To be fair, she is a good design as shown here!

Yeah, they should definitely use this version of Krystal for her own game!

Awesome you picked mine! XD

I love the way she looks in your style, and judging by that belly we won't be seeing the other Krystal for quite a while. :)

Yay! You win! \o/

Thanks! I agree, I think your assessment is accurate.

I'm of the firm belief that Krystal should have either been entirely her own game or should have never existed

So, to be fair, it's hard for me to judge because I've never played a game with Krystal in it. But I would have loved to play the original planned game starring her.

Just know her existence indirectly killed the franchise for awhile, to the point they rebooted and removed her from it.

And Star Fox Zero sucked ass, so you can’t blame Krystal for that one.

Nah, I enjoyed that one, seemed like they took a turn for the best.

Are you kidding me? Zero was just 64 but with shitty motion controls & nothing new to the table. It was just the same stupid vehicular battle gameplay, & you couldn’t leave the damn things.

I stand by the original gameplay. If they just kept going arcade style and not trying to add a story, they probably would have been swell. But people wanted to have the blue fox love story when it's really just a love triangle between the frog, the fox and the falcon.

I do wish I could see into a timeline where DP came out as intended to see what happened, even if it just ended up being another cult classic collect-a-thon like many others of the time. Likely getting no sequels, or possibly a Nuts & Bolts-esque one about 10 years later before going dormant again.

That said, as someone largely neutral to the character, I think Starfox needs Nintendo to get their act together more than anything currently within the franchise or its canon being the problem. As you mentioned in another reply, she was removed from Zero, but it was still an awful game (even beyond control issues). Plenty of other games with janky gameplay/poorly written characters have been redeemed (see: Metal Gear's Raiden going from one of the most hated MGS characters to one of the more popular), but they require a clear direction and passion from the creators, and I'm not convinced Nintendo has either, at least for this particular franchise.

That was a bit long winded, so I should probably shorten it: I think DP might've been better as a stand-alone, even if that meant having to live as an obscure cult classic. Also, I think Starfox's biggest problem is Nintendo making the games awful, more than anything regarding the canon or characters.

I agree. Failure of Zero (which was supposed to be as "classic" Star Fox game as possible but it didn't help that game) demonstrated that Krystal or any other character has never been the source of SF problems.

My last comment was a bit poorly worded, so I hope you don't mind me deleting and replacing it with a better worded one:

To be completely fair, I do get where this person is coming from: Krystal showed up at the time when the series arguably started its downfall, so it's easy to latch onto her as a source. I probably would not have said anything if he just said that many saw her as a harbinger of the series' downfall, because that is 100% understandable for the reason I just mentioned. However, blaming her for the fall feels like it's ignoring the issue that caused the problems to begin with, that being Nintendo having no real direction, or possibly even passion for the IP. That is what I feel needs to change before anything can really improve with the franchise.

I actually had a similar thought. Again, I haven't played the games myself so I don't have an informed opinion, but it seems like saying the existence of a particular character is what killed the franchise is very unlikely, especially when the main reason that I haven't played a Star Fox game since 64 is because none of the new ones that came out sounded like Star Fox games.

this makes me want to see the vic versa of this situation.

I imagine it would be pretty similar. XP

probably, but it would make those who love the vixen version of krystal a lot happier.

you should do that other female dog character who's name i don't know because ive never played starfox but saw Asanaman make some pics with her oh wait i just googled it her name is "Fay" also ngl i like both versions of Krystal the same yeah yeah i know im not allowed to have that opinion but i love having NUCLEAR takes

thanks for listening to my TED talk

Ooh, I've seen art of Fay, she's pretty cute! She'd probably be pretty fun to do. ^^

A fun idea!

Thanks, glad you liked it!

DP KRYSTAL: (burps out necklace) I thought I took off all her garments.
FOX: Err, who are you and where is Krystal? Why are her clothes lying on the ground... why is your belly so huge and... is someone... moving inside?!
DP KRYSTAL: Mhm (pats her belly)
XD
Even though I am a big fan of Star Fox Krystal this picture is really fun:)

DP Krystal: "Nope, haven't seen her. Maybe she's back at base!"

Glad you like it! ^^

FOX: "I think I heard someome moaning in there... so familiar voice" XD

Any time^^