Most effective villain line, from Pigma: “Daddy screamed REAL good before he died!” I like to imagine even the other hardened criminals on Star Wolf are giving him side-eye on that one.
Pigma: "Daddy screamed REAL good before he died!" *silence on comms as Star Wolf all process what Pigma just said* Leon: "...Wolf, are we the baddies?"
This is probably the line I just find myself saying with no context cause of that delivery. The second most stuck line in my head is "So Andross, you show your true form"
In Peppy's defense, he was Jamses' best friend and teammmate, and was captured by Andross alongside him. This mission's rough for Fox and Peppy both, and things like "you remind me of your father" matter a LOT who they come from.
It's absolutely a nice thing to say! It is also, conspicuously, just about the only thing Peppy says when Dan isn't shooting him. He only talks about Fox's dad. Which, yeah, that strongly establishes his age and experience and stuff, and the N64 doesn't have room for _that_ many lines, but that doesn't make it less conspicuous.
Just to get it out of my system - it's an aileron roll. Spinning with the plane as the centre of the spin is an aileron roll. A barrel roll is when your plane flips over and returns to normal, as if you're pressing its belly against the inside perimeter of a barrel. One of the biggest misconceptions in gaming!
What makes this especially ridiculous is that you _do_ have real barrel rolls in this game-it's the maneuver you use to get behind someone who's tailing you! So they could have found an excuse to put the "Do a barrel roll!" line in the game, even if they knew.
Nice job on the hard route. When I play for fun, I try to do a route that gets me both Fortuna and Area 6 in them, usually by switching through Solar and MacBeth. Why? Two Star Wolf fights! Speaking of quotes, from the MacBeth boss, if you get the cool kill where you derail his train into a refinery: "I CAN'T STOP IIIIIIIIIT!!!" The voice acting in this game has the exact correct amount of hamming it up, it's almost uncanny how well it fits.
I think that level made me respect Peppy way more as a kid. Once I realized what he was trying to get me to do, it seemed like some cool setpiece thing that a clever action hero does. All smoke and mirrors, of course, but effective smoke and mirrors.
"THE HATCHES ARE OPEN!!" The moment I saw this playthtough come in, I had to immediately stop whatever I was doing to watch! Such a nostalgic game full of great quotes. Thank you for this trip down memory lane!!
There's an indie game called Ex-Zodiac that did a kickstarter a year or two ago and recently was released in early access that's very much a Star Fox. Aesthetically it looks like the SNES star fox, but the gameplay is very Star Fox 64. It's good!
Ex-Zodiac is a neat take on SNES Star Fox but it feels nothing like SF64 to me. Maybe once they introduce multiple paths that can happen, but for now it really is more for those who like the first game I think.
I've never played this game, but you're making me nostalgic for the old Descent games from when I was a kid. It was the only "shooty" game I was allowed to play since it was shooting robots, rather than people. I don't often chime in on comments, so also want to say Thank you for all the awesome videos! They are a regular and chill and comfy part of my Saturdays. And I agree, the Andross shaking his face-assemblage was very creepy.
It would be hilarious if that was Leon's introductory line, and your squadmates consistently knocked Leon out of the sky within seconds of the introductions ending.
General pepper gives different voice lines at the end depending on how many ships you shot down. The best one, which pretty much requires getting a metal on all levels on your route: " WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?"
You did the route where my two main quotes I remember are from: "You'll never defeat Androoooosssssssss!" and Falco's "Too late! Game over, pal!" The three you didn't see here that I remember most are Bill's "Fox, that's one of ours" and "The hatches are open!" because I played that Independence Day level just about every time I played SF64. And then I love beating the train in Macbeth and hearing him scream "I CAN'T STOP IIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT"
I see you guys decided to go with the objectively superior version of this game. In the 3DS version Falco says "Hey genius, I'm on your side" instead of saying "Hey Einstein, I'm on your side" LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE
"NO! Hit the brakes!!!" "I can't STOP IT!" [HIT+50] Not gonna lie, I was partly rooting for you to fail Zoness so I could see you go to my favorite level. VA trivia: Peppy and Andross were both voiced by the late great Rick May, better known for voicing The Soldier in TF2.
I need you to know that, as I saw the title of this one and the video started loading, I said "Ah, boy" in the exact same cadence and tone of voice two seconds before you did, Dan. Serendipity at its finest! Excited to see what you both got up to in this blast from the past!
Aside from the memable bits, the line that's always stuck with me is "never give up; trust your instincts". It's such a surprisingly genuine bit of advice in the sea of saturday morning cartoon lines.
I remember Star Fox Assault on the GameCube being a fun twist. On rail segments interspersed with tank and on-foot combat. Plus a surprisingly well developed 4 player PvP mode
Ah, the era of polygons so sharp you could put an eye out! 😄 9:12 it was *SO COOL* that this boss was the same one from the original Star Fox, that felt amazing as a kid 13:16 no, it didn't happen. 64 is basically a reboot 55:55 Can't let you brew that, Star Bucks!
Man, that first boss basically said "Who is this guy?!" and Dan Jones didn't react _at all._ Other than "Do a barrel roll!" the line that's coming to mind for me is from the Star Wolf battle. I think it's Andrew saying "Give it up, you can't win!"
@@thekidfromcanada I know right?! Back by the thrusters of Great Fox there is an open bay door. (You only fit safely if both wings are busted, if I remember correctly) And if you fly into it then you come out the bay at the front by the guns fully repaired.
I remember being like 7 and speedrunning Starfox before I knew speedrunning was a thing. I played all the routes and tried to use paper and pencil to figure out which was the fastest. Such a strong hit of nostalgia watching this.
I am one of those people that has never played StarFox. I knew Fox as that character with a laser gun in Smash 64. The music brought me right back to fighting on the Great Fox, aka the best stage in 64.
