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According to Sakurai in a Famitsu column, Sephiroth's inclusion as DLC in this game was his attempt to include more villains and/or bosses into the series as fighters, stating that the inclusion of such characters as playable was "rare". For one reason or another, he felt Final Fantasy VII's lead antagonist was an appropriate choice for this. He also stated that his game developing philosophy for these types of characters was that he wanted them to "feel like bosses" when playing as or against them.
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Sakurai and his team originally had different plans for a Xenoblade Chronicles 2 DLC character. He tried to include Rex as a playable character alongside Pyra, at first thinking of an Ice Climbers-like system where the player would control both characters at the same time, but this ended up presenting programming problems including one involving the game's memory capacity due to the size of the characters. He then had an idea of making Rex a background character whenever Pyra fights, in a similar manner to the Pokémon Trainer. He eventually felt this second method would also be taxing to the game and that fans would not be fond of it anyway so it was scrapped. He then came up with the idea to have Pyra be a transforming character (similar to how Zelda and Shiek were before Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U) with her turning into Mythra and additionally have Rex appear only in taunts, Final Smashes, and other extraneous details involving the characters.
Franchise: Bayonetta
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Exclusive only to the Wii U and Nintendo Switch ports of the first two games in the series, several costumes were added that are based on Nintendo characters with additional features tied to them:
•Both the Mushroom Kingdom Princess and Sarasaland Princess costumes resemble the princesses Peach and Daisy from the Mario series, with Mario and Luigi charms attached to their dresses respectively. Coins will drop instead of Halos once enemies are defeated and collecting them will play the coin sound effect from the series. Attacks that summon Madama Butterfly are now replaced with Bowser's hands and feet.
•The Hero of Hyrule costume resembles Link from The Legend of Zelda series. Equipping the Shuraba with this costume will turn the current weapon into the Master Sword. Wearing the costume replaces the Halos with Rupees as well as the standard sound effects with those from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, specifically because it is series director Hideki Kamiya's favorite Zelda game. If Jeanne wears the costume, sound effects from the The Legend of Zelda can be heard instead.
•The Galactic Bounty Hunter costume resembles Samus Aran from the Metroid series. Samus's blaster cannon can be used without needing to equip a weapon skill. Furthermore, Samus' visor works differently between the two games.
•The Star Mercenary costume exclusive to Bayonetta 2 resembles Fox McCloud from the Star Fox series. Equipping the Love is Blue/All 4 One with this costume will turn the current weapon into Arwing Guns, each having charms that resemble Fox, Falco, Peppy, and Slippy. If Bayonetta dons the costume, sound effects will be replaced with those from Star Fox 64. However, if Jeanne dons the costume, sound effects from Star Fox will be heard instead.
•The Chain Chomp foot weapon, also exclusive to Bayonetta 2, can be obtained by completing all chapters on Hard difficulty. The Super Mario 64 Golden LP can be given to Rodin and he will give Bayonetta the Chain Chomp, which plays sound effects from that game. Upon performing the Umbran Dance with either Bayonetta or Jeanne will give them Mario and Luigi's caps with both letters replaced with the letter B and J, while also having fake mustaches.
•Both the Mushroom Kingdom Princess and Sarasaland Princess costumes resemble the princesses Peach and Daisy from the Mario series, with Mario and Luigi charms attached to their dresses respectively. Coins will drop instead of Halos once enemies are defeated and collecting them will play the coin sound effect from the series. Attacks that summon Madama Butterfly are now replaced with Bowser's hands and feet.
•The Hero of Hyrule costume resembles Link from The Legend of Zelda series. Equipping the Shuraba with this costume will turn the current weapon into the Master Sword. Wearing the costume replaces the Halos with Rupees as well as the standard sound effects with those from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, specifically because it is series director Hideki Kamiya's favorite Zelda game. If Jeanne wears the costume, sound effects from the The Legend of Zelda can be heard instead.
•The Galactic Bounty Hunter costume resembles Samus Aran from the Metroid series. Samus's blaster cannon can be used without needing to equip a weapon skill. Furthermore, Samus' visor works differently between the two games.
