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In the Wii version of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, Heather is seen holding a croquet mallet at all times - this appears to be a reference to the musical Heathers, where the 3 main characters are all named Heather and play croquet. Early concept art of the character by Ken Capelli shows that she originally had a design more closely resembling costumes from the musical and was named "Heathers". This version of Heather has long, spiky hair that is half ginger and half shadow, split down the middle. She still has her mallet, but her early design wears a green sweater instead of a green dress.
Heather in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFH0RsT_XCs#t=420
Early concept art of Heather given alongside many other unused assets to the Drawn to Life Wiki by designer Ken Capelli:
https://drawntolife.wiki/en/Unused_%26_Removed_Features/Wii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFH0RsT_XCs#t=420
Early concept art of Heather given alongside many other unused assets to the Drawn to Life Wiki by designer Ken Capelli:
https://drawntolife.wiki/en/Unused_%26_Removed_Features/Wii
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During the height of Super Mario 64 DS' popularity, a popular rumor was that Waluigi was hidden as an unlockable character - this rumor was inspired both by the presence of Wario and Luigi without their combined counterpart, and a set of coincidences within the game and its supplementary material:• The character switching room having 4 doors, one for Mario; one for Luigi; and one for Wario, along with a final, empty room (this room actually contained a Power Star).
• 4 bunnies existing in the game: a yellow bunny who appears when playing as Yoshi, a pink bunny who appears when playing as Mario, a green bunny who appears when playing as Luigi, and an orange bunny who appears when playing as Wario. The manual's page on the mini-games that bunnies are used to unlock shows a purple bunny that doesn't appear in the game.
• The title screen and floor of the Rec Room having a colour scheme based on yellow (Wario's color), green (Luigi and Yoshi's color), red (Mario's color), and purple (Waluigi's color).
• The image of Peach's Castle on the file select screen having what appears to be an open window that does not exist in the game, which many assume is where Waluigi would be hiding.
The popularity of these theories would birth an infamous hoax known as "Purple Prizes", a graphic created by Andrew Brown of Nintendo World Report in an attempt to rebirth the mystery he felt as a child from trying to find Luigi in the original Super Mario 64 for the younger Nintendo DS generation, and posted it to DeviantArt and a set of gaming forums under the false pretense of being a scan from an unnamed magazine. Although he clarified that the picture was fake a mere 2 days later, the image still spread online like wildfire, and was misreported as originating from Nintendo Power or IGN. Brown noted that some attempts to debunk flaws in the image were not based on the actual and plentiful flaws he acknowledged the image as having, but rather misconceptions such as Waluigi's yellow gamma being a C or accusing certain images of being based on the original Nintendo 64 game instead of the DS remake.
Article reciting the coincidences that made Waluigi popular:
https://aminoapps.com/c/mario/page/blog/remembering-purple-prizes/j0Yu_KugYddrQ210D6kD6RapzbDJBmG
Article about the making of Purple Prizes:
https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/28610/waluigi-we-hardly-knew-ye-the-time-i-fooled-the-world
Super Mario 64 DS manual (page 32):
https://cdn02.nintendo-europe.com/media/downloads/games_8/emanuals/nintendo_ds_21/Manual_NintendoDS_SuperMario64DS_EN.pdf
https://aminoapps.com/c/mario/page/blog/remembering-purple-prizes/j0Yu_KugYddrQ210D6kD6RapzbDJBmG
Article about the making of Purple Prizes:
https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/28610/waluigi-we-hardly-knew-ye-the-time-i-fooled-the-world
Super Mario 64 DS manual (page 32):
https://cdn02.nintendo-europe.com/media/downloads/games_8/emanuals/nintendo_ds_21/Manual_NintendoDS_SuperMario64DS_EN.pdf
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One of Star Fox Command's new characters is Dash Bowman, the grandson of Andross who, ironically enough, is a pilot in the Cornerian Defense Force and also an admirer of the Star Fox team. In the Japanese version of the game, his first name is アッシュ (Asshu), or Ash, which is more in line with the naming conventions of his relatives, Andross and Andrew Oikonny, whose names also start with "A". It's possible that his surname, Bowman, is a reference to the character of David Bowman, the protagonist of the film "2001: A Space Odyssey", though this is unconfirmed.
