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Giusto per sottolinearlo, se non fosse abbastanza evidente

The weapons that Gilgamesh carries are all weapons from past Final Fantasy heroes.

 

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Meglio tardi che mai

The PSP re-release's content wasn't made available in the west until 2022, when it was released as part of the NIS Classics Vol. 2 Compilation Rerelease.

 

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Fake Bowser:

 

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Il momento no-sense che NON ti aspetti

Hidden in VRAM while on the 2D Map screens is a sprite sheet of what appears to be Pac-Man.

 

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Unused data

Right after Samus acquires the Morphing Ball, two Eye security cameras in the first room of Brinstar turn on that are implied to alert the Space Pirates that Samus has arrived on Zebes. As Samus travels further into Brinstar, the rest of the planet "awakens" and becomes swarmed with enemies, causing the Eyes to disappear for the rest of the game. The Eyes shine a yellow light that tracks Samus around their immediate area when she is near them, and they shut when she walks far enough away. Once Samus searches back around into a corridor in Crateria's central rocky cave, a small Item room featuring a Chozo statue holding a Missile Tank can be found on the left side. This Item room can only be accessed using Bombs, and under normal circumstances, there is nothing of note about the statue. However, should this room be entered early through hacking or the "Spacetime Beam" glitch that resets item and boss placements in the current save file, the room will be dark and the Chozo statue will have nothing in its hands. When Samus walks close enough to it, the statue will shine the same yellow tracking light to that of the two Eyes and the room will brighten, suggesting that there is an Eye hidden in the statue. This Eye appears to behave the same way as the other two and disappears for the rest of the game once the planet awakens. While the X-Ray Scope does not reveal anything underneath the statue, through the use of a glitch technique that replicates the effects of the Spacetime Beam while creating numerous graphical glitches (most notably in this case causing Chozo statues to become transparent), returning to the Item room will reveal the hidden third Eye. This Eye has some different properties compared to the other two, such as having a blue eyeball rather than red, and will turn around and close when Samus walks far enough away rather than just closing where it is. This Eye is likely an earlier version of the Eye found in the final game that was originally intended to be found in normal play at the start of the game

 

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Quasi quasi mi compro una casa:

 

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New entry e tagli

Shaft was cut out from Castlevania: Dracula X, despite appearing in the original PC Engine game (as Dracula X was a Reformulated Game on account of the lower memory capacity of the SNES's cartridge format), so most players outside Japan first knew about him in this game.

 

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Cameo di peso

Equipping a special obtainable item called the "Bear Ring" and activating the Pluto & Black Dog combo will change the main character, Nathan, into a cartoon bear known as Beartank from the game Rakugakids.

 

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Kojimate:

 

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Le fonti che non ti aspetti

In a 2020 interview conducted by the YouTube channel Archipel with series creator Shinji Mikami, he stated that the idea for when the first Hunter makes his appearance to kill the player came from the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: "Around the beginning you have this scene where the character enters that spooky house. There's that open door, then Leatherface appears and hits the character with an axe and kills him. He then drags him like cattle. I liked that sudden fear. It may be hard to grasp, but in the first Resident Evil there's the Hunter, a new creature that suddenly pops in and attacks you. I think that influence lives there a little."

 

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Also Know as...

Prior to its release, the game was often known as Pokémon Ranger: The Road to Diamond and Pearl (Japanese: ポケモンレンジャー　ダイヤモンド・パールへの道).

 

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Poteva essere una cosa del genere: "Ciao, seguimi..." "Fiammata!".

 

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Che reference

The "Lone Bird in the Shire" overworld theme adapts the melody from Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold," itself made famous in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966).

 

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Still no Howard

Scrapped ideas for potential characters included Howard the Duck (cut because the director felt Norimaro already filled the gag character role in the series and the failure of the Howard the Duck movie), She-Hulk (cut because the fourth-wall shenanigans wouldn't fly in arcades and she'd be a slightly-worse Hulk otherwise) and Spider-Ham (who Capcom USA suggested instead of Howard the Duck. He was cut for the same reason as Howard). She-Hulk later appeared in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.

 

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Simbolo rimosso:

 

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L'arcano è svelato

The unknown language spoken by Ogre in his Win Poses in Tekken 3 are actually Japanese lines reversed. Ironically, this makes Ogre one of the first characters to speak in the series.

 

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Un modo lo trovano sempre...

It is possible to pull up both Link's and Spawn's character profiles in the PlayStation 2 version of the game via mods or hacking, despite neither character appearing in this version of the game.

 

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Trofeo Sonic:

 

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Su certi titoli i trivia sono un'infinità, proviamo con qualcosa di diverso...

Before the game was released in the U.S., Square held a "Name-in-Game" contest. A person named Kurt Zisa won the contest, and his name was used for a hidden boss in the game.

 

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...da cui è anche stato tratto un film^^

This game was made to be a sequel to the novel of the same name by Hideaki Sena.