•The Star Mercenary costume exclusive to Bayonetta 2 resembles Fox McCloud from the Star Fox series. Equipping the Love is Blue/All 4 One with this costume will turn the current weapon into Arwing Guns, each having charms that resemble Fox, Falco, Peppy, and Slippy. If Bayonetta dons the costume, sound effects will be replaced with those from Star Fox 64. However, if Jeanne dons the costume, sound effects from Star Fox will be heard instead.
•The Chain Chomp foot weapon, also exclusive to Bayonetta 2, can be obtained by completing all chapters on Hard difficulty. The Super Mario 64 Golden LP can be given to Rodin and he will give Bayonetta the Chain Chomp, which plays sound effects from that game. Upon performing the Umbran Dance with either Bayonetta or Jeanne will give them Mario and Luigi's caps with both letters replaced with the letter B and J, while also having fake mustaches.
subdirectory_arrow_right Bayonetta (Game)
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According to Platinum Games artist Yong-Hee Cho, Bayonetta's director Hideki Kamiya requested concept art of Bayonetta in Princess Peach's costume for the Wii U version. In addition, Kamiya also requested Cho to design a Mario Charm for Peach's costume and a Luigi Charm for Daisy's costume, and pulled Bayonetta's long black locks in favor of flowing fabric. Cho also goes on to talk about the concept for the Link and Samus Aran costumes, with the second costume being based on the NES original. According to Cho, it was actually Nintendo who pushed for Bayonetta to show a bit more skin while dressed in her Link costume.
Additionally, Bayonetta in her Samus Aran costume was at one point given the ability to form into a Morph Ball like how Samus does in the Metroid series, but the idea was scrapped and instead was later implemented in the game's sequel, Bayonetta 2.
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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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An update released three days before the game's 10th anniversary on April 26th, 2018 added new songs to radio stations, while simultaneously removing songs due to licensing-expiration issues. Among the many song replacements, the Electro-Choc, Fusion, JNR, Massive B, and Tuff Gong radio stations remained untouched, while almost every song featured in the Vladivostok FM station was cut and replaced with new songs with one exception, "Liberty City: The Invasion" by Seryoga, an original song written for the game's soundtrack. These changes also carried over to the Episodes from Liberty City DLC expansions.
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon SoulSilver Version (Game)
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In Cianwood City, if you have only one Pokemon in your team and it does not know Fly or Surf, a generous Trainer in the island's Pokemon Center will give you a Level 15 Tentacool, claiming to have caught too many and was just about to release it before he noticed your situation. This was added to prevent the player from softlocking the game in Cianwood City by giving the player a Pokemon that can learn the Surf HM in order to leave. Additionally, it is possible for the Tentacool given to you to be Shiny.
subdirectory_arrow_right Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop (Game)
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A 2009 port of the game for the Wii titled Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop has features that were either changed or added in which are not present in the original Xbox 360 version:
•Upon completing the game, Ending A is the only ending that can be obtained apart from the other endings present in the Xbox 360 version.
•The save feature has been changed to add multiple save slots compared to only one in the Xbox 360 version.
•72 Hour mode and Overtime became one mode altogether, with side missions no longer taking up the main timeframe in the game.
•A ranking system has been added based on how fast the player completes a mission to unlock new missions and rewards.
•Two game modes, Odd Jobs and 2nd Amendment, have been added. And unlocking the Real Mega Buster and Laser sword require the player to beat all missions on both game modes with an S rank.
•More costumes can be unlocked, with the inclusion of both Roll Caskett from Mega Man Legends and Nathan Spencer from Bionic Commando.
•Psychopaths Kent Swanson, Jo Slade, and Cliff Hudson have become zombies while Paul Carson has been omitted from the game entirely.
•Cletus Samson can be saved in the Wii version unlike the Xbox 360 version, where he gets eaten alive by zombies.
•The inclusion of zombie parrots and poodles.
•Books and Firearms can no longer be found within the mall and instead are sold to Frank by Cletus.
•Firearms no longer break upon being used.
•Zombies drop ammo or money once killed.
•The Camera feature is absent in the Wii version.
•Phone calls from Otis are answered automatically.