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Cuphead E3 2014 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4TCfOvQKhg#t=67
Cuphead - Djimmi the Great Third Phase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Ti2DqPpRM#t=44
IGN interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5danTXIPdEY#t=737
E3 2014 screenshots featuring Demon Bat's second phase:
https://www.trueachievements.com/n17230/cuphead-artwork-and-screenshots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4TCfOvQKhg#t=67
Cuphead - Djimmi the Great Third Phase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Ti2DqPpRM#t=44
IGN interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5danTXIPdEY#t=737
E3 2014 screenshots featuring Demon Bat's second phase:
https://www.trueachievements.com/n17230/cuphead-artwork-and-screenshots
subdirectory_arrow_right Mike Tyson's Intergalactic Power Punch (Game), Punch-Out!! (Franchise), Mike Tyson (Franchise)
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Leaked development files for Yoshi's Island show graphics of a razor blade hazard or weapon, possibly intended to be thrown by an enemy. This was likely removed from the game over concerns of violence and/or imitability.
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Atari: 80 Classic Games in One! contains two unused ROMs created to test the emulators used in the compilation. Interestingly, the .txt file that contains the descriptions of all the featured games also has explanations of what these ROMs are, suggesting that they may have at one point been planned to be included as bonus content on the compilation for regular players:
"[colours]
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This ROM
was transferred into a genuine first generation
Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It cycles
through all the available colours in the Atari
2600 palette, displaying the colour's number as a
binary "bar code" at the top. The output of the
Atari 2600 was hooked up to a video capture card,
and each frame was digitised and its colour ID
determined by reading the bar code on the image.
All frames of the same colour were then averaged
together to get an average "RGB" colour value for
that number. This process was used to get accu-
rate colour matches with the original Atari 2600.
[sound]
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This
ROM was transferred into a genuine first gener-
ation Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It plays
a sound sequence consisting of a one second low-
volume beep, 1 second of silence, and then 4
seconds of a particular Atari 2600 "voice",
followed by another 1 second of silence. Each of
the available voices is played in turn at a
preset frequency. (Once all voices were played,
the frequency would change and the process would
repeat.) The output was captured via a PC's
^G(more...)
Page 2
^G(...more)
sound card and a program found the sound's
fundamental pattern. These captures were used
to generate accurate sound matches with the
Atari 2600.
Note: The left difficulty must be in the B
position for the sounds to start."
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This ROM
was transferred into a genuine first generation
Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It cycles
through all the available colours in the Atari
2600 palette, displaying the colour's number as a
binary "bar code" at the top. The output of the
Atari 2600 was hooked up to a video capture card,
and each frame was digitised and its colour ID
determined by reading the bar code on the image.
All frames of the same colour were then averaged
together to get an average "RGB" colour value for
that number. This process was used to get accu-
rate colour matches with the original Atari 2600.
[sound]
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This
ROM was transferred into a genuine first gener-
ation Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It plays
a sound sequence consisting of a one second low-
volume beep, 1 second of silence, and then 4
seconds of a particular Atari 2600 "voice",
followed by another 1 second of silence. Each of
the available voices is played in turn at a
preset frequency. (Once all voices were played,
the frequency would change and the process would
repeat.) The output was captured via a PC's
^G(more...)
Page 2
^G(...more)
sound card and a program found the sound's
fundamental pattern. These captures were used
to generate accurate sound matches with the
Atari 2600.
Note: The left difficulty must be in the B
position for the sounds to start."
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Original tweet spurring speculation:
https://twitter.com/_rawrell/status/1713975238742962359
KnowYourMeme article:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/the-coffin-of-andy-and-leyley
https://twitter.com/_rawrell/status/1713975238742962359
KnowYourMeme article:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/the-coffin-of-andy-and-leyley
subdirectory_arrow_right Dexter's Laboratory (Franchise)
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Yogi Bear: Great Balloon Blast contains a fully functional unused character in the form of a duo of Dexter and Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that was still airing at the time. It is unknown if this is a remnant of a scrapped Dexter's Laboratory version of Pop'n Pop, much like Dexter's Laboratory: Robot Rampage was for Elevator Action EX, or a scrapped plan to make the game a Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network crossover game.
