Trivia Browser
![MySims Kingdom](/media/boxart/5/5146.png)
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Early on in the game, after finding out the town was ruined during the night, King Roland wonders if Buddy, Lyndsay and "their friend" could come help, but concludes that they are too busy elsewhere. This is a reference to the Wii version of the game, where Buddy, Lyndsay, and the player (the aforementioned friend) travel across the various islands in the kingdom to help solve their problems, implying that the events of the two versions occur simultaneously.
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Jane Doe's name has two different references in it. The first and most obvious one is a reference to the term "Jane Doe", a placeholder name used in cases where a female individual's real name is either unknown or intentionally concealed (ironically, her Spoiler:New Eridu Public Security (NEPS) Consultant Card implies that her name really is Jane Doe rather than an alias). The second reference is found in her last name "Doe", which is what female fancy mice (domesticated breeds of common house mice) are often referred to as. Both of these references are fitting for Jane's character as she is a mouse Thiren with prominent ears and a tail, and because Spoiler:she works for NEPS as a consultant, specializing in criminal psychology and infiltrating dangerous groups.
"Jane Doe" definition:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jane%20Doe
Article about male and female fancy mice:
https://crittery.co.uk/species-list/fancy-mice/fancy-mice-boys-or-girls
Zenless Zone Zero - "Undercover R&B" playthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_0cIKXpV4#t=1060s
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jane%20Doe
Article about male and female fancy mice:
https://crittery.co.uk/species-list/fancy-mice/fancy-mice-boys-or-girls
Zenless Zone Zero - "Undercover R&B" playthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_0cIKXpV4#t=1060s
![Kirby and the Forgotten Land](/media/boxart/4/3223.png)
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In an interview for Nintendo's "Ask the Developers" column, series director Shinya Kumazaki and associate producer Kei Ninomiya revealed that they deliberately designed and utilized the New World script in a way that would allow players to translate it themselves, with Kumazaki describing it as a way to make the game more immersive for curious audiences.
GamesRadar+ article:
https://www.gamesradar.com/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land-has-its-own-language-so-i-set-out-to-learn-it/
TheGamer article:
https://www.thegamer.com/kirby-fans-are-translating-the-forgotten-lands-buildings-and-signs/
ScreenRant articles:
https://screenrant.com/kirby-forgotten-land-new-language-decode/
https://screenrant.com/kirby-forgotten-land-secret-language-deciphered/
Ask the Developers interview:
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2022/March/Ask-the-Developer-Vol-4-Kirby-and-the-Forgotten-Land-2187039.html
Tweet by @ObscureKirby decoding the New World script:
https://x.com/ObscureKirby/status/1499761597039845377
https://www.gamesradar.com/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land-has-its-own-language-so-i-set-out-to-learn-it/
TheGamer article:
https://www.thegamer.com/kirby-fans-are-translating-the-forgotten-lands-buildings-and-signs/
ScreenRant articles:
https://screenrant.com/kirby-forgotten-land-new-language-decode/
https://screenrant.com/kirby-forgotten-land-secret-language-deciphered/
Ask the Developers interview:
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2022/March/Ask-the-Developer-Vol-4-Kirby-and-the-Forgotten-Land-2187039.html
Tweet by @ObscureKirby decoding the New World script:
https://x.com/ObscureKirby/status/1499761597039845377
![Yakuza 0](/media/boxart/3/3103.png)
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The Japanese PlayStation 3 version of the game contained an exclusive pre-order bonus: an issue of the magazine "Hot Dog Press" with Kiryu Kazuma and Majima Goro on the cover. Of the contents in the magazine, it reveals some minor details about the character Akira Nishikiyama including the following:
• He works for a rehabilitation program providing an honest living to yakuza members, as well as scouting for hostesses and addressing restaurant troubles.
• He spends an hour washing his hair each day.
• He often uses his Tojo Clan pin to get out of paying parking tickets.
• He works for a rehabilitation program providing an honest living to yakuza members, as well as scouting for hostesses and addressing restaurant troubles.
• He spends an hour washing his hair each day.
• He often uses his Tojo Clan pin to get out of paying parking tickets.
