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Hyrule Warriors: Legends
Hyrule Warriors: Legends (2016)
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Attachment In promotional art for Hyrule Warriors: Legends, there was a crossbow hidden behind Link's scarf. This was a hint that Linkle was being planned to be playable before her reveal during a Nintendo Direct event.
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Development, Early Idea, Easter Egg, Secret
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month August 17, 2016
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Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (2014)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Game)
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Attachment According to Masahiro Sakurai, in an interview with Famitsu, the reason for the addition of the fighter Duck Hunt was for two reasons. The first reason was that he had an interest on adding them for a long time, but was also because of the uniqueness of the character. The second reason was because of the high sales of the game, and he deemed that the game was the high-selling shooting game in the USA.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
person GamerBen144 calendar_month August 17, 2016
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Samurai Warriors 3
Samurai Warriors 3 (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Samurai Warriors 2 Empires (Game)
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Ujiyasu Hojo made appearances in Samurai Warriors 2: Empires during passive events sequence. In the events, he talks with his two sons Ujimasa and Ujiteru.
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Development, Early Idea
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month August 17, 2016
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Samurai Warriors 4
Samurai Warriors 4 (2014)
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Takakage Kobayakawa makes an appearance in Samurai Warriors 2: Empires during a pre-battle event. In the event, he responds to his Motonari's words of encouragement along with his brothers Motoharu and Takamoto.
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Development, Early Idea
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month August 17, 2016
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Franchise: Resident Evil
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The Red Queen AI, first featured in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, actually originates from Paul W.S. Anderson's live action Resident Evil films.
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Development, General, Inspiration
person Mass Distraction calendar_month August 17, 2016
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Franchise: Digimon
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On November 19th 2015 Digimon v-pet designer Oota Kensuke, also known as "Volcano Oota", revealed in a youtube video that the Digital Monster v-pet was originally called Otokotchi, from the Japanese word Otoko "boy" and the existing franchise Tamagotchi (Tamago "Egg" + Uotchi "Watch").
It was ultimately changed to Digital Monster because the team thought it sounded "cool".
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Development, Early Idea
person saifors calendar_month August 18, 2016
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Samurai Warriors
Samurai Warriors (2004)
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Keiji's real name historically is Toshimasu ironically. The name Keiji comes from Edo legends, which mean "lead cautiously" due to his reckless personality. A lot of Keiji's visual design is inspired by his characters in the comic Hana no Keiji. His line during his Musou "Why do you think tigers are strong? Because they were born that way!" is a quote from the comic. His alternate outfit is also a reference to an event in the comic where Keiji shaves his head as a peace messenger to Ieyasu.

Many of Keij's weapons and fighting style are also inspired by kabukimono as he celebrates and dances during battle.
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Development, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month August 18, 2016
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Undertale
Undertale (2015)
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Attachment There is a mock up drawing of Omega Flowey (Photoshop flowey) showing that he was originally going to carry the souls rather than them being in his petals.
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Development, Early Idea
person NikesLP calendar_month August 19, 2016
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
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Attachment The English voice actress "Veronica Taylor" was intended to do the voice of "Princess Elise the Third", she even recorded all her lines for the game, but for unknown reasons, she was replaced by "Lacey Chabert." Even in an interview with GameSpy, they ask her:

GameSpy: Did the people at Sega tell you why they wanted you for this role?

Lacey Chabert: They just told me that they thought my voice was appropriate for the character.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Version Difference
person ProtoSnake calendar_month August 19, 2016
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Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes (2006)
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Attachment Company of Heroes was originally prototyped using the Impossible Creatures engine.
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Development
person Makarov calendar_month August 19, 2016
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Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE (2015)
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The game's director, Kaori Ando, originally envisioned for a crossover between Fire Emblem and Pokémon as he felt that the two series' RPG mechanics were well in line. However, the Pokémon Group already had a proposal at the time for another crossover which would become Pokemon Conquest, so the idea was not used.
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Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month August 22, 2016
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Freedom Planet
Freedom Planet (2014)
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The developer originally wanted to add alternate outfit colours for the characters that would have been unlocked gradually through play, there was even going to be an option to customise both Carol's scarf and motorcycle colours.
But a problem with the software used to develop the game meant that swapping the colours of the characters at runtime caused graphical glitches, so it was ultimately cut.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person HAZBOMi calendar_month August 22, 2016
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Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes (2006)
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Attachment Company of Heroes was originally named "Brothers in Arms" during development.
Despite THQ later releasing a game under that name, the legal team at Relic Entertainment decided against it because it was too similar to Brotherhood of Arms, a previously released game.
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Development, Early Idea
person Makarov calendar_month August 23, 2016
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Collection: Alan Wake
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Many things from the prototype for Alan Wake 2 were later used in Alan Wake's American Nightmare, such as art assets, models, locations and enemies. These include the Edge Motel Barry is staying at and the new enemy type, the birdman.
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Development
person Mass Distraction calendar_month August 23, 2016
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Company of Heroes 2
Company of Heroes 2 (2013)
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Attachment There's a set of unused voice lines available in the game's files which clearly represent an African-American male for the United States Forces' Rear Echelon unit. It is unknown why this version of the unit was cut from the game.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Audio, Unused Content
person Makarov calendar_month August 25, 2016
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Samurai Warriors 3
Samurai Warriors 3 (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Samurai Warriors 2 Empires (Game)
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Motonari makes an appearance in Samurai Warriors 2 Empires during a pre-battle event where he gives words of encouragement to his sons Motoharu, Takamoto and Takakage. The latter also becomes a playable character in the forth installment.
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Development, Early Idea
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month August 26, 2016
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Manos: The Hands of Fate
Manos: The Hands of Fate (2015)
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Attachment MANOS: The Hands of Fate by FreakZone Games was based on the movie with the same name, which gained a cult following after being featured in the show Mystery Science Theater 3000. The game is also presented as a parody of movie license games on the NES.
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Development, General
person ABOhiccups calendar_month August 26, 2016
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Life is Strange
Life is Strange (2015)
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According to Jean-Maxime Moris, Creative Director at Dontnod, Max Caulfield's surname is a reference to the character Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of the J. D. Salinger novel "The Catcher in the Rye". The two works share similar themes, such as the difficulties in making the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Like Max, Holden is a student at an exclusive boarding school, and both characters have similar personality traits such as the urge to preserve innocence. There are several other references to the book throughout the game.
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Development, Inspiration
person Matthew Neuteboom calendar_month August 30, 2016
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Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry (2001)
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Attachment Dante's alias, Tony Redgrave, originates from the time the game was still called Biohazard 4. Tony would have been the main character of the game and the son of Resident Evil's long time antagonist, Lord Oswell E. Spencer. He also had a twin brother, who at this point was still unnamed.
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Development
person Mass Distraction calendar_month August 31, 2016
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Phantasy Star Online 2
Phantasy Star Online 2 (2012)
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Naberius is named after the Marquis of hell, and Amduscia is likewise named after the demon King Amdusias, listed in the Goetia.

Lillipa is named after the Kingdom of Lilliput, and the lillipans are based on the lilliputians, from Gulliver's Travels.

Vopar is possibly named after the Vorpal Sword from the poem "Jabberwocky" in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There", but given the abundance of water on the planet it could also be named after the aquatic demon Vepar.

Oracle seems be a Japanese phonetic anagram of Algol, similar to Ragol from Phantasy Star Online, but substituting a C in place of a G.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference, Similarities, Theory
person mattwo calendar_month September 6, 2016
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