I believe Nintendo expanded this with the Japanese Star Fox File Printout, where it says that another Arwing fighter pilot known as Deslar Coba-Gunsou reported seeing a bird-like alien with huge wings in the asteroid belt. Upon approaching it, he felt a "warping sensation," and his transmissions cut off abruptly. Perhaps this nullifies the drugged Fox theory?
I doubt the level is just a hallucination, because the official Japanese strategy guide, Star Fox Mission File Printout, mentions another pilot encountering the bird and disappearing.
From Arwingpedia: "Sergeant Desslar Coba (デスラ・コバー軍曹), in an Arwing converted as an "M Scouter", reported seeing an unknown bird-like alien with huge wings deep within the Asteroid Belt. When Desslar Coba thought it would be intriguing to take a closer inspection, his transmission cut off abruptly as he felt a warping sensation and was never heard from again. It was deemed dangerous to approach any lifeforms matching that description."
i think this is what happened Fox shoots out the asteroid, the asteroid explodes and starts emanating a lot of radiation, so much that not only jams the signal of the arwings, but since fox is the closest one to the source, the radiation pierces the shield of his arwing and starts inflicting mental damage on fox. Fox, being completely out of himself, just wanders in space on his own. The explosion forces his team mates to retreat to the great fox and return to corneria before it gets even more dangerous. Fox was never seen again.
@Van Spawn, first: I was trying to get a more informed response to make a proper analysis. (I've seen too many cases where police refusing to fact check the evidence led to a false arrest) second: *HOW* is it _obvious_?
Am I the ONLY one that notices the briefing says "Come in Arwings!" Arwings. Plural. That means that Fox's whole team went missing. Here's another theory. This warp is how Star Fox ends up in the Smash Bros universe.
Stupid joke, but what happened is he ended up in Out Of This Dimension from the bird, Thats not a hallucination, thats a magic bird that can transport you to a new dimension in seconds.. Nobody says anything about it because they are assuming that everyone sees it.
I just like to think he went into a different universe when going into portal shaped as a bird, which could be billions apon billions of miles away from his team, where there is creepy shit going on everywhere, and he has to stay there until he dies, (food loss, air loss, suicide, etc) creepy.
@@JimBimBum well actually no. the theory in the video is casual, its what happen in war. thats depression and PTSD stuff it is sadly casual. on the other hand, changin dimension is something only viewed in science fiction so, pretty rare.
this is an incredible theory! when I first heard of this I thought they just put it in there for laughs. but now that Easter egg took a very dark approach with the tragic alternate ending! thanks for the theory!
I instantly started thinking about Space Oddity when this sequence happened. Fox, a former hero and prodigy, is doomed to wander for presumably eternity in a strange and unfamiliar setting, far away from home, as his communications are severed and his team is left wondering what became of him. Eventually, his fuel will run out and he'll die all alone. There's nothing he can do at this point. Take in the fact that there's parallels in drug use. Poor Fox...
I've actually thought a lot about this easter egg, ever since this randomly happened to me as a kid (and subsequently made me really uncomfortable.). The "its a drug trip" theory, even if it seems a bit on the nose or even lazy at times imo, is made pretty interesting in this video. I always thought an alternative idea is that the drug trip nature of it all was because Fox has been transported beyond time and space as we know it, maybe even ceasing to exist in the traditional sense. What we're seeing is Fox's mind attempting to interpret the uninterpretable, because he's now stuck in a place beyond our perceivable reality. A place we were never meant to go to or exist in. Maybe "out of this dimension" doesn't mean travelling to an alternate reality as the term often implies, but rather means you've literally been taken out of the 3rd dimension and taken to some sort of higher or lower level of existence where time and space as we know them have no meaning. The bird that takes you there itself, just by what it is, flies in the face of conventional knowledge of the universe, so maybe it's some sort of ancient creature that exists on multiple planes of existence so merely flying into it or touching it transports you "out of this dimension". Whether it's just a drug trip, or some exercise in sci-fi existential horror, it's always been a really fascinating but damn eerie easter egg.
Or maybe the bird is some sort of teleportation device perceived as a bird, similar to the interdimensional starship James McCloud is stuck from the Nintendo Power comic being seen as a glowing Space Whale.
Imagine, being a pilot, going the same path your father’s steps, only to end up in a similar death situation, James and Fox McClouds, lost in different planes of existence, one in a black hole, and another one in a different dimension, that’s gotta be catastrophic for starfox
@@SlasherDex there is a black hole level where you are all alone, you warp yourself into an another part of space in the game, and you are alone in the level. at the end of the level you are with your mates tho. its more because it was easier to not put the other character.
So is Fox on drugs and hallucinating when he sees his father at the end of Star Fox 64? I'm not gonna lie I thought that was going to come up in this theory
That explains the slot machine. It symbolizes Fox’s fear of failure. He doesn’t know what to expect. He lost motivation. The background music sounds like it could be a distorted lullaby, possibly what Fox faintly remembers in his childhood. Also, the paper airplanes might symbolize Fox’s simple and easy childhood, dreaming to become a space pilot. Hence, he probably played around with paper airplanes in the academy. Also, the smiling asteroids and generic-looking stars seem like the type of decorations you’d find in an elementary school’s classrooms. I bet Fox just misses being a child.
