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[Geddoe]

Un lancio entrato nella leggenda

The game sold over one million copies on its very first day in Japan.

 

[Geddoe]

Flying Kick

This is the first game in the series where Alex automatically performs a flying kick at the peak of his jump, which added a new layer of strategy (and frustration) when trying to break blocks or hit airborne enemies without taking damage

 

[Vincent 86]

Solo uno:

Uncharted 2

In the German language version of the game, all references to Nazis remain uncensored except for one. In "Chapter 24 - The Road to Shambhala", primary antagonist Zoran Lazarević states that the people he idolizes are "Genghis Khan, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot". In the German version, Hitler is replaced with "Saddam" (Hussein), instead.

 

[Geddoe]

Tagli

Director Yasumi Matsuno revealed that over half of the original game scenario and plotting had to be cut due to hardware capacity and tight PlayStation disc/development constraints.

 

[Geddoe]

Top Down

The game runs on the same powerful engine used for Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, sharing its smooth top-down hack-and-slash mechanics.

 

[Vincent 86]

Solite censure:

Final Fight (Arcade)

The statues you often see in the "Up Town" level have their breasts exposed in the Japanase version, whilst in the American version they have been covered up significantly.

 

[Geddoe]

Una collection con tagli

La versione per PSP PoPoLoCrois unisce il primo PoPoLoCrois Monogatari (per la prima parte) e PoPoLoCrois Monogatari II (per la terza parte).

 

[Vincent 86]

Basati su persone reali:

Onimusha 2

Many of the characters in Onimusha are based off real people. Most obviously Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Akechi Samanosuke (Hidemitsu) either return or are referenced from their actions in Onimusha: Warlords.
The main character, Yagyu Jubei, is based on the swordsman and small-time warlord Yagyu Muneyoshi, founder of the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu style of swordsmanship.

 

[Geddoe]

A What if...

The story branches off from an alternate mid-point of Shin Megami Tensei IV's Neutral Route, specifically right before the final push against the cosmic powers, treating the original game's events up to that point as canon background.

 

[Geddoe]

Il più grande della sua era

Dragon Warrior IV was the largest game ever released for the NES in North America, packing a full megabyte of data and a battery backup for saving progress onto the cartridge

 

[Vincent 86]

Toh, guarda chi c'è:

Spider-Man

At the starting point of the "Race to the Bugle" level, Ghost Rider can be very briefly seen riding down a building before disappearing. This cameo is an exception to the other Marvel cameos in the game's "What If" mode, as Ghost Rider also appears in the normal level.

 

[Geddoe]

HAL

The Gazel Ministry's supercomputer is named Soul 9000, a direct nod to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the Soilent System references the movie Soylent Green.

 

[Strider]

Toh, guarda chi c'è:

 

[Geddoe]

Staff vs Kitase

Director Yoshinori Kitase disliked developer self-references and ordered staff to remove many hidden nods, leading the graphics team to hide them even more creatively—such as lead field designer Yukio Nakatani hiding a picture of his wife and baseball memorabilia on a television screen in Timber.

E visto che è bella parliamo pure della demo

 

[Nintendo Master]

Staff vs Kitase



E visto che è bella parliamo pure della demo

Questo penso sia il FF con più teorie strambe dietro, chi si ricorda di Squall che muore a metà gioco o Ultimecia che è Rinoa del futuro?

 

[Vincent 86]

"Giapponesità":

Shinobi

In a 2003 interview with the game's chief designer Masahiro Kumono published in Shinobi THE WIDE Illustration Archives, he stated him and his team began development in April 2001, and they exhibited the game's first playable demo at E3 2002. At the time, because they were showing the Shinobi game at an overseas trade show, they wanted to focus on the Japanese elements of the visuals to help stand out in an obvious way. For the ninja for instance, they incorporated super-Japanese onigawara into the ninja's leg armor, held on with buckled kumihimo, and joked that it was made of lacquerware. In the initial settings for the game, they tried to incorporate Japanese touches like this everywhere, such as characters in furisode-esque outfits, and the backgrounds would show more element like torii in between city buildings, or traditional Japanese houses with expressways running behind them and so on. Kumono wanted to try and express those juxtaposed "modern/Japanese" elements from every potential angle.

 

[Geddoe]

Promotional item

As a promotional item prior to release, Capcom gave away free pairs of heart-patterned boxer shorts—the exact underwear Maximo wears under his armor in the game.

Questo penso sia il FF con più teorie strambe dietro, chi si ricorda di Squall che muore a metà gioco o Ultimecia che è Rinoa del futuro?

Le teorie servono perché devono colmare i buchi della trama.
Artemisia-Rinoa comunque...

Spoiler

dopo essere stata debunkata da Kitase e stata ri-bunkata dallo stesso Kitase.

Perché? Perché si sono resi conto che è una teooria che piace moltissimo ai fan e che fa tornare TANTE cose che non hanno senso.
Tanto è che poi Kitase ha detto "Eravamo in tre alla sceneggiatura, non so cosa pensassero gli altri" da qui tutte le reference che stanno inserendo come simil omaggi fra spin off et simili.

Squall is dead è debunkata dal gioco stesso ma sorvoliamo.
Quella è una teoria che solo il fandom americano adora.

 

[Strider]

C'è sangue e sangue

A coffin can be used as a regeneration spot once the player runs low on health, although it must be reached before dawn, which ultimately results in a Game Over.
Blood that is noxious to the player must be avoided, too, as it can bring him to the same fate.

 

[Geddoe]

The Last for Pierce

This game marks Pierce Brosnan's final performance as James Bond.

 

[Strider]

Looking for a monster rock band

The main goal of the game is to collect the instruments of the iconic horror characters and form the Monsters of Rock band.
The table includes a Phantom Flip; when this feature is enabled, the player can let go of the flipper buttons and allow the game to attempt a shot.