In high-g maneuvers, it can be difficult for your blood to reach your brain because the g-force is pushing it in some other direction. Under high enough g's this can cause a pilot to black out or even die. The idea with the prosthetic legs thing is that you're reducing the total length of blood vessel in your body, thus making it easier for your heart to keep the whole system equal pressure under such circumstances. Dunno if it'd actually work like that in reality, and last I heard the robot legs are not actually canon in Star Fox. Though, Star Fox canon isn't really something I keep my ear to the ground on.
@@9clawtiger I mean, kinda, but mostly to force blood back out of the legs. I don't know if anyone's studied how double-leg amputees' lack of legs affects their blood flow...
Fighter pilots actually have pressure bags in their pants to do exactly that - force blood out of the legs and back up to the heart / brain, so the idea isnt that silly
I believe Game Theory actually did a video on this years ago. The conclusion was that the body would readjust to the actual amount of blood the body needed. So this idea would not work.
There's a channel called GameHut that is run by the founder of the game studio Traveler's Tales. He has a series called "Coding Secrets" where he talks about the older games he worked on and how they pulled off various graphics tricks
Oh yeah Dan, of you like that shimmery appearing/disappearing effect, a lot of old (Showa Era) Japanese special effects (tokusatsu) media like Ultraman used a similar effect for their aliens so that's probably where it comes from and what the devs are referencing.
I remember when me and my brothers got to see an old friend for the first time in a long time, we spent a considerable amount of time busting up while quoting random lines. No context, to punchlines, just losing it to random lines.
Wow! I've never seen this game to the end before but it reminds me a lot of kid icarus uprising, especially the banter and on rails shooter part along with the branching paths based on where you fly/what you do! It's really cool to see that in both games
31:10 Another game that does this sort of thing that was somewhat big is Panzer Dragoon. There was a remake of the original that came out a couple of years ago for the original but it's the second game, Zwei, that I'll always remember fondly.
My brother and I played this game so much! We quoted it all the time. Sometimes in multiplayer mode, we would have "missile fights", where we would break off both wings at the start of the match, leaving us with just 1 HP. It was basically Sudden Death, now that I think about it.
I didn't have this game growing up, though I definitely saw it, so it gives me nostalgia here and there, too. Also, Sector Z made for such a cool Smash Bros. stage. I know Corneria is mechanically the same, but I miss the feeling of the Sector Z background. I'm glad we got to see it properly here!
i think a lot of the rail shooter genre got rolled into nostalgia for space ship combat. So there are a couple of games that fill that niche for people like Elite:Dangerous or Squadrons
4:50: Not surprising. Peak memability is bad enough to be funny, but not _so_ bad that it makes the experience unbearable. 18:30: The water would swiftly evaporate in space and the barnacles would die, but that just means some poor space intern has to scrape salt and barnacle shells off the hull. 37:15: Like what? They're in space, there's no weather to talk about, and Peppy's starting to realize he doesn't have much in common with his CO. 59:00: The medulla oblongata is the _bottom_ part of the brain, primarily used as a chair cushion for the upper brain. The back part is the occipital lobes, which are connected to the eyes despite being far away, because evolution is stupid like that. 0:35: Oh no! Where will the NPCs welcome us to now?? 7:10: Is it weird that Fox is contributing to the devastation? ...maybe it's less weird since the skyscrapers fall like toy blocks and not what all Americans since 2001 associate with falling skyscrapers? It still feels weird. Aren't there people in this city? 16:45: ...those didn't trigger from the same event flag? They sound like they're supposed to be next to each other? 19:50: Yet another place where Slippy and Dan disagree... 31:05: TV Tropes doesn't even bother with folders for their Rail Shooters page. I only recognize Typing of the Dead, Kid Icarus Uprising, Pokemon Snap, some minigames, and the Resident Evil games Noah Caldwell-Gervais mentioned in his series retrospective. (Oh, and Star Fox.) Nintendo doesn't have a monopoly, but... tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RailShooter 42:45: Aw, they missed a perfect chance for an Aliens reference... 48:48: I suspect it's the result of several engineers who had different ideas and couldn't agree on whose idea was best, so they just threw all of them into one project that cost _way_ more than it wound up being worth. 58:00: Setting this fight in a green void to save more polygons for the boss was absolutely the right choice. 1:04:15: I wonder what it was in Japanese.
7:10 I mean, Fox is not causing the buildings to fall over, that's the work of these Robots. What the deal is with that large gate thing that Dan is shooting and flying through... no idea xD
There is a pretty decent on-rail shooter in development called Ex-Zodiac, very much inspired by Starfox! It's early access on steam and currently has 6 levels to it, and 6 bonus levels. Definetly worth checking out if not for the channel
I played the heck out of this game as a kid! Only managed to complete the most difficult route one or two times. Like Jones, I would usually screw up the toxic world and get bumped to a different route. A few lines always stick out in my mind. One is when you take down Andrew, and he cries out, "Uncle Andross!" If Wolf is on your tail, and you pull off the flip trick to escape, he shouts, "What the heck?!" And finally, there's a level where your mission is to take out a train, and the guy in charge keeps saying, "Step on the gas." I remember that one because there was always a point where the line would get cut off, I think right when the train is about to explode. So you'd get, "Step on th-" *BOOM*. Thanks for this little nostalgia trip, Dans.
My personal fave line in the game is after hitting the 8 switches in the Macbeth train stage. The conducter shouting " I Cant STOP IT!" .... *boom Just the way he shouts it and the way his voice wavers on the IT part. I dunno. Just always stuck with me.
For me he always shouted "step on the gas" Right as I switched the rails, so he always screams "Step on the gas, No! Hit the breaks!! I Cant stop it!!!" like he had brain fog and accidentally sped the train into the depot
I absolutely ADORE this game and am so happy that you're playing it. Seriously, I've no idea how many hours I pumped into this game but I know that it was a lot. It's such a just genuinely enjoyable game to play. Also, the line that I remember most from this game: "Never give up! Trust your instincts!" Words to live by, those.