Well, seeing how it says "THE END" and the stage continues on forever definitely indicates that Fox got lost by himself. Maybe that hallucination veered him into a wormhole. Now, I've read the official comic three times, so I can guess a couple of things: 1. The Arwings were already modified to withstand the Black Hole's gravity. I'm betting wormholes aren't as strong as black holes, so that's why Fox is still alive, and 2. Other dimensions _do_ exist. In the comic, Fox Senior was warped into another dimension whenever the gravity bomb blew up and created the Black Hole. Heck, the intergalactic ship he's in looks like a whale because of the differences in reality. He even comms in to the Star Fox crew for explaining this! Oh, and that whale shows up in Sector Y replenishing your supplies and giving you an overshield (just like in the comic when the crew's running out of fuel looking for Slippy).
+Taylor Cason As said in Star Fox Zero: The Star Fox team was made to investigate paranormal activities. So Out of This Dimension might be one of those things. Fox his father supposedly died in a wormhole, but yet you see him help in the end. It could be a hallucination or he never really died and skips between dimensions. Fox might be going through the same there.
Coyote O'yama I haven't played Star Fox Zero yet, so I only knew that Team Star Fox was a mercenary team for Corneria. And according to the Mission Files, a pilot before Fox (Desslar Coba; he discovered the warps in 64) had seen the bird like alien and was never heard from again after feeling a warping sensation. "It was deemed dangerous to approach any lifeforms matching that description". Looks like Fox forgot to read his briefings.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the slot machine in Star Fox (SNES) was actually a test model used for scrolling textures. When the developing team couldn't find a use for it, Sakurai ultimately approved of the level, "Out of This Dimension" to test out multiple new features in the game. Dylan Cuthbert in an interview with GameXPlain debunked this as well as the theory for the Metal Legs dispute. ruclips.net/video/MhVNhFIUbNE/видео.html
@Brandon AnthonyIt does. When you are in an another dimension, that you know nothing from, there is little chance that you come back and instead wander forever. once you enter, you may not come back. + since its a video game, that kind of ending at that time were pretty popular for secret levels
I would say the reason this level exists is from a development standpoint. With the Super FX chip's first on-rails shooter, of course Nintendo would want to make something... Strange. But a crazy level does not fit the style of the game. The way the level was executed was the best possible way to add a crazy level into this new technology advanced game without clashing with the style.
The slot machine was just a test for scrolling textures, and the developers couldn't find a place to put the slot machine boss so they just made up a random confusing level for fun.
I think there’s a theory that after crashing into the bird, Fox’s Arwing’s windows broke and all the oxygen inside leaked out and he lost control of the ship which made him drift into space and get lost. The lack of oxygen caused him to hallucinate and also suffocate. He couldn’t steer his ship and go back to everyone else, he lost fuel, and he was doomed to stay there drifting in the middle of nowhere until he died. Out Of This Dimension wasn’t real. It was never another dimension at all. He was hallucinating.
While this theory is nice and really well thought out, it's debunked as in one of the secret files it's explained that the bird does exist and that any and all ships who come into view of it must under any and all circumstances avoid any type of contact with the bird, along side with 2 other classified files containing the knowledge of James' arwing being scattered across all 3 of the black hole's warp point exits and about a bear pilot vanishing around sector Z after sighting a huge space whale that offered to refuel it's carrier ship, only to just vanish.
The slot machine could also signify fox developing a serious gambiling addiction as you can only kill the slot machine when you get a jackpot or 777, and after fox got out of this addiction he might have used the jackpot money to buy the drug that he took and perhaps he overdosed and died, signified by the end text, however he is left to spell it out forever because he denies that its the end, as his drug use killed his team and now him, fox perhaps decides to finally fight back, but it is too late and fox keeps fighting anyway, only he stuck forever fighting what he cannot win
Or fox developes a gambiling addiction and wins an amout of cash, he buys and overdoses on what he used as "go pills" and dies. He is sent to hell and forced to relive all of his regrets, his personal hell starts with a message asking where he has gone reminding him of how he doomed his home planet because of his actions, a hallucinate version of space reminding him of the drugs he took, the fighter jet reminding him that he could have done something, paper planes reminding him of the friends he left to die, pillers to remind him how he kept doging his promblems(?), the slot machine reminding him of his gambiling, the smiling planets reminding him of home, the stars reminding him of being in space(?), and finally the never ending "the end" reminding him that when he finnaly fought through all of his problems it was to late, and is now trapped and forced to relive all of his mistakes forever.
Or, as an alternative, Fox suffered from nitrogen narcosis due to a failure in the Arwing's life support systems, as they do not wear any sort of life support gear or compressive suits that could save them in case the spacefighter's systems fail. Basically, the one thing that saved Darth Vader after getting his TIE blasted out of the Death Star was his suit.
I had a theory back when I was 12 that the bird was REAL, but Fox was brought into a coma by the crash into it and spent the rest of his life in the hospital in a coma.