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In the Xbox One version of GoldenEye 007, the DK Mode - named after Donkey Kong for changing the proportions of in-game models to those of DK's from Donkey Kong 64 - retains its name. Given that Nintendo were directly involved in the project to re-release GoldenEye 007, with the game having a simultaneous relaunch on Nintendo Switch Online and Microsoft Store, this could be the first time Nintendo has officially allowed their IP to be referenced on a direct rival console.
subdirectory_arrow_right Beyond the Ice Palace (Game), ThunderCats: The Lost Eye of Thundera (Game), ThunderCats (Franchise), Ghosts 'n Goblins (Franchise), Paradise Software (Company), FTL Games (Company)
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When Elite Software obtained the license to make a video game based on the ThunderCats cartoon, they were unsure if they would be able to complete the game in time for Christmas, and as such outsourced a second ThunderCats game to Paradise Software. Neither game could be finished before the deadline, and as such Elite instead attained the rights to a near-finished game titled Samurai Dawn by FTL Games and released it as ThunderCats: The Lost Eye of Thundera.Elite's in-house ThunderCats game got pitched to Capcom as a sequel to Ghosts 'n Goblins, but was not picked up due to Ghouls 'n Ghosts being in development at the time. It would be released as an original IP, simply titled Beyond the Ice Palace, featuring a character who in certain versions of the game resembles Lion-O.
Paradise Software's ThunderCats game remains shrouded in mystery, but it seems incredibly likely that the game was released as Bomb Jack II, owing to the C64 version of the game including a rendition of the ThunderCats theme song (stolen music being somewhat of a tradition for the Bomb Jack franchise), not featuring any bombs, and having a protagonist that more closely resembles Lion-O than Bomb Jack.
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As a reward for contributing a $100+ donation to the game's Kickstarter campaign, backers could choose to join a clan of their choice to appear under in the game's credits. Six "Sword or Whip" Clans (connected to a vote on if Miriam's personal weapon should be a sword or a whip) were dedicated to voting on which Sword or Whip weapon would become the most powerful weapon in the game (the winner being Clan Katana with the Grand Izayoi sword), while the remaining eighteen clans were Community or YouTube Partner Clans, who would receive a code for a clan-specific item.The Community Clans were represented by two Castlevania fan communities: the Dungeon clan (The Castlevania Dungeon forums), and the Operation Akumajo clan (a Castlevania Facebook group spun off from The Castlevania Dungeon dedicated to promoting the series following its 25th anniversary in 2011). The YouTubers and other companies who participated in the last clan group were associated with Fangamer, a video game merchandising company who managed the Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. To unlock one of the Community/YouTube Partner Clan items, you must enter its respective code as the name for your save file, and as such only one clan item can be unlocked per save file. The participating clans and their codes include:
Community Clans:
•The Castlevania Dungeon: DUNGEONITE - unlocks the Dungeonite sword
•Operation Akumajo: Akuma - unlocks the Dominus sword
YouTube Partner Clans:
•ProtonJon: EGGFARM - unlocks the Guardian Egg Helm (a reference to a line spoken by Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 5)
•chuggaaconroy: chuggaconroy - unlocks the Space Helmet (a reference to the helmet worn by Olimar from the Pikmin series)
•NintendoCapriSun: INTHEBATHROOM - unlocks the Dumping Helmet (a bathroom-themed in-joke from his content)
•JoshJepson: JEPSON - unlocks the Clockwork Blade (origin unknown)
•StephenPlays: STEPHENPLAYS - unlocks the Sicilian Slicer (a pizza-themed sword, Pizza both being the name of his dog and a recurring subject of vlogs)
•SwimmingBird941: swimmingbird - unlocks the Plague Doctor Face (possibly a reference to the anime "Cowboy Bebop", as series protagonist Spike Spiegel is referred to as "Swimming Bird" by a Native American medicine man named Laughing Bull)
•Far From Subtle: AWESOMEVIDEOGAMES - unlocks the Big Mustache (an in-joke from their series VideoGames AWESOME!)
•The Speed Gamers: TheSpeedGamers - unlocks the Final Hour sword (a speedrunning-themed sword)
•Egoraptor: Egoraptor - unlocks Hey I'm Grump (a helmet of Arin Hanson's stylized head from Game Grumps' intro)
•Game Grumps: Grumps - unlocks I'm Not So Grump (a helmet of Dan Avidan's stylized head from Game Grumps' intro)
•Mega64: Jarvis Meower - unlocks the Mega64 Helmet (a collage of various recurring in-jokes throughout Mega64's run)
•Kinda Funny Games: TEAMFAT - unlocks A Kinda Funny Mask (the company's logo, the code being a reference to the #TeamFat in-joke from one of their series)
•The Zaibatsu Clan (Super Best Friends Play): BULLFIGHTER - unlocks The-Baz Mask (a mask based on an original character created by Super Best Friends Play who has made cameo appearances in various indie games)
•AlphaOmegaSin: ALPHAOMEGASIN - unlocks the Darkness Descends sword (possibly a reference to the studio album of the same name by American thrash metal band Dark Angel, which AlphaOmegaSin has described as "one of my go-to albums")
•Game Sack: 8MEGAPOWER - unlocks the Game Sack Strip sword (a reference to an in-joke regarding various novelty power strips)
•Vinesauce: SPONGYVINE - unlocks the Vine Sword (a sword themed around Vinesauce game glitch/corruption content with a green mushroom [Vinesauce's logo, the "Vineshroom"] as the sword's helm). The name of the code is derived from Sponge, a recurring in-joke character from their streams who is depicted as the depressed third Mario brother.
