The Best Switch Game Facts on YouTube!

for today's episode we'll be looking at trivia from a handful of nintendo switch titles at the time of making this video the nintendo switch is the latest of all current generation consoles on top of that it's the fastest selling console of all time in both japan and the united states selling just short of 3 million units in the first 3 months of release more than anything these record figures have been attributed to a high quality of exclusive titles on the system such as breath of the wild mario kart 8 deluxe and mario odyssey with that said let's start off by looking at one of these powerhouses super mario odyssey in odyssey there's a koopa that asks the player to trace the shape of an object around them by walking the koopa appears three times in the game first asking the player to draw a circle around them then a triangle and finally a circle again this seems odd as you might expect the third shape to be something more difficult as a triangle is harder to make with the game's controls than a circle youtuber skellix found that the challenge was indeed originally more difficult they found data for an objective in the game where the koopa asks the player to draw a star around them instead with the star's more complex geometry it proves to be far more challenging the difficulty of the objective may have been the reason it was replaced with the initial circle challenge jumping from a classic franchise to a wholly new ip the fighting game armed wasn't always intended to be its own series an early concept for the game was to feature a number of staple nintendo characters from the company's popular series such as link and mario issues arose when the team felt the game's aesthetic clashed with these characters so they decided to create a new cast of characters instead designs began with the characters arms and the team worked backwards from there to design a character who would make use of the various types of arms created there are some exceptions to this rule however to begin with the team considered characters using external devices not their own limbs in order to hit their opponents however this was eventually dropped another early idea was to make the game stand out amongst the crowded space of fighting games by positioning the camera directly behind the characters instead this caused its own issues however as it became harder for the player to judge distances on the screen this was solved by simply making characters arms extend dramatically to hit their opponent leading to the game's unique design concept for xenoblade chronicles 2 writer tetsuya takahashi wanted to have the popular square enix artist and director of kingdom hearts tetsuya nomura on his team takahashi's desire to work with nomura has existed for 20 years so when the opportunity finally arose for a collaboration takahashi jumped at the chance he told time at the time there was someone who was directing the final fantasy series mr yoshinori kitusei mr kitusei was handling final fantasy and i was doing xenogears and i wanted to work with mr nomura so i was waiting for the final call to be made whether he was going to be working on the final fantasy series or on this new title of mine and then mr hironobu sakaguchi the creator of final fantasy came and said tetsu is going to do final fantasy so i thought okay i've got to find myself a new designer after our discussion with nintendo went through and xenoblade chronicles 2 was a go i went directly to square enix thinking that i'd be denied asking if i could work with tetsu to my surprise it was approved and that's how it happened nomura ended up working on final fantasy vii leading to manga artist kunihiko tanaka taking on the mantle of character designer for xenogears and its follow-up zeno saga 20 years later tatsuya namura ended up designing the torner organization for xenoblade chronicles 2 the primary group of antagonists in the title influences for a game's design can come from unexpected places the crossover tactical rpg mario and rabbids kingdom battle first took its inspirations from nintendo's mario kart director davide soliani stated we thought the tactical games are known to be slow paced and they tend to be a little niche so why not try to have something very dramatic and colorful and fast-paced that's why our first reference was mario kart how cool would it be to try to translate that kind of action into the combat of our game surprisingly for such a major collaborative effort between ubisoft and nintendo the hero of the rabbids origin rayman doesn't make any appearance throughout the game the team did talk about including the hero in the game but they decided against it after considering the rabbids as their own franchise separate from rayman they saw the rabbids as a blank canvas of sorts which allowed the team to design characters that would fit with the mario heroes closely miyamoto even encouraged the team to explore the crazy side of the rabbids wanting the team to involve more of their humor and flair another of nintendo's biggest franchises saw its return on the switch with pokemon let's go pikachu and evie both versions of the game have numerous references to other media from pokemon and beyond the two pokemon trainers la sayuki and las aoi are references to voice actors from the titular pokemon la sayuki the pikachu master trainer refers to ayuki otani the iconic voice of pikachu similarly las aoi the eevee master trainer references aoiyuki the actress for eevee in the game these aren't the only trainers whose names are references though the zubat and golbat trainers are named scientist west and scientist keaton respectively these are of course taken from the names of batman actors adam west and michael keaton the list of references from the pokemon masters goes on with the ghost masters psychic aaron danny and ross all referencing our boys over at game grumps aaron hansen danny avedan and ross o'donovan and finally the birdmaster trainers could potentially be references to the hugely popular animated series the simpsons though just speculation the bird keepers barney seymour and mo could be named after the simpsons characters barney gumbel seymour skinner and mo sislak more references to other media and switch games can be found in splatoon 2's octo expansion the names and taglines of every single level in the dlc are references to songs films and trends between the late 70s and the 90s just to name a few stick and move station is a reference to the 1979 film rocky 2 when apollo creed's trainer instructs him to stick and move now stick and move the tagline for this stage is also a reference to boxing legend muhammad ali and his iconic quip maverick goose and iceman stations are all references to the 1986 film top gun as well as this all three stages feature taglines that reference kenny loggins danger zone the big banger from the movie soundtrack labyrinth station and its tagline both reference jim henson's bizarre labyrinth movie from the same year splat magic splat is a parody of the line dance magic dance from david bowie's magic dance which he performed in the film wakfu station alludes to the 90s fighting game shakfu with the tagline also being a reference to the shack attack phrase another video game reference this time for a nintendo property is inc and watch station of course referencing nintendo's first line of handheld games game and watch changes had to be made with super smash bros ultimate as it includes every character in the series history this even includes the guest characters of the past such as snake with konami having gone through a rather unpleasant series of events between the release of brawl on the wii and ultimate it may not come as a surprise that this would affect their contribution to the game in brawl snake's series emblem was that of metal gear solid's fox unit logo with ultimate this was changed to the exclamation mark which appears after a soldier sees the sneaky sausage that is