I know I brought up a similar theory I came up with when I was like 12, that the bird was real and the crash resulted in Fox being comatose, where he spent the rest of his life in a hospital, but I actually made a fanfic of that, where the crash also killed the bird (Which I wrote as a phoenix) and Bill (Or another friend of his, I can't remember) put the beak of the phoenix on his grave in the same way you'd put a bouquet of flowers (or for a soldier, a gun or a helmet) on the mound as a symbolic mourning gesture. But then the phoenix came back to life and it was pissed because it wanted its beak back. Then later, the team had to kill the phoenix for real with some sort of anti-fire weapons (Water blasters, fire extinguisher spray cannons, whatever)
This Theory is Denied with the official japanese strategy guide "Sergeant Desslar Coba (デスラ・コバー軍曹), in an Arwing converted as an "M Scouter", reported seeing an unknown bird-like alien with huge wings deep within the Asteroid Belt. When Desslar Coba thought it would be intriguing to take a closer inspection, his transmission cut off abruptly as he felt a warping sensation and was never heard from again. It was deemed dangerous to approach any lifeforms matching that description. "
I had heard about "Out of this Dimension" not ("just") being a drug-trip, but more like hallucinations you might get when losing air and dying due to a crash, therefore being "taken out of this dimension". SInce he's not responding to Pepper's frantic call and not seeing the others (Considering the fact that the level doesn't end until you restart the game) Buuuuuut, bringing a bit of this dark realism of fighter pilots/soldiers taking certain drugs that are being commissioned to them in the first place is kinda intersting too. (Oh, I am absolutely sure Fox and probably even the others have PTSD too, it absolutely would make sense)
Definitely an insightful theory. I absolutely loved the tone transition throughout this video, especially the end with that terrifying revelation about being lost forever. I'm just curious as to what soundtracks you used at 6:40 and at 8:00 because they fit spot on.
I know I'm half a decade late, but if you're still wondering, the song at 6:40 is The Forgotten Love by BruhuhVille: ruclips.net/video/D7ImDOLLtAI/видео.html
I've personally always been a fan of the theory that the bird is just a normal alien, and Out of This Dimension is Fox's dying brain trying to piece together reality after crashing into the bird ejects Fox from his plane. I really like this theory though, it gives some longevity to a relatively short piece of content.
I can't stop watching this video over and over again. You did a great job on this, especially with the snarkiness about where you hear seeing animals appear, and the music you chose, ESPECIALLY the music!
You know, what's so interesting about this to me is that, disregarding the international approach to fighting sleep among each respective military, Japan is pretty stoic and stern about drugs, Paul McCartney was literally banned from the country because he was caught with a joint at an airport on their way in. A joint, like, a single simple harmless rolled piece of paper packed with an herb that's never killed anyone, and is less toxic than peanuts kept the frontman of arguably the most popular band of all time from entering Japan. That alone speaks volumes for their drug policies, and they've remained that conservative all this time, and so really the only drugs people do over there for the most part is cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking. Weed is grown there, but it's few and far between because the people are aware of the consequences and even having tried it, would probably rather not risk it. However, if you're associated with the Yakuza or are of any importance in Japan's illegal underground, then chances are that you're into methamphetamine. And I imagine what you explained here is probable correlation to why it's become a problem on the streets there, coupled with the overall "go go go be successful never stop working" attitude Japan constantly perpetuates. So yeah, I really dig this theory, and I do think it checks out. One more thing, psychedelics aren't really a thing at all over there, namely psilocybin or LSD, and I doubt most of them over there know what those drugs are all about as far as personal experience, but I can totally imagine that part of this game as well as Star Fox 64's trippy warp drive referring to or being inspired by the information you found. The point of my comment was to further back up your idea, but my point in short was simply that the Japanese overall don't really have many other, if any, drug problems outside of meth, and that's mostly gang shit, but I do think it may stem from the military practices as well as the culture itself. Fascinating shit. I definitely appreciated this video, it was enlightening on top of thought provoking.
I would love to see someone make a little short film about how andross takes over the system. Like everytime you die in any part it shows 30 - 1:00 of how andross has taken over the system. How the team fail and the rest of the Cornerian left to defend the system.
Wow, this was a very interesting theory! Also do you know about the Fox in space cartoon cause while watching this it made me wonder if he will add this to the story.
The only problem with this is that in the old SNES canon there is in fact another pilot who flew into the bird and was never seen again. (not that anyone who doesn't look shit up on the fan wikis to find this out lol) So 2+ people hallucinating in the same way is a bit of a stretch.
I'm not entirely sold on this theory, but I admit that it is possible and can't even be called groundless. The way you achieve it certainly sounds like a series of actions someone would do on a drug trip. How does the bird spawn? You shoot something that's supposed to be indestructible. You keep shooting it, and then suddenly it explodes. The explosion animation is similar to boss explosions. An egg pops out of the explosion. The egg hatches. A bird pops out. A full-grown bird. You chase the bird. You _crash into_ the bird.
I found out the song at 6:40 onwards in case anyone wants it, thanks to a friend of mine from the Sabaton Discord server. it's The Forgotten Love and Song of the North by BrunuhVille: ruclips.net/video/D7ImDOLLtAI/видео.html
so at the end of the level the slot machine could represent the fox taking a gamble and when it becomes still in the background that's fox coming down realizing its THE END hence the letters
Also you're forgetting that Star Fox are not traditional fighter pilots. They are STARFIGHTER pilots! they fly SPACESHIPS with weapons, not airplanes. Why is this important? It's important because that thing you mentioned about flights taking hours... would actually take MUCH MUCH longer! And not only that, but the lack of gravity or the falling in orbit (depending on whether he's in deep space or in orbit of a planet) would also really stress his body because his bones and muscles would atrophy at an astonishing rate. To add to that, he'd have to take food and drinks with him in his ship to feed from while along the trip.
Okay, so the biggest problem with this theory is that Star Fox doesn't take place on earth. Or even in our universe. That means that said drugs possibly don't even exist, as the plants and materials required to make them might not be native to Corneria. EVEN THEN, they might not have the same effect on his species. Animals also tend to be really peppy and energetic.
