Modder ToRiCoChi created this amazing Krystal mod for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. With the right items, you can play through the entire game as Krystal and even use her staff as your primary weapon.

Based on the Linkle mod, this Krystal mod replaces the Phantom Armor set with the textures, mesh, and animations to recreate Krystal, including ears, tail, hair, and clothing, as well as the physics modifications to make them all work seamlessly. In spite of being a blue fox creature, the citizens of the world won't be scared of her as they would with the normal Phantom Armor. The SixSage's Sword is replaced with Krystal's staff. Though it's a sword weapon, Krystal will use it as a staff weapon.

There's and alternate version of the mod also available for download called TuyoTuyo version, which makes the armor resist all weather effects (so you can always look like Krystal), makes it slightly stronger, and makes staff weapons not breakable so you can use Krystal's staff forever. ToRiCoChi really thought of everything.

You can download both versions from GameBanana. This mod is specifically for the Wii U version of the game. I really should try this!

UndyingNephalim has posted a new video for the Star Fox Event Horizon fangame and this one is a story cutscene. Shears, a terrifying villain from the official Star Fox comic Farewell, Beloved Falco, calls up Fox McCloud to "encourage" him to leave Sauria. Wouldn't want something to happen to his girlfriend, now would he?

How can one man be so intimidating and formal at the same time? Excellent writing, voice acting, and pacing here. Well done to all involved, particularly the voice actoring of Colonel Shears (Alex Ross) and Fox McCloud (Kyle Rhys Marsh).

It has been a couple years since I showed off my massive Star Fox and Krystal collection, and I've added quite a few things to it since then. Over the upcoming weeks, I'll share details on the new items I've obtained.

This time it's the official Star Fox 64 Soundtrack CD. This is the North American sountrack CD, sold directly through Nintendo Power's store. (Yep, Nintendo Power had a mail order store and later an online store.) I had bought a bunch of things through them, and later the Nintendo Online Store before it all got consolidated into the My Nintendo Store (which I think is basically run through the same system as Nintendo New York). If you had wanted exclusive Nintendo stuff, including game soundtracks and obscure items like the the GameCube component video cables, that's where you had to buy it.

This soundtrack has gone for over $200 on eBay recently. For me, I found this on Facebook Marketplace for $80, which was a great deal by comparison. I was able to rip the whole CD in lossless quality with no issues. The CD itself is in perfect shape, though there is damage to the case. I have some spare cases to replace it with, however.

This CD contains 30 tracks, which is the vast majority of the soundtrack. It's mostly missing alternate variants of a couple tracks and some of the intro and outro fanfare themes. It's unfortunately missing Katt's theme and Bill's theme too. Still, hard to beat CD quality for these tracks!

There was another official Star Fox 64 Soundtrack CD called "Original Cuts" released in North America that had only 14 tracks and came in a slip sleeve instead of a case. This one sells for around $60. It looks like this:

Site viewer Jimaki sent in his custom Star Fox Adventures shadowbox he got in October 2023. It's modeled on the boxart from the game. The 36 by 28cm piece was a present from his sister for his birthday. The high quality shadowbox was made by PixelartGamecrafts, an Etsy seller. Check out the video showing multiple angles and shadows. Static pictures don't do it justice! Later on, Jimaki hopes to do another shadowbox of the Star Fox Adventures Nintendo Power cover.

He also sent in some custom pixel bead art of Krystal made by a local artist at the Hellenic IT Museum, in Mosxato, Athens Greece. This one was completed for relatively cheap in November 2024. The source of the pixel art is from Drag2812's animated gif.

A couple weeks ago, I became aware of a cosplayer who dressed up as Krystal from Dinosaur Planet, the third one in the world. She first appeared at Youmacon 2022 accompanied by another cosplayer who dressed up as the version of Fox McCloud that appeared in the Dinosaur Planet leak. You know, the one with the sword. I have several pictures of them, but I don't have permission to share them, unfortunately. A Discord user named GreyscaleDragon posted the photos, but I was unable to get in contact with that person since then.

Later, this Krystal cosplayer reappeared at Isshocon in January 2025. Site reader ZirconSun spoke to the cosplayer himself and took the picture at the top of this post.

That's all the info I have about the cosplayer. I'd like to get more info and photos of the cosplay, but have run out of leads. If you know something, or you are the cosplayer yourself, please contact me so we can let more people know about this. Thanks everyone!

Valentine's Day 2025 is coming up quick on February 14th. But there's something else happening that day besides the holiday. It's the 20th anniversary of Star Fox Assault's release date (Feb 14th, 2005)!

