Chapter 1: One game too many.
(Edited, Removed Reverse language)
So, a question had ran through my head. What is the true meaning of fighting? Many answers can come to mind when asked this question. many will say that it is a way to defend themselves from threats. Others will treat it as a sport. Some get a thrill with dancing close with death and the rush it give you. While a few others wish to dominate all of those who opposed them… As for my answer?
[CLANG!]
Well, as for that question, I am currently at a predicament as I am fighting for my life against bipedal dinosaurs with armor and melee weapons with nothing but a stick that is arm's length, and if that doesn't spell out 'fuck my life choices' then I don't know what does. But what does any of this have to do with why I am fighting against fantasy like monsters? Well, I think it is best to go back a few hours ago…
{3 Hours Earlier…}
[The End.]
Ugh, finally… Done with replaying Starfox Adventures on the gamecube for… The 5th time I guess? And after taking my time to go through the whole game and to give it a fair judgement, I can absolutely say that this game…
Is a HOT piece of garbage with the story telling and the main character is ass with how far he fell from grace since Starfox 64. Tricky was always being a little SHIT and was mostly an annoying companion throughout the game. The Final boss was lack luster, bullshit, and made no sense what so ever, didn't fight General Scales and the game would have been better off just staying with RareWare, unaffiliated from the Starfox franchise. Some of the characters were annoying to deal with their 'child like' antics, Arwing sections were shit, short and insignificant, and for the main part that I didn't like at all, was that Krystal barely had any screen time for what the game had to offer, mainly just used to be a 'hot piece of ass' to stare at for Fox's secondary objective, the first being money for the repairs for the Great Fox, and her really just there to be a damsel in distress.
…But even after all this bashing… There is a deep part of me that thinks that it could be better. That it could be redeemed, and I KNOW it can. Even with the Starfox name title, I know that it could be better oriented with the right minds at work. Better ways of traveling through the map, make it a bit longer, add a GOOD final boss other than 'ASS'dross, maybe put Mr. Green Gecko in his place. Add a more variety of different weapons to use then the place of JUST the staff and have better way of going at the story. Some of the story was amazing and on point of a good game, maps and puzzles were pretty spot on. Some of the bosses were pretty good. The Krazoa Spirits were a bit of a badass concept for 'gods' to have for the game…
Shame that the way to get the spirits were fucking tedious and annoying…
Fuck the trial of Fear.
After the credits of the game ended, my thoughts concluded, I was about to press the power button to put this game to a final rest when a notification that I never seen before popped up.
[CONGRATULATIONS!]
Thank you for playing StarFox Adventures, if you have time to rate your experience about this game, please take a questionnaire to see what we can do better in the future.
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"…What the hell?" Was all I have to say when I saw this.
I stared at the message for a good minute trying to think why this is a thing. This game was made from 2002… ITS 2022!
And I have already played this game 5 times… 5 TIMES!
A bit too late for this, but hey, I don't have anything better to do with my life, what is a few minutes more wasted?
One hour passed by while trying to fiddle around with the mechanics of the useless keyboard on the screen, and I had finally gotten all of my thoughts into the message, 30 paragraphs of somewhat detailed complaints of what went wrong, what was right, and how it could be better with some points of the game. Kinda shocked that they allowed a good amount of words to be used for this game.
Ok, with all that being said, I just wasted a part of my life in writing this on something that will not be heard of…(sigh)…[OK]
By the time I hit the 'ok' button, an Immediate reply popped up.
{WOW! With the well detailed problems on a 2002 game that has been known about since even BEFORE they released the game, you really expressed your opinion! And you say that this game can be redeemed after all of the bad stuff you said about it by expressing and recommending what to do…Interesting…}
Ok… What is going on?
The message continued.
{You know what? Why don't YOU, the player, go through a rerun of what the HIDDEN feature has to offer. What the game COULD have been? A NEW rerun of the game, same story and characters, but a different way of going at it. Just know that this will be an entirely new gaming experience.}
I then saw that the game screen change to a new section, the window to space that viewed Dinosaur Planet.
It had a glitched select button. This game is getting a bit creepy. But I was REALLY curious about what was on this hidden selection of Starfox Adventure. 'Sauria' as it has been named, has been unlocked.
As a true gamer, who am I to NOT press the 'A' button. But just when I pressed "A", a warning screen popped up.
[Are you sure you want to leave everything behind? Once you confirm with 'Yes', there is NO turning back until the adventure is done.]