Video about Yakuza facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQuVQOwoNo#t=116s
eBay listing for the Hot Dog Press magazine:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256117072900
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQuVQOwoNo#t=116s
eBay listing for the Hot Dog Press magazine:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256117072900
![Zenless Zone Zero](/media/boxart/5/5102.png)
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Bilibili blog post (Note: source is in Chinese):
https://www.bilibili.com/opus/931089295663431683?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
Pre-release livestream showing concept art for the Virtual Idols:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uACgiN-216s#t=495s
https://www.bilibili.com/opus/931089295663431683?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
Pre-release livestream showing concept art for the Virtual Idols:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uACgiN-216s#t=495s
![Sonic Battle](/media/boxart/3/2261.png)
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Although the game makes no mention of it, completing each chapter again after finishing Emerl's episode will reward the player with a page from Spoiler:Professor Gerald Robotnik's journal which documents Spoiler:his discovery and subsequent experiments on the Gizoid.
All Journal entries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcS4j65AZNQ
Sonic Battle gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rN-P0l1DsQ#t=9763
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcS4j65AZNQ
Sonic Battle gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rN-P0l1DsQ#t=9763
![Star Fox Adventures](/media/boxart/1/408.png)
subdirectory_arrow_right Dinosaur Planet (Game)
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The reality is that despite having a somewhat feline look, Krystal was always intended to be a fox as early as Dinosaur Planet, her original backstory even claiming that she belonged to the "Vixon Tribe" on planet Animus (Sabre and Randorn on the other hand belonged to the "Wolven Tribe", as they were both wolves). Former Rare artist Kevin Bayliss has stated multiple times that she was meant to represent a stylized arctic fox in particular.
Kevin Bayliss revealing Krystal's species as arctic fox on Twitter:
https://x.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1568570218053500930
https://x.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1567633642159017990
https://x.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1786705955918405690
https://x.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1786643909122146427
Dinosaur Planet story documents:
https://rarethief.com/dinosaur-planet/
https://x.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1568570218053500930
https://x.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1567633642159017990
https://x.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1786705955918405690
https://x.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1786643909122146427
Dinosaur Planet story documents:
https://rarethief.com/dinosaur-planet/
![Nights Into Dreams...](/media/boxart/5/5093.png)
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The character of NiGHTS was inspired by director Naoto Ohshima's travels across Europe and western Asia. In order to give his design as much universal appeal as possible, various regional styles were incorporated into it, namely Japanese, European, and American. In the context of the game, NiGHTS is part of every person's subconscious, and as such was designed to have an androgynous "dual male/female" appearance, but has been referred to with male pronouns in the same breath by Sonic Team.
Official Sega Saturn Magazine Issue #11 (Pages 38-41 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/Official_Sega_Saturn_Magazine_011/page/n37/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/Official_Sega_Saturn_Magazine_011/page/n37/mode/2up
![Final Fantasy](/media/boxart/1/229.png)
subdirectory_arrow_right Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (Game)
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Cid, a recurring character in the series who is usually a mechanic with some relation to airships, first appeared in Final Fantasy II and did not appear in the first Final Fantasy game. For the Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls re-release however, the original game's plot was retroactively changed to make "Cid of the Lufaine" the ancient creator of the airship that the protagonists used.
Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls - Cid backstory in Lufenia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuJzaYSa4AU#t=147
Cid in the first two Final Fantasy games blog post:
http://home.eyesonff.com/content.php/2631-The-Iterations-of-Cid-Part-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuJzaYSa4AU#t=147
Cid in the first two Final Fantasy games blog post:
http://home.eyesonff.com/content.php/2631-The-Iterations-of-Cid-Part-1
Franchise: Mario
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A common belief relating to Rare's work with Nintendo in the 1990s is that the Banjo-Kazooie series and the early family-friendly iteration of the Conker series were originally intended to share a universe with Donkey Kong. By extension, this would also connect them to the Mario series. This belief stemmed from Banjo and Conker's debuts as playable characters in Diddy Kong Racing, other shared characters (e.g. Gnawty, a beaver who appears in both Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie), and other planned appearances like the Ice Key from the Banjo-Kazooie series' unused Stop 'n' Swop feature being found in the data for Donkey Kong 64. This interpretation was so popular at one point that the largest English-language Mario fan wiki, Super Mario Wiki, hosted articles about Banjo-Kazooie and Conker characters.