1:04:15 I literally had that EXACT same epiphany near the beginning of this episode. Considering all the other symbols on the radar are either dots or silhouettes, it feels strange that they'd use a giant letter B for the boss rather than a big skull or something.
When you were asking about the last member of Star Wolf, I was thing about the Panther, but was surprised when it wasn't. That's what I get for having only played Star Fox Assault, but it was a pleasant surprise.
I played a LOT of this game as a kid. I feel like I can quote most of it. Some of my favorites are from the Train level where the boss says: "I'll lure these guys to the front..." promptly followed by "I can't stop iiiiiiiiiit!!!" as it crashes into the armor depo.
The problem is they try and make it something it's not. Either a tactics game, or a open world or a multi-vehicle shoot-em-up, or a game to sell you on the newest console gimmick. just make it a simple on rails shooter. No gimmicks, no vehicle switching in level, no open world.
Wolf's line when you flip behind him "What the heck!?" One of the bosses has a delicious line of "What's wrong? Come a little closer..." Also literally the entire opening narration.
My obscure Starfox quote I remember after all these years is "THIS is the enemy bio-weapon?" from the sun level. Also, the secret route on the train level where he goes "Step on the gas. No! Hit the breaks!" This was the first and maybe only game I've ever 100% completed
OK so My quote is "ah I see you show your true form" I got stuck on that boss as a kid for a while. he's real tough. I played a lot of Starfox as a kid. My favorite path as a kid was all top, but failed the extra mission in zones and get bumped down to Macbeth and play the land master tank. I'm a bit sad for no land master tank. I hope you guys play this again and play the landmaster tank. there is even a way to kill the boss by ignoring him and hitting some switches until he blows up without hitting him once. Starfox is so good. Area 6 is my favorite level too, pitty we couldn't hear the music that one slaps.
My favorite line from star fox is from slippy when he says: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH But i have to admit that my second one is by fox when he says: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Oh. Man... the nostalgia bomb this is... I think the coolest thing in these games that *wasn't* covered by Dan were the warp zones. They're these trippy super secret areas hidden in the easy route that let you instantly jump to the hard routes - like... the one in Sector X let you jump straight to Sector Z without even doing the boss in Sector X. Edit: for the line that always sticks out in my brain is on one of the landmaster levels - if you do the secret 'accomplished' criteria, you actually send the enemy boss (which was a train) hurtling into a weapons depot that promptly explodes. The line he says right before is "No! Hit the BRAKES! I can't stop iiiit!" right before the whole building just absolutely *explodes*
While it’s been commonplace now for nearly 3 decades, if you weren’t around back then it’s hard to explain how cool the rumble was and how it made an already great game even more fun. I’d imagine that for a lot of us of a certain age Starfox 64 was our very first experience with any kind of rumble.
I love the absolute love-letter to Mobile Suit Gundam the Y-Combat Zone is. As a 10 y.o. who had just experienced it and then played this, my brain exploded. I love both very dearly to this day. Also, favorite line: "Father?!?!" ~Fox
19:55 I never noticed it because I didn’t get into Metroid until after my “Star Fox days”… but you know what? The music for Aqua has some strong Metroid vibes, and I think I dig it!
6:00 It's not just the younger folks. I think I'm the same age as you guys, but I never had a console as a kid, parents couldn't afford it. We did have crappy PC (since that was actually useful), and I got to play my share of old PC games, often even older than my age would suggest, since that's what my PC could handle, plus it was on the pirated discs I could get my hands on. But my first console was discounted XBox 360 that I bought fresh out of university. I did experience some older console games by playing at friends' houses, getting some bootleg PC ports or ROMs on an emulator (that's how I played Mario 64 and Shadow of the Colossus for example), but my knowledge of classic console games is fairly limited, so I'm glad to experience it in this way.
The line I always remember is a rather dark line from the star wolf fight on Venom. Pigma goes "Daddy screamed realllllll good before he DIED!" but the part where he says died is always interrupted by someone else.
There's an indie game being worked on at the moment that was on kickstarter called Ex-Zodiac that looks very StarFox, it even has the blocky 90's graphics and style of music
56:20 Mine has always been "Use the boost to get through!" combined with "Use the Breaks!" Playing Mario Kart? "Use the boost!" FF14 and hitting Sprint? "Use the boost!" Driving around and taking a traffic light on yellow when theres not time to safely stop? "Use the boost!" Stopping at the traffic light when there is? "Use the Breaks!"
56:45 It’s not a very common line, but the one that sticks out in my mind is a line Faldo sometimes says during the end-of-mission check-in. When he’s still alive but very low health… “See my ship? Does it LOOK ok to you?!” Of all his sass and sarcasm, that has to be the peak 😂
36:10 ah yes, great fox, my favourite metal gear solid character Also I’ve been trying to figure out what this game reminded me of and I’ve concluded it’s OG English Dubbed OG gundam
“WHAT THA HECK‽” - Star Wolf, when you loop on him in the first battle on Fortuna (and maybe on Bolse, I can’t remember). Tied with true Andross’s “If I go down I’m taking you with me.” It’s such a cliche line that every time I hear something even close to that in another property, it plays in my head. So, this was probably the single game I played the most of as a child (Ocarina of Time being a close second, at least before Morrowind came out and I discovered my love of hardcore RPGs). It’s worth noting that the story continues across all levels, so it’s worth going thru each level at least once to get the whole thing. There’s actually three different Star Wolf battles, but you can only get two per run, iirc. But getting the one on Fortuna and then getting to the one Dan does here on Venom actually shows their arc (hence the battle-damaged Wolf, cybernetic teammates, and the line about their “new” ships). My favorite route is the same as Dan did here, except choosing to go to Macbeth instead of Sector Z. It lets you play the hardest stuff in the game, lets you get to use all three vehicles (this run misses the tank), and hits some of the most quotable lines. That route is also the highest scoring route in the game (the boss on Macbeth gives a guaranteed 51 hit bonus if you do it the “right” way and get the special kill, which is necessary to get to Area 6 and the “correct” Venom). I recently got my original cart from my mom’s place, and my highest score when I was a kid was 1485, using that route (and probably expert mode). Second was 1476. Anyway, I’m always glad to see more Starfox 64 videos from either Dan. It’s still one of my faves to play when I just want an hour of button mashing gameplay and to actually complete something.