snake [Music] it's very likely that the reason for this change in emblem comes from the unfavorable departure of metal gear solid creator hideo kojima from brand owners konami during kojima's tenure with konami the former subsidiary kojima productions began using this logo as their own it's possible that konami had requested that the fox logo be changed in order to disassociate the character from kojima the team behind nintendo's labo clearly wanted to show their love of detail within the software side of the package in the game's digital tutorials on how to build the title's external cardboard devices 3d models of these switches controllers the joy-cons are shown despite the fact that it is almost impossible to view the 3d models of these joy-con are actually fully modeled on the inside only being visible to players who would orient the software's camera to clip inside one of the devices within 10 months of its release the nintendo switch sold more units than the wii u sold during its entire lifespan by comparison the switch sold 14.86 million units in the first 10 months of its release while the wii u sold only 12.5 million units from its launch until it was discontinued in 2017. although this is partly due to the switch's unique and quite useful gimmick of functioning both as a home console and a handheld its game library has no doubt been a big factor in its sales pokemon sword and shield certainly had a rough run up to its release but upon players getting hold of the title many have come to enjoy it it's also become the fastest selling switch game so far selling more than 6 million copies in its opening weekend and as you might expect the game has quite a few interesting secrets that have already been found one secret is that there's a very slight chance that a wild pokemon will come to the player's pokemon camp while they're playing in it and ask to join the player's team if the player picks the yes option then not only will the pokemon join the camp but the player will have also caught the pokemon and it will go into one of the players pokeballs another incredibly popular switch game is super smash brothers ultimate the plot of the game's world of light adventure mode sees kirby as the sole survivor of a cataclysmic invasion leaving the pink pudge to rescue the other fighters one by one interestingly this was actually director masahiro sakurai's original vision for the plot of super smash brothers brawl's subspace emissary this early storyline was mentioned during a 2008 iwata ask segment where sakurai said i had envisioned more of a serious tone for the story something was some misfortune like a single character escaping total annihilation of his squadron and then fighting back while rounding up his allies according to sakurai in an interview with famitsu the reason why kirby was the only one that survived golem's attack was because he was the only one who could plausibly escape using his warp star this also made the character accessible to starters or newcomers to the game as a result of his speed and attacks some have pointed out that others should logically have been able to escape due to similar skills involving tremendous speeds and that sakurai as kirby's creator may have just been a little biased in his choices another unused element from brawl which was used in ultimate was a voice clip for snake there the voice clip in ultimate for when snake plants from c4 went unused in super smash brothers brawl but is believed to have been used in the same way before it was cut [Music] kirby's star allies received middling reviews being praised for its art style soundtrack and overall gameplay however being taken to the cleaners over its apparently incredibly easy difficulty despite that one interesting easter egg actually comes from the difficulty settings of one of the sub games the ultimate choice once the player is beaten the sixth difficulty fiery showdown or higher the soul melter difficulty is unlocked in the menu with each increase in difficulty kirby's reaction gets more intense the face he makes for the spiciest of difficulties is actually a reference to the episode frog wild from the kirby anime series kirby right back at you in the episode kirby is possessed by a demon frog that turns him evil a fairly new addition to the nintendo switches library is platinum games astral chain the game's sci-fi aesthetic is one of its more visually defining features but the title originally started out with a fantasy setting the initial concept had players use magic but after the development team realized that there were lots of other games with fantasy settings it was reworked into a more cyberpunk inspired setting based on animes that the game's creator takashi taurea enjoyed watching such as ghost in the shell and appleseed another more recent switch title was the fairly well received yoshi's crafted world a lot of attention had clearly gone into the design of the game's world even more than would be apparent by just playing the game in an interview with nintendo dream that was translated by nintendo everything the game's director masahiro yamamoto confirmed that the entire game actually takes place in a kindergarten class within the mario universe this also informed the themes each level had with elements in the game being based on what you would find in a school for young children such as a sandbox yoshi's crafted world also has quite the range of easter eggs and secrets one noteworthy nod references one of mario rpg's outings mario and luigi's superstar saga in the game a can of starbeans iced coffee can be spotted in the flipside version of the stage poochie's magma run this is a reference to the starbeans cafe which was prominently featured in superstar saga one game that took nintendo and sega fans by surprise was mario and sonic at the olympic games tokyo 2020 the surprise in question was an entire game mode based around the 2d games that defined the franchises involved another piece of news that took gamers by surprise came on october 2nd when it was revealed that just one day prior superstar saga developers alpha dream had filed for bankruptcy the company cited sluggish revenues and high development costs as the reason for filing after the news broke liam robertson who creates game history secrets here on did you know gaming tweeted that he knew of one last project alpha dream worked on alpha dream's involvement in the project hadn't yet been revealed but the mystery game turned out to be mario and sonic 2020 this would be the last game alpha dream ever worked on contributing to development alongside sega and a few other studios another studio that's known to aid with development on large projects is bandai namco as well as helping develop super smash brothers ultimate the studio also aided nintendo with the development of mario kart tour mario kart 8 deluxe and arms this was recently revealed on the company's website which stated they'd partially implemented in-game and 3d visual assets for courses and characters for mario kart tour and that they produced about half of the game's bonus challenges the site also states that bandai namco produced about half of the visual assets for courses and characters in mario kart 8 deluxe and that they made about half of the visual assets for stages and fighters in arms one nintendo switch game that's hot off the presses is the legend of zelda link's awakening when the game was initially revealed some fans were torn over the game's visuals that said they proved to be a selling point for many who found the cute aesthetic with a heavy depth of field very alluring the game's director agi onuma has shed some light on why the game looks the way it does explaining that the tilt shift effect was inspired by the original game version's vast but small world on the console's 66 millimeter screen ionumera said when i played the original gameboy version it was a small screen and it felt like a small world but very vast and so it kind of had this tilt-shift