However, Banjo-Kazooie creator Gregg Mayles has stated that Rare's non-Donkey Kong games were never intended to share a universe with Donkey Kong, while Conker's Bad Fur Day director Chris Seavor has gone on to say that Banjo-Kazooie and Conker also do not share a universe.
However, Banjo-Kazooie creator Gregg Mayles has stated that Rare's non-Donkey Kong games were never intended to share a universe with Donkey Kong, while Conker's Bad Fur Day director Chris Seavor has gone on to say that Banjo-Kazooie and Conker also do not share a universe.
Gregg Mayles' statement:
https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/1087327241346920448
Chris Seavor's statement:
https://twitter.com/GoryDetail/status/1241106477135298566
Mario Wiki staff talk about the removal of Conker and Banjo content:
https://www.marioboards.com/threads/857/
https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/1087327241346920448
Chris Seavor's statement:
https://twitter.com/GoryDetail/status/1241106477135298566
Mario Wiki staff talk about the removal of Conker and Banjo content:
https://www.marioboards.com/threads/857/
![Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey](/media/boxart/5/5077.png)
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In an interview with Nintendo Dream, it was revealed that the Best Fitness Friends (the main antagonists of the "Bowser Jr.'s Journey" side mode) used to work for the game's main antagonist Fawful alongside Midbus. By the events of the game, however, they have largely distanced themselves from Fawful, instead running a shop that sells a variety of things. Additionally, it was revealed that they are actually members of the same race as Midbus (hence why they have the same skin color as him), but their relationship with him has soured.
![Hogwarts Legacy](/media/boxart/5/5073.png)
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The plot of Hogwarts Legacy was purposefully set in a time period where many pre-established characters from the Harry Potter franchise (such as Newton Scamander or Harry Potter himself) are not around. According to lead writer Moira Squier, this was done in order to provide the player with a unique world. As part of this, the writing team focused on creating a diverse collection of characters for players to potentially identify with:
However, while main characters from across the franchise are not present, selected minor characters (such as Nearly Headless Nick and Peeves the Poltergeist) are still present in the game.
"All the writing team got together and would pitch ideas. We wanted a diverse collection of professors, students, vendors in the shop, etc. People called upon their own experiences. Hopefully you play the game and see a character and go "That's like my sister", or an uncle, or anything like that. And we really wanted to tie it to the familiar world – so you'll hear there's a Weasley, a Rookwood… Professor Black is a known character as a portrait in the books, so fleshing him out, we really loved."
However, while main characters from across the franchise are not present, selected minor characters (such as Nearly Headless Nick and Peeves the Poltergeist) are still present in the game.
Time placement and character development:
https://www.wizardingworld.com/features/hogwarts-legacy-interviews-with-the-experts
Nick and Peeves' presence confirmed:
https://www.independent.co.uk/games/hogwarts-legacy-map-gameplay-b2082631.html
https://www.wizardingworld.com/features/hogwarts-legacy-interviews-with-the-experts
Nick and Peeves' presence confirmed:
https://www.independent.co.uk/games/hogwarts-legacy-map-gameplay-b2082631.html
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The character Commandant SixFour is named in reference to the Commodore 64, the console where the first video game based on Risk was released on. This is alluded to in the game's Campaign Mode, where it's shown that Commandant SixFour uses outdated visual technology reminiscent of the Commodore 64's graphics, which leads to him Spoiler:betraying General McGutterpants shortly after activating, as he cannot tell the difference between the Humans and the Cats, thus declaring war on both.