"Star Fox!" "What could they possibly be starring in?" Dan Jones just kicks the door down and immediately hits you with the best joke in the video because he refuses to hold back.
I used to play the hell out of this game as a kid and thought I knew everything, but that flip over the first boss arriving was so sick. I was here like, "He's gonna get hit. What does he mean flip? WHAT!? I DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT!" I love this already. EDIT 2: That was a lovely trip down memory lane. Thank you for this, it was a lot of fun! EDIT 3: The Game Shark bit was hilarious
I did not realize quite how viscerally the gameplay was seared into my bones. I was having flinch attacks as I remembered stressing out about maximizing hits with group attacks...
I seriously think that when they finally restart Dark Souls III, the video should start with the "Starting Soon" screen from Dan Jones' Twitch channel, and him coming in with a "hey chat, welcome to the stream, today I thought we'd play some Dark Souls III" and have him load into the game, select his character, go through the loading screen, and THEN when the game loads, have Dan Jones say, "okay, so, welcome to Playframe!" and slide transition to Dan Floyd's character. 😆
I never knew there was an expert mode, I never knew the hi-score tricks to get the medals. Even if I cleared every enemy, you sometimes wouldn't get a medal, because you need to do the trick.
all about dealing splash damage with charged shots. You'll get Hits for enemies that weren't destroyed just based on how many things your charge shot hit. Kill 5 enemies with one charge shot, it'll say Hit+4, and you'll get 9 hits for it (the 5 killed enemies plus 4 bonus.)
Just because of Sector Z, my preferred route is Y -> (Manually, I get "Accomplished" and just change course) Katina -> Solar -> Macbeth -> Area 6. I get the endings I want, I get to drive a tank, and most importantly not do Sector Z. Yes, Bill is the good doggo pilot, also another reason I go to Katina. 52:39 Possibly my favourite line from this game, and by extension, my "Star Fox line". Followed by "Those tin cans are no match for me!", "Only I have the brains to rule Lylat!", and "If I go down, I'm taking you with me!" Until Dan Jones's recent-ish stream, I didn't even know you could shoot Andross's eye in phase 1. Expert mode is also really fun and hard. Also, the "robot legs" is NOT canon, they're just wearing metal boots.
Most effective villain line, from Pigma: “Daddy screamed REAL good before he died!” I like to imagine even the other hardened criminals on Star Wolf are giving him side-eye on that one.
Pigma: "Daddy screamed REAL good before he died!"
*silence on comms as Star Wolf all process what Pigma just said*
Leon: "...Wolf, are we the baddies?"
Line I’ve never forgotten: “Annoying bird! I am the great Leon!” The way the voice actor says the line just cracks me up, it’s so good.
This is probably the line I just find myself saying with no context cause of that delivery. The second most stuck line in my head is "So Andross, you show your true form"
I used to teach a (quite annoying) child called Leon and at least a dozen times a day would hear "I am the great Leon!" in my head.
In Peppy's defense, he was Jamses' best friend and teammmate, and was captured by Andross alongside him. This mission's rough for Fox and Peppy both, and things like "you remind me of your father" matter a LOT who they come from.
It's absolutely a nice thing to say! It is also, conspicuously, just about the only thing Peppy says when Dan isn't shooting him. He only talks about Fox's dad. Which, yeah, that strongly establishes his age and experience and stuff, and the N64 doesn't have room for _that_ many lines, but that doesn't make it less conspicuous.
54:08 In the 3DS remake, he does in fact say something else.
„Hey genius, I'm on your side!“
I know I’m a year late but what’s the point of this line change?
I stopped everything I was doing the moment this popped up in my feed. Heck yes.
You’re not alone
Just to get it out of my system - it's an aileron roll. Spinning with the plane as the centre of the spin is an aileron roll. A barrel roll is when your plane flips over and returns to normal, as if you're pressing its belly against the inside perimeter of a barrel. One of the biggest misconceptions in gaming!
This. So much this.
Never knew the name of an aileron roll, though, so that's good to know
I don't think spaceships have ailerons though
Nerd
Thanks for the clarification! I didn't know that, and I'm glad to.
What makes this especially ridiculous is that you _do_ have real barrel rolls in this game-it's the maneuver you use to get behind someone who's tailing you! So they could have found an excuse to put the "Do a barrel roll!" line in the game, even if they knew.
Nice job on the hard route. When I play for fun, I try to do a route that gets me both Fortuna and Area 6 in them, usually by switching through Solar and MacBeth. Why? Two Star Wolf fights!
Speaking of quotes, from the MacBeth boss, if you get the cool kill where you derail his train into a refinery: "I CAN'T STOP IIIIIIIIIT!!!"
The voice acting in this game has the exact correct amount of hamming it up, it's almost uncanny how well it fits.
I think that level made me respect Peppy way more as a kid. Once I realized what he was trying to get me to do, it seemed like some cool setpiece thing that a clever action hero does. All smoke and mirrors, of course, but effective smoke and mirrors.
I always did the two duels as well. It bothered me narratively if they talked about their new ships without me having blown up their old ones.
The line I always remember is from Andrew, "Andross's enemy, is my enemy!" The delivery just cracks me up.