I remember it fondly, finding out in 2003 that Namco was working on a sequel to Star Fox Adventures for the Nintendo GameCube. I found out like most others, by seeing the cool trailer with weird voice acting. It sounded like they got Billy West, the voice of Fry from Futurama, to do Fox McCloud's voice. In reality, they probably got some employees from Nintendo of America to do their best Star Fox character impressions for the demos.

It wasn't even called Star Fox Assault back then. Just "the next Star Fox on Nintendo GameCube".

Then, a few years later, we got the game that many consider to be the peak of Star Fox games. It featured a much more even spread of on-foot and flying missions. The story and characters continued from where they left off in Adventures, with Krystal becoming a pilot and Peppy leaving the Arwing to take on an advisory role. Plus, the whole game had an orchestrated soundtrack and some really nice pre-rendered cutscenes for the time.

20 years later, and Star Fox Assault hasn't aged quite as well as Star Fox Adventures has, but it's still one of the best known games on the Nintendo GameCube.

And I think that's worth celebrating! Like the Star Fox Adventures 20th Anniversary, let's pull out all the stops to remember and celebrate this game together! What will YOU do to celebrate the game?

The Plan

1. Find a way to show your appreciation for Star Fox Assault and the whole Star Fox series in your own way.
2. Post about it to social media (with the hashtag #StarFoxAssault20th), in the comments, or via email.
3. Whenever I can, I will retweet and post about the things you send.

Ideas

• Record some shenanigans in Star Fox Assault's multiplayer mode.
• Do a stream playing through the game.
• Make a remix of one of the songs from the game.
• Draw some fanart.
• Build a 3D prop replica of a weapon from the game.
• Reanimate your favorite cutscene (you know the one)
• Give us your best Panther impression, the cheesier the better!
• Show off your Star Fox collection.
• ...or whatever else you can think of!

Whatever you choose to do, when you post about it please be sure to use the hashtag #StarFoxAssault20th. Please keep it family-friendly! I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

NOTE: In the last five years, the release date listed for Star Fox Assault has moved around. I found some sources saying the 13th, some the 14th, and some the 15th. But last time we celebrated its birthday, it was on the 14th, so we're going with that.

Platinum is a well-respected game company who, among other things, co-developed Star Fox Zero with Nintendo. Well, several gaming outlets are publishing that the game has been removed from their website's list of games.

You can see that the page only shows a handful of games are listed now compared to the 22 games listed before. Speculation is running hard about what this means.

I don't know what it means for the other games that were removed, but for Star Fox Zero, it's a little unclear. It turns out the Star Fox Zero page is still there. It's just not linked to anymore. You can view it here.

Could it be that Platinum is simply reorganizing their site? Possibly. Maybe the missing games will reappear in a few days. Or maybe they do intend to remove those games, including Star Fox Zero, for some other purpose. Could Star Fox Zero be getting a remaster and Nintendo wants to sweep the original developers under the rug like they did with Donkey Kong Country Returns HD? No way to know yet.

Sorry for not posting much in the last day or two. I have the flu. I hope to resume posting soon. When I do, I'll try to make up for missed days. Thanks for your patience.

insoul_xiii has created a Krystal mod for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, a game that is a love letter to the Jet Grind Radio series. There are different colorations for Krystal, all in her Assault outfit. The mod also includes custom graffiti tags, so you can add some Krazoa Spirit to the neighborhood. The graffiti is by Z0.

Another cosplayer named Dreamarts302 has created a Krystal cosplay modeled around the Dinosaur Planet version of Krystal. The cosplay debut was at Kami Con, an anime convention in Birmingham, Alabama taking place in February 2024.

According to her, Krystal has been a favorite character of hers since she was a kid when she played Star Fox Adventures at age 5. She had always wanted to dress up like her. Her mother assisted her with the ears, tail, and dress. Dreamarts302 did the makeup herself. Not counting her face, her body was covered in a blue suit to mimic Krystal's coloration. The cosplay features a glowing staff that's quite unlike any Krystal staff I've seen before. It may have been a staff originally designed for a different character. Any ideas?

More recently, she posted a winter photoshoot with a nice fur-based shawl to go on top of the dress. There's also a video of her running through the snowy forest.

Here's all the photos she posted:

• Tons of photos from all over the con
• Meeting Ryan Drummond (Sonic voice actor) and other photos
• Suit-up shots, photos at the con, and a video of her holding a massive gun
• Winter photoshoot

As an artist, Dreamarts302 has done many drawings, including several of Krystal. Dreamarts also drew a Dinosaur Planet Krystal fanart which she sells as a sticker on her Mercari store.

Always happy to see the love for Krystal manifest as creative costumes. Good job Dreamarts!