-No-
Yes
"What? Is there no 'Save' Option? Surely you can't be THAT cruel… I mean, the first time that I played this game, it took me at least a few weeks to complete the game. But that was back when I was like 7 or so. It can't be THAT difficult." I spoke to myself.
Without questioning the harm of selecting Yes. A portal opened up in my TV, and like a sci-fi cartoon, I was sucked off into a different dimension.
But that is one of the many mistakes that I will have made throughout my life as there are plenty more of mistakes to be made as I make my way through the world of Sauria.
Going through a wormhole like place, I can see someone off in the distance with a white mask with a terrifying smile on it.
He also had a Notepad….
"WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?! WHY DOES EVERYTHING LOOK LIKE AN ACID TRIP?!" I panicked to the guy who just floated towards me.
"So, a few questions before we send you off to death- i mean- Before we begin, do you want to have subtitles while you are here, or you going to play it by sound?" The masked figure asked with seemingly no concern of his surroundings.
"WHAT?! I can't hear you! Speak up!" I shouted as I couldn't hear him over my panicking thoughts.
"[Click] I'll take that as a yes. Though you won't hear much dialog from your native language aside from a few words… Ok, so how do you want to be updated, via mind messages, or you want paper airplanes thrown at your head?" The masked guy said while clicking his pen and writing stuff down as the subtitles began to pop up that freaked me out even more.
"I don't need any more weird shit in my head! Don't mess with it!" I cried as I think I dodged a rock.
"Noted…" He wrote in the note pad of his. "Would you like to list off a few things about yourself? Want to change your appearance before you begin, or keep everything at default?" The masked figure ignored my rebuttal.
"W-What the hell?! I am possibly falling to my death! And you want me to talk about myself?! I AM WHAT YOU SEE NOW! Black hair, Brown eyes, glasses, White shirt, and Brown Cargo pants with black shoes! ARE YOU BLIND?!" I yelled at him.
"So… Default… Gotcha." He once again wrote in that notepad of his.
"So before we begin, I want to thank you for being the first willing test subject to try this feature. I hope you prevail in this game. If you are ever stuck, just say the word 'Hint' and I'll send you one. BYE!" The masked figure said before flying out of the wormhole, leaving me to my death.
[THUD!]
I felt a hard landing as I felt that I hit the ground. I got up and flinched as I felt sore. Easing into the pain, I looked around to see that I was at the beginning of the game Starfox adventures.
Thorntail Hallow.
A decorated area with Trees, flowers and other plant life growing. Stegosaurus like dinosaurs are roaming the planes grazing on the plant life like cows. The Scottish stone guy, called the Warp stone is able to be seen at the far end of the valley moving lazily, the store is in the middle of the area and a few other places, one taking immediate notice of, is the Queen Earthwalker's residence. Some of the tribe called the Sharpclaw were marching around a fenced off area and were looking pretty mean. Bipedal reptilian like creatures that I think were supposed to be raptors or something along the lines of that… But more importantly…
WHY THE HELL AM I HERE?!
Just then, a Thorntail local walked up to me in a non-threatening manner, saying something that I cannot understand.
"(Hello there, welcome to Thorntail Hollow!)" The friendly Thorntail local spoke.
"Huh?" I replied.
Oh shit… I forgot that these dinosaurs could talk.
"(It seems that you appeared out of a portal, are you Ok? You fell to the ground pretty hard there.)" The Thorntail turned its head in concernment.
"I can't understand you!" I exasperated as gripped my head.
"(A forerunner huh? Well, as much as I would love to try to guess and what you are saying, we are currently having our own problems right now)" The Thorntail walked in front of me as he somberly looked over at the area where the Sharpclaw resides.
"(One of our leaders, the Queen Earthwalker is currently in trouble. We are much to weak on our own to fight the Sharpclaw. You seem like a fine athletic young man; you mind lending us a hand and save our queen?)" The Thorntail looked back at me and stopped talking.
From what I can tell, its pretty much the beginning of the game. I can make sense out of the dialog since the language was so fucking stupid in the game, thank god they kept the shitty language the same. The only words that I understood were Queen Earthwalker and Sharpclaw. It doesn't take a genius to put 2 and 2 together to say that the queen is in danger… and that he wants me to fight off the Sharpclaw.
"Oh fuck my life…" I sighed in defeat.
"(I'll take that as a 'Yes'. Please, save our queen!)" The Thorntail smiled happily as he went off with the others.
Ok… so I know what my objective is… and it is a suicide mission as I am so far. I need to find Krystal's staff to defend myself.