"Never give up. Trust your instincts."
"THE HATCHES ARE OPEN!!"
The moment I saw this playthtough come in, I had to immediately stop whatever I was doing to watch! Such a nostalgic game full of great quotes. Thank you for this trip down memory lane!!
There's an indie game called Ex-Zodiac that did a kickstarter a year or two ago and recently was released in early access that's very much a Star Fox. Aesthetically it looks like the SNES star fox, but the gameplay is very Star Fox 64. It's good!
Another Kickstarted Star-Fox-inspired indie is Whisker Squadron. Development in-progress!
I streamed that a few weeks ago! It was awesome :D
And the secret levels are Space Harrier-inspired which is also cool!
Ex-Zodiac is a neat take on SNES Star Fox but it feels nothing like SF64 to me. Maybe once they introduce multiple paths that can happen, but for now it really is more for those who like the first game I think.
Came here to recommend this game. Glad to see there is a comment on it already!
The line I remember is Wolf's "What the Heck?!" when Fox pulls a loop or Immelmann to shake him.
I've never played this game, but you're making me nostalgic for the old Descent games from when I was a kid. It was the only "shooty" game I was allowed to play since it was shooting robots, rather than people.
I don't often chime in on comments, so also want to say Thank you for all the awesome videos! They are a regular and chill and comfy part of my Saturdays.
And I agree, the Andross shaking his face-assemblage was very creepy.
The line I always think of is
"I am the great Leon!"
It would be hilarious if that was Leon's introductory line, and your squadmates consistently knocked Leon out of the sky within seconds of the introductions ending.
General pepper gives different voice lines at the end depending on how many ships you shot down. The best one, which pretty much requires getting a metal on all levels on your route:
" WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?"
You did the route where my two main quotes I remember are from: "You'll never defeat Androoooosssssssss!" and Falco's "Too late! Game over, pal!"
The three you didn't see here that I remember most are Bill's "Fox, that's one of ours" and "The hatches are open!" because I played that Independence Day level just about every time I played SF64. And then I love beating the train in Macbeth and hearing him scream "I CAN'T STOP IIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT"
I see you guys decided to go with the objectively superior version of this game.
In the 3DS version Falco says "Hey genius, I'm on your side" instead of saying "Hey Einstein, I'm on your side"
LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE
Not funny.
"NO! Hit the brakes!!!" "I can't STOP IT!"
[HIT+50]
Not gonna lie, I was partly rooting for you to fail Zoness so I could see you go to my favorite level.
VA trivia: Peppy and Andross were both voiced by the late great Rick May, better known for voicing The Soldier in TF2.
I need you to know that, as I saw the title of this one and the video started loading, I said "Ah, boy" in the exact same cadence and tone of voice two seconds before you did, Dan. Serendipity at its finest! Excited to see what you both got up to in this blast from the past!
I think the line that always springs to mind from this game is "Location Confirmed, Sending Supplies."
The Kid Icarus on the 3DS has some good rail-shooter sections for the first half of every level.
Aside from the memable bits, the line that's always stuck with me is "never give up; trust your instincts". It's such a surprisingly genuine bit of advice in the sea of saturday morning cartoon lines.
I remember Star Fox Assault on the GameCube being a fun twist. On rail segments interspersed with tank and on-foot combat. Plus a surprisingly well developed 4 player PvP mode
Ah, the era of polygons so sharp you could put an eye out! 😄
9:12 it was *SO COOL* that this boss was the same one from the original Star Fox, that felt amazing as a kid
13:16 no, it didn't happen. 64 is basically a reboot
55:55 Can't let you brew that, Star Bucks!
You don't get betrayed in star fox 1. 64 is a remake of 1, so you get that backstory in 1 as well
1:15:50 Well, you saw. Their entire military is a jpeg. While I agree image compression is scary it just doesn't hold up well against a full assault.
It's a bit of a paper tiger.
Man, that first boss basically said "Who is this guy?!" and Dan Jones didn't react _at all._
Other than "Do a barrel roll!" the line that's coming to mind for me is from the Star Wolf battle. I think it's Andrew saying "Give it up, you can't win!"
"You can't beat me! I've got a better ship!"
"Shoot the tentacles to open the core!"
Area 6 is an awesome set piece and the perfect penultimate stage to a great game.
I have that VHS too. :D
I fondly remember the shenanigans you could pull with the Pikmin 2 title screen. Good times.
I love when dans new frame plus brain pokes through
Just to share: on the level where Great Wolf is attacked, you can fly into the open bay and get repaired.
WHAAAAAT?!
@@thekidfromcanada I know right?! Back by the thrusters of Great Fox there is an open bay door. (You only fit safely if both wings are busted, if I remember correctly) And if you fly into it then you come out the bay at the front by the guns fully repaired.
@@mahfeelz4452 Of course, if you scrape both wings off on the way in, you'll just be repaired anyways.
I remember being like 7 and speedrunning Starfox before I knew speedrunning was a thing. I played all the routes and tried to use paper and pencil to figure out which was the fastest. Such a strong hit of nostalgia watching this.
Also known as Lylat Wars in Europe, featuring an alternate “Lylat language” voice option.
Australia too
Dan Jones: "Falco's got the hots for Katt." Me: "Ah yes, the romance between a cat and a bird. Tale as old as time."
I am one of those people that has never played StarFox. I knew Fox as that character with a laser gun in Smash 64. The music brought me right back to fighting on the Great Fox, aka the best stage in 64.
In high-g maneuvers, it can be difficult for your blood to reach your brain because the g-force is pushing it in some other direction. Under high enough g's this can cause a pilot to black out or even die. The idea with the prosthetic legs thing is that you're reducing the total length of blood vessel in your body, thus making it easier for your heart to keep the whole system equal pressure under such circumstances.
