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REALLY bad export for you

The Pocket Station features in the Japanese version were removed from the international versions, while the game's card drops weren't altered to account for it, thus rendering the many cards that could only be obtained from these features to be unobtainable without cheating in the international versions. Besides rendering 100% completion impossible, it also makes the international versions more difficult by barring the player from obtaining a significant amount of the more powerful cards and effectively making them rely exclusively on a few powerful cards that are still obtainable (the Meteor Black Dragon being the biggest example) to beat the game

 

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Ma guarda chi si vede:

 

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Piccola insight

According to an interview with 999's developer, the nine main characters are based on the Enneagram of Personalites. They are: Ace is an Achiever (3) Snake is an Investigator (5) Santa is an Enthusiast (7) Clover is a Loyalist (6) June is a Peacemaker (9) Junpei is a Challenger (8) Seven is a Helper (2) Lotus is an Individualist (4) Ninth Man is a Reformer (1)

 

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A spiritual series

During development, Odin Sphere was referred to as "Princess Crown 2," suggesting it might have originally been intended to be a direct sequel. Similarly, Oboro Muramasa was called "Princess Crown 3."

 

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La musica è una cosa seria:

 

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...e poi ci sono io che avendo cambiato subito al dub jap alla prima occasione, non me ne sono neppure accorto

Balmung was voiced by Doug Erholtz in the first game of the original tetralogy. He is voiced by Crispin Freeman from Mutation onwards. This is in cutscenes only, however; Erholtz' voice is still used for battle vocals. Evidently they recorded them before Erholtz was replaced.

 

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Scambio...equivalente

During the fight with Gohdan, if Link runs out of Arrows or Bombs during the fight, the boss will drop a bundle of them from its nostrils: however, this will also return to life either of the two hands that Link had deactivated thus far, bringing them back into the fight.

 

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Troppo fan:

 

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Extra content

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"

 

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A true jojo reference

In the game's opening scene, Barbarosa gives Teo his sword "Pluck" (mistranslated as "Prakk" in the English version). "Pluck" is a reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, when Bruford gives his "Luck & Pluck" sword to Jonathan Joestar.

 

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Un nome importante:

 

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Movie reference

The director of MIST is nicknamed Hal, whilst the are scientists named Bowman, Poole, Floyd and Chandra. These are references to the movie/novel 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel, 2010.

 

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They nerfed Oulan

Oulan's measurements are given as "96-60-89" (38-24-35 inches) in the Japanese release, but when localized, the measurements were changed to "90-60-89", reducing her bust size by six centimeters.

 

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Fuga da Kojima:

 

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Ricordo di averlo già condiviso ma male non fa riproporlo.

Un po' di storia dietro uno dei quoti più strambi della storia del gaming

Legends of Localization: How Final Fantasy’s Infamous “I Will Knock You All Down!” Quote Worked in Japanese

Final Fantasy features one of the most famous game quotes from the NES era. But what did it originally say in Japanese?

legendsoflocalization.com

 

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Bug

Many spells in the original NES version are bugged: Aura does nothing at level 8. Barrier does not grant protection against ice at level 8. Dispel doesn't work at all. Protect only works on the caster. Sap won't work on enemies with more than 256 MP. The Ultima spell was supposed to increase in power relative to the level of all of the other spells the caster has but won't even if all other learned spells are at level 16. This means that Ultima will only do about 500 damage at level 16.

 

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Il numero quattro:

 

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Colpa di Kiritsugu

An item known as the Holy Grail exists in the game's data as well as showing up on the game's built in screen saver. The item is fully functional and prevents instant death from attacks, but was ultimately cut from the game for unknown reasons.

 

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Scrapped concept

A rejected idea for the game was to trick players into thinking that they missed a game from the series by calling it "Drag-On Dragoon 4", and have the story search for the "missing piece" of the series. Another idea was to have the game set in a contemporary setting, following the adventures of a Japanese high school girl who calls for her dragon through her cellphone.

 

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