perspective so that's why i thought this diorama-like art style would be perfect for the remake moving from one switch zelda title to another it's no secret that breath of the wild has an incredible amount of easter eggs and references within it and this goes for the game's downloadable content as well just a heads up this is a minor visual spoiler for the end of the dlc inside the last room in the sword monk shrine after completing the trial of the sword dlc there are seven monks with their arms in different positions the pose of each monk represents poses of the seven sages from the legend of zelda ocarina of time zelda's pose is taken from the final battle against ganon and the other six sages poses are from inside the chamber of light after defeating the corresponding temples that release each sage [Music] did you know the legend of zelda link's awakening for the nintendo switch had been successfully emulated on a pc before the game even released in the usa using an australian dump of the game's files developers of the yuzu emulator managed to get the game booting up past the title screen in mere hours while it's still early days for the emulator this was no doubt an impressive feat besides its already impressive games library one of the switch's most defining features are its joy-cons the nintendo switch joy-cons were originally going to be sold in same color sets but this was changed when someone at nintendo accidentally snapped two different color joy-cons onto a switch general producer of the nintendo switch console yoshiaki koizumi stated we actually weren't thinking about having two different colors on the same console at the same time in the beginning this was until someone slipped on one of each color joy-con onto a single console and suddenly everyone gathered around and said oh that looks great so at first it was red and red or blue and blue but sometimes mistakes happen and they end up being the right mistakes the joy cons would also originally attach to the console using magnets but this caused a few issues besides the risk of magnets interfering with the system's hardware and wi-fi signal the console itself would often detach from the joy-cons and fall onto the lap of whoever was playing it one relic of this iteration can still be seen in the final console however when the magnets attached they made a snapping sound this was found to be a very satisfying sound and was implemented with the final joy-cons nintendo also tried having the joy cons connect to the switch by attaching them via disk shaped parts all in all around 5 prototype versions of the switch and joy cons were made before the final form factor was decided on joy cons were inspired by the wii remote but not just in function during the wii era nintendo received a lot of feedback from players of wii sports and wii fit asking for a smaller version of the remote that could be strapped to the body nintendo held on to this feedback and set out to make a smaller controller engineers realized a smaller joy-con sized controller could attach to a handheld device leading to the switch's main innovation of being a hybrid console the switch has interesting secrets surrounding its creation but it also has several secrets within the system itself data miners who dug around the switch's internal files found some curious details lines of code referring to a vr mode were discovered while examining the system's 3.0 update in june 2017 by tinkering with the settings related to the mode it was found that the switch had the option for a virtual reality dual display this was nearly two full years before the release of the nintendo labo vr kit which finally made use of stereoscopic 3d this isn't the only secret within the switch in september 2017 an emulator called flog was found hidden in the system's code the emulator was programmed to activate only if the system's internal calendar was set to july 11 at which point it could be used to play the nes game golf golf was one of the first games made by satoru iwata when he was working as a programmer and july 11th was the date he passed away in 2015. in order to actually access the emulator players would have to hold a joy-con in each hand and extend their arms outward recreating iwata's signature pose from the nintendo direct presentations in an interview with kotaku nintendo of america's then president regifizame said it was identified by folks playing around in the firmware we've got nothing officially to announce for that content or what the plans are for that content so that's that certainly anything that pays respect to my friend mr iwata is something that is near and dear to me personally but in terms of that execution and what it was meant to do or what the plans are we've got nothing to announce some japanese fans likened the presence of the emulator to an omamori a type of charm often used for protection or good luck further data mining found the emulator only worked on switch systems with older firmware eventually all references to the emulator were removed from the switch's code as part of the 4.0 system update in december 2017. another far more bizarre easter egg was found in the switch's photo album application if a player hasn't taken screenshots yet several demo images can be seen in the album including one of a man looking at a phone this particular image bears an uncanny resemblance to a popular japanese meme what's bizarre about this is that the original source of the meme is a screenshot from a japanese adult film called a midsummer night's lewd dream this raised eyebrows for many and seems a very strange thing to be referenced in a nintendo product the switch enjoyed great success in the months following its launch but this wasn't without controversy in august 2017 tablet developer gamevice filed a lawsuit accusing nintendo of patent infringement previously gamevice had released a gaming tablet equipped with a detachable controller known as a wikipad a design they claimed nintendo illegally copied with the release of the switch the lawsuit asked for both monetary damages as well as a ban on all future sales of the switch the case was voluntarily dropped two months later but a second infringement lawsuit filed by gamevice in march 2018 asked the united states international trade commission to completely block imports of the switch into the u.s sales of the switch weren't affected by gamevice's lawsuit and in october 2019 it was ultimately decided that nintendo hadn't infringed on the patent the switch has seen an influx of ports from other systems but some complain these multi-platform games often cost more on the switch which led to some coining the phrase switch tax while compiling data on the switch's library of games nintendo news site switcher compared the prices of games available on both the nintendo eshop and steam and discovered a notable discrepancy in the price of multi-platform games digital only games on both services generally cost 7.2 percent more on the eshop than on steam while games released both physically and digitally cost 17.8 percent more overall games cost roughly 10 percent more on the eshop than they do on steam the main cause for this is the manufacturing cost of the switch cartridges which are notably more expensive to produce than the disks used by other systems which in turn means the games are usually more expensive to purchase nintendo's policy also mandated all switch games that get both a physical and digital release must have the same price in both formats as physical switch games are more expensive than physical games on other platforms the digital versions are also more expensive on the eshop than they are on other digital storefronts resulting in a sort of switch tax while some games had their prices changed for the system other games had their content changed the game's super real mahjong pv which originally released on the sega saturn came to the japanese switch eshop in march 2019 the game is a simple mahjong puzzle game with