•Infinity Mode is absent in the Wii version.
•Killing 53,594 zombies unlocks the Apocalypse Frank costume unlike in the Xbox 360 version, which unlocks both the Real Mega Buster and the Zombie Genocider achievement.
•Leisure Park has its area shortened and vehicles can no longer be driven within the park. However, The player can still drive in the maintenance tunnels and must pay a fee to drive a different type of vehicle.
•Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties have been added.
•The option to change blood color to Red, Green, and White has been added.
•Only 100 zombies appear at a time on screen instead of 800 in the Xbox 360 version.
•The firearms Frank obtains are the same ones from Resident Evil 4.
•Juices have their abilities changed to how herbs work in the Resident Evil series. The Blue juice, however, acts as a randomizer that either damages Frank, gives him invincibility, increased speed, health, or turns him into Mega Man from the Mega Man series.
•Frank's fighting skills have been converted to combat events used only when battling psychopaths.
•The jumping ability has been removed, so Frank can no longer jump to reach higher areas.
•Barricades have been included, making some areas less accessible.
•Cutscenes have been pre-rendered so Frank's appearance no longer affects the in-game cutscenes.
•Subtitles have been enlarged to make up for the small lettering found in the Xbox 360 version.
•Survivors' health bars no longer display their names nor can Frank injure any survivors.
•PP Stickers are absent in the Wii version.
•Item slots have been moved to the pause menu of the game. However, the player can still cycle between firearms during gameplay.
•Frank can only be assigned one melee weapon in the Wii version unlike in the Xbox 360, where he can carry as many melee weapons as needed.
Furthermore, the Wii was not graphically capable of handling the MT Framework used to develop the game for the Xbox 360, so the game itself was entirely remade from scratch using the engine for the Wii port of Resident Evil 4 after the critical and commercial success of that version.
•Upon completing the game, Ending A is the only ending that can be obtained apart from the other endings present in the Xbox 360 version.
•The save feature has been changed to add multiple save slots compared to only one in the Xbox 360 version.
•72 Hour mode and Overtime became one mode altogether, with side missions no longer taking up the main timeframe in the game.
•A ranking system has been added based on how fast the player completes a mission to unlock new missions and rewards.
•Two game modes, Odd Jobs and 2nd Amendment, have been added. And unlocking the Real Mega Buster and Laser sword require the player to beat all missions on both game modes with an S rank.
•More costumes can be unlocked, with the inclusion of both Roll Caskett from Mega Man Legends and Nathan Spencer from Bionic Commando.
•Psychopaths Kent Swanson, Jo Slade, and Cliff Hudson have become zombies while Paul Carson has been omitted from the game entirely.
•Cletus Samson can be saved in the Wii version unlike the Xbox 360 version, where he gets eaten alive by zombies.
•The inclusion of zombie parrots and poodles.
•Books and Firearms can no longer be found within the mall and instead are sold to Frank by Cletus.
•Firearms no longer break upon being used.
•Zombies drop ammo or money once killed.
•The Camera feature is absent in the Wii version.
•Phone calls from Otis are answered automatically.
•Infinity Mode is absent in the Wii version.
•Killing 53,594 zombies unlocks the Apocalypse Frank costume unlike in the Xbox 360 version, which unlocks both the Real Mega Buster and the Zombie Genocider achievement.
•Leisure Park has its area shortened and vehicles can no longer be driven within the park. However, The player can still drive in the maintenance tunnels and must pay a fee to drive a different type of vehicle.
•Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties have been added.
•The option to change blood color to Red, Green, and White has been added.
•Only 100 zombies appear at a time on screen instead of 800 in the Xbox 360 version.
•The firearms Frank obtains are the same ones from Resident Evil 4.
•Juices have their abilities changed to how herbs work in the Resident Evil series. The Blue juice, however, acts as a randomizer that either damages Frank, gives him invincibility, increased speed, health, or turns him into Mega Man from the Mega Man series.
•Frank's fighting skills have been converted to combat events used only when battling psychopaths.
•The jumping ability has been removed, so Frank can no longer jump to reach higher areas.
•Barricades have been included, making some areas less accessible.
