the release of Star Fox Zero, but it would instead be referred to with a different name: "Sauria".It turns out Rare had always intended Dinosaur Planet's real name to be Sauria, as leaked voice clips from the implied climax of the original Nintendo 64 Dinosaur Planet feature the Krazoa name dropping it as they begin the alignment of the "Majestic Eight" planets to wreak havoc on the universe using the power of their god, the Quan Ata Lachu. An edition of "Ask Uncle Tusk" on Rare's old website revealed Dinosaur Planet's name to be Sauria as well.
Ask Uncle Tusk - July 7, 2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010127012800/http://www.rareware.com/bites/agonyaunt/july700.html
Dinosaur Planet - The Majestic Eight Alignment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9GOY-NvFFA
Star Fox Zero - The Battle Begins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA2-0nTxaGg
http://web.archive.org/web/20010127012800/http://www.rareware.com/bites/agonyaunt/july700.html
Dinosaur Planet - The Majestic Eight Alignment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9GOY-NvFFA
Star Fox Zero - The Battle Begins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA2-0nTxaGg
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Shigeru Miyamoto had actually teased the existence of Star Fox Adventures at least an entire year before its actual announcement at E3 2001. In an interview with Miyamoto in a February 2000 issue of 64 Dream (so several months before Dinosaur Planet was revealed at E3 2000 that year), he had mentioned that, while a sequel to Star Fox 64 was not currently in development, he'd like to make a game titled "Star Fox Adventures" for the then-coming GameCube. Similarly, in an interview with Miyamoto at E3 2000, when asked about how he felt about Rare's recently unveiled Dinosaur Planet, he had this to say:"It looks really nice, doesn't it? I wish they would use Star Fox characters so that they could use the title Star Fox Adventures. Maybe I should call the team and talk about it [laughs]."
Further interviews reveal Star Fox Adventures' origins indeed actually came from within Nintendo in Kyoto, Japan, even before Rare and Dinosaur Planet were involved. Towards the end of the Nintendo 64's lifecycle, Takaya Imamura, who had created Fox McCloud and had been heavily involved with the series since the first game, had begged Miyamoto to let him work on the Star Fox series again. Miyamoto obliged, but had requested for Imamura to instead create an action-adventure title starring Fox as the main character as opposed to a traditional arcade shooter in the vein of Star Fox on the SNES or Star Fox 64. This led Imamura and other Nintendo staff like Kazuaki Morita to begin experimenting with various ideas, like having Fox run around on-foot and shooting down enemies with a gun.
However, with it being a late-stage N64 title, the project was not making much progress as many of the staff were being pulled away to work on bigger projects for the then-upcoming GameCube such as Mario and The Legend of Zelda. This was when Miyamoto noticed Rare was making their own action-adventure game starring Star Fox-esque characters known as Dinosaur Planet. Impressed by their demo at E3, he and other Nintendo staff arranged a meeting with Rare employees to discuss the prospects of merging their similar projects into one, and from there the game that today would be known as Star Fox Adventures would be born.
Shigeru Miyamoto teasing "Star Fox Adventures" in a February 2000 issue of 64 Dream:
https://archive.org/details/64-dream-february-2000-02-600dpi-ozidual/64Dream%202000%2002%20%28J%20OCR%29/page/n91/mode/2up
Miyamoto discussing Dinosaur Planet and the prospects of renaming it "Star Fox Adventures" at E3 2000:
https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/06/06/interview-miyamoto-and-aonuma
Nintendo Japanese website Star Fox Adventures interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070705035402/http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0210/fox_03/index.html
English translations of above NOM interview:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/18rek3h/just_throwing_out_a_translation_of_this_old/
Nintendo Dream interview:
https://shmuplations.com/starfoxadventures/
2001 article on shift from Dinosaur Planet to Star Fox Adventures:
https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/5981/rare-explains-star-fox-adventures
Article by Kev Bayliss on a leaked build of Dinosaur Planet:
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/opinion/dinosaur-planet-leak/
https://archive.org/details/64-dream-february-2000-02-600dpi-ozidual/64Dream%202000%2002%20%28J%20OCR%29/page/n91/mode/2up
Miyamoto discussing Dinosaur Planet and the prospects of renaming it "Star Fox Adventures" at E3 2000:
https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/06/06/interview-miyamoto-and-aonuma
Nintendo Japanese website Star Fox Adventures interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070705035402/http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0210/fox_03/index.html
English translations of above NOM interview:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/18rek3h/just_throwing_out_a_translation_of_this_old/
Nintendo Dream interview:
https://shmuplations.com/starfoxadventures/
2001 article on shift from Dinosaur Planet to Star Fox Adventures:
https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/5981/rare-explains-star-fox-adventures
Article by Kev Bayliss on a leaked build of Dinosaur Planet:
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/opinion/dinosaur-planet-leak/
subdirectory_arrow_right Star Fox (Franchise)
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According to Shigeru Miyamoto in an edition of Iwata Asks regarding Star Fox 64 3D, Yusuke Amano originally wanted to create an all new Star Fox title for the Nintendo 3DS. However, the higher ups at Nintendo wanted a game that could be released fast for the 3DS' launch window in 2011, whereas a fully original title would require at least three years to make. Thus the project was reduced into a simplistic remake of Star Fox 64. Miyamoto called upon Dylan Cuthbert and Q-Games, who previously had worked on Star Fox Command in for the Nintendo DS in 2006, to assist development.
