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Ghouls 'n Ghosts

Ghouls 'n Ghosts (1988)

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According to series creator Tokurou Fujiwara, his team's early vision for the stage designs were going to take their art direction into a darker and splatter horror-influenced direction, but this idea was scrapped, likely due to pressure and expectations from higher-ups for the game to be a more faithful sequel to Ghosts 'n Goblins.

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Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII (1997)

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According to the game's art director Yūsuke Naora, he liked how his design of the city of Midgar turned out, having envisioned the city in his head as a pizza while he was designing it.

After the first AVALANCHE mission at the start of the game, Barret will reference this inspiration when talking to Cloud about the upper plate of Midgar:

Barrett: "The upper world...a city on a plate...It's cuz of that &^#$# 'pizza', that people underneath are sufferin'!"

Additionally, the name of the song "Underneath the Rotting Pizza", which prominently plays in many of the slum areas in Midgar, is a reference to its design.

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Kingdom Hearts III

Kingdom Hearts III (2019)

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Arendelle's Boss, the giant wolf Heartless "Skoll", is named after and based on the figure of the same name in Norse (Viking) mythology. Specifically, the Vikings believed that two wolf figures, Hati and Skoll, were in constant pursuit of the Moon and Sun in order to devour the two celestial bodies, thus creating the day and the night. Skoll can also be seen trying to darken the boss arena at times in reference to Skoll successfully devouring the Sun during the Ragnarok, the end of all of the realms of the universe in Norse mythology.

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Ōkami

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An unused enemy named "Gotouryu", a Flying Demon based on the Japanese yōkai of the same name, can be found in the data for the Wii version. When asked about why the enemy was cut, director Hideki Kamiya admitted that he forgot to add the enemy in the game.

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Ghost of Tsushima

Ghost of Tsushima (2020)

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Toshihiro Nagoshi, the general director of the Yakuza series, was awestruck by Ghosts of Tsushima and its depiction of Japanese culture, history, and aesthetic, even going so far as to say that it was something they (Japanese game developers) should've made. He furthermore said it broke the misconception that western people do not understand Japanese culture.

"...It’s the kind of work made by non-Japanese people that makes you feel they’re even more Japanese than us. I think it’s amazing. We often believe Western people would never get certain Japanese things, but the game shows this way of thinking is wrong in the first place."

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Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (2003)

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According to the game's director Shuyo Murata, fusing both the first and second game's story and gameplay together into one experience was the most challenging part of the game's development.

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Real Bout Fatal Fury

Real Bout Fatal Fury (1995)

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In a 1995 developer interview featured in the game's guidebook, they were originally going to add a hidden playable character, but dropped the idea after concluding that including another boss fight after defeating Geese Howard was a strange decision.

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Dino Crisis

Dino Crisis (1999)

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According to the Capcom team in the game's official Japanese guide book, the game's designer for Regina said the costume was inspired by Jessica Priest played by Melinda Clarke from the 1997 film Spawn. After Regina's costume design was finished, Rick & Gail's costumes were created to match her design.

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

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In the NTT-PUB official guidebook, Koji Igarashi stated the team wanted to give players enough enjoyment with the game to match their money's worth by giving them more freedom to roam around to lengthen the playtime, unlike the previous Castlevania games which were shorter. To accomplish this, he inserted RPG elements like experience points and a level up system into the game so players would be more encouraged to challenge themselves against difficult enemies.

"We gave the player a lot of freedom because we wanted to lengthen the playtime for an action game, which is usually short. If people spend 5800 yen (approx $58) on a game, they should get 5800 yen worth of enjoyment from it. Even when a game is very difficult, defeating enemies isn’t very exciting, is it? I thought it would be fun for players to get experience from enemies and level up, so I added RPG elements."

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

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In the NTT-PUB official guidebook, Koji Igarashi & Toru Hagihara stated that in their early planning stages they came up with an alignment system. If the player used a lot of sub-weapons, they would gain a holy alignment; if they used a lot of magic, they would gain a dark alignment. There would be different endings based on the alignments with various subtitles, with Igarashi citing one as being named "聖魔のトリル" (seima no toriru), something like "The Trill of Light and Darkness." A trill is a musical ornament where two adjacent notes (i.e. 聖 "holy" and 魔 "evil") alternate rapidly. The reason for this feature's removal is unknown.

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Franchise: Phantasy Star

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According to a 1993 World of Phantasy Star book interview with Miki Morimoto, she stated that the meaning of the game's title was like “a planet/star of fantasy” and that Yuji Naka was the one who originally named the game Phantasy Star. He started with just the word "Fantasy", and played around with it until he figured out what to name the game. He was also influenced by a song called "Nagisa no Fantasy" (Beachside Fantasy) by his favorite singer, an idol named Noriko Sakai.

