/vr/ - Retro Games

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Krystal's problem is that no one knew how to write for her. She was explicitly suited for Dinosaur Planet. They sexed her up for Adventures on behalf of the Japanese(!), but yoinked her out of 95% of the action and put a pin on what to do with her later. What Assault did was acceptable. With Peppy distancing himself from the Arwing, it only made sense that they'd take on a new pilot who owes Fox a life debt. Thing is, she doesn't fit the team dynamic nearly as well as Peppy did, and her one big break in the game (sensing that Sauria needed help) was a ruse on the Aparoids' part to distract the team from Corneria. Command would've been way more interesting if she was the last Star Fox member to stay by Fox's side and we see firsthand how much of a toll that might've taken on her psyche depending on the player's actions, but instead offscreen drama that betrays her character kicks off her story arc. I think the issue is because Adventures' Japanese localization for whatever reason got rid of her backstory that she was an orphaned survivor. As undeveloped as that was, that explained why Andross would want to take advantage of her, and losing so much of her purpose in life gave her a reason to want to join Star Fox as a sort of new family. Instead, she's basically treated as some random bimbo who got in over her head like a dumb broad I guess, which explains why her character direction in Command was so god-awful, and why she suddenly likes doing things like indulge Panther's idiocy and argue with Fox about Andross. The sad thing is that I'm starting to see people retroactively defend her character in Command for giving her "agency" but no, it's just crap writing because no one can agree on what to do with her. It's no wonder they had to re-reboot the series without her.