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In an October 5, 2023 interview with the game's director and producer Yu Suzuki published in the Gematsu website, he revealed that his return to the rail shooter genre was spurred by a visit to Apple's headquarters, where "talk heated up about the possibility of creating a title for Apple Arcade that could be played over and over again, just like a classic arcade game.”
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Poptropica is primarily the creation of Jeff Kinney, the author of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" book series. As of 2015, he was still involved in the game as the Creative Director and as of 2023 is credited on the front page of the mobile version's website.
Poptropica front page (Jeff Kinney credit can be seen on mobile):
https://www.poptropica.com/
Interview with artist Kory Merritt confirming Kinney's continued work on the game circa 2015:
http://www.lideamagazine.com/lost-side-suburbia-poptropica-interview-artist-kory-merritt/
https://www.poptropica.com/
Interview with artist Kory Merritt confirming Kinney's continued work on the game circa 2015:
http://www.lideamagazine.com/lost-side-suburbia-poptropica-interview-artist-kory-merritt/
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According to the brochures distributed with Star Fox 64 3D in Japanese retail stores in 2011, it was Pigma Dengar who designed the Star Fox logo during his tenure with the original team, before he betrayed them.
subdirectory_arrow_right Star Fox 64 (Game)
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Star Fox Adventures notably takes place eight years after the events of Star Fox 64. In an interview with Nintendo Official Magazine in 2002, Takaya Imamura admitted that he felt it'd be better for Fox and his friends to grow and change over time, as opposed to other Nintendo characters like Mario and Bowser who never age. Imamura would touch upon this again in an 2002 Nintendo Dream interview regarding Star Fox Adventures. In addition to wanting to come up with a justification for why Fox, Falco, Peppy and Slippy would reunite to fight the enemy, he also wanted to reflect the change in genre from SF64 to SFA and how the relationships between the characters had evolved since then.
As mentioned in the same interview, Imamura had already stated some years prior he'd like to make a sequel to Star Fox 64 taking place 20 years later (Fox would be 38 years old) in the official Japanese guidebook for Star Fox 64 released in 1997.
Nintendo website developer interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030416023122/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0210/fox_03/page03.html
English translations of above NOM interview:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/18rek3h/just_throwing_out_a_translation_of_this_old/
Nintendo Dream interview:
https://shmuplations.com/starfoxadventures/
User's English translation of an official SF64 Japanese guidebook:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/y8cwc9/finally_got_around_to_doing_translations/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030416023122/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0210/fox_03/page03.html
English translations of above NOM interview:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/18rek3h/just_throwing_out_a_translation_of_this_old/
Nintendo Dream interview:
https://shmuplations.com/starfoxadventures/
User's English translation of an official SF64 Japanese guidebook:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/y8cwc9/finally_got_around_to_doing_translations/
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Before version 18w07a (1.13), the height of large oak trees would be shared for each instance of the large tree generator created. Before Beta 1.8, this was not an issue since every time a large tree needed to be generated it used a new instance of the generator. However, from Beta 1.8 onward, each biome had its own large tree generator instance, resulting in naturally generated large trees sharing the same height per biome. These height values would remain the same until the game is restarted.
The source code below is generated using RetroMCP for version 1.2.5 unless otherwise stated.
