Getting started

After choosing your emulator, boot up the patched game. You'll be greeted to a cinematic attract mode that you can skip by pressing "start".
Then, choose a file, enter a name and choose "Yes" to start up officially.

Krystal's Introduction

Starting up the game we are thrown into a short cutscene, introducing Krystal and an unknown Cloudrunner she is riding in the sky. They are suddently attacked by General Scales' Galleon. After the Galleon passes to the right in the cutscene, the player gains control over Krystal.

You must shoot the cannons that appear on the Galleon's deck. When they appear, shoot them with the A button to destroy them; they should take two hits each. The Galleon will back up and slowly move towards you, shoot its propellor until the Galleon moves away again, and shoot both cannons until they're destroyed.

Don't worry about getting hit, as you can't lose health during this sequence.



The Galleon will gain speed and turn around to face Krystal, do as the Cloudrunner says and "shoot the head" to finish the fight with a short cutscene.
 

Rescue on the Galleon

Krystal will land on the Galleon and tell her Cloudrunner to leave. You'll soon regain control and face the first enemy and tutorial prompt of the prototype, a Sharpclaw! Lock the camera on him with the Z button and use your staff with A to attack and B to dodge.

If you have lost health during the encounter, no fear - there are boxes with Energy Eggs inside that you can collect to regain health. Go down the stairs and towards the big door up front with the cage (With Kyte inside!) on the right. As soon as you go up the stairs there, a cutscene with General Scales will start.

After this, the title will appear, along with a short credit scroll over the Galleon as they arrive on Warlock Mountain.

Warlock Mountain and Randorn

Arriving at Warlock Mountain, Krystal tries to free Kyte but to no avail. She decides to get the Wizard, Randorn to set her free.

Walk forward to leave the Galleon and set foot on Warlock Mountain, as soon as you do, you'll see a Map graphic pop up to the bottom left of the screen. Krystal is the blue dot and the zones of the Map will update depending on which section you currently are - it's very useful for bigger areas.

Go to the right, there is a tunnel and just before it a floating jellyfish enemy, avoid it and enter the tunnel. Make a left turn, then a small right to arrive to a dying Earthwalker. You can choose to speak to them or continue your way to the right.

To the right of the dying Earthwalker, there is a room with three horizontal laser beams, they are timed - so just wait they disapear to advance forward.

In the next room, a Sharpclaw is patrolling about in circle. Behind him, a broken pillar. Defeat the sharpclaw and go towards the pillar and pick up the smallest piece with A. Transport it on the pressure plate, you'll see a short cutscene showing the big door opening when Krystal is on top of it, tap A again to drop the piece of the pillar onto the plate, so the door stays opened.

Enter the big door you just opened, you'll find Randorn on the left. Before talking to him, note the Magic Plant behind the pillar to the left of the room, almost fully in the corner. You can whack it with your staff to get a gem to replenish your magic meter that Randorn will unlock for you in a moment. Do not worry if you collected a gem before talking to him, like in Star Fox Adventures, the plants regenerate themselves after a short timer.

Talk to Randorn to start a cutscene about Dinosaur Planet and what to do next. He unlocks your Projectile spell too.

Now you gotta go back to the Galleon, so - first up, Randorn wants you to shoot an object (more like a target or a button, it's square with a circle in the middle) above him with your new spell, so use C-Left and then A over the Projectile Icon (In red, kinda looks like an explosion) to equip it. Krystal will be in third person view and you'll be stuck on place. The joystick will now aim the staff and A, will shoot. Shoot the target to make a Warp Crystal fall to the ground, pick it up with A.

Trace your steps back : Starting in the room where you fought the Sharpclaw and place the pillar on the pad - go to your right back into the laser beams rooms. They are not timed anymore and will stay on until you shoot the three targets above them. They are quite far above, so you may need to look in first-person or equip your Staff to see them.

