I thought CBFD was a great game and a pretty good swan song for the N64 (something which Dinosaur Planet was supposed to be, apparently), but at the same time the original Twelve Tales looks like a completely different game and pretty fun too. I'm pretty bummed we could just not have both.
CFB is definitely a swansong, it has things like full voice acting and multiple gameplay styles that you just wouldn't have gotten in a first generation title like CQ would have been.
I think i've heard or read somewhere that one of the reasons why DP was turned in a Starfox game, is that Nintendo was already aware that Microsoft had the intention to buy Rare, so Nintendo made the "suggestion" to make it a Star Fox game, so the'd keep the Dinosaur Planet ip, and the game couldn't be ported to other platforms.
Anyway, I remember Dinosaur Planet from magazines. Was it really necessary to tack on Star Fox? Did they think the game wouldn't sell? It looked cool to me at least.
I watched the first several parts back in the day. The game is hard (and the part they kept fucking up was particularly hard despite being part of the first/second level/chapter) and game devs often aren't the game masters you might think they are, so that wasn't particularly suprising. As said during it, they all agreed to not leak/mute any new Twelve Tales info during the LP, though some insightful behind the scenes stuff came out anyway. My favorite is their seemingly bitter insistence that they were two completely separate games. If you want a complete rundown of known info, I'd recommend the TCRF article, though if you know about the LP, you've probably already read it or know its basic contents.
The cutting room floor, it's a wiki-styled repository of cut/beta game info. I am phone posting so no direct link but it should be result no. 1 if you Google it.
Yeah, it's great looking and usually despite the old adage that graphics don't matter, if a game looks great than the gameplay is usually pretty great too, but SFA is the rare exception of a great looking game that just isn't very good in the actual gameplay department.
It isn't. If anything it's worse because of the framerate is bad.
There used to be a website dedicated to this that sadly is long gone. It compared all the levels side-by-side and was really interesting. They even had an interview with the woman who fixed things up for release. If they hadn't fixed it up and polished the dialog it wouldn't have been nearly as well remembered as it is. And nobody would give two fucks about The Moon music (it's at half speed in the prototype). The original Transylvania music was kinda neat though.
There was a legit texture dump for Luigi's model in Super Mario 64. But it's not actually surprising (for me at least anyways) because there was an interview Miyamoto did several years back (probably an Iwata Asks) where he talked about the development of Super Mario 64 and Luigi's role in the game. He described how it was supposed to be a two-player coop (as opposed to taking turns with levels in the 2D games), but it took up far too much data and they couldn't find a workaround. So it came down to cutting levels and stars and keeping Luigi, or cutting Luigi and keeping all the levels and stars they wanted.
Oh no, about a month ago they had ANOTHER, slightly earlier, Duck Tales build leak.
What makes that one different from the other one? That one was about 5-6 months before release I believe.
More bugs, some music differences, some graphics changes and missing graphics, some non-implemented boss fights. Overall it looks like the game's development progressed smoothly, with no hickups.
On the topic of Duck Tales, I sometimes wonder if the remastered game from 2013 is partly to blame for the monkey's paw of the rebooted Duck Tales cartoon of 2017.