Campaign Mode gameplay (0:19:19):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjcsflt8IHo#t=1160s
Risk on Commodore 64:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080709011042/https://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/c64hist/c641988jun.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjcsflt8IHo#t=1160s
Risk on Commodore 64:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080709011042/https://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/c64hist/c641988jun.htm
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Hogwarts Legacy is notable for introducing the first transgender character in the Harry Potter franchise in the form of Sirona Ryan, the owner of the Three Broomsticks pub who outright tells the player that it took her classmates "a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard". This drew attention as the creator of the Harry Potter franchise, J.K. Rowling, has generated controversy over the years by making comments that many have criticized as transphobic. It is worth noting that while she would receive profits from the game's sales leading many fans to boycott the game, she had no involvement in its development. In regards to the inclusion, the developers stated:
However, after the character was revealed, several fans further complained that the name Sirona Ryan rendered the inclusion of a transgender character tone deaf and continued promoting the boycott. The name "Sirona" originates from the Celtic goddess of healing and rebirth and is symbolized with imagery of snakes (animals that shed their skin) and eggs (where many birds, fish and reptiles among other animals emerge from after incubating). Despite being a feminine name, they claimed to perceive it as a male-presenting name due to that variant of the name containing and potentially being shortened to "Sir", while also pointing out that the surname "Ryan" was a masculine name and an anglicized form that was used instead of the less common authentic Gaelic name "Riain". This set up the name to appear as an unintentional pun: "Sir Ryan". Despite these complaints, the boycott turned out to be a failure as Hogwarts Legacy became commercially successful, selling over 12 million copies in its first two weeks of release and going on to sell double that amount by the end of 2023.
"The team felt that it was very important to create a game that is representative of the rich and diverse world of Harry Potter as well as the groups of people who play games, which includes the LGBTQIA+ community. We have a diverse cast of characters that players will encounter throughout the game.”
However, after the character was revealed, several fans further complained that the name Sirona Ryan rendered the inclusion of a transgender character tone deaf and continued promoting the boycott. The name "Sirona" originates from the Celtic goddess of healing and rebirth and is symbolized with imagery of snakes (animals that shed their skin) and eggs (where many birds, fish and reptiles among other animals emerge from after incubating). Despite being a feminine name, they claimed to perceive it as a male-presenting name due to that variant of the name containing and potentially being shortened to "Sir", while also pointing out that the surname "Ryan" was a masculine name and an anglicized form that was used instead of the less common authentic Gaelic name "Riain". This set up the name to appear as an unintentional pun: "Sir Ryan". Despite these complaints, the boycott turned out to be a failure as Hogwarts Legacy became commercially successful, selling over 12 million copies in its first two weeks of release and going on to sell double that amount by the end of 2023.
NME article:
https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/film/hogwarts-legacy-introduces-first-transgender-character-in-harry-potter-franchise-3394348
Forbes article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/02/11/hogwarts-legacy-amid-jk-rowling-controversy-charts-record-breaking-pc-release/
Clutch Points articles:
https://clutchpoints.com/hogwarts-legacy-controversial-sirona-ryan
https://clutchpoints.com/hogwarts-legacy-leads-in-twitch-viewers-and-steam-players-despite-ongoing-boycott
Sirona Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirona_(goddess)
Ryan surname history:
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=ryan
Hogwarts Legacy sales:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1374325/hogwarts-legacy-games-unit-sales-worldwide/
https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/film/hogwarts-legacy-introduces-first-transgender-character-in-harry-potter-franchise-3394348
Forbes article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/02/11/hogwarts-legacy-amid-jk-rowling-controversy-charts-record-breaking-pc-release/
Clutch Points articles:
https://clutchpoints.com/hogwarts-legacy-controversial-sirona-ryan
https://clutchpoints.com/hogwarts-legacy-leads-in-twitch-viewers-and-steam-players-despite-ongoing-boycott
Sirona Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirona_(goddess)
Ryan surname history:
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=ryan
Hogwarts Legacy sales:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1374325/hogwarts-legacy-games-unit-sales-worldwide/
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The game is notable for two puzzles considered by fans and critics to respectively be one of the best and worst ever made for an adventure game.
The puzzle "Le Serpent Rouge" ("The Red Snake") involves decoding torn-up poem stanzas by hunting for information during the game and solving geometric mapping puzzles. This puzzle was widely praised for its overarching complexity and intriguing nature regardless of the player's interest in the real-life mysteries of Rennes-le-Château, a Southern French commune crucial to the game's plot that has been covered in various books and conspiracy theories. The poem was originally included in the "Secret Files of Henri Lobineau", a 1967 dossier about the fraternal organization the Priory of Sion, and was modified to make the puzzle solvable. Lead designer Jane Jensen named it her favorite and most challenging puzzle, designing it around the game's fully controllable 3D camera.