Shoot the first target, wait a bit until the laser deactivate and continue forwards. Repeat this two times and you are out of the room. Go uphill in the tunnel, making a bit of a left, right and you should be out by the entrance again with the Galleon in view in no time.

Almost out of the tunnel, a cutscene starts and Scales appears and leaves with the Galleon and Kyte still stuck in her cage.

Snap the camera back on Krystal, so you face the Mountain again. You'll want to go up the small recline you see on the right of the center structure, just to the left of the tunnel we were in before. Now in that opened room, to the right, there is a Sharpclaw on patrol and a pedestal on the ground. Beat the Sharpclaw and get closer to the pedestal on the ground.

Target the pedestal on the ground, tap the C-Right button then A on the obtained Warp Crystal to start a short cutscene where Krystal installs it inside. A door has opened and a teleporter is visible - we can leave Warlock soon!

Leave the opened room, to your left, go down the small incline, and then, a sharp right. You should see two pillars and in the far left a vine wall. If you look to your map for your position, you want to go under the opened room we were in with the Sharpclaw on the second floor. On the first floor, there is first a box to your right and to your left, the room we just opened up with the portal pedestal. To towards the portal, Krystal will step on it, then tap A to teleport out of the Mountain.

Swapstone circle

After teleporting, you lose control of Krystal and a lenthly cutscene starts with Rumble, the Swapstone. He breaks the 4th wall and forces you to switch to Sabre... for now. During the game, you must make lots of switches beteewn Krystal side of the adventure and Sabre's one. So, if you're stuck in a casual playthrough don't forget to look out for Rumble or his twin brother Rocky!

Sabre's Introduction

Switching from Krystal to Sabre with Rumble's magic, you're now in front of a fire camp waiting for Prince Tricky in the cold. Sabre mentions he was brought here by Randorn as well, who had insight on the Prince's location. Sabre witness the Prince arrival from a flying ship and as soon as he's down on the ground, the two Sharpclaws that were waiting for him, begin to attack. Tricky soon flee in a grotto opening and the Sharpclaws following him close behind him.

Getting that grotto door opened

You're in a small map, the long path to the North is blocked off. Simply go East, right in front of Sabre as you take control of him to battle some small enemies (Called Snipluk) that pop from the ground and get some magic refills from the Magic Plants - you'll need it to open the door, as it's a simple target to shoot at like in Warlock Mountain after talking to Randorn.

After shooting the target, the door opens and you can see the Sharpclaws and Tricky inside. Go save him!

Now this is pod racing!

Both Sharpclaws escape on (flying?) snowmobiles, Sabre quickly grab one and pursue them. You're now in Star Wars Racers! 

You gotta make it to Tricky before the Sharpclaws do, otherwise you'll have to start the race again! On the snowmobile push foward on your left joystick to go quicker and stir to avoid wall and falling icicles. Each time you crash into them, you'll lose a lot of speed - so be careful! The race isn't very long and you'll know you've done it right if you pass by the two Sharpclaws. Once successfully arrived first to Tricky, a cutscene will play of Sabre falling down a lake and Tricky will join your party!

The Prince is eager to help

After the quick race, you end up in a small winding down clearing with Tricky. On your way, there's is a single enemy (Bigger Snipluk) and an running Blue Mushroom. Wack that Blue Mushroom and while stunned, run to it and press A to put it in your inventory.

Continue down the winding road, showed on the right on your minimap. You'll soon arrive to a clearing with a Sharpclaw in view, trembling to a firecamp. A cutscene will play, Tricky will apologize and tell you how to use the Sidekick commands.

You are now in a open clearing, there is still an enemy hidden in a tree so don't be surprised if you get shot by a green energy ball while getting closer to it. The Snowhorn at the East on the minimap won't talk to you until you get him some Roots - but behind him there is two objects you can break to get some Scarabs. It's the currency of the Planet and will be useful for the Shop later on. Careful, like in the released StarFox Adventures, some will run away from you as soon as they break free from their hidding place, so be quick to grab them!

