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Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 (2001)
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There is persistent butterfly and moth symbolism surrounding Maria, who has a butterfly tattoo on her abdomen. Spoiler:Butterflies are seen as a symbol of rebirth in some cultures. Since she is supposed to be the reborn image of Mary, she could be seen as a butterfly. Likewise, moths are seen as a symbol of death, and Maria transforms into a swarm of black moths for the final boss. This parallels how James killed Mary.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Franchise: .Hack
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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the creator of the protagonist, Kite, stated that when creating Kite, he based his proportions on Naruto, a character from the popular anime series. At the time, he had no idea that CyberConnect 2 would eventually purchase the rights to the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series.
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person PheonixGRX calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Franchise: Professor Layton
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The character Phoenix Wright (from the Ace Attorney series) influenced the creation of Professor Layton's protagonist and namesake. Level-5, the developer of the Professor Layton series, "researched the good and bad points of Phoenix Wright [and] developed the good points".
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person JoTS calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997)
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In an interview with Media Snobs, Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning admitted that Abe was intentionally made to "stand out from the crowd" with his cowardly and dim-witted nature.

"Now back in the 90's the day was filled with muscle bound prepubescent designs of "heroes" that justified shooting everything but didn't really stand for anything that had a modicum of conscious intelligence behind it. No offense to the creators, who I love and had fun with their games, but I'm just calling it how the rest of the world sees it. Or in the opposite gender direction, there was the quickly over saturated anorexic huge bosom sex bomb with a gun. So yeah, we didn't want our heroes to be in those categories, and those were the dominating categories. So we were definitely aiming for separation from the trends."
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person Hipserious calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia (1989)
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The game's developer, Jordan Mechner, wanted the prince's movements be as fluent and life like as possible. To do this, he video taped his brother, David, going through the prince's motions and rotoscoped each frame into the game.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (1991)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (Game), Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (Game), Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting (Game), Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (Game)
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Attachment In the first three versions of Street Fighter II, "World Warrior", "Champion Edition" and "Hyper Fighting", Ryu and Ken's Hadoken sprites would sometimes appear orange. Developer Akira Nishitani confirmed that this was added as an Easter egg, and wasn't a glitch as previously thought.

In later versions of the game, starting with "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers", Ryu would receive a legitimate orange Hadoken special move called "Shakunetsu Hadoken"
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person MightyKombat calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Duke Nukem Forever
Duke Nukem Forever (2011)
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During the first fight with an Assault Commander boss, Duke says, "I'm going to kill you old style!" This is a reference to the Youtube video Ventrilo Harassment where a Ventrilo user is harassed by someone with a Duke Nukem soundboard. The voice actor for Duke Nukem, John St. John, has mentioned in interviews that he has seen the Ventrillo Harassment video, which probably lead to the line being in the game.

"It's awesome, especially the Ventrillo Harassment! I LOVE that fans have used my voice to create some very funny videos and soundboards."
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person Pogue-Mahone calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Franchise: Crash Bandicoot
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The concept of Trash Bandicoot (now known as Fake Crash) came from some cheap looking knock off Crash Bandicoot dolls. These dolls had huge eye brows and a giant overbite.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 22, 2013
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Franchise: Mario
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Mario's hair is brown, while his mustache is black. This was because around the time of Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario's creators wanted him to have a definite hair color in game, while it was easier to draw his mustache by extending the black outline of his nose.
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person wiz85 calendar_month April 21, 2013
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Dishonored
Dishonored (2012)
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The mission Lady Boyle's Last Party is loosely based off Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death".
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person Outofmind23 calendar_month April 17, 2013
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Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect 3 (2012)
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Attachment The Illusive Man was first intended to turn into a Reaper creature in Mass Effect 3. This plan was later scrapped as the developers wanted to give players the satisfaction of fighting a character they knew rather than a random creature, highlighting the fact that the Illusive Man's weapon is his intelligence, not his physical strength.
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person Funland47 calendar_month April 17, 2013
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Company: Quintet
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Attachment In the games Soulblazer, ActRaiser 2, Illusion of Gaia and Robotrek, Quintet has included attacks based on the image of the Phoenix, or Firebird. In all the games the attacks are very powerful, and with the exception of ActRaiser 2 where the attack is available at the start, they are found very late in the game. In the cases of Soulblazer and Illusion of Gaia, both games having loose connections to each other, the ability is gained as part of the story and used to fight the final bosses.
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person TomGuycott calendar_month April 16, 2013
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
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Revolver Ocelot was going to Spoiler:have a mechanical hand after Ninja chopped it off in the last game. However, Liquid Snake was very popular with the fans, so Kojima decided to change the story so Ocelot received a transplant from the deceased Liquid Snake, creating Liquid Ocelot.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 16, 2013
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ActRaiser 2
ActRaiser 2 (1993)
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Just as the main bosses of the game represent the Seven Deadly Sins, major locations of the game have a symbolic or ironic connection with the demon that is plaguing them.