They're not actually flying fighter jets, they're flying STARFIGHTERS, which are basically the spaceship equivalent to fighter jets. So essentially, they are fighter spaceships instead of fighter jets. And space flights take even LONGER than hours, they take DAYS or even YEARS. At least with modern tech they do, but the Lylat system seems to have much more advanced tech, so maybe hours would be accurate.
I don't want to be a spoil sport but a lot of overnight programmers developing video games back in the day would input their own code and content secretly into the game. I think it was just a programmer trolling the gamer but to get it in the conditions had to be unusual or unfounded. By level 3 asteroid most players already know NOT to shoot metal asteroids since they never blow up, so hiding it in plain sight was genius. I doubt the mode was some alternate ending but just a troll for gamers who happen to find the secret. I know its not the most interesting theory but its the most likley.
Sorry to bust your in game universe bubble about Fox on drugs. Pepper says "Come in Arwings", so the team in their arwings is lost not just Fox going lucy in the stars with diamonds. By this we can assume "You" is plural as well, not just Fox he tries to establish contact again.
Fun theory but I don't think it's that complicated. The storyline of the original Starfox is not nearly as well developed as the 64 remake. I have played the game several times and I think it was just a test level for utilizing the Super FX chip and developers just left it in for fun. The game relies heavily on the Super FX chip so much so that the gameplay has brief predictable moments of lag. Plus the music is silly and the only way to "win" is to explode your arwing. I always got the feeling this level was an unfinished project because it's one of the simplest levels and super easy to play.
Pretty good theory, but I also saw the fact that General said arwings, and you don't see your teammates during the level so is everyone stranded alone?
Then how come the rest of the team is never high throughout the game? Besides, it makes more sense that General Pepper was talking to Fix as though he seriously had. I idea where he was going, because he was being warped away.
Star Fox team uses STARFIGHTERS, not jets. Jets can't fly in space. Starfighters are like fighter jets, except instead of being jet airplanes, they're spaceships. And space flights take even LONGER than airplane flights! You'd need DAYS or MONTHS to cross the system if you weren't travelling FTL. Star Fox games DO have FTL travel, but it'd still take nearly a day.
I appreciate the theory but there is one small problem the whole Soldier is doing drug thing was during 2010 Starfox was somewhere in the 90s so that just completely debunked your theory though I did appreciate the Theory though
THERE MUST BE AN EXPLANATION FOR THIS SECRET BONUS THAT THEY PUT IN THE GAME TO ENTERTAIN YOU, I WILL DRAIN ALL THE FUN OUT OF IT BECAUSE I'M A FUCKING CLOWN
I believe Nintendo expanded this with the Japanese Star Fox File Printout, where it says that another Arwing fighter pilot known as Deslar Coba-Gunsou reported seeing a bird-like alien with huge wings in the asteroid belt. Upon approaching it, he felt a "warping sensation," and his transmissions cut off abruptly. Perhaps this nullifies the drugged Fox theory?
+Cupcake-kun It could, I would have to do more research on this printout and read it for myself. Thank for the comment.
Perhaps he was having a similar hallucination?
@@BigOEntertainmentYT maybe fox was hallucinating that the story you mentioned is coming true.
I doubt the level is just a hallucination, because the official Japanese strategy guide, Star Fox Mission File Printout, mentions another pilot encountering the bird and disappearing.
Does it give any indication about similarities beyond being a bird? (could have been a 'duck' for al I know)
From Arwingpedia:
"Sergeant Desslar Coba (デスラ・コバー軍曹), in an Arwing converted as an "M Scouter", reported seeing an unknown bird-like alien with huge wings deep within the Asteroid Belt. When Desslar Coba thought it would be intriguing to take a closer inspection, his transmission cut off abruptly as he felt a warping sensation and was never heard from again. It was deemed dangerous to approach any lifeforms matching that description."
that tells us nothing beyond the size of the wings.
i think this is what happened
Fox shoots out the asteroid, the asteroid explodes and starts emanating a lot of radiation, so much that not only jams the signal of the arwings, but since fox is the closest one to the source, the radiation pierces the shield of his arwing and starts inflicting mental damage on fox.
Fox, being completely out of himself, just wanders in space on his own. The explosion forces his team mates to retreat to the great fox and return to corneria before it gets even more dangerous.
Fox was never seen again.
@Van Spawn,
first: I was trying to get a more informed response to make a proper analysis. (I've seen too many cases where police refusing to fact check the evidence led to a false arrest)
second: *HOW* is it _obvious_?
Am I the ONLY one that notices the briefing says "Come in Arwings!" Arwings. Plural. That means that Fox's whole team went missing.
Here's another theory. This warp is how Star Fox ends up in the Smash Bros universe.
I don't know if that's a joke or not
Well technically Andross ended up in the smash universe too
And I think using the plural “arwings” is just a cover up
no wonder why everything is high
Stupid joke, but what happened is he ended up in Out Of This Dimension from the bird, Thats not a hallucination, thats a magic bird that can transport you to a new dimension in seconds.. Nobody says anything about it because they are assuming that everyone sees it.
Perhaps the whole team was lost because Fox was distracted.
Holy shit... That little Easter Egg just took on a *whole* new, *very* dark meaning.
Thank you for this theory.
Anytime! Thanks for the comment.
i've said the same than you, HOLY SHIT!
Wooooo
I just like to think he went into a different universe when going into portal shaped as a bird, which could be billions apon billions of miles away from his team, where there is creepy shit going on everywhere, and he has to stay there until he dies, (food loss, air loss, suicide, etc) creepy.
