The brainchild of Gagnetar. The Krystal viral sensation of 2022. The return of Estelle Ellis to video games. It's here! The Half Life 2 Krystal Alyx Mod Version 3!

It features all of Alyx's lines rerecorded by Estelle Ellis, reprising her role as Krystal. That's 3265 painstakingly recorded lines. As you saw in some of the trailers, the dialog itself was adjusted slightly for Krystal's inclusion in the story. That's certainly the headline of the mod, but there's a bunch more to it than that:

• Four different, fully functional weapons from Krystal's armory
  • Blaster
  • Sniper Rifle
  • Gatling Gun
  • Krystal's Magic Staff
• Both the 2018 and 2020 version of WarfareMachine's Krystal rig (a huge fan request fulfilled)
• The WarfareMachine 2020 version has outfits for Assault, Adventures, and four different Alyx-style outfit combinations:
  • Star Fox Shirt
  • Black Mesa Shirt
  • Alyx Hair
  • Krystal-standard Hair
• The 2018 version of the rig has two new outfits:
  • Mercenary
  • Casual
• Some additional lighting and texture fixes in the 2018 rig
• Replacements for the Episode 2 G-Man scene
• Fixed Krystal teleport issue in Episode 1 Intro
• And a special Star Fox themed surprise you won't be able to miss once you encounter it

So with all the different rig and clothing variations, you will have a grand total of 120 possible looks for Krystal. That's 48 combinations of the 2018 rig and 72 combos for the 2020 rig!

Check out the feature trailer above if you haven't. It's got some fully animated segments! You can download the mod here (or download via Google Drive or download via MEGA). This version of the mod is a lot bigger than Version 2: now at a staggering 5GB. We've managed to compress it down to a 7zip file that's only 607MB.

Rose was nice enough to make these sweet Krystal Box Artworks for each of the games. Very professional. The uncompressed versions of these posters are available in the mod download.

You can follow Gagnetar's ongoing work at his twitter account. Estelle Ellis is very active on her twitter account, posting Krystal fanart and talking to fans. Go stop by and tell them thanks for their hard work! Plus all the others who helped make this possible. What a great thing to see for the 20th Anniversary of Star Fox Adventures. #StarFoxAdventures20th

Summerset Banjo created a huge 11 minute long video love letter to the game Star Fox Adventures. Using music from EFX Vegas Musical, many scenes from Star Fox Adventures are showcased, including some that were the result of research into enabling content that never made it into the final game. As a show of appreciation to the creators, this video also contains the credits to the actual game itself. Unfortunately, the video can't be embedded here because of copyright issues, but you can watch it on YouTube.

Gh0stTrick has been a prolific collector of fan Krystal creations for a while now. What better time than the 20th anniversary of Star Fox Adventures to show off his huge collection! He sent me tons of photos of his 3D prints, figures, statues, dice, buttons, pins, stickers, prints, oil paintings, keychains, charms, plushies, t-shirts, acrylic stands, cups, coasters, bead art, sketches, art prints, wall scrolls, and probably other stuff I couldn't identify. He says he has at least 52 Krystal items on his desk alone, and he has even more stuff which he doesn't picture here. All 100% unofficial Krystal merchandise.

You win, sir. You definitely have the best Krystal collection of all time.

Check out the gallery for tons of photos.

In celebration for the 20th Anniversary of Star Fox Adventures, VGSymphony released this calming rendition of Thorntail Hollow (Night) with a nice animated picture to go with it.

HuutisStudio and his friends are long time Star Fox fans and readers of the site. They played a lot of Star Fox Assault multiplayer together, and some of them share birthday months with Star Fox Adventures. They will be doing a 3 Day Stream of Star Fox in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Star Fox Adventures, starting the 22nd, just a few hours from now. They might also do some other Star Fox game stuff on stream. The commentary and players will be speaking in English, but they may break into their native Finnish from time to time. Star Fox fans from all over the world!

The stream begins on September 22nd at 10:30AM Eastern (7:30AM Pacific). Go say hi in chat!

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These are a little old, but I wanted to mention them since I hadn't already. First up, the above video is the August update from Gagnetar about the Half Life 2 Alyx Krystal Mod V3. According to the video, he had all of Alyx's lines replaced by Estelle Ellis already, but there was still much to be done, including testing of the mod looking for mistakes and oversights. In the video, Gagnetar talks about still wanting to have the mod ready to go for the 20th anniversary of Star Fox Adventures (which would be the 23rd), so we'll see if they make it.

Secondly, Estelle Ellis posted this video on her Twitter account a couple weeks earlier, in July. It shows another sequence from the mod where Krystal talks to Gordon a lot. As always, the voice acting is a treat.

You probably noticed the distinct lack of updates during the depths of the summer. Lots of real life stuff going on, making updates pile up. I regret missing a lot of these, but I'm determined to make up for it. I've still got a ton of stuff to post, this included. So for a while, there might be more than one post a day, with some of the updates for slightly older stuff. I'm nothing if not a completionist. I ask for your continued patience as I try to make the site live up to its name of being the Krystal Archive.

The devs posted this video on Twitter. Krystal does a cute little hair flip now. To be honest with you, I don't remember what her idle animation used to be. Can someone tell me in the comments? I remember her taunt is to spin around her staff and say "Try me!"

RicardoTheFox has a tremendous Star Fox collection. Not necessarily in terms of size, but in quality. He has several extremely rare items, some of which even I hadn't heard of. Among the amazing items in his collection, we have:

• First4Figures Arwing
• Star Fox Store Display Statue
• Star Fox Super Weekend Flight Jacket
• Star Fox Game Watch
• World of Nintendo Star Fox Plushies
• Star Fox Hat (never seen that one)
• What appears to be some Star Fox themed kids-meal toys (never knew about those)
• And a bunch more! Lots of stuff I have in my collection too.

Here the right side of the collection. Got some promotional bonuses over here, and the Star Fox Watch game. Plus, there are several fan-created things, like two Krystal acrylic things.

There were other things not visible in the main collection, including this poster and his First4Figures Arwing. And also, here's RicardoTheFox standing next to the Fox Statue.

You can see the rest of his photos on this Reddit thread. Nice collection! Well done, my friend.

Now this. THIS is what I love to see in the modding community! Wrenchy247 has been working on some mods for Kingdom Hearts 3. In this work in progress video, the boss character Xemnas is replaced by General Scales. He's also using his other mod, Replacing the Elemental Encoder Keyblade with Krystal's Staff. So you get Sora, fighting with Krystal's Staff, against a very competent and powerful General Scales. They both fly around everywhere, trading blows. The voice acting Xemnas is also pretty close to General Scales.

This is epic! Can you imagine a battle between Fox or Krystal and General Scales with mechanics like this? Perhaps if Wrenchy247 does a Sora replacement mod we will get to see it.

The mod is still a WIP, but you can use the Krystal Staff Mod right now.

I finally got around to it. After years of putting it off, here's my entire Star Fox collection. Every single thing I own that's Star Fox related (I think). I've put together a video where I go over each item, what it means, and where it came from.

We've got Nintendo Power entries, comics, games, shirts, fanart, promotional items, calendars, cards, toys, statues, figurines, 3D prints, and stuff from voice actresses. Check it out and tell me what your favorite thing is.

And please take the time to show me your own collection too!