•Cutscenes have been pre-rendered so Frank's appearance no longer affects the in-game cutscenes.
•Subtitles have been enlarged to make up for the small lettering found in the Xbox 360 version.
•Survivors' health bars no longer display their names nor can Frank injure any survivors.
•PP Stickers are absent in the Wii version.
•Item slots have been moved to the pause menu of the game. However, the player can still cycle between firearms during gameplay.
•Frank can only be assigned one melee weapon in the Wii version unlike in the Xbox 360, where he can carry as many melee weapons as needed.
Furthermore, the Wii was not graphically capable of handling the MT Framework used to develop the game for the Xbox 360, so the game itself was entirely remade from scratch using the engine for the Wii port of Resident Evil 4 after the critical and commercial success of that version.
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Beating every ghost in Battle Mode on Nightmare difficulty will unlock a model of Maya dressed as Princess Peach from the Mario series viewable only in Spirit Photography mode.
subdirectory_arrow_right Fatal Frame 2: Wii Edition (Game)
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The Japanese and PAL region releases of Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir have exclusive bonus content that can be accessed after completing Story Mode by scanning an augmented reality marker on the back of the instruction manual to the Wii port of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, released only in Japan and PAL regions under the name Project Zero 2: Wii Edition. Scanning the marker will unlock models of Mio and Mayu Amakura as they appear in that game to view in Spirit Photography mode. Because the Wii port of Project Zero 2 was never released in North America, these models were made inaccessible in the North American release of Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir.
Nintendo Direct (UK) - April 21, 2012:
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/Nintendo-Direct/2012/Nintendo-Direct-21-4-2012/Nintendo-Direct-21-04-2012-527862.html
Project Zero 2: Wii Edition instruction booklet:
https://archive.org/details/project-zero-2-wii-edition-instruction-booklet/page/n3/mode/2up
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/Nintendo-Direct/2012/Nintendo-Direct-21-4-2012/Nintendo-Direct-21-04-2012-527862.html
Project Zero 2: Wii Edition instruction booklet:
https://archive.org/details/project-zero-2-wii-edition-instruction-booklet/page/n3/mode/2up
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The North American version of the arcade release includes three exclusive characters unlocked by inputting codes on the character select screen. These characters include Evil Ryu, a near-clone character of Ryu who uses the same power as Akuma, and alternate versions of Dhalsim and Zangief that have movesets reminiscent of their appearances in Street Fighter II: Championship Edition, featuring the omission of numerous gameplay features including super combos, taunting and air blocking.
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Three Rabbids from the Raving Rabbids series, a Ubisoft property, are guest characters exclusive to the Wii version of the game. One is a generic Raving Rabbid, a new Rabbid variant named Ninja Rabbid that is a parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the last, named Splinter Rabbid, is a Rabbid variant from the first two Raving Rabbids games who is a parody of Sam Fisher, the protagonist of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series, another Ubisoft property.
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By beating the game on Expert mode, you can see concept art for the game. Some are simple drawings, some are promotional art, and a couple seem to be related to inside jokes from the developers.
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Before its release, a free one-shot comic book produced by Marvel Comics detailing the events just before the start of the game was used to promote it in America. The cover art for the comic, drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz, was also used as the game's final cover art in North America. The person on the cover and initial protagonist of the comic is S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team member Richard Aiken.
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In the Dreamcast version, despite having only been released in Japan, the entire English localization is present in the game, even retaining the English title "Puyo Pop Fever", and can be toggled from the Options menu. This hints at a possible Western release of the Dreamcast version that never materialized due to the discontinuation of the console by the time the game was released elsewhere, making it the last Dreamcast game developed by Sonic Team, as well as the last first-party Sega title released on the platform. The Dreamcast version is also the only version of the game to use sprites instead of 3D models.
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Prior to the start of 2017, there were 976 known Banana Coins in the game. In early January of that year, a speedrunner discovered a widely undocumented 5-Banana Coin hidden in Fungi Forest while looking at how the game formats its save data. While looking through the stage's flags in the BizHawk emulator, the speedrunner noticed that the flag for 5-Banana Coins was incomplete, and used script analysis tools to reveal a DK Dirt Pile hidden under tall grass located near the Tag Barrel by the exit to the Chunky Minecart. Walking over the pile would cause the player to slightly bob upwards from the grass in an easy-to-miss moment, and slamming it revealed the 5-Banana Coin, bringing the known total to 977 Banana Coins.