Meanwhile, a puzzle designed by producer Steven Hill was disliked internally and was meant to be replaced with a puzzle by Jensen, but they were forced to leave it in the game due to time constraints. It starts with Gabriel Knight finding that his friend Detective Mosely arrived in France the night before in a tour group and is scheduled to rent a motorcycle that day, so he goes to rent one himself. The nearsighted rental stand clerk requires a passport to confirm arrivals, revealing that the only rides he has left are a bike saved for Mosely and a cheap scooter. To get the bike, Knight plans to disguise as Mosely by Spoiler:stealing his coat and passport, and hiding his long blonde hair in a hat, despite putting it in a visible ponytail. He then draws a mustache on Mosely's passport photo to obscure their facial differences, goes to a shed, puts masking tape on a hole in the shed door, sprays a nearby cat with water causing it to run into the tape and stick fur to it, and applies it to his face with some maple syrup from breakfast to make a fake mustache. The disguise inexplicably works, and Knight gets the bike.
Moreso than Le Serpent Rouge was praised, the disguise puzzle was roundly criticized for its lack of hints, the impossibility of Knight convincingly impersonating Mosely, and the cartoonish roundabout way of Spoiler:making the mustache clashing with the game's serious tone. Critics felt that while it was not the most difficult puzzle, the solution was too absurd for the average player to think it would work. The most scathing review came from future Valve writer Eric Wolpaw, who blamed Jensen for the poor design (it was not known at the time that she did not design it), and called the process of Spoiler:making the mustache "deranged", controversially declaring it was proof that adventure games "committed suicide". While Jensen disliked the puzzle, she thought it being the death of adventure games was "kinda overblown", and the "length of the sequence and the lack of hints" was what made it bad.
The puzzle "Le Serpent Rouge" ("The Red Snake") involves decoding torn-up poem stanzas by hunting for information during the game and solving geometric mapping puzzles. This puzzle was widely praised for its overarching complexity and intriguing nature regardless of the player's interest in the real-life mysteries of Rennes-le-Château, a Southern French commune crucial to the game's plot that has been covered in various books and conspiracy theories. The poem was originally included in the "Secret Files of Henri Lobineau", a 1967 dossier about the fraternal organization the Priory of Sion, and was modified to make the puzzle solvable. Lead designer Jane Jensen named it her favorite and most challenging puzzle, designing it around the game's fully controllable 3D camera.
Meanwhile, a puzzle designed by producer Steven Hill was disliked internally and was meant to be replaced with a puzzle by Jensen, but they were forced to leave it in the game due to time constraints. It starts with Gabriel Knight finding that his friend Detective Mosely arrived in France the night before in a tour group and is scheduled to rent a motorcycle that day, so he goes to rent one himself. The nearsighted rental stand clerk requires a passport to confirm arrivals, revealing that the only rides he has left are a bike saved for Mosely and a cheap scooter. To get the bike, Knight plans to disguise as Mosely by Spoiler:stealing his coat and passport, and hiding his long blonde hair in a hat, despite putting it in a visible ponytail. He then draws a mustache on Mosely's passport photo to obscure their facial differences, goes to a shed, puts masking tape on a hole in the shed door, sprays a nearby cat with water causing it to run into the tape and stick fur to it, and applies it to his face with some maple syrup from breakfast to make a fake mustache. The disguise inexplicably works, and Knight gets the bike.
Moreso than Le Serpent Rouge was praised, the disguise puzzle was roundly criticized for its lack of hints, the impossibility of Knight convincingly impersonating Mosely, and the cartoonish roundabout way of Spoiler:making the mustache clashing with the game's serious tone. Critics felt that while it was not the most difficult puzzle, the solution was too absurd for the average player to think it would work. The most scathing review came from future Valve writer Eric Wolpaw, who blamed Jensen for the poor design (it was not known at the time that she did not design it), and called the process of Spoiler:making the mustache "deranged", controversially declaring it was proof that adventure games "committed suicide". While Jensen disliked the puzzle, she thought it being the death of adventure games was "kinda overblown", and the "length of the sequence and the lack of hints" was what made it bad.