The theory in the video is more heart breaking while yours is kinda casual .-.
@@JimBimBum well actually no. the theory in the video is casual, its what happen in war. thats depression and PTSD stuff it is sadly casual. on the other hand, changin dimension is something only viewed in science fiction so, pretty rare.
Billions of miles? Thats not even out of this solar system.
More like quadrillions of light years.
Billions?
no quintrillion
this is an incredible theory! when I first heard of this I thought they just put it in there for laughs. but now that Easter egg took a very dark approach with the tragic alternate ending! thanks for the theory!
I instantly started thinking about Space Oddity when this sequence happened. Fox, a former hero and prodigy, is doomed to wander for presumably eternity in a strange and unfamiliar setting, far away from home, as his communications are severed and his team is left wondering what became of him. Eventually, his fuel will run out and he'll die all alone. There's nothing he can do at this point. Take in the fact that there's parallels in drug use. Poor Fox...
I've actually thought a lot about this easter egg, ever since this randomly happened to me as a kid (and subsequently made me really uncomfortable.).
The "its a drug trip" theory, even if it seems a bit on the nose or even lazy at times imo, is made pretty interesting in this video. I always thought an alternative idea is that the drug trip nature of it all was because Fox has been transported beyond time and space as we know it, maybe even ceasing to exist in the traditional sense. What we're seeing is Fox's mind attempting to interpret the uninterpretable, because he's now stuck in a place beyond our perceivable reality. A place we were never meant to go to or exist in. Maybe "out of this dimension" doesn't mean travelling to an alternate reality as the term often implies, but rather means you've literally been taken out of the 3rd dimension and taken to some sort of higher or lower level of existence where time and space as we know them have no meaning.
The bird that takes you there itself, just by what it is, flies in the face of conventional knowledge of the universe, so maybe it's some sort of ancient creature that exists on multiple planes of existence so merely flying into it or touching it transports you "out of this dimension".
Whether it's just a drug trip, or some exercise in sci-fi existential horror, it's always been a really fascinating but damn eerie easter egg.
Oh
Wow. That’s actually dark.
I like this theory a lot more, this is awesome.
Or maybe the bird is some sort of teleportation device perceived as a bird, similar to the interdimensional starship James McCloud is stuck from the Nintendo Power comic being seen as a glowing Space Whale.
Imagine, being a pilot, going the same path your father’s steps, only to end up in a similar death situation, James and Fox McClouds, lost in different planes of existence, one in a black hole, and another one in a different dimension, that’s gotta be catastrophic for starfox
OBJECTION! general peper did say arwings not arwing implaying all of the starfox team disapird
What if fox is the only one, general pepper singles out fox he doesn't say "starfox what are you doing you need to stop andross"
@@SlasherDex there is a black hole level where you are all alone, you warp yourself into an another part of space in the game, and you are alone in the level. at the end of the level you are with your mates tho. its more because it was easier to not put the other character.
This might be a little far fetched, but...
I think “Out of This Dimension” is out of this dimension.
No. There is no way.
Oh wow.
Why didnt i think of that?
*out of this dimension e sans noises*
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"that was even more depressing then what i was going to say"
-raven, teen titans
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@@michaelflores9220 oh God
So is Fox on drugs and hallucinating when he sees his father at the end of Star Fox 64? I'm not gonna lie I thought that was going to come up in this theory
One hell of a hullucination
This all makes sense to me now, thanks for putting up this theory! It gives me a better understanding of Out Of This Dimension!
+Selena The Neon Hero (NeonSwordWielder) Thank you for the comment! I am glad you enjoyed it.
That explains the slot machine. It symbolizes Fox’s fear of failure. He doesn’t know what to expect. He lost motivation.
The background music sounds like it could be a distorted lullaby, possibly what Fox faintly remembers in his childhood.
Also, the paper airplanes might symbolize Fox’s simple and easy childhood, dreaming to become a space pilot. Hence, he probably played around with paper airplanes in the academy.
Also, the smiling asteroids and generic-looking stars seem like the type of decorations you’d find in an elementary school’s classrooms. I bet Fox just misses being a child.
Well, seeing how it says "THE END" and the stage continues on forever definitely indicates that Fox got lost by himself. Maybe that hallucination veered him into a wormhole. Now, I've read the official comic three times, so I can guess a couple of things:
1. The Arwings were already modified to withstand the Black Hole's gravity. I'm betting wormholes aren't as strong as black holes, so that's why Fox is still alive, and
2. Other dimensions _do_ exist. In the comic, Fox Senior was warped into another dimension whenever the gravity bomb blew up and created the Black Hole. Heck, the intergalactic ship he's in looks like a whale because of the differences in reality. He even comms in to the Star Fox crew for explaining this! Oh, and that whale shows up in Sector Y replenishing your supplies and giving you an overshield (just like in the comic when the crew's running out of fuel looking for Slippy).
+Taylor Cason
As said in Star Fox Zero: The Star Fox team was made to investigate paranormal activities.
So Out of This Dimension might be one of those things. Fox his father supposedly died in a wormhole, but yet you see him help in the end. It could be a hallucination or he never really died and skips between dimensions. Fox might be going through the same there.
Coyote O'yama I haven't played Star Fox Zero yet, so I only knew that Team Star Fox was a mercenary team for Corneria. And according to the Mission Files, a pilot before Fox (Desslar Coba; he discovered the warps in 64) had seen the bird like alien and was never heard from again after feeling a warping sensation.