Bonus codes video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDISF6e4YM
Gallery of all Credits Clan items:
https://imgur.com/a/DRIyHuU
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night weapons vote results:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/posts/1258115
ProtonJon Let's Play of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow with intro about being selected to contribute to Bloodstained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOJLCMAgNik
Operation Akumajo sources:
https://www.facebook.com/operation.akumajo/
https://bloodstained.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Operation_Akumaclan
AlphaOmegaSin tweet:
https://twitter.com/AlphaOmegaSin/status/867957402003361792
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDISF6e4YM
Gallery of all Credits Clan items:
https://imgur.com/a/DRIyHuU
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night weapons vote results:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/posts/1258115
ProtonJon Let's Play of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow with intro about being selected to contribute to Bloodstained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOJLCMAgNik
Operation Akumajo sources:
https://www.facebook.com/operation.akumajo/
https://bloodstained.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Operation_Akumaclan
AlphaOmegaSin tweet:
https://twitter.com/AlphaOmegaSin/status/867957402003361792
subdirectory_arrow_right Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters (Game)
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Pit was first depicted with blue eyes and a laurel crown in promotional artwork for Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, which was not released in Japan until 2012. If the eye color and crown of Pit's design in 2008's Super Smash Bros. Brawl was influenced by Of Myths and Monsters and wasn't simply a coincidence, that would make it the first and so far only instance of Super Smash Bros. referencing content from a game without any kind of Japanese release at the time within gameplay, and shared with a sticker originating from Of Myths and Monsters as the first representation of a game without a Japanese release whatsoever outside of the Chronicle (which is also technically tied with trophies in the same game from Elite Beat Agents, a heavily modified localization of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan).
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Pit render:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/images/d/d0/Pit_SSBB.jpg
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Kid Icarus stickers:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_stickers_(Kid_Icarus_series)
https://www.ssbwiki.com/images/d/d0/Pit_SSBB.jpg
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Kid Icarus stickers:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_stickers_(Kid_Icarus_series)
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On Toad's Turnpike, the bus is driven by what many have assumed to be the silhouette of Diddy Kong. On the Mario Kart 64 Japanese website, it is instead stated to be a Ukiki wearing a hat.
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During any cutscene where Bayonetta has a lollipop, if you hold down a specific button before the candy head of the lollipop first appears, you will gain the effect of a specific lollipop item available in the game's stores, and this is reflected in the cutscene by changing which lollipop flavor is shown:• A for Green Herb lollipop (recover health)
• B for Bloody Rose lollipop (temporary damage boost)
• X for Purple Butterfly lollipop (recover magic)
• Y for Yellow Moon lollipop (gain armor)
It is pertinent that you press and hold the desired button before the candy part of the lollipop is actually seen in the cutscene to ensure the trick works. For example, in Chapter IV: The Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude, when Bayonetta walks into the colosseum, you can see that she is holding a lollipop, but you can only see the stick at first, meaning there's still time to perform the trick. If performed correctly, the lollipop head will be revealed as the one you have chosen. You can also skip the cutscene while still holding the button in order to keep the effect. Unlike normally using a lollipop item, performing this trick does not remove points from your score in a chapter.
Going off of the colors of each lollipop that are used for each face button, they match up with the Xbox 360 controller's color scheme, possibly being a remnant of Platinum Games primarily developing Bayonetta for the Xbox 360. This feature would not be carried over into subsequent Bayonetta games.
Bayonetta - Lollipop effect demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz86JmloCoE
Steam Community page thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/460790/discussions/0/1327844097132423017/
Image source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingDetails/comments/10vrco1/in_bayonetta_during_cinematics_where_shes_eating/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz86JmloCoE
Steam Community page thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/460790/discussions/0/1327844097132423017/
Image source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingDetails/comments/10vrco1/in_bayonetta_during_cinematics_where_shes_eating/
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The game's title is not known to be a parody of an existing title: while many assume it's a parody of the 2014 adventure game D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, this has not been confirmed by the devs, who stated on the game's Steam Community page that "There might [be] quite a list of interpretation[s,] but for us it is just a matching title for a new Larry adventure ;-)". Series creator Al Lowe (who was not involved in the title) stated prior to release that he was unimpressed by the title.