Around line 340 of WorldGenBigTree.java, this can be found:
[code]
if(this.heightLimit == 0) {
this.heightLimit = 5 + this.rand.nextInt(this.heightLimitLimit);
}
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This code randomises the height of generated large oak trees. However, this height limit is set once due to the [code]this.heightLimit == 0[/code] check.
Line 51 of BiomeGenBase.java shows the generator instance being created: [code]protected WorldGenBigTree worldGenBigTree = new WorldGenBigTree(false);[/code] The instance is unique for every biome created and is used whenever a biome has large trees in it. Therefore, large tree heights are unique per biome. This is not too noticable however, since these trees only generate in forests, extreme hills, ice plains, jungles and plains.
Between Alpha v1.2.0 and Beta 1.7.3, BiomeGenBase still controlled what trees were generated, but it used a new large tree generator instance every time, as seen on line 64: [code]return (WorldGenerator)(var1.nextInt(10) == 0 ? new WorldGenBigTree() : new WorldGenTrees());[/code] In earlier versions, new generator instances were still being created with the exception that the height was shared per chunk: in Alpha v1.1.2_01, the following code was used around line 380 in ChunkProviderGenerate.populate().
[code]
Object var18 = new WorldGenTrees();
if(this.rand.nextInt(10) == 0) {
var18 = new WorldGenBigTree();
}
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In the image attached to this submission, it shows a world generated in Minecraft Java Edition 1.9.4. The red sand border shows the border between chunks generated before and after game reset. Trees with sea lanterns are large trees generated before the reset and trees with glowstone are large trees generated after the reset.
This bug has its own report on the official bug tracker:
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-11208
Around line 340 of WorldGenBigTree.java, this can be found:
[code]
if(this.heightLimit == 0) {
this.heightLimit = 5 + this.rand.nextInt(this.heightLimitLimit);
}
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This code randomises the height of generated large oak trees. However, this height limit is set once due to the [code]this.heightLimit == 0[/code] check.
Line 51 of BiomeGenBase.java shows the generator instance being created: [code]protected WorldGenBigTree worldGenBigTree = new WorldGenBigTree(false);[/code] The instance is unique for every biome created and is used whenever a biome has large trees in it. Therefore, large tree heights are unique per biome. This is not too noticable however, since these trees only generate in forests, extreme hills, ice plains, jungles and plains.
Between Alpha v1.2.0 and Beta 1.7.3, BiomeGenBase still controlled what trees were generated, but it used a new large tree generator instance every time, as seen on line 64: [code]return (WorldGenerator)(var1.nextInt(10) == 0 ? new WorldGenBigTree() : new WorldGenTrees());[/code] In earlier versions, new generator instances were still being created with the exception that the height was shared per chunk: in Alpha v1.1.2_01, the following code was used around line 380 in ChunkProviderGenerate.populate().
[code]
Object var18 = new WorldGenTrees();
if(this.rand.nextInt(10) == 0) {
var18 = new WorldGenBigTree();
}
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In the image attached to this submission, it shows a world generated in Minecraft Java Edition 1.9.4. The red sand border shows the border between chunks generated before and after game reset. Trees with sea lanterns are large trees generated before the reset and trees with glowstone are large trees generated after the reset.
This bug has its own report on the official bug tracker:
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-11208
subdirectory_arrow_right Final Fantasy XVI (Game), Donald Duck (Franchise), Final Fantasy (Franchise)
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In the climax of Kingdom Hearts III, Spoiler:Donald Duck uses Zettaflare, a previously unseen spell within either Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy, powerful enough to destroy a solar system. This made Spoiler:the irritable cartoon waterfowl the most powerful mage in the Final Fantasy franchise at the time, to the humor and ire of various players.
In Final Fantasy XVI, Spoiler:Bahamut, who after Spoiler:Donald's use of Zettaflare became the former most powerful mage in the Final Fantasy series, would use Zettaflare during its battle in the game, regaining its former title.
In Final Fantasy XVI, Spoiler:Bahamut, who after Spoiler:Donald's use of Zettaflare became the former most powerful mage in the Final Fantasy series, would use Zettaflare during its battle in the game, regaining its former title.
Article on Donald's use of Zettaflare:
https://www.cbr.com/donald-duck-final-fantasy-zettaflare/
Article on Bahamut's use of Zettaflare:
https://www.ign.com/articles/donald-duck-is-no-longer-the-most-powerful-mage-in-final-fantasy
https://www.cbr.com/donald-duck-final-fantasy-zettaflare/
Article on Bahamut's use of Zettaflare:
https://www.ign.com/articles/donald-duck-is-no-longer-the-most-powerful-mage-in-final-fantasy
Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog
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According to former Sega employee Del Walker, from his experience working for the company in Japan, the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise is not particularly popular to domestic audiences there as the character was designed to appeal to Westerners. He claimed this disconnect is so strong that many Japanese gamers do not understand why Sonic is so popular abroad.