a gimmick of rewarding players via anime nudity however the game was removed from the eshop shortly after its arrival due to some risque scenes that had insufficient censorship nudity in the game had been covered with a white bar of light in an attempt to avoid a cerro z rating an 18 plus rating that usually leads to low sales due to a limited audience however the light bar hadn't been aligned properly and some nudity could still be seen in the final game this resulted in the game being temporarily removed from the eshop until a patch was developed to sufficiently cover up the nudity interestingly this isn't the only adult mahjong game to be censored on the switch zero divs tyson hot gimmick cosplay jan previously released on the pc and playstation 2 but was ported to the japanese eshop in 2018 the game's release went off without a hitch but a little while after fans noticed the eshop page had changed the game's splash image on the storefront had been swapped out for an edited less lewd version another switch title was found to be censored somewhat before it even released super smash brothers ultimate leaked over a week before its street date which led to a large chunk of the game's content being revealed on social media this included parts of the game's spirits mode which celebrates a large number of gaming franchises not all of these franchises were represented in the same way as in their original games almost certainly because of the game's low age rating art for several female spirits had their usual artwork censored to be less revealing this included mithra from xenoblade chronicles 2 who had her legs reshaded to look like she was wearing black tights and her top was extended to cover more of her chest camilla from fire emblem fates was also altered with her chest being covered by her hair instead of it falling to the sides although some fans were annoyed at this it's hard to deny that the changes were appropriate for an e10 plus rated game despite this nintendo seems to be against censoring games at a shareholders meeting in june 2019 nintendo president shintaro furukawa was asked about his stance on games being censored by gaming platform giants such as nintendo furukawa responded essentially saying he believed the ratings board is enough along with the parental controls nintendo offers he even went as far to say that arbitrarily editing games could be damaging to the industry this statement was noteworthy as sony had recently censored sexual content of games on their platform senron kagura burst renewal nekopara volume 1 date alive rio reincarnation and senron kagura were all affected by sony's policies on sexual content and games although nintendo's stance seems to be anti-censorship one of their most high profile titles of 2019 was altered after its release in september of this year a news circulated that a line spoken by the character bernadetta and fire emblem 3 houses had been altered specifically her english b support conversation with bioleth had been seemingly toned down in the title's 1.02 update translation enthusiast and fire emblem fan cantopia was curious if this was really a case of censorship and investigated the updated dialogue and compared it to the original english and japanese versions surprisingly the language used in the english 1.02 update was closer to a literal japanese translation however translating from japanese is rarely this simple cantopia went on to explain how although the literal idea of bernadetta being tied to a chair as a training method to make her a good wife was intact some of the nuance was lost the original english was made more intense to convey bernadetta's implied feeling on the matter which would have been lost with a direct translation whether or not this can be called censorship seems to be up for debate some fans believe the updated text either doesn't change the intent of the line or is more authentic to the original japanese version while others believe toning down the english text is censorship regardless of what the change was for and that it lessened the impact of the conversation with bernadetta [Music] did you know despite series creator masahiro sakurai's best attempt at keeping smash ultimate's all-star roster a secret there were several missteps along the way some even from nintendo themselves the dlc for smash ultimate is still being developed but we wanted to provide a rundown of all the rumors hoaxes and leaks that have happened so far we already covered smash rumors and leaks for every smash game before ultimate and even a few for ultimate in a previous video so pause this video and go watch that one to be brought up to speed before smash ultimate's grand reveal there were a few leaks about the game that went virtually unnoticed sakurai would even celebrate that the announcement saw few leaks in his bi-weekly famatsu column after the e3 announcement he wrote to be honest i'm truly glad there wasn't a leak if word had gotten out that everyone is here then we wouldn't have had this incredible reaction unfortunately sakurai is mistaken there were a number of leaks about the game's presentation that did ruin some of the surprises for a few eagle-eyed fans the youtuber master of hyrule indicated in a post dating from april 2018 that some characters like duck hunt and shulk would return he also posted a small image of the battlefield stage seen from above showing that the stage would receive an update in the new smash soon after another youtuber gu king of heart would post a bigger image of the new battlefield design and claim that he got the information from the same source that told him about nintendo's set design of e3 2017. he also confirmed several props that be used by nintendo in their e3 2018's booth including bayonetta's boots link's master sword and captain falcon's helmet both posts were deleted soon after but were talked about heavily within the hardcore smash community some rumors were also published on 4chan including a post that indicated princess daisy and ridley would be revealed in the e3 presentation the anonymous poster would continue to provide accurate information revealing the game's title and release date they even correctly pointed out that bomberman would be an assist trophy which came as a shock to many fans perhaps the best known leak at the time was from a user on game fax named laws 18 he revealed that all the characters of the previous games would come back the inkling special moves and the changes to the zelda characters laws 18 was met with a lot of skepticism but his info turned out to be the real deal however later rumors from laws 18 would prove to be mostly inaccurate about the game's development vergeben was also gaining notoriety at this time he was famous for leaking details about other fighting games and for publishing rumors of a potential star fox racing game back in march 2018 he made a post claiming that he'd heard that tails phoenix wright zero and noctis would be joining smash as fighters info that would later be proven false later that same week he posted an update saying he heard ridley would be joining the roster and that bandai namco would develop the title from one of his more credible sources in may he retracted his initial claims but doubled down on ridley and bandai namco's involvement he also added that simon belmont from castlevania would also be added to the game's roster and that there'd be no cuts from the previous entry all information that would later be confirmed however like other rumors from forgaben he wasn't the first to post this stealth 40k was actually the first to post that he'd heard simon belmont might be joining smash back in april 2018 a full month before forgaben made the claim stealth 40k also asserts that incineroar was one of the first characters leaked for smash ultimate all the claims of simon belmont joining smash would eventually be confirmed inadvertently by nintendo themselves a day before the august 2018 smash presentation an employee at