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[Geddoe]

A King he is

Promotional material for Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir often shows Ingway standing among the other monarchs of Erion, indicating that he's considered the ruler of Valentine and an equal to them despite the kingdom's destruction and that he's still referred to as a "prince" by the other characters and by himself.

 

[Strider]

Destinato a perdere

Winstin Payne è quasi sempre il primo procuratore che affronteremo in ogni episodio di Ace Attorney. E come sempre perderà, perché il processo che lo vede contro di noi fa da tutorial apripista alla nostra carriera di avvocati difensori.

 

[Geddoe]

Little extra

The first episode of .hack//Roots, unedited, is included in the American release

 

[Vincent 86]

Il gioco crasha:

Medievil 2

In 'The Professor's Lab' level, if the player completed a level and also obtained a chalice there, go to Professor Hamilton Kift's room, then leave his room to touch the chalice on the weapon table. By stepping on the chalice button, the game will crash.

 

[Geddoe]

Different background

The boss battle background from Fight Night with Flibby is different between the PlayStation and Saturn versions. In the PlayStation version the background is the same as the rest of the level. In the Saturn version, the castle background from the later levels can be seen.

 

[Geddoe]

Traduzione completamente errata

The "Death Beast" boss is actually named the "God Beast" or "Godly Beast" in the Japanese version of the game.

 

[Vincent 86]

Venus:

Croc 2

The soundtrack for the boss 'Venus Fly Von-Trappe' and the level preceding it is copied from the 1969 song 'Venus' by Shocking Blue.

 

[Geddoe]

We are different!

The Italian version of the game features different game over music from all other releases.

 

[Strider]

Disegna il tuo graffito.

Il 19 settembre 2012 venne distribuita una versione HD del gioco per PSN, Xbox Live e Steam. I graffiti presenti in questa riedizione sono stati il risultato di un concorso indetto da SEGA che ha permesso ai sostenitori di creare dei propri graffiti.

 

[Geddoe]

Mistralation

Sherry's letter to Claire mentions a person named "Ronny" who would be excited to see Claire. This, however, is a mistranslation as the name in the original Japanese version is "Rani-chan". This is most likely referring to Rani Chawla, from the CG movie Resident Evil Degeneration, who already has ties to Claire.

 

[Geddoe]

Tanti, ma tanti item

Every monster can carry up to five items. There are two normal items, two rare items and one overkill item. The overkill item is obtained when you overkill the enemy. The normal and rare items have a chance to drop when you kill your enemy. However, the drop rate for each item is different, so it's possible that you always get the rare item as a kill-drop and that you never get the normal item. Normal items are stolen by the moves Steal and Snatch and rare items are stolen with EX skills like Hold Shot, Raging Dance, Sidewinder, Rainbow Dance and Cold Strike. You can steal all the normal and rare item of a monster. A message will say "xxx has no items" if you steal all the items on an enemy. The success rate of the stealing moves can vary, so you might have to steal from the same enemy more than once to get the desired item.

 

[Vincent 86]

Friday the 13th:

Final Fantasy VI

When the Chainsaw weapon's instant death attack is used, Edgar and Gogo don a hockey goalie's mask in a similar fashion to Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

 

[Geddoe]

A secret

The game was announced as simply "Lords of Shadow" without the Castlevania name. This was done to keep the game's announcement from upstaging the release of Castlevania Judgement, as well as keep Konami's plans to change the series direction a secret.

 

[Strider]

Due particolarità son meglio di uan.

È l'ultimo gioco della serie per la prima PlayStation e il primo a non essere sviluppato da Naughty Dog.

 

[Geddoe]

Che spreco...

There was going to be a sequel to Skies of Arcadia called Skies of Arcadia 2 for the GameCube and PS2, as confirmed by interviews with developers from the original team. The game never got beyond the planning phase, however, and it was ultimately never created.

 

[Vincent 86]

I veri nomi:

Battletoads Arcade

According to the character profiles shown during the arcade attract mode, Pimple, Zitz, and Rash are not the Battletoads' real names. Pimple is "George Pie", Rash is "Dave Shar", and Zitz is "Morgan Ziegler".

 

[Geddoe]

A little reference

In an interview with Scott Rogers, a designer of Pac-World, he revealed that Toc-Man's name was a nod to "Namcot," a short-lived Namco division created to handle console game releases.

 

[Geddoe]

Una conferma importante

Nobutoshi Canna voices both Guts and the Beast of Darkness, reflecting the fact that the Beast is a split personality of Guts.

 

[Strider]

Niente cabinati in alcuni paesi e niente console releas.

Il gioco non fu pubblicato nelle sale giochi statunitensi o altre parti del mondo. Inoltre, già al momento della pubblicazione nelle sale giochi, Capcom dichiarò che non c'erano progetti di pubblicare il gioco per console casalinghe.

 

[Vincent 86]

Il primo non arcade:

Metal Slug 7

Metal Slug 7 was the first main title in the series to not get released in arcades and didn't get a console port until its upgraded version, Metal Slug XX, was released digitally on Xbox Live Arcade.