Dunno if it'd actually work like that in reality, and last I heard the robot legs are not actually canon in Star Fox. Though, Star Fox canon isn't really something I keep my ear to the ground on.
From what I understand, it would have this effect, but any benefits would fade over a few weeks or so as the body adjusted to its new normal.
@@9clawtiger I mean, kinda, but mostly to force blood back out of the legs. I don't know if anyone's studied how double-leg amputees' lack of legs affects their blood flow...
Fighter pilots actually have pressure bags in their pants to do exactly that - force blood out of the legs and back up to the heart / brain, so the idea isnt that silly
@@Mr.Sparks.173 Huh. That's pretty cool.
I believe Game Theory actually did a video on this years ago. The conclusion was that the body would readjust to the actual amount of blood the body needed. So this idea would not work.
There's a channel called GameHut that is run by the founder of the game studio Traveler's Tales. He has a series called "Coding Secrets" where he talks about the older games he worked on and how they pulled off various graphics tricks
Oh yeah Dan, of you like that shimmery appearing/disappearing effect, a lot of old (Showa Era) Japanese special effects (tokusatsu) media like Ultraman used a similar effect for their aliens so that's probably where it comes from and what the devs are referencing.
Slippy's "Thought you could hide from me, eh?" "Escaping? I don't think so!" has always haunted me for no good reason haha
I remember when me and my brothers got to see an old friend for the first time in a long time, we spent a considerable amount of time busting up while quoting random lines. No context, to punchlines, just losing it to random lines.
The Millennial equivalent of Gen Xers quoting Monty Python or Princess Bride lines at each other.
Wow! I've never seen this game to the end before but it reminds me a lot of kid icarus uprising, especially the banter and on rails shooter part along with the branching paths based on where you fly/what you do! It's really cool to see that in both games
I've said before that Nintendo needs to let Sakurai out of the Smash Bros. mines and let him make a StarFox game already.
31:10 Another game that does this sort of thing that was somewhat big is Panzer Dragoon. There was a remake of the original that came out a couple of years ago for the original but it's the second game, Zwei, that I'll always remember fondly.
"You've become so strong, Fox" lives in my head rent free and comes up so randomly throughout life.
The one line that always comes to mind is probably "my emperor, I've faaaailed youuuuuu"
What a fantastic nostalgia trip. Thank you both for this! We can all always use some more Star Fox 64 goodness in our lives.
My brother and I played this game so much! We quoted it all the time.
Sometimes in multiplayer mode, we would have "missile fights", where we would break off both wings at the start of the match, leaving us with just 1 HP. It was basically Sudden Death, now that I think about it.
I didn't have this game growing up, though I definitely saw it, so it gives me nostalgia here and there, too.
Also, Sector Z made for such a cool Smash Bros. stage. I know Corneria is mechanically the same, but I miss the feeling of the Sector Z background. I'm glad we got to see it properly here!
Also, I really liked Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet. There is a bit of ship flying in it, but yeah, it's mostly a Zelda-like.
My most remembered quote is Andrew's death callout that you missed: UNCLE ANNNNNDROOOOOOOOOSS
i think a lot of the rail shooter genre got rolled into nostalgia for space ship combat. So there are a couple of games that fill that niche for people like Elite:Dangerous or Squadrons
4:50: Not surprising. Peak memability is bad enough to be funny, but not _so_ bad that it makes the experience unbearable.
18:30: The water would swiftly evaporate in space and the barnacles would die, but that just means some poor space intern has to scrape salt and barnacle shells off the hull.
37:15: Like what? They're in space, there's no weather to talk about, and Peppy's starting to realize he doesn't have much in common with his CO.
59:00: The medulla oblongata is the _bottom_ part of the brain, primarily used as a chair cushion for the upper brain. The back part is the occipital lobes, which are connected to the eyes despite being far away, because evolution is stupid like that.
0:35: Oh no! Where will the NPCs welcome us to now??
7:10: Is it weird that Fox is contributing to the devastation? ...maybe it's less weird since the skyscrapers fall like toy blocks and not what all Americans since 2001 associate with falling skyscrapers? It still feels weird. Aren't there people in this city?
16:45: ...those didn't trigger from the same event flag? They sound like they're supposed to be next to each other?
19:50: Yet another place where Slippy and Dan disagree...
31:05: TV Tropes doesn't even bother with folders for their Rail Shooters page. I only recognize Typing of the Dead, Kid Icarus Uprising, Pokemon Snap, some minigames, and the Resident Evil games Noah Caldwell-Gervais mentioned in his series retrospective. (Oh, and Star Fox.) Nintendo doesn't have a monopoly, but... tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RailShooter
42:45: Aw, they missed a perfect chance for an Aliens reference...
48:48: I suspect it's the result of several engineers who had different ideas and couldn't agree on whose idea was best, so they just threw all of them into one project that cost _way_ more than it wound up being worth.
58:00: Setting this fight in a green void to save more polygons for the boss was absolutely the right choice.
1:04:15: I wonder what it was in Japanese.
7:10 I mean, Fox is not causing the buildings to fall over, that's the work of these Robots. What the deal is with that large gate thing that Dan is shooting and flying through... no idea xD
There is a pretty decent on-rail shooter in development called Ex-Zodiac, very much inspired by Starfox! It's early access on steam and currently has 6 levels to it, and 6 bonus levels. Definetly worth checking out if not for the channel
The one line I'll always remember from this game is Fox going "Father???"
While you're on rail shooters, Sin and Punishment is a really impressive N64 one from Treasure~
I played the heck out of this game as a kid! Only managed to complete the most difficult route one or two times. Like Jones, I would usually screw up the toxic world and get bumped to a different route.
A few lines always stick out in my mind. One is when you take down Andrew, and he cries out, "Uncle Andross!" If Wolf is on your tail, and you pull off the flip trick to escape, he shouts, "What the heck?!" And finally, there's a level where your mission is to take out a train, and the guy in charge keeps saying, "Step on the gas." I remember that one because there was always a point where the line would get cut off, I think right when the train is about to explode. So you'd get, "Step on th-" *BOOM*.
