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At one point had a working subtitle "Clock Blocked" that was changed for its mature reference.

 

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Immagine nascosta:

Shenmue

There is a hidden image inside Xiuying's eyes that acts as the reflection, presumably representing a generic "player" that she is looking at.
The texture for her face is also mirrored on the back of her head, hidden under her hair.

 

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Immagine nascosta:

Così fa impressione

 

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No exports...

As is common for the series, this game was never released outside Japan. Interestingly, due to the somewhat less "controversial" nature of the game's content compared to the rest of the series (that is, you only fight a student who wants to be God instead of actually fighting God), there were whispers that the game was considered for a Western release, but this obviously never bore fruit.

 

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Paperino merita più rispetto:

Donald in Maui Mallard

The game was released in Europe and Japan as Donald in Maui Mallard, but in the US, it was released as Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow, and all references to Donald Duck were removed. This was due to Disney's marketing department, who claimed that Donald Duck was no longer 'hip' in the US.

 

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Rimossa

Early in the game you find a telescope and peer out over the water, seeing a pair of Koma Pigs rowing toward an ominous-looking pig-shaped island that just screams out loud Very Definitely Final Dungeon. This entire area was removed from the game, and instead you face the final boss in The Underground Maze. "Pig Island" is never so much as mentioned ever again, unless you have the Japanese version of Tomba where it's visible on the world map (it was removed from the US and European versions).

 

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Non si morde:

Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors

The game files contains data for a second normal throw where Demitri bites his opponent. Demitri would later gain a throw similar to this one in Darkstalkers 3.

 

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Info errate

It is important to understand that Bears do in fact fight as Mediums and not Heavies gladiators, as a tip from Usus in-game falsely states.

 

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Griglie

Stella Deus uses a tile-based battle system with 3d environments, with the player being able to rotate the camera either in 90 degree increments to show the map isometrically, or at any angle by gently moving the right control stick. The sprites of the individual characters will change or flip after a certain angle.

 

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Tranquilli, Lindow è figo lo stesso

Lindow was originally going to be the team's main gun user, rather than Sakuya, and he was planned to use an Assault Gun, rather than the Sniper Gun that Sakuya uses. He was also originally going to have an even longer coat than what he has in the game, but this was scrapped due to difficulty in getting it to look good within the processing budget of the PSP.

 

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Why so serious?:

Bonk's Revenge

The sprite of Bonk seen in the Japanese version differs from the American version. Bonk looks cuter and happier in the Japanese version while he looks bulkier and serious in the American version. In addition to that, the Japanese version includes karaoke during the credits so people could sing along with the lyrics. This is absent in the American version.

 

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Errorino

In the shipyards of Port Rago, Briggs states that Matthew has his mother's eyes. This is actually not true, as his mother Jenna has reddish eyes, whilst Matthew has greyish blue eyes.

 

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Differenze importanti

This game is a super Nintendo remake of the PC-Engine title, Dracula X: Rondo of Blood. Despite the NES being a considerably more powerful system, the PC Engine version is largely regarded as the superior title - it was a larger game with more hidden areas.

 

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Il primo titolo ad aver viaggiato nello spazio:

Tetris

Tetris was the first video game to be played in space. The game (and the Game Boy it was played on) spent 196 days on board the Mir Space Station in 1993, and orbited the earth more than 3,000 times. The game and system were auctioned off in 1996 for $1,220.

 

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Dummied

There are two music tracks that went unused in the game. The first is the battle theme of Zazan the Murgg King from Alundra while the second is the normal battle theme from Wild ARMs.

 

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E purtroppo NON avremo mai un suo cameo in VI

When Ray Liotta was asked why he decided to voice the main character of the game, he said: "for the money". Tommy Vercetti was meant to have a (voice only) cameo in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), but since Ray Liotta was under the impression he was underpaid for this game, so he refused to return. In 2008, Sam Houser noted it was not that he was underpaid, but instead thinking he should've asked extra because of the game's later foundation success, to which Houser found considerably unsettling.

 

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L'Hadoken arancione:

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers

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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Citazione involontaria

At the start of Bayonetta, a funeral is held for a notorious criminal known as "Eggman the Destroyer". This, to a Western audience, seems like a very obvious reference to Sonic The Hedgehog's main antagonist Dr. Eggman, as Bayonetta was published by Sega. However, series creator Hideki Kamiya claimed that he randomly chose the name Eggman and was not aware that there existed a popular Sega character with the name, choosing to leave it as is in the hopes that fans would "get a kick out of that".

 

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Prigione

A covered well can be found in the naval fort of Punta Guarico. It's possible to hear pleading pirates from within the well that have been imprisoned there.

 

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Conseguenze purtroppo reali

On April 24, 1994, the dismembered remains of a body was found all over Japan's Inokashira Park. The murder was almost identical to the beginning of Shin Megami Tensei, released two years earlier. The main character dreams of a murder by dismemberment in Inokashira Park, only to wake up and find the dream came true. It is believed that the murderer was mimicking the events of the game, but was never proven and the case remains unsolved to this day.