One Root is never enough

Maybe you saw the roots while exploring the clearing, but Tricky can't dig up them up right away, he needs pratice as he says.

After grabbing the Scarabs, pay attention to the ground in front of the Snowhorn. There is a spot that is damaged. Use the C-Down button to open up the Sidekick Commands, go down again to hover above the Map Icon (Dig command) and click A to ask Trick to dig up at the spot. A green light will come from below. walk to it and you'll teleport to a small tunnel with a room to get quite some Magic from a green Magic Plant. Walk back where you came from to be teleported instantly up back up front the Snowhorn.

From there, go West following your minimap to find another practice spot to dig. A brown stiched up ball appears, it's a toy ball that you can use to play with Tricky. In the Sidekick Command menu though, it's displayed as a redball with yellow stars, more similar to the E3 screenshots and RareThief gameplay leaked over the years.

That ball can be used later on to either play with Tricky for fun or use as a distractions for traps.

Before getting to digging the roots, Tricky will most probably be tired. Get close to Tricky, open up the Inventory with the C-Right menu and choose a Blue Mushroom. There will be a small animation of Tricky eating it and will replenish his stamina. Feed him one or two more.

Find the two Alpine Roots in the area and dig them up ; one is right of the fire camp when you first arrived, left to a tree. The second one is behind that same tree, beside a Magic Plant. If Tricky mentions that he is too tired when you select the Dig Command, give him a Blue Mushroom again.

Go back to the Snowhorn and feed him the first Alpine Root by getting close to him, opening up the Inventory with C-Right and select the Root. He'll mention that "one root is never enough" and also mention how to get how of the clearing (Which is most probably bugged and should have showed up after giving him the second root)

Give him the second Alpine Root to recieve the Snowhorn Waste map (The next area) and he still stomp hard on the ground to stop the geiser in front of him. The boulder is now free to be pushed all the way to the wall - climb it and get out of the clearing.

Jumping across ice to Snowhorn Waste

Pass the boulder you'll arrive at a lake with four ice blocks to jump over. Like in Ocarina of Time and the final Starfox Adventures, Sabre and Krystal automaticly jumps over gaps - just be careful aligning correctly and advance forward to pass the ice blocks one at the time. There is a little way on the right, as you pass on the lake, but ignore it for now.

You'll soon arrive to a dead end after a big tree, open up the Sidekick Command menu by pressing C-Down to tell Tricky to dig up a tunnel in the wall. This isn't explained by the game and is confusing, most probably missing a prompt from either Tricky or just text telling that Tricky can dig up walls. There isn't a mark on the wall either, so this could be a visual issue too.

Continue after the tunnel, down a winding path avoiding the Snipluk to a small lake. There is a three on the other side with an enemy inside, shoot it to make it fall and walk across the lake to finally get to Snowhorn Waste.

In Snowhorn Waste, right away there will be a Snowhorn complaininng that he need help to get out - his dialog will appear at the bottom of the screen, but you can't see him yet. This is our next objective, we'll need to free him.

Start by going to your right and descend on the path. You'll arrive in a little space with two Snowhorn. At the almost complete far right side of it, there will be a diggable wall (Not the visual crack on it) - dig with Tricky, walk down the tunnel and you'll have a shortcut to Swapstone Hollow where Tricky's mother is.

On your way to Tricky's mom, you'll encounter a Bomb Plant. They shoot up purple spore (Called showed as Purple mushroom in inventory) that gently fall down on the ground, pick them up to collect them. You'll need them to blast away big walls with cracks.

Continue going East on the minimap, up front from where you arrived from Snowhorn Waste, pass the river and go up that tunnel with a green Magic Plant to the right. You'll find Tricky's mom asking your help and you'll need to get White mushrooms to heal her up after the Sharpclaws attack.