Article about Del's testimony on Sonic's popularity:
https://stealthoptional.com/news/sonic-is-kind-of-lame-in-japan/
Proof that Del is a real Sega employee:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deldrakewalker
https://stealthoptional.com/news/sonic-is-kind-of-lame-in-japan/
Proof that Del is a real Sega employee:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deldrakewalker
subdirectory_arrow_right Banjo-Tooie (Game)
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A few of Banjo-Tooie's worlds were originally planned for its predecessor, Banjo-Kazooie, such as the fire side of Hailfire Peaks and Glitter Gulch Mine. Many of these were cut primarily because of time constraints.Gobi mentions leaving for the "Lava World" in Click Clock Woods, which adds up as Gregg Mayles' concept art for the cut lava world shows that Gobi would have been present. Gobi would eventually live up to his promise by appearing in the fire side of Hailfire Peaks in Banjo-Tooie, after being freed in Witchyworld.
Glitter Gulch Mine concept art:
https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/616347385392988160
Lava World/Hailfire Peaks concept art:
https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/644798707196538880
https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/616347385392988160
Lava World/Hailfire Peaks concept art:
https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/644798707196538880
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On the Japanese website for Star Fox 64, Slippy mentions certain background characters who would appear in future installments:• Peppy's wife, Vivian Hare. According to Slippy, Peppy took her to planet Zoness for their honeymoon, which explains why Peppy is so distraught at its polluted status in SF64. Vivian would appear in-game for the first time in Star Fox Command, where it's revealed that she and Peppy had a daughter named Lucy, and that Vivian had died of a disease several years prior.
• Slippy's father, Beltino Toad. According to Slippy, Beltino works as an engineer for Space Dynamics, the manufacturer of the Arwing and many of the other vehicles the Star Fox team utilize. Beltino would later appear in-game for the first time in Star Fox Assault, and would later appear in Star Fox Command.
It's worth pointing that unlike Vivian, Beltino was mentioned in western ancillary SF64 material, that being both the official western Star Fox 64 website and the Star Fox 64 Official Player's Guide, where it states that he helped his son Slippy create the Blue Marine.
Official Japanese Nintendo website Star Fox 64 character bios:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nfxj/member/index2.html#frog
Star Fox 64 Nintendo Power Official Strategy Guide:
https://archive.org/details/Starfox64NintendoPowerOfficialStrategyGuide/page/n15/mode/2up
Official American Nintendo website Star Fox 64 character bio for Slippy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011020022648/http://starfox64.com/slippy.html
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nfxj/member/index2.html#frog
Star Fox 64 Nintendo Power Official Strategy Guide:
https://archive.org/details/Starfox64NintendoPowerOfficialStrategyGuide/page/n15/mode/2up
Official American Nintendo website Star Fox 64 character bio for Slippy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011020022648/http://starfox64.com/slippy.html
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According to Takaya Imamura in a 2011 Nintendo Dream magazine interview, frogs in the Lylat System are born as tadpoles and remain as such until they're a month old. He even explains that Slippy and Amanda's baby seen in the "Slippy's Resolve" ending in Star Fox Command was one month old already, hence why it appears as a frog. Imamura would later illustrate this fact in comic form to commemorate the release of Star Fox Zero.
Nintendo Dream interview:
https://www.ndw.jp/starfox-game-230221/
English translations of above interview:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/1151lkd/nintendo_dream_republishes_some_of_their_old_star/
Star Fox Zero comic:
https://jewelgaming.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/starfox-zero-special-comic-part-2-star-fox-teams-past/
https://www.ndw.jp/starfox-game-230221/
English translations of above interview:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/1151lkd/nintendo_dream_republishes_some_of_their_old_star/
Star Fox Zero comic:
https://jewelgaming.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/starfox-zero-special-comic-part-2-star-fox-teams-past/
subdirectory_arrow_right Star Fox 64 3D (Game)
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The green planet Peppy's Arwing is shown hurdling towards in the prologue for Star Fox 64 (and also its 3DS remake, Star Fox 64 3D) is actually meant to represent Papetoon, his and also Fox and James' home planet. The Japanese prologue even refers to it as such, and various Japanese SF64 material also mention it. However, when Star Fox 64 was localized for Western audiences, Nintendo of America completely wiped out all specific mention of Papetoon in both the prologue and also manuals/guidebooks.