"It was deemed dangerous to approach any lifeforms matching that description". Looks like Fox forgot to read his briefings.
Taylor Cason
Or curiosity killed the Fox.
There's a lot of points that are relevant which that made your theory well explained. good job!
MysteryCarlos Thanks!
Nice Video, man!..... :)
Also, great theory!..... :)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the slot machine in Star Fox (SNES) was actually a test model used for scrolling textures. When the developing team couldn't find a use for it, Sakurai ultimately approved of the level, "Out of This Dimension" to test out multiple new features in the game. Dylan Cuthbert in an interview with GameXPlain debunked this as well as the theory for the Metal Legs dispute. ruclips.net/video/MhVNhFIUbNE/видео.html
Thanks for this. Great link.
Mitch Keady
@Brandon AnthonyIt does. When you are in an another dimension, that you know nothing from, there is little chance that you come back and instead wander forever. once you enter, you may not come back. + since its a video game, that kind of ending at that time were pretty popular for secret levels
I would say the reason this level exists is from a development standpoint. With the Super FX chip's first on-rails shooter, of course Nintendo would want to make something... Strange. But a crazy level does not fit the style of the game. The way the level was executed was the best possible way to add a crazy level into this new technology advanced game without clashing with the style.
The slot machine was just a test for scrolling textures, and the developers couldn't find a place to put the slot machine boss so they just made up a random confusing level for fun.
I think there’s a theory that after crashing into the bird, Fox’s Arwing’s windows broke and all the oxygen inside leaked out and he lost control of the ship which made him drift into space and get lost. The lack of oxygen caused him to hallucinate and also suffocate. He couldn’t steer his ship and go back to everyone else, he lost fuel, and he was doomed to stay there drifting in the middle of nowhere until he died. Out Of This Dimension wasn’t real. It was never another dimension at all. He was hallucinating.
While this theory is nice and really well thought out, it's debunked as in one of the secret files it's explained that the bird does exist and that any and all ships who come into view of it must under any and all circumstances avoid any type of contact with the bird, along side with 2 other classified files containing the knowledge of James' arwing being scattered across all 3 of the black hole's warp point exits and about a bear pilot vanishing around sector Z after sighting a huge space whale that offered to refuel it's carrier ship, only to just vanish.
What if the smiling moon was the moon molester.
Yeah
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"Hey y'all. You wanna grab some ice cream? Maybe some...Sherburt? I like Sherburt." Watch "Nintendo to the 64th Power" and you'll understand lmao.
The slot machine could also signify fox developing a serious gambiling addiction as you can only kill the slot machine when you get a jackpot or 777, and after fox got out of this addiction he might have used the jackpot money to buy the drug that he took and perhaps he overdosed and died, signified by the end text, however he is left to spell it out forever because he denies that its the end, as his drug use killed his team and now him, fox perhaps decides to finally fight back, but it is too late and fox keeps fighting anyway, only he stuck forever fighting what he cannot win
Or fox developes a gambiling addiction and wins an amout of cash, he buys and overdoses on what he used as "go pills" and dies. He is sent to hell and forced to relive all of his regrets, his personal hell starts with a message asking where he has gone reminding him of how he doomed his home planet because of his actions, a hallucinate version of space reminding him of the drugs he took, the fighter jet reminding him that he could have done something, paper planes reminding him of the friends he left to die, pillers to remind him how he kept doging his promblems(?), the slot machine reminding him of his gambiling, the smiling planets reminding him of home, the stars reminding him of being in space(?), and finally the never ending "the end" reminding him that when he finnaly fought through all of his problems it was to late, and is now trapped and forced to relive all of his mistakes forever.
Or, as an alternative, Fox suffered from nitrogen narcosis due to a failure in the Arwing's life support systems, as they do not wear any sort of life support gear or compressive suits that could save them in case the spacefighter's systems fail.
Basically, the one thing that saved Darth Vader after getting his TIE blasted out of the Death Star was his suit.
I had a theory back when I was 12 that the bird was REAL, but Fox was brought into a coma by the crash into it and spent the rest of his life in the hospital in a coma.
Can also explain why the different dimension was shaking he wasn't in another demsion he was just stuck on he's own mind
This is why Captain dog whoever he is says you gone missing knowing that you crashed
Also another theory it was a dream
I know I brought up a similar theory I came up with when I was like 12, that the bird was real and the crash resulted in Fox being comatose, where he spent the rest of his life in a hospital, but I actually made a fanfic of that, where the crash also killed the bird (Which I wrote as a phoenix) and Bill (Or another friend of his, I can't remember) put the beak of the phoenix on his grave in the same way you'd put a bouquet of flowers (or for a soldier, a gun or a helmet) on the mound as a symbolic mourning gesture. But then the phoenix came back to life and it was pissed because it wanted its beak back. Then later, the team had to kill the phoenix for real with some sort of anti-fire weapons (Water blasters, fire extinguisher spray cannons, whatever)
Star fox was noclipping into the back rooms long before any of us were.