I looked around the area for where I THINK Krystal's staff would be for 5 minutes, but to my surprise and terror, it was nowhere in sight!
"Not even ten minutes into this world, and I am already stuck… You would think that this world would give me some kind of hint to progressing this story-(poke)-Huh?!" I jumped at the small surprise at the sudden poke to the back of my head.
I quickly turned around in a defensive stance to see that there is nobody there. I looked to the ground to see that there is a paper airplane on the ground with a crippled tip from hitting my head. But on the more concerning side of things, who the FUCK threw this at me!? My memories flashed back to the masked guy, saying something about 'hints'.
I immediately picked the paper airplane and opened it up.
[Find a weapon and defeat the Sharpclaw terrorizing Thorntail Hallow!]
"NO FUCKING SHIT!" I raged as I threw the paper at a nearby tree and kicked the tree as the piece of paper magically faded away.
Two things happened. One, kicking that tree was a mistake as pain shot up my foot upon using my full force. Second, a branch fell right on top of me, hitting my head, knocking me down to the ground in pain.
(BONK!)
"Owww…" I groaned in pain, rubbing my head. "Huh? What is this?" I looked at the branch that fell on my head.
As I picked up the branch that fit oddly into my hand, arm's length, decent weight to it around 3-4 pounds with some leaves still on it. I tested the durability by swinging at the tree with a bit of force for it to remain intact. Seems a bit sturdy for a piece of wood-
Wait, am I really considering fighting armed reptiles with maces, axes and armor with just a branch?!
"HINT!" I yelled out, to receive another piece of paper flying at the back of my head.
"That is going to get annoying…" I contemplated as I unfolded the piece of paper.
[Defeat the Sharpclaw terrorizing Thorntail Hallow!]
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…You got to be fucking with me…
I took a deep breath and let out an agitated groan. Well might as well practice swinging.
So after 3 minutes of practice, I got a bit used to the size of the stick and I made way to where the Sharpclaw were. I snuck up on the 2 preoccupied lizards, as they were talking to each other on the other side of the fence.
"(Why are we on guard duty and the others get to beat up the queen?)"
(Orders are orders from the leader of this pack.)
"(Speaking of which, have they found the Earthwalker brat yet? Prince Tricky? Do we got to have our fun chasing him!?)" One of the guards excitedly said.
(Already found and being transported to Ice Mountain.)
"(Snarls) (There is no fun anywhere, and the other Throntails are too close to the active beacons to give chase to. Damn those magical warding beacons… Well, breaks over, time to resume marching before pack leader catches us slacking off.) One of the guards scoffed.
'Damn, if only I could know what they are saying. The only thing I can guess is that they are talking about Tricky…maybe going to Snowhorn Wastes region up that one mountain? Well, whatever. The rest of the conversation was probably going to be something stupid and useless anyways.' I thought to myself.
'Ok, time for a surprise attack!' I nodded to steel my resolve to charge my way into this fight.
As I vaulted over the fence for a sneak attack, I swung my foot at nothing to realize that I had missed, stumbled, and rolled over onto the sandy ground. The reptiles were standing a few feet away from where they originally were and looked dumbfounded at the human on the ground contemplating on how the hell he messed up a perfectly good sneak attack.
"(Oh, looks like we have time to kill, want me to take care of him?)" The smaller Sharpclaw asked the other bigger Sharpclaw.
"(Go ahead, after you are done with him, give him to me so we can play punching bag with him.)" The slightly bigger one chuckled as the smaller one menacingly approached.
"…Uh oh…"
{Chapter End}
Author's Notes
Hope you enjoyed I am experimenting with some other titles and less... 'violent' stories that I usually write with and hopefully I entertained those who have read this story.
For what I have planned out, I think that it speaks for itself. My character is essentially replacing Fox McCloud, and my feelings for the game are as is in the story. Love the concept, but it definitely could be a lot better with the right changes. Let's just hope that my version is at least mildly entertaining.
For reviewing, I appreciate Honest reviews with where I went wrong, what you liked, and how I can do better. If you feel like I missed something, then please point that out and speak your mind. But don't just bash the story without proper reasoning, then we would just be wasting both of our times.
With that being said, let me know if I should have this changed in the reviews! If you are from my followers who love my content, Hello again! If you are new to my content, and you like a bit of my writing, I would recommend reading my other stories. I can promise that they are probably better. I do have a discord if you want to talk about stuff and whatnot. RedTokyo95#4424 Anyways, this is RedTokyo95, signing out.
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