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned - Le Serpent Rouge poem and walkthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7b47CJrnyc
https://sierrachest.com/index.php?a=games&id=39&title=gabriel-knight-3&fld=walkthrough&pid=101
Hunting Shadows: The Making of Gabriel Knight - Chapter 5:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200513021453/https://episodiccontentmag.com/2015/11/20/hunting-shadows-the-making-of-gabriel-knight-chapter-5-of-5/
Anastasia Salter - "Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects" (2017) - Influential Video Game Designers. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1501327452. (Pages 58-60):
https://books.google.com/books?id=cPEkDgAAQBAJ
Jane Jensen Adventure Gamers interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190715214638/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18170
Le Serpent Rouge real poem article:
https://www.renneslechateau.nl/2012/01/13/the-red-serpent/
Le Serpent Rouge puzzle miscellaneous Adventure Gamers acclaim:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210715000329/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18643/page/page4/page7/page10/N100/page15
https://web.archive.org/web/20170428013712/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/17459
https://web.archive.org/web/20170311222718/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18586
Computer Gaming World - Issue #179, June 1999 (Page 63 in magazine):
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_179/page/n66/mode/1up?q=serpent
The Games Machine - No. 6, March 2008 (Page 68 in magazine):
https://archive.org/details/the-games-machine-italia-speciali-06/page/n67/mode/1up?q=serpent
Detective Mosely tour group context just before the puzzle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hjzZ0z4b5E
Disguise puzzle footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hpcmJLrseI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3D9xb_sFg
Kotaku interview snippet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200619041238/https://kotaku.com/how-we-survived-adventure-gamings-most-hair-tearingly-r-5903932
Computer Gaming World - Issue #189, April 2000 (Pages 74-75):
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_189
Old Man Murray (Eric Wolpaw) - Death of Adventure Games:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200405052244/http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/79.html
Gamasutra interview mentioning impact of Old Man Murray blog post:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200618200402/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134850/spyparty_and_the_indie_ethos_.php?page=3
GamesRadar+ article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200603224407/https://www.gamesradar.com/the-top-7-stupidest-puzzles/4/
InVisible Culture article (counterargument about the "death of adventure games"):
https://web.archive.org/web/20200622204402/http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/the-kinesthetic-index-video-games-and-the-body-of-motion-capture/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7b47CJrnyc
https://sierrachest.com/index.php?a=games&id=39&title=gabriel-knight-3&fld=walkthrough&pid=101
Hunting Shadows: The Making of Gabriel Knight - Chapter 5:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200513021453/https://episodiccontentmag.com/2015/11/20/hunting-shadows-the-making-of-gabriel-knight-chapter-5-of-5/
Anastasia Salter - "Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects" (2017) - Influential Video Game Designers. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1501327452. (Pages 58-60):
https://books.google.com/books?id=cPEkDgAAQBAJ
Jane Jensen Adventure Gamers interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190715214638/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18170
Le Serpent Rouge real poem article:
https://www.renneslechateau.nl/2012/01/13/the-red-serpent/
Le Serpent Rouge puzzle miscellaneous Adventure Gamers acclaim:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210715000329/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18643/page/page4/page7/page10/N100/page15
https://web.archive.org/web/20170428013712/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/17459
https://web.archive.org/web/20170311222718/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18586
Computer Gaming World - Issue #179, June 1999 (Page 63 in magazine):
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_179/page/n66/mode/1up?q=serpent
The Games Machine - No. 6, March 2008 (Page 68 in magazine):
https://archive.org/details/the-games-machine-italia-speciali-06/page/n67/mode/1up?q=serpent
Detective Mosely tour group context just before the puzzle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hjzZ0z4b5E
Disguise puzzle footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hpcmJLrseI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3D9xb_sFg
Kotaku interview snippet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200619041238/https://kotaku.com/how-we-survived-adventure-gamings-most-hair-tearingly-r-5903932
Computer Gaming World - Issue #189, April 2000 (Pages 74-75):
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_189
Old Man Murray (Eric Wolpaw) - Death of Adventure Games:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200405052244/http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/79.html
Gamasutra interview mentioning impact of Old Man Murray blog post:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200618200402/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134850/spyparty_and_the_indie_ethos_.php?page=3
GamesRadar+ article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200603224407/https://www.gamesradar.com/the-top-7-stupidest-puzzles/4/
InVisible Culture article (counterargument about the "death of adventure games"):
https://web.archive.org/web/20200622204402/http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/the-kinesthetic-index-video-games-and-the-body-of-motion-capture/
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This individual would appear in the final Star Fox Adventures, with his role slightly rewritten as the chief engineer at CloudRunner Fortress (The Queen CloudRunner took over his original role as the SpellStone Gatekeeper for this area). Talking to him in a cutscene will reveal his name to be "Gradabug". While not mentioned anywhere in-game, the Star Fox Adventures Nintendo Power guidebook reaffirms him belonging to the BoneHead tribe.