This Theory is Denied with the official japanese strategy guide
"Sergeant Desslar Coba (デスラ・コバー軍曹), in an Arwing converted as an "M Scouter", reported seeing an unknown bird-like alien with huge wings deep within the Asteroid Belt. When Desslar Coba thought it would be intriguing to take a closer inspection, his transmission cut off abruptly as he felt a warping sensation and was never heard from again. It was deemed dangerous to approach any lifeforms matching that description. "
I had heard about "Out of this Dimension" not ("just") being a drug-trip, but more like hallucinations you might get when losing air and dying due to a crash, therefore being "taken out of this dimension". SInce he's not responding to Pepper's frantic call and not seeing the others (Considering the fact that the level doesn't end until you restart the game)
Buuuuuut, bringing a bit of this dark realism of fighter pilots/soldiers taking certain drugs that are being commissioned to them in the first place is kinda intersting too.
(Oh, I am absolutely sure Fox and probably even the others have PTSD too, it absolutely would make sense)
10/10 Theory of the year .
the skull fox scared me
Definitely an insightful theory. I absolutely loved the tone transition throughout this video, especially the end with that terrifying revelation about being lost forever. I'm just curious as to what soundtracks you used at 6:40 and at 8:00 because they fit spot on.
I know I'm half a decade late, but if you're still wondering, the song at 6:40 is The Forgotten Love by BruhuhVille: ruclips.net/video/D7ImDOLLtAI/видео.html
Let me remind you what the first thing you see when you press start is. It's Fox, flying alone. In a completely void, empty sector of space.
I've personally always been a fan of the theory that the bird is just a normal alien, and Out of This Dimension is Fox's dying brain trying to piece together reality after crashing into the bird ejects Fox from his plane. I really like this theory though, it gives some longevity to a relatively short piece of content.
I can't stop watching this video over and over again. You did a great job on this, especially with the snarkiness about where you hear seeing animals appear, and the music you chose, ESPECIALLY the music!
You know, what's so interesting about this to me is that, disregarding the international approach to fighting sleep among each respective military, Japan is pretty stoic and stern about drugs, Paul McCartney was literally banned from the country because he was caught with a joint at an airport on their way in. A joint, like, a single simple harmless rolled piece of paper packed with an herb that's never killed anyone, and is less toxic than peanuts kept the frontman of arguably the most popular band of all time from entering Japan. That alone speaks volumes for their drug policies, and they've remained that conservative all this time, and so really the only drugs people do over there for the most part is cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking. Weed is grown there, but it's few and far between because the people are aware of the consequences and even having tried it, would probably rather not risk it. However, if you're associated with the Yakuza or are of any importance in Japan's illegal underground, then chances are that you're into methamphetamine. And I imagine what you explained here is probable correlation to why it's become a problem on the streets there, coupled with the overall "go go go be successful never stop working" attitude Japan constantly perpetuates. So yeah, I really dig this theory, and I do think it checks out. One more thing, psychedelics aren't really a thing at all over there, namely psilocybin or LSD, and I doubt most of them over there know what those drugs are all about as far as personal experience, but I can totally imagine that part of this game as well as Star Fox 64's trippy warp drive referring to or being inspired by the information you found. The point of my comment was to further back up your idea, but my point in short was simply that the Japanese overall don't really have many other, if any, drug problems outside of meth, and that's mostly gang shit, but I do think it may stem from the military practices as well as the culture itself. Fascinating shit. I definitely appreciated this video, it was enlightening on top of thought provoking.
I would love to see someone make a little short film about how andross takes over the system. Like everytime you die in any part it shows 30 - 1:00 of how andross has taken over the system. How the team fail and the rest of the Cornerian left to defend the system.
This was amazing. This almost made me sad 😭
Thanks for the comment! I am glad you liked it.
That's an awesome theory and gives Star Fox a dark twist to a game with kind of a dark lore. At least for Nintendo standards
dang that was deep
Wow! this is so depressing, but yet I see it to be so true. You describe the effects of PTSD to a T and the never ending guilt.
"No evidence of drugs in Nintendo game"
Mother 3: Am I a joke to you?
Yes
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Wow, this was a very interesting theory! Also do you know about the Fox in space cartoon cause while watching this it made me wonder if he will add this to the story.
Out of This Dimension is ONE of the secret levels, its not the only, the other secret one is the Awesome Black Hole.
The turn of phrase- "You didn't have too" is heartwrenching! :.`.(
I love when games add stuff like that
Don't forget about BLACK HOLE
At 7:28, that image haunts my dreams. This is SO disturbing.
Ehhhhhh, yeah I'm also having nightmares, your not alone buddy
The only problem with this is that in the old SNES canon there is in fact another pilot who flew into the bird and was never seen again. (not that anyone who doesn't look shit up on the fan wikis to find this out lol) So 2+ people hallucinating in the same way is a bit of a stretch.
Very good! I never thought of it that way
This is deep, I almost cried.
that was EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not entirely sold on this theory, but I admit that it is possible and can't even be called groundless. The way you achieve it certainly sounds like a series of actions someone would do on a drug trip. How does the bird spawn? You shoot something that's supposed to be indestructible. You keep shooting it, and then suddenly it explodes. The explosion animation is similar to boss explosions. An egg pops out of the explosion. The egg hatches. A bird pops out. A full-grown bird. You chase the bird. You _crash into_ the bird.
I found out the song at 6:40 onwards in case anyone wants it, thanks to a friend of mine from the Sabaton Discord server. it's The Forgotten Love and Song of the North by BrunuhVille: ruclips.net/video/D7ImDOLLtAI/видео.html
Does anyone think this bird alien have anything to do with DMT and the Anunnaki birdlike aliens? Hmmm seems like some serious truth bombs.
This makes... so much sense....
so at the end of the level the slot machine could represent the fox taking a gamble and when it becomes still in the background that's fox coming down realizing its THE END hence the letters
that actually made me cry a little.
