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Donkey Kong Country Returns
Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
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Donkey Kong Country Returns is the first game in the series to feature no water levels, nor any Kremlings. Water levels were planned for the game, but according to the game's producer Kensuke Tanabe, the old underwater levels "felt slow... It just wasn't the kind of gameplay we were looking for." The reason King K. Rool and the Kremlings were removed still remains a mystery.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration
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Halo 3
Halo 3 (2007)
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On the level "Crow's Nest", you can find a solder knocking on a door wanting ammo, while the man behind the door will ask for a password to get in. Depending on what difficulty you are playing, the conversation is different. These conversations are performed by the online comedy group, Rooster Teeth, famous for their Halo series, Red vs. Blue.
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Bonus Content, General, Real Life
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Kirby's Return to Dream Land (2011)
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land underwent an 11-year development cycle, perhaps one of the longest in the series. It started right after the release of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, designed for the GameCube. This project featured 2.5D visuals (similar to Kirby 64), co-op multiplayer, was tentatively titled "Kirby GCN", and was one of 3 canceled projects.

The second one was in a fully 3D environment, yet had not achieved the quality Nintendo had expected. The third one was once again a 2D side-scroller with pop-up book visuals. These projects were eventually recognized as failures due to how most of the focus was on multiplayer instead of the game itself.
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Development, Early Idea, General
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Shadows of the Damned
Shadows of the Damned (2011)
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Attachment In an interview with IGN, Suda 51 said that his next game (after No More Heroes 2) would be a action/horror title in which he said the main character would have a "very cool watch".
The game was later to be revealed to be Shadows of the Damned however, the main character, Garcia Hotspur doesn't wear a watch.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person Hipserious calendar_month March 27, 2013
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NieR
NieR (2010)
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Attachment There are actually two versions of the game Nier. Nier: Gestalt (an Xbox 360 exclusive title) features an older version of the protagonist, while Nier: Replicant (a PS3 exclusive title) features a younger version. Originally the team had trouble deciding on what kind of protagonist they wanted for the game so they decided to make one game with an older protagonist to appeal to western audiences and a younger to appeal to Japanese audiences. Nier: Replicant was never released in the west.
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Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life, Regional Difference, Release Difference, Version Difference
person Hipserious calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Deadly Premonition
Deadly Premonition (2010)
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Attachment Deadly Premonition is in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Polarizing Survival-Horror Game" for it's review scores that were all across the board. Destructoid giving it a 10/10, commenting "it's pretty close to perfect" and IGN giving it a 2/10 and saying it's "awful in nearly every way".
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General, Real Life
person Hipserious calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
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In Luigi's "Break the Targets" room, the small square in the middle of the stage, which he begins standing on, is actually a Nintendo Gamecube.
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Easter Egg, General, Reference
person Boyobmas calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
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Attachment Originally, the female lead character was supposed to be Elza Walker. When Resident Evil 2 was made again, she was replaced by Claire Redfield. Elza's only appearance was in Resident Evil 1.5.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person pyoro64 calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (2013)
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The first letters from the names of the five playable mansions spell out the word GHOST.

