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STAR FOX ADVENTURES
Like Metroid Prime, Star Fox Adventures was a radical reinvention of a beloved Nintendo franchise, and like Metroid Prime, it was originally supposed to be something else entirely. The game was originally being developed by Rare for the N64 as Dinosaur Planet, a new IP that would focus on anthropomorphized dinosaurs as the primary characters. And once again, it was Shigeru Miyamoto who proved instrumental in the project’s reinvention, who convinced Rare that the concept that they were working on wouldn’t require too many drastic changes to be turned into a Star Fox game. The final result may not have been as revolutionary as Metroid Prime, but once again, Miyamoto was right on the money with his assertion.