nintendo accidentally renamed their youtube galaga medley to blood tears monster dance confirming the addition of castlevania to smash in the august 8th direct simon belmont krom dark samus king k rool and richter belmont were announced richter in particular shocked many nintendo fans as many were unaware who the character even was however chrome and dark samus were somewhat unexpected as ike and samus seemed to lose pallet swaps referencing these characters in the early demos of ultimate laws 18's reputation would reach an all-time high during this point on june 13th 2018 laws claimed that there'd be an august direct showcasing the start screen at options he also claimed that a tournament mode and two other models would be shown with one of them being the primary way to unlock characters the new mode wasn't shown but it wasn't enough to destroy laws's credibility a supposed dm leak between forgaben and laws 18 also gave laws more credibility in the conversation for gaben asked laws 18 if he'd heard that there wasn't going to be a donkey kong newcomer law said he doubted the claim implying he believed a dk newcomer was likely since king k rool was revealed at the end of the august direct laws 18's reputation was boosted among smash fans laza's reputation would take a huge hit after the september nintendo direct however which revealed isabelle as a newcomer he'd previously stated that skull kid from majora's mask would be a newcomer before the reveal he also stated he thought young link's final smash would be a fierce deity link transformation both pieces of info would later be proven false he ended up closing his account on game facts shortly after due to fear of nintendo ninjas despite these fears laws went on to open a twitter account under the same name and claimed that dixie kong and isaac would be playable he later retired from leaking after the direct he'd later make a post defending his record on smashboards and apologizing for his mistakes while laws 18 wouldn't be happy to see isabelle revealed for gaben was in july 2018 he posted on game facts that isabelle would be coming to the game later on reddit he claimed that he heard she was an echo fighter which proved to be incorrect before the august 2018 direct he also posted that a new pokemon would come from generation 7 and it wouldn't be decidueye lychen rock nor mimikyu after the august 2018 direct forgaben posted that ken from street fighter would join the roster and a character owned by square enix would also be included in the game's roster few were convinced however as many felt he was copying information from a neogaf user named whistleblank whistleblank posted a message in july 2018 stating that k rool simon belmont and isaac would be newcomers they also claimed that krom and soren would be echo fighters of ike and robin respectively and that ken and an unknown character from square enix would join the battle while some of their info turned out to be true the pokemon series eventually got a newcomer and isaac and soren were missing from the game's final roster whistleblank then deleted their account but some similarly named accounts appeared making various amendments to the claims and it's unknown if they were the same person there was another major rumor posted before the august 2018 direct that got a lot of attention an anonymous poster on 4chan claimed to have a demo of smash and data mined it the post originated from july 1st and stated that richter would be joining the smash roster in addition to k-rool and dark samus the post also claimed that gardevoir gothitel and a second mario character like paper mario would be joining the roster since richter was seen as an unlikely character by many smash fans the rumor gained significant traction among the fanbase in the end this rumor would be false as gardevoir gothitel and another mario didn't join the roster on august 29th another user claimed to have the demo of smash and was filming new footage from it however upon closer inspection it was revealed that they were using footage filmed from their play time at ceo and using dummy accounts to request certain footage that they'd then publish to boost their credibility another post on 4chan from july 25th claimed that gino celica simon belmont and isabelle would be added to the game celica and geno would be missing from the game's final roster proving this rumor false another post from september 2018 claimed isabel canon and cineror would be in the game and asserted that skull kid and geno wouldn't be fighters this post would end up being technically true but it's unknown if they were piggybacking off other leaks there were a few image leaks suggesting gino would be a newcomer the smug geno leak became a bit of a meme in the smash community upon closer inspection the image was found to be just an edited image of gino from project m gino wasn't the only character that got a hoax during this time reddit user cam tunist made a fake pokefloats2 leak also in september featuring skull kid and bandana d the post fooled a few in the smash community but people like push dustin pointed out there were several lighting and size discrepancies suggesting the photos had been altered in fall 2018 many fans believed karate joe from rhythm heaven was coming to smash as a fighter this is because during king k rool's reveal trailer donkey kong struck a pose resembling an image of karate joe this was even covered by outlets such as game explain bringing more awareness to the potential nod this led to a number of rhythm heaven hoaxes such as one that showed karate joe without a shadow there was even a 4chan post that sought to recreate the setup for memory post suggesting rhythm heaven would get a new character however as push dustin pointed out on twitter several aspects of the images showed it was fake like different lighting the emblem's poor design and the dubious nature in which it was uploaded in the end all of these images were false rhythm heaven was also featured in another 4chan fake that gained a lot of attention from the smash community in a post that closely resembled a smash for 3ds leak renders of agnes from bravely default shadow the hedgehog the chorus kids skull kid isabelle isaac and ken could supposedly be seen however there were a number of issues with the images including agnes name being spelt wrong and her hair being parted differently from her official artwork the art was actually made by twitter user leppy peppy fans didn't just look at the poses of characters to get hints about who was joining smash they even judged the decor to determine who was coming next some fans convinced themselves that sakurai hinted at k-rool being in the game before his reveal and began looking at the august direct for other hints some fans thought the color of the chairs seen in the august direct indicated that waluigi or skull kid would come to smash in the end this was just another example of fans reading too much into things and grasping at straws in september 2018 the japanese magazine corocoro mistakenly reported that smash ultimate would have 108 stages when the game launched in the previous august direct sakurai showed off the stage select screen with 103 stages this led to some believing that 5 additional series would be revealed with additional stages september 2018 was a long month for smash fans despite isabelle being confirmed for the roster smash speculation was at an all-time high with intense discussion on who else will be joining the roster on september 14th 2018 amazon posted images of the smash ultimate bundle seemingly confirming that the roster would only have two more characters revealed this was deduced by the pattern that the characters were in which seemed to alternate between two sides of the packaging this led to an intense debate on what became known as box theory just a few days later a more optimistic theory emerged duck meat and sabi proposed blog theory which calculated the rate that characters were announced to predict