But thats just a Theory A GAME THEORY THANKS FOR WATCHING
That was outstanding! You wouldn't be friends with Mat Pat would you?
I.... Wasn't expecting that to kinda obliterate my soul. That is /horribly/ depressing.
.... I love it.
makes sense after all ;) great theory
9:44 "I hope you enjoyed that video"
Fuck no I didn't enjoy that video, that ending gave me PTSD
Also you're forgetting that Star Fox are not traditional fighter pilots. They are STARFIGHTER pilots! they fly SPACESHIPS with weapons, not airplanes.
Why is this important?
It's important because that thing you mentioned about flights taking hours...
would actually take MUCH MUCH longer!
And not only that, but the lack of gravity or the falling in orbit (depending on whether he's in deep space or in orbit of a planet) would also really stress his body because his bones and muscles would atrophy at an astonishing rate.
To add to that, he'd have to take food and drinks with him in his ship to feed from while along the trip.
*jawdrop * HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!?!?!?
this was a sad one to hear thank you for making it!
Good to see someone watching this as of recent. xD
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btw i have a starfox discord server
i always figured Fox Licked slippy when he wasn't looking.
HOLY SHIT! Thats what happend to me!
Or the developers just thought it was funny.
That was a crazy Kool dark theory. Something to think about, yuh know?
This is so genius. Really good theory on fox to "go pills".
Okay, so the biggest problem with this theory is that Star Fox doesn't take place on earth. Or even in our universe. That means that said drugs possibly don't even exist, as the plants and materials required to make them might not be native to Corneria. EVEN THEN, they might not have the same effect on his species. Animals also tend to be really peppy and energetic.
They're not actually flying fighter jets, they're flying STARFIGHTERS, which are basically the spaceship equivalent to fighter jets. So essentially, they are fighter spaceships instead of fighter jets.
And space flights take even LONGER than hours, they take DAYS or even YEARS. At least with modern tech they do, but the Lylat system seems to have much more advanced tech, so maybe hours would be accurate.
I don't want to be a spoil sport but a lot of overnight programmers developing video games back in the day would input their own code and content secretly into the game. I think it was just a programmer trolling the gamer but to get it in the conditions had to be unusual or unfounded. By level 3 asteroid most players already know NOT to shoot metal asteroids since they never blow up, so hiding it in plain sight was genius.
I doubt the mode was some alternate ending but just a troll for gamers who happen to find the secret. I know its not the most interesting theory but its the most likley.
Holy shit. What if they weren't animals in space but he was just on drugs o.O
PNut that makes sense
LMAOOOO
That's... Fucked up
Sorry to bust your in game universe bubble about Fox on drugs. Pepper says "Come in Arwings", so the team in their arwings is lost not just Fox going lucy in the stars with diamonds. By this we can assume "You" is plural as well, not just Fox he tries to establish contact again.
Fun theory but I don't think it's that complicated. The storyline of the original Starfox is not nearly as well developed as the 64 remake. I have played the game several times and I think it was just a test level for utilizing the Super FX chip and developers just left it in for fun. The game relies heavily on the Super FX chip so much so that the gameplay has brief predictable moments of lag. Plus the music is silly and the only way to "win" is to explode your arwing. I always got the feeling this level was an unfinished project because it's one of the simplest levels and super easy to play.
THIS. IS. A. GAME. THAT. IS. E. FOR. EVERYONE!
So is Majoras Mask. Thanks for the comment.
holy shit i jumped when you said Tyler because that's my name!
same here bro
I imagine that this is what victims of the Bermuda Triangle went through
THAT SHINE KILL THO
Pretty good theory, but I also saw the fact that General said arwings, and you don't see your teammates during the level so is everyone stranded alone?
Do not do drug kids
Why is Fox?
7:56 things just got deep
awesome!
+Observador0123 Thanks!
Then how come the rest of the team is never high throughout the game? Besides, it makes more sense that General Pepper was talking to Fix as though he seriously had. I idea where he was going, because he was being warped away.
If this isn’t real reason, this would make a lot of sense, I don’t think Nintendo would use drugs as an answer
or that's were his dad is
the mic you're using Is horrible. switch it.
Star Fox team uses STARFIGHTERS, not jets. Jets can't fly in space. Starfighters are like fighter jets, except instead of being jet airplanes, they're spaceships. And space flights take even LONGER than airplane flights! You'd need DAYS or MONTHS to cross the system if you weren't travelling FTL. Star Fox games DO have FTL travel, but it'd still take nearly a day.
what about at the end where the backround stops moving? Is it Fox coming down?
Hmm, what if the egg was a celestial being, that ate him and its stomach is "O.o.T.D"
I appreciate the theory but there is one small problem the whole Soldier is doing drug thing was during 2010 Starfox was somewhere in the 90s so that just completely debunked your theory though I did appreciate the Theory though
Maybe the slot machine is because Fox Turned to Gambling due to his Guilt
Actually the whole lore about the Betrayal is From Star Fox 64 in Star Fox SNES his Father died in a Black Hole however still good theory
O.o Whoah! Good video ;)
Lore of Star Fox Theory: What is "Out of this Dimension" momentum 100
THERE MUST BE AN EXPLANATION FOR THIS SECRET BONUS THAT THEY PUT IN THE GAME TO ENTERTAIN YOU, I WILL DRAIN ALL THE FUN OUT OF IT BECAUSE I'M A FUCKING CLOWN