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[Vincent 86]

Tsuchinoko:

Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater

In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the Tsuchinoko is an invisible snake that is undetectable by Radar and Thermal Goggles. Capturing and keeping it until the end of the game unlocks a special face camo that gives the player unlimited ammo on their next play-through.

The Tsuchinoko (ツチノコ) is a legendary snake-like cryptid from Japan. The name tsuchinoko is prevalent in Western Japan, including Kansai and Shikoku; the creature is known as bachi hebi in Northeastern Japan.

 

[Glassyman]

Tsuchinoko:

Lo sapevo perché era l'unico modo per avere munzioni infinite.
Belle le conversazioni via radio dopo averlo catturato.

 

[Geddoe]

Only on

Mario Tennis on the Game Boy Color and Mario Kart Tour are the only Mario multiplayer games where Mario is unlockable. In terms of single-player games, Mario is also unlockable in the single-player mode of Mario Golf on Nintendo 64, as well as Super Mario 64 DS.

 

[Strider]

Only on

Cominciare il gioco con Yoshi fu una bella trovata. Oltre alle nuove 30 stelle e i nuovi minigiochi a parte.
Veramente un bel remake che ai tempi faceva rimpiangere solo il fatto che il NDS non avesse il control stick.
Anche la telecamera fu sistemata meglio, mi sembra.
Brava N.

 

[Geddoe]

Ingiustamente escluso

In the FMV of the PlayStation and DS releases, Robo is the only playable character without a special ending.

 

[Vincent 86]

Massimo rispetto per Samus:

Metroid Prime

To help development reach its finish, Retro Studios licensed out a PHP-based bug tracker called Mantis, working with Nintendo of America's product testing division to find bugs and the team's producers would enter bug reports.

Eventually, Metroid Prime went gold on October 29, 2002 at 2:21 AM, less than a month before the release date to give time to manufacture game discs. Programmer Zoid Kirsch described it as one of the most memorable days of his life, commemorating it by getting the development team's signatures on a magazine poster. Notably, none of the developers signed on Samus because they had a large amount of respect for the character.

 

[Geddoe]

Questa è una cosa che mi ha sempre dato fastidio

The game features six factions, but only three are joinable: Rebels, Orc mercenaries, and Hashishin.

 

[Geddoe]

Per loro fortuna

Knuckles and Shadow were planned to be in the game but the idea was scrapped for unknown reasons.

 

[Vincent 86]

Trasferito su N64:

Killer Instinct Gold

Killer Instinct: Gold started out as "Killer Instinct 2" for the SNES, late in the console's life. Production eventually moved to the N64, and the game's title was changed to Killer Instinct: Gold.

 

[Geddoe]

Uno dei primi

The game was a pioneering effort by Square Enix to release a major title worldwide at the same time, showcasing their global ambitions.

 

[Geddoe]

Joke death

By killing all of the vultures in the mission, "End of the Road," the intended target will attempt to escape by running into the desert, only to be run over by an ice cream truck.

 

[Vincent 86]

Una mole di testo non indifferente:

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

When localizing the game into English, Xseed Games' editors found themselves challenged by the game's script, which has approximately 1.5 million Japanese characters in it. According to lead editor Jessica Chavez, many other companies had been put off localizing it specifically because of its length, and during the process she had "worked from home 11-14hrs a day, 6 days/week, lost 7lbs, cut off 18inches of my hair and used the XSEED twitter account to further the cause of bacon on more than one occasion". Ultimately, the company had to employ three translators, two editors (one of whom was brought on to help finish chapter 4 of the game), and "one or two other helpful Sora no Kiseki experts that didn’t mind spontaneous Instant Messages asking about whether or not certain characters would be at home saying things like, 'Lo! I am hoist with my own petard!'".