Diligence and Industen (Industrious) were once the hardest of workers, but then became so weak that they even lost the will to live.

The queen of Devote, instead of devoting herself to others, was so incredibly jealous of all other beautiful things that she sank her kingdom under the sea.

Temponia and Modero (Temperance and Moderation) once had extravagant amounts of food, but then starved.

The former friendly nations of Favorian and Justania (Favor and Justice) were engaged in a bloody war brought on by the demon Fury. The demon filled the Justanian king's heart with wrath.

The king of Lovaous (Love) was plagued by the demon Deception in his dreams, which filled his mind with thoughts of lust.

The king of Stormrook, overcome by greed, takes all of his citizens' money and sends them to a prison called Gratis, which means "for free", a play on words both for greed and for a prison.

Humbleton (Humble), a highly civilized, technologically advanced nation with no faith in the master, enacted a plan to build a tower (Tower of Souls/Babel) to reach the heavens and become Masters themselves.
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person TomGuycott calendar_month April 16, 2013
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Anarchy Reigns
Anarchy Reigns (2012)
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Attachment The enemy "Cybrid Joe" is a nod to an enemy from God Hand "Tiger Joe". Outside of having similar names, they both have identical animations and move sets. Many of the developers at Platinum Games came from Clover Studio, who made God Hand.
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person Hipserious calendar_month April 15, 2013
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Franchise: Crash Bandicoot
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According to Andy Gavin, the creator of Crash Bandicoot, Dr. Neo Cortex is based on Brain from Pinky and the Brain.

"I remember it clearly. The four of us were eating at this mediocre Italian near Universal and I had this idea of an evil genius villain with a big head. Obviously brainy cartoon villains have big heads. He was all about his attitude and his minions. Video games need lots of minions. Jason had become very fond of Pinky and the Brain and we imagined a more malevolent Brain with minions like the weasels in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. A villain, all full of himself, unable to conceive of ever doing anything the simple way, but constantly (in his eyes) betrayed by the incompetence of his henchmen.

I put on my silly villain voice and intoned, "If you had three neurons between you, you couldn't make a triangle!" With this attitude, his name, Doctor Neo Cortex, popped instantly into our heads."
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person Berry calendar_month April 15, 2013
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)
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Twilight Princess was originally going to be a sequel to The Wind Waker. A presentation by director Eiji Aonuma contained a reference to the working title The Wind Waker 2 and it was said to use a similar graphical style. Nintendo of America told Aonuma that North American sales of The Wind Waker were sluggish because the cartoon appearance created the impression that the game was designed for a young audience. Concerned that the sequel would have the same problem, Aonuma expressed to Shigeru Miyamoto that he wanted to create a realistic Zelda game that would appeal to the North American market.
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person FUS RO DAH calendar_month April 15, 2013
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
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In the Subspace Emissary mode, There is a cutscene where Ridley grabs Samus and drags her along the wall. He only lets go when Pikachu Zaps him with a Thunder bolt. This cut scene seems to have influenced a similar scene in Metriod: Other M.
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person gamemaster1991 calendar_month April 14, 2013
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Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009)
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According to an interview with 999's developer, the nine main characters are based on the Enneagram of Personalites. They are:

Ace is an Achiever (3)
Snake is an Investigator (5)
Santa is an Enthusiast (7)
Clover is a Loyalist (6)
June is a Peacemaker (9)
Junpei is a Challenger (8)
Seven is a Helper (2)
Lotus is an Individualist (4)
Ninth Man is a Reformer (1)
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person BlogDog123 calendar_month April 14, 2013
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Minecraft
Minecraft (2011)
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Attachment Bedrock was originally known as "adminium" because it was only allowed to be broken and placed by admins.
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person BlogDog123 calendar_month April 13, 2013
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