BoneHead SpellStone guardian in Dinosaur Planet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEWGNBGf6CI?t=398
Gameplay Tasks and Clues - Dinosaur Planet wiki:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240303175752/https://dinosaurpla.net/Main/Tech/Documentation/Gameplay-Tasks-and-Clues/
"Gradabug" in Star Fox Adventures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxRhHtMw7E4?t=766
SFA Nintendo Power guidebook revealing his species name as "BoneHead":
https://archive.org/details/star-fox-adventures-nintendo-players-guide/page/98/mode/2up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEWGNBGf6CI?t=398
Gameplay Tasks and Clues - Dinosaur Planet wiki:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240303175752/https://dinosaurpla.net/Main/Tech/Documentation/Gameplay-Tasks-and-Clues/
"Gradabug" in Star Fox Adventures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxRhHtMw7E4?t=766
SFA Nintendo Power guidebook revealing his species name as "BoneHead":
https://archive.org/details/star-fox-adventures-nintendo-players-guide/page/98/mode/2up
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MultiVersus lead writer Eric Stirpē has stated that he writes each fighter as a "Multiversus version" by picking a point in a franchise's history for them to be chosen from by Reindog, in an effort to keep their dialogue in line with the source material. Some fighters from a single franchise are chosen from different time periods within it, but the points when they are chosen are not canon to the source material or the game's plot. It's unknown how every fighter fits into this writing guide, but it creates inconsistencies with some character designs in the game:
• Stripe and Gizmo were chosen just before Stripe's death in the first Gremlins film.
• Finn and Jake were chosen during the events of Adventure Time: Islands, though the lack of Finn's prosthetic arm is not explained, and Fern was chosen before he became a villain in Season 9 of Adventure Time.
• Steven and Garnet were chosen during Season 2 of Steven Universe.
• Bugs Bunny was not chosen, but rather emerged from hiding since the 1940s through a "hole in the page", with him being referred to as a "timeline hopper".
• Taz is from the 1990s (presumably tying him in to Taz-Mania).
• Marvin was chosen during the events of Space Jam: A New Legacy, and LeBron James was chosen two days after the end of the film.
• Tom and Jerry are from the 1960s, but are portrayed with a modern art style that does not resemble either the Gene Deitch or Chuck Jones runs of theatrical shorts from that time.
• Shaggy was chosen one year after the end of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, while Velma was chosen from an unspecified "cancelled 2000s reboot".
• The Iron Giant was chosen while returning to America after he re-assembles himself at the end of the film.
• Arya Stark was chosen during either Season 6 or 7 of the Game of Thrones TV series.
• Stirpē considers the DC Comics heroes and villains to all be original interpretations of the characters created for Multiversus.
• Stripe and Gizmo were chosen just before Stripe's death in the first Gremlins film.
• Finn and Jake were chosen during the events of Adventure Time: Islands, though the lack of Finn's prosthetic arm is not explained, and Fern was chosen before he became a villain in Season 9 of Adventure Time.
• Steven and Garnet were chosen during Season 2 of Steven Universe.
• Bugs Bunny was not chosen, but rather emerged from hiding since the 1940s through a "hole in the page", with him being referred to as a "timeline hopper".
• Taz is from the 1990s (presumably tying him in to Taz-Mania).
• Marvin was chosen during the events of Space Jam: A New Legacy, and LeBron James was chosen two days after the end of the film.
• Tom and Jerry are from the 1960s, but are portrayed with a modern art style that does not resemble either the Gene Deitch or Chuck Jones runs of theatrical shorts from that time.
• Shaggy was chosen one year after the end of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, while Velma was chosen from an unspecified "cancelled 2000s reboot".