Game announcement and gameplay trailer articles:
https://www.pcgamer.com/leisure-suit-larry-wet-dreams-wont-dry-appears-briefly-on-steam/
https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-a-gameplay-trailer-for-leisure-suit-larry-wet-dreams-dont-dry/
Developer statement on the title origin:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/765870/discussions/0/1694922526903691442/#c1694922526905090493
https://www.pcgamer.com/leisure-suit-larry-wet-dreams-wont-dry-appears-briefly-on-steam/
https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-a-gameplay-trailer-for-leisure-suit-larry-wet-dreams-dont-dry/
Developer statement on the title origin:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/765870/discussions/0/1694922526903691442/#c1694922526905090493
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In the Demo ending, other than the dialogue used in the skit, there is unused dialogue present suggesting some parts of the ending were scrapped:”I think that‘s a wise decision.”
”The normal ending is about to start.”
”The best ending is about to start.”
”You‘re wrong, brother Mukumuku. I heard that it‘s not done yet.”
”Erp.....”
”The normal ending is about to start.”
”The best ending is about to start.”
”You‘re wrong, brother Mukumuku. I heard that it‘s not done yet.”
”Erp.....”
It's worth noting that Mukumuku is silent in the demo while Mekumeku just doesn't load, but is present in memory. Whether it was scrapped or is still unlockable is unknown.
Also in the room, there are 4 maids surrounding Riou just out of bounds at the bottom of the screen. After some testing, it was found to be a developer trick, wherein the player is always in control of Riou, and when interreacting with any of the maids, the demo will end early.
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Hades was originally planned to be the final boss as evidenced by early concept art of the Hill of Despair showing your party facing Hades in the area instead of Necron, but Hades was instead changed to be an optional boss. There are eyes on the face of his sword and on his throne. Blinking disembodied eyes are also seen in the final battle arena, showing the connection between Hades and the original final battle. Incidentally, eyes are also a feature of many Terran structures (e.g. Pandemonium), perhaps implying a deeper connection that was lost or severed in the final cut of the game.While no exact reason for the change was given, it is believed that Hades ultimately did not fit the theme as an end boss. Hades is based on Greek mythology as a God of death who would have wanted to bring death to everyone. Necron on the other hand is an original entity based on the Greek word for "death" that wanted to bring an end to existence itself.
Reddit thread about this topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasy/comments/4sl98t/why_do_you_think_hades_was_scrapped_as_main_boss/
Supplementary fan wiki articles and concept art source:
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Hades_(Final_Fantasy_IX)
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Necron
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_IX_concept_art#Places
https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasy/comments/4sl98t/why_do_you_think_hades_was_scrapped_as_main_boss/
Supplementary fan wiki articles and concept art source:
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Hades_(Final_Fantasy_IX)
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Necron
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_IX_concept_art#Places
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Typically, the tutorial for Vs. Mode in PaRappa the Rapper 2 will play the Awful version of whichever stage has been selected in the background, the Bad version for the Boxy Boy tutorial, and then the Good version for the actual gameplay. The exception to this is Always Love, which has completely different songs used in Vs. Mode instead of its actual Bad and Awful songs, it is unknown why the Vs. Mode Bad and Awful versions are different, with possible theories being the Vs. Mode remixes being scrapped but left in Vs. Mode, or Always Love's actual Bad and Awful remixes being considered unsuited for the Vs. Mode due to being versions of the same song with less instruments instead of a completely different song like on all other stages, leading to the creation of new songs. This mysterious track is also used on the map screen when Always Love is highlighted.
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The antagonist of the original Yakuza was voiced by Kazuhiro Nakaya, who later went on to voice Ichiban Kasuga, the protagonist of Yakuza: Like A Dragon. The two characters also have the same koi tattoo, leading fans to speculate on the parallels between both characters, but aside from their voice actors and tattoos, there are only surface-level parallels.
Beyond the Voice Actors database pages:
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/franchises/Yakuza/
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kazuhiro-Nakaya/
Yakuza Tattoos article/footage:
https://kotaku.com/the-meaning-of-yakuzas-tattoos-1793074894
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joowq-IM6PA
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/franchises/Yakuza/
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kazuhiro-Nakaya/
Yakuza Tattoos article/footage:
https://kotaku.com/the-meaning-of-yakuzas-tattoos-1793074894
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joowq-IM6PA