Gloomy Manor
Haunted Towers
Old Clockworks
Secret Mine
Treacherous Mansion
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General
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Pokémon Diamond Version
Pokémon Diamond Version (2006)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon Pearl Version (Game)
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The title screen music for Pokemon Ruby, Saphire, and Emerald can be found in the code for Diamond and Pearl. It is labeled "MIDI HEX 0003" and was likely used for testing purposes during development.
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Development, General, Music
person WhiteSamurott calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Platform: Nintendo GameCube
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Before it was released, a tech demo for the Gamecube was developed which featured an explorable version of Princess Peach's castle. This demo was later leaked online.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person DokemonStudios calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
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Attachment The Ganton Bridge in San Fierro has a few Easter Eggs scattered around it. At the right side of the entrance, a museum can be found that focuses on the bridge. It has a sign listing a few facts about the bridge. These facts include that the bridge has 11 textures and takes up 1.27 MB of disc space. Also at the museum is a sign that demonstrates "an actual piece of cable". Both of these signs, as well as the museum, are based on their real-life counterparts near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco.
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Easter Egg, General, Real Life, Reference
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Deadly Premonition
Deadly Premonition (2010)
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Attachment Deadly Premonition originally started development as a multi-platform game under the name of Rainy Woods. However when the game was teased at Tokyo Game Show 2007, many people commented that it looked incredibly similar to the television series Twin Peaks. The game was then delayed and a lot of the elements in the game were either scrapped or entirely reworked to make it less similar to that of the TV show.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life, Similarities, Theory
person Hipserious calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Persona 3
Persona 3 (2006)
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The final boss, Spoiler:Nyx, is female. Nyx's avatar, Ryoji Mochizuki, is male, however when scanned by Fuuka, she will scan and talk with female pronouns.
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General, Mistake
person Outofmind23 calendar_month March 27, 2013
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Resident Evil
Resident Evil (1996)
subdirectory_arrow_right Resident Evil (Game)
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Attachment A port of Resident Evil was planned for the Game Boy Color but was cancelled due to hardware limitations. The game was supposed to have new enemies and a new save feature. ROMs of the game have since been released online after a collector got their hands on an unfinished version of the game following a $2000 dollar fundraiser in order for him to do so.
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Cancelled Release, Development, General, Real Life
person Mass Distraction calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Collection: Mana
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The Mana series (known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu) actually started off as a Gameboy spinoff to Final Fantasy, called Final Fantasy Adventure. The Final Fantasy elements the game originally had were dropped in the remake, Sword of Mana for GBA.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person Mass Distraction calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Star Fox 64
Star Fox 64 (1997)
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The way the characters in the game talk by opening and closing their mouths was inspired by Thunderbirds and other "English puppet dramas" (called "Supermarionation" by Thunderbirds co-creator Gerry Anderson). Shigeru Miyamoto was a fan of these shows and imagined that if the Star Fox series became popular enough, AP Films themselves would come from England to talk about turning it into a "puppet drama".
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person EnoRed calendar_month March 26, 2013
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Franchise: The Legend of Zelda
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Attachment Before the timeline of The Legend of Zelda series was revealed in Hyrule Historia, there were attempts of releasing an official document detailing the order of when the games took place.

Nintendo first published http://www.zelda.com/lib_timeline.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a page on the official Zelda.com website which told how up to "Oracle of Ages and Seasons" each Link was the same, but was later taken down.

The second attempt was by Dan Owsen, one of the English script writers for Nintendo and the Legend of Zelda games, who presented a document to Nintendo of Japan, however they vetoed the idea so to keep the timeline open to interpretation.
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Development, Early Idea, General
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 26, 2013
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The Elder Scrolls: Arena
The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994)
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Attachment The Elder Scrolls: Arena is so far the only game in the series in which the continent of Tamriel is fully explorable.
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General
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993)
subdirectory_arrow_right The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (Game)
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Attachment Before destroying the support pillars and causing the fourth floor to collapse onto the third, the four rooms in the center of Eagle's Tower's third floor are entirely different, consisting primarily of an extremely large pit. Of these rooms, the upper two are inaccessible and never normally seen in-game. It appears the one on the left was meant to be used, but due to the way the crystal switches work, the blocks controlled by them will always deny you entry. And even if it was accessible, the pit is too open and can easily lead to getting trapped on the second floor. Interestingly, while the room is inaccessible, it was still updated after the first version.

To the right of that room is one that was definitely never intended to be used at all, consisting only of a "down" staircase leading up to the fourth floor, presumably for testing purposes. It's also the only way to get up there. (Leaving the 4F area in any direction will take you to blank "default" rooms.)

These rooms are also present in the DX version.
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Console Difference, Development, Early Idea, General, Release Difference, Suggested, Theory, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Version Difference
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