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Finally finished all of Star Fox Command, so here are my final thoughts:

- Everyone slanders Slippy for absolutely no reason.

- In 3 endings, Panther explicitly cucks Fox, and in 3 others it's heavily implied.

- Fox is only happy with Krystal in 3 endings, and in 2 of those, they never even talk throughout the entire game.

- Panther is by far the most broken pilot in the entire game. He takes down enemies in 3 shots, including bosses.

- Falco's entire character arc is that he feels empty and without purpose, but in one ending he finds purpose and happiness by becoming Fox's emotional support. (GAY!!!!)

- ROB is incredibly sarcastic and is apparently in love with Lucy, Peppy's daughter.

- They never explain why there's an Andross ghost just wandering around.

- Dash stars in 3 endings, and in 2 of them he doesn't even appear throughout the entire route.

- In the one ending where he actually appears, he randomly becomes evil for no reason.

- Octoman, an F-Zero character, is the final boss of Aquas and brainwashes Slippy into becoming his henchman.

- Amanda is an extremely possessive and dominant girlfriend. Something tells me Slippy is into that.

- This game really goes out of its way to establish that "Andross wasn't actually that bad, really."

- Wolf ends up being just as bad, if not worse, than Pigma in this game. Whatever heroic or noble traits he might have had are completely gone here.

- In the girl-power ending, where all the girls in the game get together to fight the final boss, they celebrate afterward by cooking for the boys. I'm not joking, this actually happens lmao.

- Katt really wants to fuck Falco here. Good luck to her; sucks for Katt that Kool got hilariously decanonized.

- I really wish Bill had actually done something useful here.

- Maybe this is too woke, but it's kind of funny how the game makes it clear that in basically any universe where Krystal isn't Fox's girlfriend, she's miserable.

- Does anyone know why Pigma is still alive?

- People don't talk enough about how Andrew completely abandoned any intention of being the "new Andross" and settled for being the henchman of whoever happens to rule Venom lmao.

- I'm still not entirely sure whether James is actually alive or not.

- I need more context on why Katt and Dash are friends.

- EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER SOMEHOW ENDS UP LOOKING WORSE BECAUSE OF THIS GAME. (Except Lucy, and Bill, who doesn't do anything anyway.)

The biggest merit this game has is that it genuinely remembered basically every character in the franchise here. (Miyu, Fara, and Fay crying in the background.) It's also genuinely fun and extremely replayable, unlike Adventures and Assault.

Oh, and I almost forgot: the Anglars feel like background villains because the real focus of the game is the characters and their personal drama.

Remember that scene in Avengers: Endgame where Captain Marvel and all the other female heroes suddenly show up together for no particular reason? This ending felt kind of like that.

I mean, it's nice to finally get an ending without cucking or characters being miserable, but it was a little weird how basically the entire female cast of Command randomly came together to help Lucy for absolutely no reason. Amanda and Katt didn't even know her, and they still showed up.

I also have to say that the final level of the girl-power route was pretty easy. I think they deserved a more challenging finale.

P.S. Shouldn't Krystal be with Star Wolf?

What will Peppy do when he finds out that ROB likes his daughter?

This game is getting weirder and weirder.

Where do I even start? In this route, Slippy goes to Aquas for basically no reason (even though he intentionally went looking for it in the first place), reunites with Amanda, and together they defeat the Anglars there. They discover the secret weapon on Titania and inform Fox, but then Slippy suddenly decides to leave Star Fox, skip Venom, and marry Amanda.

I'm not exaggerating when I say he looks really bad here. He's literally putting his baddie above everything else. And speaking of Amanda, I don't know if it's just me, but she comes across as way too possessive and even toxic in this route. Slippy's first reaction after learning about the weapon on Titania is basically: "I should tell Fox... but first, THE WEDDING."

DUMB FROG, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR!!!

The worst part is that there's literally no reason the wedding couldn't have happened AFTER defeating the Anglars, as the other endings already demonstrated lmao.

On top of making Slippy look like a complete cynic, he doesn't even give his friends a chance to attend the wedding because they're currently fighting a war (I don't blame you anymore, edgy Falco ending). And the fact that he doesn't seem to care whether his friends are okay or whether they even won the war is honestly kind of disturbing.

By the way, Slippy has already gotten slandered by ROB, Wolf, Krystal, Falco, and now Peppy in this game lmao.

