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Freedom Planet
Freedom Planet (2014)
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The reason all 3 phases of the final battle with Brevon were given health bars (the first two subtly indicated by the two pillars in the background) was due to it being hard to gauge how close it was to defeating them, as well as their difficulty.
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Development
person HAZBOMi calendar_month August 11, 2017
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Capcom Fighting Evolution
Capcom Fighting Evolution (2004)
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Demitri's Midnight Bliss attack turns Ryu into a young girl with a siver jar. This girl is the same one that appeared in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month August 9, 2017
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Doom
Doom (1993)
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The first level in Doom was actually created last. This is because John Romero wanted experience in level designing so he could make the first level his best.
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Development
person TheGrayGamer calendar_month August 9, 2017
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Nioh
Nioh (2017)
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Nioh's story is based on James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun, which focuses on a fictional English samurai who examines the rise of a new Shogunate, based on the real-life William Adams.

The Dark Souls series was a major inspiration for the gameplay, as well as the team's older works, such as Ninja Gaiden and Onimusha. The loot system was also said to be inspired by Diablo.
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Development, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month July 24, 2017
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Nioh
Nioh (2017)
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The development of the game began in 2004 internally by Koei, four years before the merger with Tecmo in 2008. After it was scrapped, production was rebooted and transferred to Omega Force, and shifted the genre to something similar to Dynasty Warriors. This version was also scrapped.

Team Ninja was brought on to help develop the action gameplay in 2010, while earlier staff from the original Koei team handled the scenario, having a finalized concept in 2012. The final version was released in 2017, placing the project in development for between twelve and thirteen years.
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Development, Early Idea
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month July 24, 2017
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Nioh
Nioh (2017)
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The game was originally based on the unfinished Akira Kurosawa film, Oni. Though the idea was dropped in favor of an original story, the artistic elements and battle movements were inspired by other Kurosawa films such as Yojimbo and Seven Samurai.
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Development, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month July 24, 2017
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Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (1991)
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The team originally wanted to give Dhalsim the ability to use the attacks 'Yoga Mummy' and 'Drill Kick' in reverse so that players could retreat. This feature was removed because the computer AI didn’t know how to handle it.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month July 22, 2017
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Street Fighter EX
Street Fighter EX (1996)
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The team originally thought about giving Darun Mister the abilty to grow his moustache more and more with each victory, but the idea was never used.
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Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month July 22, 2017
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Sonic Mania
Sonic Mania (2017)
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Attachment The background of Green Hill Zone Act 2 was inspired by an early prototype version of Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Development, Easter Egg, Inspiration, Reference
person HAZBOMi calendar_month July 19, 2017
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NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata (2017)
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The main framework of the game is themed around "uneasy children without parents" represented as "machine life-forms that have lost their creator" and "androids that have lost the humankind they were supposed to protect."
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Development, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month July 19, 2017
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Mario Party 3
Mario Party 3 (2000)
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Attachment Unused story mode rankings exist in the game's data for ranks D, E and F. In the final game, the lowest anyone can get in Story Mode is C.
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Development, Early Idea
person SonicNicholas1995 calendar_month July 19, 2017
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NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata (2017)
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The game was written by Yoko, Haha Kikuchi and Yoshiho Akabane. The team defined the game's central theme as "agaku", a Japanese word meaning to struggle out of a bad situation. Another theme for the game was "love", which was unusual given that all the central cast were robots, which were not normally associated with emotions.

According to Yoko, while the scenario of Nier was "wet" in its emotional content, for Nier: Automata he aimed for a "dry" narrative concerning the world's inherent unfairness and the prejudices the characters are forced to confront.
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Development, Inspiration
person DrakeVagabond calendar_month July 16, 2017
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BioShock
BioShock (2007)
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The 2K Blog released a series called "Beyond the Sea", which in a 27th of July post explained that another Big Daddy was considered for the game. Dubbed the "Slug Bug", this Big Daddy had a amorphous slug-like parasite on its shoulders. Ultimately this design was scrapped and didn't go beyond the concept art stage.
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Development, Early Idea
person Innocence calendar_month July 16, 2017
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Senran Kagura: Shoujo-tachi no Shinei
Senran Kagura: Shoujo-tachi no Shinei (2011)
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The 3DS is the reason why almost every girl in the Senran Kagura series has large breasts. When series producer Kenichiro Takagi started to think of what people wanted to see in 3D the most, he thought of breasts in 30 seconds.
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Development, Inspiration
person raidramon0 calendar_month July 15, 2017
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Freedom Planet
Freedom Planet (2014)
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The Tankbot enemies found in Thermal Base were actually based off an early design concept for Syntax.
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Development, Early Idea
person HAZBOMi calendar_month July 15, 2017
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Platform: Nintendo Switch
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To avoid anyone from possibly swallowing Nintendo Switch game cartridges, Nintendo had them laced with Denatonium Benzoate, a non-toxic bittering agent, so they would taste horrible. The agent is also known to be used in animal repellent, nail-biting prevention, shampoos and soaps.
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Development, General, Real Life
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month July 15, 2017
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Saints Row IV
Saints Row IV (2013)
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Due to the game's content, it was the first game to be banned for sale in Australia after the introduction of the R18+ classification. A censored version of the game was created, removing the content that was deemed inappropriate and later approved for release by the board.
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Censorship, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person KidDivinegon calendar_month July 3, 2017
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Tales of Hearts: CG Movie Edition
Tales of Hearts: CG Movie Edition (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Tales of Hearts: Anime Movie Edition (Game)
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A boss fight with a character called Incarose is only available via cheat devices. The fight includes scripted text throughout, suggesting that it was removed late into development.
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Development, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person KidDivinegon calendar_month June 24, 2017
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Collection: American McGee's Alice
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In 2000, Wes Craven (known for Nightmare on Elm Street) was originally tied on to direct a film based off of the game. However, he wasn't fully attached to the project. The project was then given to Jon and Erich Hoeber. After multiple changes in production companies trying to make the film (Dimension Films being the first, 20th century Fox being the second, and Universal being the third and last) the film was later put on hold in 2008.

In 2013, after getting the funding for Alice: Otherlands, American Mcgee stated that the film could possibly be kickstarted. Although, it was later revealed in 2015 that the development of the film had gone on hiatus.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea, Hiatus
person CLXcool calendar_month June 21, 2017
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Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (1991)
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Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix started out as a remake of Street Fighter Alpha 3. Lead designer David Sirlin felt that Alpha 3's large roster would make the development process more difficult. He also believed that the game's lack of approval by the hardcore community would harm the game's sales, so he pushed Capcom so that they could work on SF2 instead.

David Sirlin also confirmed that the development team scrapped 2,500 animation frames in development because they weren't satisfied with how they turned out.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month June 20, 2017
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