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The last two sets of challenges in Paprika World in Challenge Land are named "Wario... Where?" and substitute the Rhythm Heaven characters for guest appearances by characters from the WarioWare series, a nod to how both series share the same artist and character designer Ko Takeuchi.
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Upon completing the game once on any difficulty, additional costumes for Heather become unlockable via cheat codes entered on a new menu accessible from the title screen. Exclusively for the PlayStation 2 version of the game, 14 codes were released as promotional tie-ins with 8 North American and 6 European video game media outlets, with each outlet's costume adorned with their respective logos. The participating companies and the codes to unlock their costumes include:
North America:
•Electronic Gaming Monthly, an American magazine, "EGMpretaporter"
•Game Informer, an American magazine, "gameinformer"
•GamePro, an American magazine, "ProTip"
•GMR, an American/Canadian magazine, "GMRownzjoo"
•Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, an American magazine, "SH3_OPiuM"
•PlayStation Magazine, an American magazine, "badical"
•IGN.com, an American website, "IGN_pickleboy"
•GameSpy.com, an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware, "iaml33t"
Europe:
•13ème Rue, a French cable network, unlocked with the code "Suspense"
•Game Reactor, a Scandinavian magazine, "SH3_Wrestlarn"
•Play, a British magazine, "sLmLdGhSmKfBfH"
•G@me Network, an Italian cable network, "IwannabeaGJ"
•Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine, a British magazine, "extra_thumbs"
•PlayStation 2 Revista Oficial - España, a Spanish magazine, "MATADOR"
North America:
•Electronic Gaming Monthly, an American magazine, "EGMpretaporter"
•Game Informer, an American magazine, "gameinformer"
•GamePro, an American magazine, "ProTip"
•GMR, an American/Canadian magazine, "GMRownzjoo"
•Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, an American magazine, "SH3_OPiuM"
•PlayStation Magazine, an American magazine, "badical"
•IGN.com, an American website, "IGN_pickleboy"
•GameSpy.com, an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware, "iaml33t"
Europe:
•13ème Rue, a French cable network, unlocked with the code "Suspense"
•Game Reactor, a Scandinavian magazine, "SH3_Wrestlarn"
•Play, a British magazine, "sLmLdGhSmKfBfH"
•G@me Network, an Italian cable network, "IwannabeaGJ"
•Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine, a British magazine, "extra_thumbs"
•PlayStation 2 Revista Oficial - España, a Spanish magazine, "MATADOR"
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Dark Cloud was first released in Japan on December 14, 2000. It was localized in English and released in North America and Europe the following year and was touted by Sony as being 30% larger than the original Japanese release. The additional content included an updated battle system, extra weapons and monsters, improved AI, additional Duel battles, and a 100-floor post-game dungeon exclusive to the English-language release called the "Demon Shaft". Defeating the final boss of the dungeon, Spoiler:Black Knight Pendragon, will award the player with the sword "Chronicle 2". The original Chronicle sword cannot be built up into Chronicle 2, as they are two separate swords. However, Chronicle 2 was also later included in Dark Cloud 2, where the Chronicle sword can be built up into Chronicle 2.
GameSpot article:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-cloud-ships/1100-2766488/
Dark Cloud - Demon Shaft analysis video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcyAzlm5qJM
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-cloud-ships/1100-2766488/
Dark Cloud - Demon Shaft analysis video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcyAzlm5qJM
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In the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions of the game, the Dog Shrine is bulldozed and a Dog Casino is built in its place, containing a similar slot machine side quest that can unlock decorative items and 11 Xbox achievements. One of those unlockable items is a poker table featuring Sans, who can comment on your prizes found in the room. Spoiler:During a Pacifist run following the final boss fight, the player can return to the Dog Casino to find Mad Mew Mew in Sans' place, who will also comment on your prizes.