When I thought this game couldn't get any weirder, this happens. I think I'm (k)ursed lmao.

I was genuinely intrigued to find out what happened with Dash, considering the game made him seem really important in the other routes, and when we finally got to his big moment it was... extremely anticlimactic.

First, they portray him as this energetic young kid who really looks up to Falco and Fox, basically the Konohamaru of Star Fox, and who completely understands that his grandfather was evil. Then, in this ending, they pull the whole "power corrupts" thing out of nowhere and he becomes the furry Napoleon of space.

And as for James... that completely caught me off guard. In 64, you could at least speculate that the Venom gas was making Fox hallucinate, but here James just straight-up appears out of nowhere, absolutely bodies the final boss, and gives the team a few words before disappearing. So yeah, this one is even harder to interpret. Did he say something different in the Japanese version of the game?

This ending is by far the shittiest one for Fox lmao.

In this route, Wolf helps us get that secret weapon on Titania, only to steal it from us, take us to Pigma so he can kill us, while he takes down the Anglars and gets all the credit.

WOLF, WHAT THE FUCK? YOU JUST DID THE EXACT SAME THING PIGMA DID TO JAMES LMAO. This game had already conditioned me to expect the worst from Krystal, but now you too?

Putting my rage aside, the part where Falco and Fox go live on Papetoon without telling anyone is, frankly... super gay lol. In the other route, Falco felt empty and depressed, but in this one he apparently finds his purpose by becoming Fox's emotional support lmao. And for you, seriously, you only need Falco in your life now? What about Slippy and his wedding?

But anyway, I almost forgot to mention that apparently F-Zero and Star Fox share the same universe. Honestly, I don't mind it.

And finally, because I'm still pissed:

FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF. FUCK YOU, WOLF.

I'm not sure how to feel about this ending. On one hand, it's way better than the other three I've talked about, but on the other hand, I'm confused.

For example, right before the final battle on Venom, Fox just pulls the whole "What do you know about Titania's secret, Krystal?" thing straight out of his ass. No buildup whatsoever. Then Krystal is apparently an Andross expert now and even starts justifying him lmao.

And if the situation wasn't already weird enough, THE GHOST OF ANDROSS shows up on Titania. Seriously, I've seen filler episodes of Naruto that were less random than this. But okay, apparently all of that was just to get a weapon they didn't even use against Anglar lmao.

The final fight against Anglar is basically the same as the Star Wolf fight, except for some reason it's way easier.

Another thing that really confuses me about this ending is whether Fox and Krystal actually got back together, or if Krystal just returned to Star Fox because she missed Fox and Slippy and they're not actually together anymore. Also, Amanda is now on the team.

Oh, and the ending also reveals that Dash terraformed Venom, making it habitable, and now he rules, which is pretty cool. Although that's now two endings where this guy just shows up despite doing absolutely nothing throughout the entire route. At this point, even Bill Grey has had more relevance than him.

I'm not even going to question why Andross's ghost is on Titania.

The final battle against Anglar was actually really good. It took me quite a few tries, even with Panther, who can literally one-shot the final boss with six shots.

But seriously... this is the reward for beating the true final boss? This is easily the worst ending. The whole Kursed thing is somehow even more bizarre than the Fox-getting-cucked ending.

And speaking of Fox, watching him practically beg Krystal to come back was painfully cringe.

Holy crap, the bastard takes down bosses in three shots and is super fast; even shooting down missiles is a piece of cake with him.

You can tell that Imamura and the Argonaut team didn't play favorites with this game.

Just finished my first playthrough of Command. The gameplay is a lot more fun than I expected—it's surprisingly strategic, and each pilot has different stats, so you're constantly thinking about who to use depending on the enemy.

That said, the missile interception sections were pure suffering for me, and having to replay them was incredibly frustrating.

The story, though... so far it's been really weird. I'd already been spoiled on several plot points, but experiencing them firsthand is something else.

It's not even that Krystal leaves Fox for Panther that bothers me. It's that Fox is such pushover that he practically pushes Krystal into doing it himself.

I get that it was a natural step for Peppy to leave Star Fox and take on a role with greater responsibility, but I think the Command writers completely forgot how a chain of command is supposed to work. xd

So far, I'm actually enjoying the game more than I expected, especially after hearing so many negative comments about it.

But this was so random that I just had to share it. xd