just how many characters were left by their estimates there were six characters left however a major issue with this theory is that it assumed the rate of character announcements would stay consistent which they never did in any of the smash speculation periods before despite its obvious flaws the box versus blog theory became a huge focal point in the community on september 14 2018 a reddit user named noah testy leaked several details about smash ultimate in their posts they claim to be a play tester for ultimate they stated that ken and incineroar would be the base roster's final two characters and spirits were similar to brawl's stickers they also claimed that piranha plant was going to be the game's first dlc character and the plant wouldn't utilize a fireball in their moveset they also claimed the internal name of ultimate was cross2 after they made three posts on reddit noah testy stopped posting and hasn't used the account since all of their posts would be confirmed legitimate after the game's final presentation on september 22nd 2018 an image of ken giving a thumbs up was uploaded to the internet it showed ivysaur pichu and pac-man all using their up taunts on the morey tower stage in what appears to be a debug mode fans realize the odd clipping of ken and pac-man's right feet were issues in the actual game giving the screenshot legitimacy while nintendo never commented on the image its validity was confirmed in the final smash presentation two days later a 4chan post claimed incineroar ken and piranha plant were an ultimate and piranha plant would be in a vehicle similar to bowser jr while piranha plant uses a pipe or a pot it's unclear if this was legitimate or piggybacking off other leaks despite sakurai saying there wouldn't be a lot of characters left to reveal in the august 2018 direct fans were still expecting more all of this came to its epic conclusion right before the presentation that would reveal the final two characters incineroar and ken the grinch leak was a hoax that went viral originally posted at the end of october 2018 showcasing banjo and kazooie chorus kids gino isaac ken and shadow as part of artwork that resembled the smash brothers everyone is here mural the image was uploaded to snapchat and then 4chan where it quickly spread across the internet the reason it's called the grinch leak is because it featured artwork for merchandise relating to the grinch movie which is one of the reasons why so many people believed it internet detectives hypothesized that the image came from a french company marina plv which had worked with bandai namco in the past all of these characters were believable to a certain degree none of them at that point were shown as assist trophies and some were characters sakurai had considered at one point or another papagino is a youtuber who covers smash leaks and rumors was certain of banjo's inclusion due to a source he had so he backed the leak liam robertson contacted the artist who was supposedly responsible for the image which led to the artist denying any involvement this led to a civil war in the smash community as some people claimed the images were legitimate while others claimed they were false however the internet's collective dreams would be destroyed just two weeks later when the rest of the game's roster was officially announced disproving the grinch hoax once and for all forgaben came out against the grinch hoax stating that he'd heard isaac was an assist trophy not a playable character he also stated that a new square enix character was coming but said it was possible he was moved to dlc for gaben would also claim that minecraft would see representation in the base game after the game was released he suggested that we could see minecraft content for dlc but ever since he made that post no minecraft content has appeared in smash ultimate the grinch hoax was probably based on an earlier rumor nicknamed the chad ganondorf this was a post that originated on 4chan back in september 2018 and featured mostly the same info in the grinch hoax it's currently unknown who is responsible for the doctored images in the final smash presentation nintendo revealed that ultimate would be getting dlc and the piranha plant would be the game's first post-launch character however two weeks before ultimate was set to be released a leaked copy appeared online this was because the game was sold early somewhere in mexico some players downloaded a copy of the game and beat it revealing all of the game's contents early nintendo tried taking down videos showcasing the game's story and music through dmca takedowns however information quickly spread across the internet including the game's cutscenes there's been many rumors about the dlc for smash ultimate hitagi a contactor for gaben claimed the game would see a grand blue character most likely catalina hitaghi also claimed that steve would be coming to ultimate which vergan initially supported the rumor was proven entirely false as grand blue didn't receive any characters in fighter pass one in november 2018 forgaben would double down about minecraft representation in smash stating there'd be a boss battle however no evidence to support this claim has ever been found after banjo's reveal forgaben stated minecraft would see representation with the first dlc pass which was also false on october 11 2018 japanese twitter user milk bosatu posted that a vr mode would come to ultimate they also claimed that dragon quest's hero and a fighting game character would come to smash in particular they stated that the hero wouldn't have any female alts and that a fighting game character would be coming as dlc in december they claimed the fighting game character would be female and that she'd utilize flying weapons this wouldn't come true as terry was revealed as the game's fifth post-launch character milk bosatu wasn't the only one who leaked a vr mode to smash ultimate papagino's started reporting on information that was obtained by a source named vr plant they claimed to be the same person that posted details about ridley and daisy's inclusion on 4chan before the e3 2018 presentation the source would leak various upcoming releases to papa gino's including hero's release date an anonymous poster on 4chan stated that dragon quest banjo-kazooie doomguy and monster hunter would be part of the season pass this was notable as it was the only instance of someone correctly guessing all the alts for the dragon quest hero while the first two would come true the other characters wouldn't be part of the pass sticky.smt on twitter would later claim that they made the post and that they guessed the alts for hero there was also a theory that the dlc characters were inadvertently leaked by google adwords this was first proposed by duck mead and other users on papagino's discord server users found that by typing banjo kazooie ryu hayabusa doomslayer and artorius on google it would show an ad for the smash brothers website however it was revealed that anyone could buy an ad on google and the theory was proven false with hero's reveal on december 10 2018 an anonymous poster on five channel a japanese equivalent to 4chan posted that joker would come to smash they stated that mementos would be the stage and that jack frost would appear in their move set they stated that persona 5 r would be a deluxe version of persona 5 and that persona 5u was a fighting game while the poster correctly predicted the stage and character the other info was mostly false another poster on 5 channel claimed that erdrich from dragon quest ryu hayabusa from ninja gaiden steve from minecraft and the doom guy were the characters for the smash ultimate fighter pass won before terry's release there was a 4chan post claiming geese heihachi lloyd irving and hollow knight would come as weak costumes with an online mode called slipspace they also claim that doomslayer was in the past and geno and frogger would be extra dlc characters this turned out to be inaccurate