Thanks for this little nostalgia trip, Dans.
My personal fave line in the game is after hitting the 8 switches in the Macbeth train stage. The conducter shouting " I Cant STOP IT!" .... *boom Just the way he shouts it and the way his voice wavers on the IT part. I dunno. Just always stuck with me.
For me he always shouted "step on the gas" Right as I switched the rails, so he always screams "Step on the gas, No! Hit the breaks!! I Cant stop it!!!" like he had brain fog and accidentally sped the train into the depot
@@Mr.Sparks.173 That is beautiful. What a wonderful game. Thank you for sharing that, gonna think about that next time i play it
I absolutely ADORE this game and am so happy that you're playing it.
Seriously, I've no idea how many hours I pumped into this game but I know that it was a lot. It's such a just genuinely enjoyable game to play.
Also, the line that I remember most from this game: "Never give up! Trust your instincts!" Words to live by, those.
1:04:15 I literally had that EXACT same epiphany near the beginning of this episode. Considering all the other symbols on the radar are either dots or silhouettes, it feels strange that they'd use a giant letter B for the boss rather than a big skull or something.
"So Andross, you show your true form" and "Follow your instincts" are engraved in my head
When you were asking about the last member of Star Wolf, I was thing about the Panther, but was surprised when it wasn't. That's what I get for having only played Star Fox Assault, but it was a pleasant surprise.
"Bow before your new emperor, Andrew oikonny!"
For me, it's the ending line at the bill if you rack up enough points where he just says "What?!" 😂
I played a LOT of this game as a kid. I feel like I can quote most of it.
Some of my favorites are from the Train level where the boss says:
"I'll lure these guys to the front..." promptly followed by "I can't stop iiiiiiiiiit!!!" as it crashes into the armor depo.
“We’d be honoured to have you as part of the Cornerian Army” is just General Pepper’s way of asking not to pay the bill.
Falco logic: "In a dark hallway? Fire a gun to help you see"
To be fair, this gun has slow bullets that glow.
Star Fox is such an underrated series that deserves more love; shame Nintendo won't give it another chance...
The problem is they try and make it something it's not. Either a tactics game, or a open world or a multi-vehicle shoot-em-up, or a game to sell you on the newest console gimmick. just make it a simple on rails shooter. No gimmicks, no vehicle switching in level, no open world.
Wolf's line when you flip behind him "What the heck!?"
One of the bosses has a delicious line of "What's wrong? Come a little closer..."
Also literally the entire opening narration.
My obscure Starfox quote I remember after all these years is "THIS is the enemy bio-weapon?" from the sun level. Also, the secret route on the train level where he goes "Step on the gas. No! Hit the breaks!" This was the first and maybe only game I've ever 100% completed
OK so My quote is
"ah I see you show your true form"
I got stuck on that boss as a kid for a while. he's real tough.
I played a lot of Starfox as a kid. My favorite path as a kid was all top, but failed the extra mission in zones and get bumped down to Macbeth and play the land master tank.
I'm a bit sad for no land master tank. I hope you guys play this again and play the landmaster tank.
there is even a way to kill the boss by ignoring him and hitting some switches until he blows up without hitting him once.
Starfox is so good. Area 6 is my favorite level too, pitty we couldn't hear the music that one slaps.
The quote I remember most from when I was a kid: "If I go down, I'm taking you with me!"
My favorite line from star fox is from slippy when he says:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
But i have to admit that my second one is by fox when he says:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
“Never give up, Trust your instincts!”
Oh. Man... the nostalgia bomb this is...
I think the coolest thing in these games that *wasn't* covered by Dan were the warp zones. They're these trippy super secret areas hidden in the easy route that let you instantly jump to the hard routes - like... the one in Sector X let you jump straight to Sector Z without even doing the boss in Sector X.
Edit: for the line that always sticks out in my brain is on one of the landmaster levels - if you do the secret 'accomplished' criteria, you actually send the enemy boss (which was a train) hurtling into a weapons depot that promptly explodes.
The line he says right before is "No! Hit the BRAKES! I can't stop iiiit!" right before the whole building just absolutely *explodes*
I have a good feeling about this episode getting into the highlights video for 2022!
The exchange that is forever burned into my memory:
Spyborg: "The view is clear. Destroy. Destroy."
Falco: "Destroy what? He's crazy!"
Fox sounds just like a muppet, that's the vibe I'm getting from the voice acting and I am NOT complaining
“Can’t let you do that Star Fox!” always comes up to my mind once in awhile.
While it’s been commonplace now for nearly 3 decades, if you weren’t around back then it’s hard to explain how cool the rumble was and how it made an already great game even more fun. I’d imagine that for a lot of us of a certain age Starfox 64 was our very first experience with any kind of rumble.
Nowadays, haptic feedback is mundane, barely worth mentioning. Even some mobile games have it.
I love the absolute love-letter to Mobile Suit Gundam the Y-Combat Zone is. As a 10 y.o. who had just experienced it and then played this, my brain exploded. I love both very dearly to this day.
Also, favorite line: "Father?!?!" ~Fox
I had to do a double-take when I saw this in my feed. So fantastically happy to see you guys playing this.
19:55 I never noticed it because I didn’t get into Metroid until after my “Star Fox days”… but you know what? The music for Aqua has some strong Metroid vibes, and I think I dig it!
The one I always do with my friends is "Good luck!", as mumbly and unintelligibly as possible.