IGN's English translation of Star Fox 64's Japanese manual:
https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/05/14/starfox-64-manual-translation-pt1
Star Fox 64 Official Japanese Character Bios:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nfxj/member/index.html
Star Fox 64 Japanese intro:
https://youtu.be/_imyPdEU0Mc?t=162
https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/05/14/starfox-64-manual-translation-pt1
Star Fox 64 Official Japanese Character Bios:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nfxj/member/index.html
Star Fox 64 Japanese intro:
https://youtu.be/_imyPdEU0Mc?t=162
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One of Star Fox Command's most infamous endings see Krystal ousted from the Lylat System and becoming a bounty hunter named "Kursed" in another galaxy. Looking at the Japanese script however, reveals a slightly different story: その後彼女は過去を捨て去り
別の銀河でクラゾアと名乗る
凄腕の賞金稼ぎになっていた
惑星キューで偶然クラゾアと
出会ったフォックスが彼女に
気付くことはなかったそうだ
別の銀河でクラゾアと名乗る
凄腕の賞金稼ぎになっていた
惑星キューで偶然クラゾアと
出会ったフォックスが彼女に
気付くことはなかったそうだ
A direct translation of this into English would be:
Afterward, she discarded her past and assumed the name Krazoa in another galaxy, becoming a skilled bounty hunter. It seems that Fox, who coincidentally met Krazoa on the planet Que, didn't recognize her.
It shows that Krystal instead renames herself to クラゾア (Kurazoa), which translates to Krazoa.
This is clearly a reference to the ancient tribe that once ruled Dinosaur Planet in Star Fox Adventures, similar to how her spacecraft is shaped and named after the CloudRunner tribe from that game.
Star Fox Command Japanese version endings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-up_iM5y2RM#t=395
Star Fox Command endings fan archival site:
https://ljmixoeqeunl4vov8m9k6q.on.drv.tw/starfoxcommand/ED4_Star_Wolf_Returns.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-up_iM5y2RM#t=395
Star Fox Command endings fan archival site:
https://ljmixoeqeunl4vov8m9k6q.on.drv.tw/starfoxcommand/ED4_Star_Wolf_Returns.html
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According to Takaya Imamura in a 2011 Nintendo Dream magazine interview, Fox McCloud's mother is actually still alive and well on their home planet of Papetoon. This is in contrast with the 1994 Nintendo Power comic series, where it was revealed that Fox's mother (named "Vixy Reinard") was accidentally killed by a car bomb planted by Andross that was intended for her husband ("James" as he would referred to in the games starting with Star Fox 64).According to Imamura, Fox's mother disapproved of her son following in her husband's footsteps and potentially getting himself killed the same way, and thus they have become estranged from each other, though they haven't exactly broken off from each other completely. Imamura even hints that she's secretly supporting her son's actions from behind the scenes.
Nintendo Dream interview:
https://www.ndw.jp/starfox-game-230221/
Star Fox Nintendo Power comic:
https://imgur.io/gallery/5Vvlb
Snippet from the original Nintendo Dream 2011 Magazine interview:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/wo9lfo/so_heres_the_official_statement_regarding_the/
https://www.ndw.jp/starfox-game-230221/
Star Fox Nintendo Power comic:
https://imgur.io/gallery/5Vvlb
Snippet from the original Nintendo Dream 2011 Magazine interview:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/wo9lfo/so_heres_the_official_statement_regarding_the/
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Despite initial belief, the intro animation was not done by frequent collaborator Tyson Hesse, but rather a Japanese animation studio using his character sheets as reference. This makes Sonic Superstars the first Sonic game to have an intro animated by a Japanese studio since Sonic Riders in 2006.
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In an October 24, 2023 WIRED video/interview with the Marvel's Spider-Man series creative director Bryan Intihar, he revealed that when redesigning Venom, the development team wanted to take all the elements of Venom that both players and fans loved about the character. Whether it's Venom's size, symbol, teeth, mouth, eyes, transformation and power, they wanted to be respectful of the DNA of the character, but also not afraid to mix things up. Ultimately, the goal was to take all of this all into account to ensure that Venom is "pretty badass".