there's been several accurate leaks about the first fighter pass for ultimate right before the game's release persona 5's joker was announced at the game awards to the surprise of many when the game was released data miners were unable to uncover a couple of code names for upcoming characters they discovered pakon jack and brave similarly mementos was accidentally leaked as joker stage through an oversight that led to unrelated strings being left over in the game's compiler there were also unused strings that suggested joker would get an alt costume featuring a ponytail however joker didn't get ponytails and the data is nowhere to be found when he was released since then the oversight has been fixed modes that were added through dlc were also data mined early files named how to play stage builder and how to play home run were found back in march 2019 nintendo accidentally showed off stage builder in an ad published on april 16th with the mode being officially revealed the next day on march 31st 2019 best buy accidentally published joker's render for smash ahead of its official announcement this led to speculation that joker would be released soon after the render was removed from the ad the next day and joker was officially shown on april 17th reset era admin shinobi hinted at banjo's inclusion in smash a full week before their reveal on june 5th 2019 he posted been a while since we saw banjo in anything hope were in for a smashing good time tansut who previously leaked cloud's presence in smash for 3ds and wii u also hinted that dragon quest would be getting a character they reportedly heard that info back in december 2018. there was also a rumor by one of papagino's discord mods paragon dubbed the paraleak they claimed the first fighter pass would include joker luminary banjo frisk and waluigi where exactly they got this info is unknown but the rumor gained significant traction after hiro and banjo-kazooie were revealed at e3 however this rumor would be proven false with terry's reveal and sans inclusion as a me fighter costume nintendo of europe updated the page for the fourth fighter in the past to include an snk copyright on september 1st 2019 before terry was announced they took down the copyright but terry was confirmed as a fighter just three days later on the same day a 7-eleven ad went up showcasing banjo and kazooie it was thought that banjo would be released before the ad was changed and banjo was before baileth was revealed as the final character for fighter pass one there were many rumors about who would end the pass starting from november 2019 and lasting until january for gaben and sabi would post almost weekly update on who the character wasn't this drew in a lot of criticism as they never stated who the character was forgaben would also walk back some of his previous claims stating that his source was mistaken before the presentation forgaben would post the me fighter costumes at least indicating he knew some information in advance however it's unclear if he or his sources knew the character as early as november 2019. as for bilif's reveal sakurai announced that six more characters would be coming as dlc for ultimate meaning the speculation and rumors cycle will continue until december 2021 although many rumors have been confirmed or disproven one image has constantly stumped smash fans a video appeared online showing the kaku demon from doom and melo from super mario rpg is me costume heads initially it was thought that it'd be impossible to mod new me costumes in the game giving the potential video leak some credibility however it was found that meat costumes could be modded thus raising some suspicion if it was credible what's more is that ken shoryuken does 0.7 percent difference in damage suggesting the balance was altered as of this video it's unknown if this was an elaborate hoax or if they were actual leaks after min min's reveal there was a fake 4chan post that spread across the smash community however when attempting to search for the post it was revealed that the image was fake [Music] did you know the character wilbur will occasionally spell out words on the native phonetic alphabet where words are used to communicate a letter but there's a slight secret in his dialogue when wilbur spells out the word now he says november oscar whisker in real life the nato phonetic word for the letter w isn't whisker it's whiskey this was clearly changed to remove any reference to alcohol but this isn't the only secret surrounding wilbur wilber and his brother orville are clearly named after orville and wilbur wright inventors of the airplane wilbur's birth date is even december 17th a reference to the day the wright brothers conducted the first ever flight of the wright flyer in 1903 however their names in the japanese game reference something else entirely wilbur's japanese name is rodri a shortening of rodriguez this is the name of an island which was once home to a relative of the dodo the rodriguez solitaire in japan the rodriguez solitaire is known as the rodriguez dodo strengthening this connection orville's name on the other hand is mori taken from the word mauritius an island nation where dodos once roamed in the spanish version of new horizons the villager raymond is named narciso one interpretation of the word is a spanish name for the ancient greek figure narcissus narcissus was self-obsessed as the origin of the word narcissism the game's spanish localizers may have included this reference due to raymond's smug personality the villager sherb also has nods to greek mythology in other languages in the german game he's called morpheus referencing the greek god of the same name associated with sleep and dreams cj's italian and french names castorino and pollux respectively also reference mythology they're named after the twins castor and pollux from greek and roman mythology who are considered the twin sons of zeus or jupiter interestingly caster is also the scientific name for the beaver genus on the flip side cj's name in japanese is justin this would make him justin the beaver likely a nod to canadian singer-songwriter justin bieber on top of this beavers are often associated with canada as is justin bieber the villager sid is named ponkasu or punks in japan this name seems to have influenced a few references in other versions of the game firstly his name in the english russian dutch german and italian versions is likely a nod to punk rock star sid vicious of sex pistols fame the spanish version of the game takes a different direction however naming him ramon after punk rock band the ramones and perhaps its lead singer joey ramone audi's name is a variation of monica in most language versions of new horizons this isn't the case with her english name however which is likely a nod to a real-life person and this time someone in the animal crossing community audrey is an 87 year old grandma who went viral on twitter in early 2019 after her grandson tweeted out her impressive 3580 hour play time in animal crossing new leaf in the game audrey adopted the username audi as she played since this is such a unique name it's highly likely that someone at nintendo wanted to reward her dedication by referencing her new horizons there are some other interesting secrets about the franchise's villagers in an interview with gamecult new horizons developers explain that when brainstorming ideas for new characters the team thinks about the character's role in the game before any designs are made after landing on a roll they choose the most appropriate species of animal this is how it was done even in the first animal crossing with one example being blathers since owls are often associated with wisdom the museum curator role was made now production on animal crossing new horizons began right after the release of animal crossing new leaf in 2012 before the team even knew the nintendo switch existed the first decision made was to set the game on a deserted island according to new