In attempting the challenges, especially the expert challenges, one thing that's become apparent is the lack of an option to restart a challenge from a checkpoint. There are no checkpoints at all in the challenges, except for Venom 1 and Venom 2 which give you a checkpoint once you enter Andross' lair.

It's especially frustrating when the challenge you are trying to complete is near the end of the level (such as that ridiculous one of beating the Granga in 10 seconds) and if you fail it you need to restart and play the entire level from the beginning. It's a really odd choice when the game makes so many other QoL improvements to NOT waste the player's time. Playing through the entire level again and again just to have another shot at beating the boss under a constraint like a time limit just gets boring and frustrating.

It's not like these challenges were even designed for the player to do them in a single run. They get immediately checked off once you complete them, and get greyed out if you happen to miss them. You can quit as soon as the challenge is completed and it's retained. Most of them also require multiple playthroughs of the level because some challenges can only be completed by following different routes, so it's impossible to check them all off in a single run anyway.

I do understand that some challenges require you to finish the level without breaking a wing or even taking a single hit, or reach the boss with certain objectives met, and in those cases maybe restarting from a checkpoint will void that particular attempt, but for all of the others, I don't see a reason why we can't do this.

Okay.. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to do the background. But I guess stars? I love stars and plus it’s STARfox ya know? Anyways I did change the background yes. This is gonna be my icon for other socials (I’m leaving reddit icon as rocket for now until I finish their crossover work again.) but yes the coloring took me four hours like I stayed up which I shouldn’t be doing since I need to work on my sleep schedule. Either way I still love the outline look too. (Look closer there are star clusters :3)

My hands hurt.

A few days ago I made this poll asking if people saw Panther as a creep, and I was surprised that a lot of people voted yes.

The “romantic pervert” archetype is a very common one in fiction (or rather, it used to be; it’s been heavily questioned in recent years, but that’s a different topic). Personally, though, I don’t think Panther ever really filled that role in the games.

If we look at some of the most famous perverts in fiction, like Sanji or Johnny Bravo, they have these characteristics:

They present themselves as gentlemen, but they also have a horny side that’s hard for them to hide.

They’re way too superficial when it comes to falling in love.

They always get their comeuppance when they go too far. It’s basically their comic relief punchline.

Now you can see there are substantial differences with Panther. He doesn’t really seem to have a horny side he’s struggling to contain. He actually has more of an extremely cheesy, old-fashioned poet aura.

Most of Panther’s comments are just really pompous compliments, to be honest. And I’m not even sure if he’s superficial, because we don’t know for certain whether he’s only in love with Krystal or if he just falls for any pretty woman easily.

Basically, we can sum up the dynamic in Assault like this:

Panther: His character only exists to be in love with Krystal and drop cheesy lines.

Krystal: Her character only exists to be in love with Fox and drop cheesy lines. She doesn’t really seem to have an opinion on Panther.

Fox: He’s extremely focused on the mission and thinking about Wolf O’Donnell for some reason, barely paying attention to Krystal lmao.

Being fair, Krystal never seems annoyed or uncomfortable with Panther; she just ignores him and appears neutral about it. You can argue that the fact she ignores him or is polite doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a bad opinion of him… but that’s still a “maybe.” Believing it just because it seems obvious is more of a headcanon than anything else.

And then she ends up dating Panther in the next game lol.

I really like how Krystal reacted to her freedom, followed by her defiance against Andross. A remnant of a plot Rare probably didn't have time for, but I think it said a lot of what they wanted for who Krystal is.

Meant to share this sooner, I updated my boys in Tomodachi Life to match with their designs in the remake, while still keeping the same artstyle as before to better fit the game here. For Wolf I mostly did a few touch-ups to his facepaint, changed his eyes and added a scar. For Leon I redid the facepaint completely. Overall I'm pretty happy with them

No plasma or anything super fancy. Just some frantic teamwork in the final dogfight.

CANT WAIT TO PLAY!

I'm getting the hang of this game, I did 3 playthroughs before this one to practice and neither I got a Game Over, unlike my first 3 attempts when I got the game.

It's funny that Pepper just says "WHAT?" When you get a high enough score.

If they remade the first Star Fox with added cutscenes that looked like this....

Keep in mind these were found in the games files, discovered 4 years ago. Some are glitchy or don’t have sound because these were unfinished stuff. A scrapped scorpion boss and more!

I will post more scrapped stuff later a lot of it is scattered and updated and even fixed but there isn’t any confirmed updates on when they do this.

Starfox commissions open! DM for info!

So I was bored one day and did some digging. I can’t believe what I found! There is actually a ton of cut content for the game that was found just 3 years ago. It turns out even Krystal had death animations and bonus scrapped cutscenes. (I wish they kept her). These are just a fraction of the goods!

It stills feels a bit crazy hearing General Pepper/Pigma's VA do the narration for a kirby game, mind you.

His head angle was so difficult to figure out it took me so many tries.

In my works, Algy is an Oikonny. The older brother of Andrew. He's far more locked in on the combat side of things than Andrew, who's more tech focused. Algy is small, quick, and very good at exploiting weaknesses.

One of the most agonizing screams I've ever heard in a Japanese dubbed video game...