• The Iron Giant was chosen while returning to America after he re-assembles himself at the end of the film.
• Arya Stark was chosen during either Season 6 or 7 of the Game of Thrones TV series.
• Stirpē considers the DC Comics heroes and villains to all be original interpretations of the characters created for Multiversus.
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While the text initially parroted the phrase "THIS NEXT (space) EXPERIMENT (space) SEEMS (space) VERY (space) VERY (space) INTERESTING" from the unused room_gaster event in Undertale, by July 1, 2016, the text was edited to read "THREE HEROES APPEARED (space) AT WORLD'S EDGE", later being edited again by August 17 to say "THREE HEROES APPEARED (space) TO BANISH THE ANGELS HEAVEN". Both revisions quote portions of the legend that Ralsei recounts in Chapter 1, indicating that these parts of the game's backstory were already conceived by this point.
Following the release of Chapter 1, deltarune.com would be refurbished as the official website for Deltarune itself. Consequently, earlier versions of the site only survive through snapshots on the Wayback Machine, a URL archiving platform hosted by the Internet Archive.
The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:Deltarune
Comments section and screencap of the now-deleted r/Undertale post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Undertale/comments/3vxmhq/dreemurr_31_faq/
https://tcrf.net/images/d/db/Deltarune-dreemurr-com-originally-deltarune-com.png
December 9, 2015 Wayback Machine snapshot of him.png:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151209013205/http://www.deltarune.com/him.png
July 1, 2016 Wayback Machine snapshot of deltarune.com (Note: this archive is not displaying correctly as of May 13, 2024):
https://web.archive.org/web/20160817183540/http://www.deltarune.com/
August 17, 2016 Wayback Machine snapshots of deltarune.com and him.png:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160817183540/http://www.deltarune.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20161221070931im_/http://www.deltarune.com/him.png
Tweets by @ChristopherMoom:
https://twitter.com/ChristopherMoom/status/1334580988521934850
https://twitter.com/ChristopherMoom/status/1334562885461307395
https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:Deltarune
Comments section and screencap of the now-deleted r/Undertale post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Undertale/comments/3vxmhq/dreemurr_31_faq/
https://tcrf.net/images/d/db/Deltarune-dreemurr-com-originally-deltarune-com.png
December 9, 2015 Wayback Machine snapshot of him.png:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151209013205/http://www.deltarune.com/him.png
July 1, 2016 Wayback Machine snapshot of deltarune.com (Note: this archive is not displaying correctly as of May 13, 2024):
https://web.archive.org/web/20160817183540/http://www.deltarune.com/
August 17, 2016 Wayback Machine snapshots of deltarune.com and him.png:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160817183540/http://www.deltarune.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20161221070931im_/http://www.deltarune.com/him.png
Tweets by @ChristopherMoom:
https://twitter.com/ChristopherMoom/status/1334580988521934850
https://twitter.com/ChristopherMoom/status/1334562885461307395
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At one point when talking to D in The Crooked Man, David reveals that he is color blind, which ultimately led to him failing to become a pilot. The Boogie Man elaborates on this, revealing that while he can see red, he has difficulty with white and pink. This would suggest that he specifically has Deutan Color Blindness, where it is common to confuse pink and white colors (particularly in cases where the pink is akin to a light purple).
The Crooked Man gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_EXP6DrJmU?t=6688
The Boogie Man gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MumLDXVxlYY?t=12043
Types of color blindness:
https://eu.enchroma.com/pages/types-of-color-blindness#:~:text=In%20Deutan%2Dtype%20CVD%2C%20the,yellow%2C%20or%20blue%20and%20purple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_EXP6DrJmU?t=6688
The Boogie Man gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MumLDXVxlYY?t=12043
Types of color blindness:
https://eu.enchroma.com/pages/types-of-color-blindness#:~:text=In%20Deutan%2Dtype%20CVD%2C%20the,yellow%2C%20or%20blue%20and%20purple.
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TOSR
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This not only acts as a reference to the popular quote at the start of The Legend of Zelda to show Ida receiving help, but also acts as foreshadowing to the end of the level where Spoiler:the Totem is destroyed by a crushing stone pillar while helping Ida get past it, forcing her to go through the rest of the Forgotten Shores levels on her own.