6:00 It's not just the younger folks. I think I'm the same age as you guys, but I never had a console as a kid, parents couldn't afford it. We did have crappy PC (since that was actually useful), and I got to play my share of old PC games, often even older than my age would suggest, since that's what my PC could handle, plus it was on the pirated discs I could get my hands on. But my first console was discounted XBox 360 that I bought fresh out of university. I did experience some older console games by playing at friends' houses, getting some bootleg PC ports or ROMs on an emulator (that's how I played Mario 64 and Shadow of the Colossus for example), but my knowledge of classic console games is fairly limited, so I'm glad to experience it in this way.
The line I always remember is a rather dark line from the star wolf fight on Venom. Pigma goes "Daddy screamed realllllll good before he DIED!" but the part where he says died is always interrupted by someone else.
Really expressing that energy of
"The only health point that matters, is the last one!"
There's an indie game being worked on at the moment that was on kickstarter called Ex-Zodiac that looks very StarFox, it even has the blocky 90's graphics and style of music
56:20
Mine has always been "Use the boost to get through!" combined with "Use the Breaks!"
Playing Mario Kart? "Use the boost!" FF14 and hitting Sprint? "Use the boost!" Driving around and taking a traffic light on yellow when theres not time to safely stop? "Use the boost!" Stopping at the traffic light when there is? "Use the Breaks!"
56:45 It’s not a very common line, but the one that sticks out in my mind is a line Faldo sometimes says during the end-of-mission check-in. When he’s still alive but very low health…
“See my ship? Does it LOOK ok to you?!”
Of all his sass and sarcasm, that has to be the peak 😂
36:10 ah yes, great fox, my favourite metal gear solid character
Also I’ve been trying to figure out what this game reminded me of and I’ve concluded it’s OG English Dubbed OG gundam
“WHAT THA HECK‽” - Star Wolf, when you loop on him in the first battle on Fortuna (and maybe on Bolse, I can’t remember).
Tied with true Andross’s “If I go down I’m taking you with me.” It’s such a cliche line that every time I hear something even close to that in another property, it plays in my head.
So, this was probably the single game I played the most of as a child (Ocarina of Time being a close second, at least before Morrowind came out and I discovered my love of hardcore RPGs).
It’s worth noting that the story continues across all levels, so it’s worth going thru each level at least once to get the whole thing. There’s actually three different Star Wolf battles, but you can only get two per run, iirc. But getting the one on Fortuna and then getting to the one Dan does here on Venom actually shows their arc (hence the battle-damaged Wolf, cybernetic teammates, and the line about their “new” ships).
My favorite route is the same as Dan did here, except choosing to go to Macbeth instead of Sector Z. It lets you play the hardest stuff in the game, lets you get to use all three vehicles (this run misses the tank), and hits some of the most quotable lines. That route is also the highest scoring route in the game (the boss on Macbeth gives a guaranteed 51 hit bonus if you do it the “right” way and get the special kill, which is necessary to get to Area 6 and the “correct” Venom). I recently got my original cart from my mom’s place, and my highest score when I was a kid was 1485, using that route (and probably expert mode). Second was 1476.
Anyway, I’m always glad to see more Starfox 64 videos from either Dan. It’s still one of my faves to play when I just want an hour of button mashing gameplay and to actually complete something.
"Daddy squealed REAL good when he died." ~ Pigma
"Star Fox!"
"What could they possibly be starring in?"
Dan Jones just kicks the door down and immediately hits you with the best joke in the video because he refuses to hold back.
I used to play the hell out of this game as a kid and thought I knew everything, but that flip over the first boss arriving was so sick. I was here like, "He's gonna get hit. What does he mean flip? WHAT!? I DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT!"
I love this already.
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That was a lovely trip down memory lane.
Thank you for this, it was a lot of fun!
EDIT 3:
The Game Shark bit was hilarious
"We were SO CLOSE to Venom" and "Cocky lil FREAK!" Are my 2 favorites.
I did not realize quite how viscerally the gameplay was seared into my bones. I was having flinch attacks as I remembered stressing out about maximizing hits with group attacks...
"If I go down I'm taking you with me!"
Quote that I always think of: "Switching to all range mode"
I seriously think that when they finally restart Dark Souls III, the video should start with the "Starting Soon" screen from Dan Jones' Twitch channel, and him coming in with a "hey chat, welcome to the stream, today I thought we'd play some Dark Souls III" and have him load into the game, select his character, go through the loading screen, and THEN when the game loads, have Dan Jones say, "okay, so, welcome to Playframe!" and slide transition to Dan Floyd's character.
😆
BTW, the bill at the end: each unit destroyed is worth . . . sp$ 64.
Nostalgic wonderland, thanks so much Dans'!
I never knew there was an expert mode, I never knew the hi-score tricks to get the medals. Even if I cleared every enemy, you sometimes wouldn't get a medal, because you need to do the trick.
all about dealing splash damage with charged shots. You'll get Hits for enemies that weren't destroyed just based on how many things your charge shot hit. Kill 5 enemies with one charge shot, it'll say Hit+4, and you'll get 9 hits for it (the 5 killed enemies plus 4 bonus.)
My memorable line: "Geeeeeeeeeee, I've been saved by Fox, how *swell*!" -- Falco
Just because of Sector Z, my preferred route is Y -> (Manually, I get "Accomplished" and just change course) Katina -> Solar -> Macbeth -> Area 6. I get the endings I want, I get to drive a tank, and most importantly not do Sector Z.
Yes, Bill is the good doggo pilot, also another reason I go to Katina.
52:39 Possibly my favourite line from this game, and by extension, my "Star Fox line". Followed by "Those tin cans are no match for me!", "Only I have the brains to rule Lylat!", and "If I go down, I'm taking you with me!"
Until Dan Jones's recent-ish stream, I didn't even know you could shoot Andross's eye in phase 1. Expert mode is also really fun and hard.
Also, the "robot legs" is NOT canon, they're just wearing metal boots.
The line I always think of is ironically the line you missed out on: Andrew's death cry of "UNCLE ANDROS!"