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Streets of Rage

Streets of Rage (1991)

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In a 1991 interview with BEEP Mega Drive Magazine, the game's composer Yuzo Koshiro stated that he started writing the music for the game at the end of 1990. He often went dancing at clubs, and at the time, the scene was moving on from Eurobeat to a new trend: house music. Because Streets of Rage was a beat 'em up game, he wanted the music to be energetic and exciting, and initially thought about writing a rock soundtrack for the game. However, when he first tried using house music in the game, "it all clicked, and [he] thought it sounded really cool."

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Platform: PlayStation 3

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The PlayStation 3's launch was delayed a year after the Xbox 360 was released, supposedly because of a short supply of blue laser diodes, a "$0.05 component" that were used on the system's Blu-ray drive to read Blu-ray discs. Former PlayStation executive Phil Harrison elaborated:

"In this particular case, the shift from red laser to blue laser was actually quite a sophisticated change in the way that the optical head on a drive worked, and it was a little bit of physics and a little bit of chemistry mixed together, because it's really a crystal that you're making. And they just couldn't make enough."

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Balan Wonderworld

Balan Wonderworld (2021)

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After footage of the game's final boss surfaced from pre-release copies, players expressed concern to the developers that some intense rapidly flashing lights and other visuals during the final boss may cause serious seizures to players that have Photosensitive epilepsy, and in general may be an eyesore to players that are not epileptic. The developers understood and significantly changed the battle effects in a day-one patch that was heavily recommended by Square Enix to be downloaded by future players.

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Nioh

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The description for the Heshikiri Hasabe sword alludes to a real-life event where daimyo Oda Nobunaga used the sword to murder one of his servants in anger after he insulted him. The final enemy in the "Kanbei and the Overlord" side mission is a yōkai resembling a biwa that steals the weapon because of a grudge related to the sword. It is heavily implied that the demon is that slain servant.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)

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According to Masahiro Sakurai, the reason Min Min was chosen as the playable Arms representative out of the game's cast is because Arms producer Kosuke Yabuki personally requested Min Min; Ninjara was among his top choices to appear in the game as well. Yabuki at one point considered asking them to add the entire cast of Arms' lead protagonists as alternate costumes or playstyles instead of just one character.

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Fortnite

Fortnite (2017)

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Fortnite was stuck in development hell, with such development beginning as early as 2011 when it was first announced at the Spike Video Game Awards. The earliest idea for Fortnite was a horror-style third-person shooter similar to Gears of War, another series developed by Epic Games and later sold off to Microsoft.

Fortnite was originally made using Unreal Engine 3, but later shifted to its successor Unreal Engine 4 due to new high-tech functions that its preceding engine lacked. Because of this, the game was almost a PC-exclusive game and was set for a 2013 release, as Epic Games did not want to wait months for a game to get approved by console manufacturers, such as Nintendo and Sony, although they later acknowledged that a console release could not be ruled out. As Epic shifted to Unreal Engine 4 however, they immediately ran into development problems, which resulted in them hiring MMORPG developers to help finish the game.

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Final Fantasy Adventure

Final Fantasy Adventure (1991)

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According to a Japanese Seiken Densetsu guide book (specifically, the one with the blue bottom and "SQUARE BRAND" in the bottom right corner), one of the game's programmers claimed that it apparently began life as an experimental tennis game.

"This game actually started out as an experimental tennis game. At some point, the court turned into scrollable screens, the racket turned into the playable character, the ball turned into a weapon, the opponent’s racket turned into enemies, and the “court” became referred to as the “map”… And before I realized it, a story was added into it and then the game was released as “Seiken Densetsu.” It was a curious experience."

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Pokémon Diamond Version

Pokémon Diamond Version (2006)

subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Pearl Version (Game)

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There are certain days coded into the game's files that alter Pokemon spawn rates.

On August 6th, August 9th and September 11th, Pokemon are 10% less likely to spawn in the wild. These dates coincide with the atomic bombings on Japan, and the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States.

On certain major holidays such as Christmas, New Years and Culture Day (November 3rd in Japan), Pokemon are 5% less likely to spawn in the wild possibly to discourage gameplay during holidays.

33 other holiday dates were found to have a 5% increase in wild Pokemon spawns, such as St. Patrick's Day (March 17th), Independence Day (July 4th in the United States), Bank Holiday (August 28th in the UK) and Christmas Eve (December 24th).

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Company: Bandai Namco Entertainment

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Bandai Namco heavily assisted Nintendo in the development of their games Mario Kart Tour, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Arms according to the Products page on Bandai Namco's website. However, they chose to be uncredited for their work in the games' final releases.

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