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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)
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Attachment Sheik was planned to appear in Twilight Princess, but was cut from the game. This unused design was later used for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

The attached artwork is from the Hyrule Historia.
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Development, Early Idea
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The King of Fighters '96
The King of Fighters '96 (1996)
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The game meant to introduce Whip into the Ikari Team. However, due to Leona's introduction in the same team, the developers waited until The King of Fighters '99 to add her to the cast.
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Development, Early Idea
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
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According to Masahiro Sakurai, in an interview with Famitsu, the reason why Kirby (being a creation of Sakurai's) was the only one that survived Galeem's attack was because he was the only one who could plausibly escape it using his Warp Star. This also made the character accessible to starters or newcomers to the game, as a result of his speed and attacks.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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The King of Fighters '97
The King of Fighters '97 (1997)
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Orochi Iori was originally meant to be the final boss of the game after the player beats the New Faces Team in their Orochi forms. However, it was later decided to make Orochi Iori the mid-boss with Orochi becoming the final boss and the New Faces Team as the sub-bosses.
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Development, Early Idea
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The King of Fighters '96
The King of Fighters '96 (1996)
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In the initial stages of development, Chizuru was referred to as the "Bell Girl", though she was soon nicknamed "Yuna", before finally receiving the more appropriate name that she has now.
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Development, Early Idea
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The King of Fighters '94
The King of Fighters '94 (1994)
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Rugal was originally going have the ability to copy any move that he saw. However, the game didn’t have enough memory to execute the idea well enough, so the team settled on giving him Geese Howard's Reppuken and Wolfgang Krauser's Kaiser Wave attacks.
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Development, Early Idea
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The King of Fighters '94
The King of Fighters '94 (1994)
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The original members of the England Team were King (Art of Fighting), Billy Kane (Fatal Fury Special), and Big Bear (Fatal Fury 2), since all three were English. However, after the release of Art of Fighting 2, the development team decided to make an all-female team, replacing Billy and Bear with Yuri Sakazaki from Art of Fighting 2 and Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury 2.

Billy would later become playable in the sequel, while Big Bear would appear much later in The King of Fighters XII as his alter-ego Raiden.
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Development, Early Idea
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The King of Fighters '94
The King of Fighters '94 (1994)
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Brian Battler is inspired by the SNK football game Football Frenzy. Early designs of Brian depicted him in more traditional football player fashion, but his final design left him without a helmet and a more "casual" uniform. This was done to make him not look exactly like the character Johnny Maximum in World Heroes 2.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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The King of Fighters '94
The King of Fighters '94 (1994)
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During the early stages of the game's development, Goro Daimon's design was criticized by designers who were of the opinion that it was just plain loopy for Daimon to fight wearing Japanese geta (wooden clogs). But Goro's creators were adamant and he kept his footwear.
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Development, Early Idea
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God of War
God of War (2018)
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Initially, Atreus was not going to be related to Kratos, and his parentage was going to be the driving mystery. Only after presenting early test footage was the idea of Kratos being his father introduced and implemented.
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Development, Early Idea
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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During development, the team had made extra sprite animations, such as both characters walking onto the screen and bowing before the match. But the animations could not be used because of hardware limitations.
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Development, Early Idea
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Hyrule Warriors
Hyrule Warriors (2014)
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Attachment An earlier design of Link featured him wearing silver armor, similar to Zhao Yun's design from Dynasty Warriors 6.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Collection: Blinx
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Attachment The game's director, Naoto Ohshima, had initially designed the character of Blinx to have purple fur, later being changed to orange for unknown reasons.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
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Astral Chain
Astral Chain (2019)
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The game originally started out in a fantasy setting where the player used magic, but after the development team realised that there were lots of other games with a fantasy setting, it was changed into a cyberpunk setting based on animes favoured by the game's creator, Takahisa Taura, such as Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987)
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Attachment The zombies that appear in the towns during night were originally going to be 'Chinese Jiangshi' that could hop, due to their popularity at the time. The hopping move was removed after complaints that the enemies were too strong.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
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Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (1992)
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During the early stages of development, lead artist John Tobias had the idea to rotoscope over the motion captured footage of the characters, though the idea was dropped due to time constraints.
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Development, Early Idea
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GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 (1997)
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Attachment Censored Gaming asked 'Martin Molls', the game's director, why the 'Hunting Knife' was removed from the Japanese localisation. He stated that it was related to the 'Kobe Child Murders', an incident in Japan, involving child murder and knives.

This change is believed to have affected Rare's later game 'Perfect Dark' for the same reason.
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person ProtoSnake calendar_month April 3, 2020
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Mario Tennis Aces
Mario Tennis Aces (2018)
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Camelot president Hiroyuki Takahashi gave Luigi the main role in the story as a surprise to the player. Luigi had always been "stuck in his brother’s shadow ," and Takahashi wanted to give him a much larger role with as much prominence as Mario.
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Development, Early Idea, Inspiration
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Pulseman
Pulseman (1994)
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In the early stages of development, Pulseman was originally meant to play similarly to Magical Taluluto (based on the Shonen Jump manga of the same name), the first game directed by Ken Sugimori who was also the director for Pulseman.
For example, he originally had the ability to turn into a fighter jet and fly by pressing the jump button twice, but this was scrapped, as it didn’t fit his character.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
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The King of Fighters '97
The King of Fighters '97 (1997)
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Orochi was originally planned as "a buck-naked Chris" fighting with a shining energy ball. However, it was changed after developers were surveyed and only two votes in favor of the design were received. His design codename was "Chief", however, a lot of people were against giving him the name "Orochi".
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Development, Early Idea
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