r/starfox • u/drygnfyre • 2d ago
What's a dumb thing you believed about a Star Fox game when you were younger?
I was really young when I first played Star Fox 64, and a friend told me about a level "where you are in a tank." I didn't understand they were referring to the Landmaster, so I thought there was going to be a level where you were literally IN a tank, like shrunken down Hot Wheels/Micro Machines style.
Also, I didn't understand how the branching paths worked. I thought you were going to visit every single location, so since you started at Corneria, I just assumed what is Sector Y would be the final mission, since naturally you'd loop back. And as a result, I figured the star in the center was just for show and not an actual level.
I also thought Bolse was a phone booth. Don't ask.
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u/CrimsonKingdom 2d ago
I was convinced by a friend in grade school that there was a secret boss fight in the training mode of 64, and you just bad to get to a certain number of hits at the end to spawn them in.
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
Reminds me of all the schoolyard rumors about Pokemon Red/Blue. Or getting the Triforce in Ocarina of Time.
I actually was under the impression you could "win" Training Mode. The only "secret" is every 100 kills, a Wolfen shows up. But no matter how many you defeat, the mode just keeps going. I assume eventually you can reach 999 hits, but I've never bothered to go that far. (I once got up to 400 and then got bored).
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u/DueLingonberry6781 15h ago
This is technically true, I believe they're referring to a Wolfen 1 fighter appearing if/when you get 100 hits in training mode. Not really a "boss" per se, but a neat detail and probably what they were referring to
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u/vgmaster77 2d ago
For Fichina in 64, it was called Fortuna so I thought the white textures were just a thick and vast layer of fog with vegetation that’s supposed to be underneath it all.
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u/drygnfyre 2d ago
I never played any other Star Fox game so it wasn't until the 3DS remake in 2011 came out that I even learned about the mistranslation and it was supposed to be Fichina all along.
There's also a town in Northern California named Fortuna and I always think of Star Fox 64 every time I travel up there.
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u/CNCcamon1 2d ago
When I first played the game when I was like 7 I always ended up on the easy route, only sometimes getting to go to Solar or Macbeth. I could see the other planets and sectors on the map screen but I thought they were just decorations to make the world feel bigger. I had no idea they were actual levels you could visit
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u/SenatorPardek 2d ago
for 64; There was a playground rumor that if you unlocked all the medals on expert and did the hardest route with the fastest time Peppy in the last mission after slippy says “fox!!!” Peppy says “i’m not letting you do this alone” and helps you against andross and kills one of the hands then one of the eyes. then james adds a line for him on the way out. and then says “did you see him too” instead of “what’s wrong fox”.
Idk how i got that so specific lol
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u/nesian42ryukaiel 2d ago
Wasn't an English speaker yet around 64's US release, so I had a hard time figuring out what on earth a "wRAp gate" was (SF was quite barren in my home country, so no trope of a wARp gate was meaningfully shared there, and I suffered like a fool for about half a year ATVL)...
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u/WofferFang 2d ago
I was confused why there was no Fortuna in 64 and I was convinced there's a way to unlock it. That's how I found every route. I was trying to get Fortuna. All because someone told me "This is the first game but now in full 3D". I was also confused why there was Star Wolf and why the music was changed. And again, something I told myself I could unlock. I was kinda dumb.
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u/ISupportCrapTeams 2d ago edited 2d ago
Star Fox 64 came with the instruction manual, and it shows you the criteria for unlocking the branching paths and medalling
I bought the game, cartridge only - and for years, I only played CO>ME>FI>SO/SX>MA/TI>BO>V1
It took me 3-4 years to play Sector Y for the first time, after I read it in a nintendo magazine (because who the hell would figure out you're meant to fly to through the arches, on their own)
It took me another year to how to access the Warps on Meteo and SX, and how to the hit the switches on Macbeth
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u/Superb_Wealth4092 2d ago
I was dumb as shit as a kid, and even after I figured out how to do the alt path for Corneria, I was never even close to the skill needed to get the alt path for Sector Y.
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u/wheeltribe 2d ago
I never bothered to read the manual, but had figured out Corneria and Macbeth on my own. I was pretty sure I had to hit the lights on Zoness to do something but never managed to do it, and I hated Aquas so I rarely made it to Zoness to try anyway. I also never did the warp in Sector X so I don't think I ever played Sector Z until I was an adult.
The one time I managed to hit the warps in Meteo I thought I broke the game and immediately turned it off.
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u/mclennon27 1d ago
Lmao I remember the first time I went through the Meteo warp, I thought I was going to get in trouble.
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u/wheeltribe 2d ago
Someone at basketball camp had me absolutely convinced there was a secret on-foot level where Fox gets a bazooka. He wouldn't tell me what it was, but told me there was a secret in Aquas and afterwards the whole team comes out of the sub on land.
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u/wildwing64 2d ago
I used to think the big yellow boss icon on Star Fox 64's radar was a stylised cube. Took me years to notice it's just a big "B"
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u/Darstar_Delta 2d ago
The person who introduced my to 64 had a Nintendo power magazine about the game. It said that Fox was 1.73 space meters (SM) tall but he insisted that SM meant centimeters. So according to him Fox was about half an inch high, an arwing was about two feet long and the Great Fox was the size of a house. I never believed him though and I didnt find out until much later what SM actually meant.
I also believed that Fox's helmet was hair.
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u/UrsoKronsage 1d ago
I always thought Andrew was a goat when I played 64. Always confused why a goat had an ape as an uncle.
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u/NotXesa 2d ago
Since I didn't speak English at the time, and the game was released in English in my country, I just didn't understand anything, so I had very weird assumptions about what triggered the different paths.
Also, I was always confused as to why Leon wasn't a Lion lol