horizons director aya kigoku this was meant to shake the series up kigoku said when we started developing new horizons we felt that if we didn't change the elements of players moving to a village nothing would really change even the interaction with animals wouldn't change either this wasn't the only thing they wanted to shake up in older games in the series there wasn't much for players to do at night as shops would close and villagers would go to bed this was one reason crafting mechanics were added to new horizons because the mechanic can be used at all hours players would have more to do even while shops and characters were inaccessible another reason was to give players more customization options during development the team also learned that in prior animal crossing titles some fans would reset their game multiple times until they found the town layout that they liked in light of this the team added the ability to terraform the island just like crafting terraforming was designed to be accessible at any time of the day these mechanics pushed players to engage more of the island as a whole rather than focusing on just their homes or villagers another change was the inclusion of nook miles which were designed to slowly introduce each of the game's mechanics so as not to overwhelm new players they were also designed to tempt existing players out of their old playing habits and experiment with playing the game in different ways tying the game to the real time clock enables players to time travel where a player changes their switch's clock to skip ahead in the game and access future events early for new horizons however nintendo chose to add seasonal events as dlc instead of having the events built in this means players can't time travel to access seasonal events which led many to assume that nintendo implemented this change to curb time traveling this doesn't seem to be the case however as both kyogoku and new horizons producer hisashi nogami have gone on record saying they don't consider time traveling cheating these developers also explained how some features were inspired by the failings of past animal crossing games the local multiplayer mode in new horizons party play is an idea the team wanted to have in city folk back on the wii after the wii game was released the team realized they could have included some sort of simultaneous play on a single console with two wii remotes when it came time to make new horizons the team made sure to include this decade old idea although there were some concerns that new horizons sales numbers would be hurt by the kovid 19 pandemic the game sold a stunning 1.88 million copies in japan within its first three days this beat out the switch's thin record holder pokemon sword and shield by roughly half a million units this doesn't even include digital sales of the game new horizons also bumped up sales on nintendo's switch and switched light consoles in japan by over 585 percent worldwide new horizons launch week sales beat those of all other animal crossing game launches combined although worldwide sales were high new horizons hasn't been approved by the chinese government to be officially sold in the country this didn't stop retailers and resellers on chinese auction sites from imported copies of the game however initially sales seemed to be accepted by the chinese government but due to the kovid 19 situation many pro-democracy protesters in hong kong couldn't continue their demonstrations in public instead the protesters began using new horizons as a digital space to facilitate their protests and communicate with other protesters in response the chinese government banned stores from selling new horizons in early april according to reports the ban also covers new horizons themed switches and the game's merchandise but hong kong and chinese gamers haven't let that stop them they've resorted to buying new horizons from nintendo's e-shop digitally through different regions some have even privately reached out to sellers to buy copies of the game under the table they aren't the only group taking animal crossing seriously however with new horizons turnip market becoming just as serious as wall street's to some for those unaware players can buy turnips and new horizons every sunday which can be sold throughout the week ideally for a profit however turnips will rot the following sunday making them worthless the buying price of turnips changes twice daily leading to a high-stakes game where players can land huge profits or losses the uncertain nature of the market has prompted players to band together in an attempt to game the system for instance the subreddit r ac turnips allows users to post their town's turnip prices and set up visits to sell turnips usually in exchange for tips in the form of bells items or mystery island tickets others like tom riley and his co-workers use slack an app designed for employees to communicate online riley's server has a customized bot that alerts everyone if a member's turn-up prices are over 200 bells continually updating turnip prices on slack has become part of the daily routine for many members of the group opening your island's airport to fellow turnip traders isn't without risk however some players have experienced turnip traders stealing items from their island or have been scammed to combat this some players have actually hired others to act as security guards on their island crowdsourcing good turn-up prices is only one tactic players have used others have turned to coding price prediction calculators such as asdturnip.com in hopes of forecasting their town's turnip prices in advance [Music] new horizons was intended to bring friends and their communities together and managed to bring two specific communities together in a way that shocked its developers fan art depicting animal crossings isabel with the main character of the doom series flooded the internet in the days leading up to new horizons and doom eternal shared march 20th 2020 release date even doom's official twitter account joined in on the fun when the phenomenon came to the attention of new horizons team they were awestruck by the creativity and popularity of the pairing nagami celebrated with the isabel and doomslayer crossover meant for gaming at large telling ign obviously the game's genres are completely different it's so great to see that two different fandoms are coming together and hyping up the gaming community and gaming culture itself it's a really great thing to see the doom twitter account wasn't the only one won over by new horizons xbox's official twitter account posted custom xbox themed animal crossing clothing for fans to download and wear this followed microsoft's executive vice president of gaming phil spencer sharing a tweet of twitter user eye gaze eyegazegirl aka becky becky is an ambassador for special effect a charity focused on leveling the playing field for gamers with disabilities becky had connected an xbox adaptive controller to her nintendo switch which allowed her to remap the switch's controls to allow her to play new horizons using just her head [Music] did you know about a third of the levels in new super lucky's tale are built in a 2d style which is an idea carried over from a previous game in the series the idea for these 2d levels comes from the original lucky's tale which was an oculus rift exclusive 2d levels were put in the game to give players a short break from lucky's tales fully 3d levels which might be overwhelming to some players using vr before lucky's tale vr games were typically first person as this was assumed the best way to have an immersive vr environment however the developers at playful studios wanted to try their hand at a third person game in the medium and based lucky's tale on a few prototypes they'd made platformers typically have appealing worlds that are easy to be immersed in even on a flat tv screen and playful wanted to see how this would translate to a vr experience they also wanted the game's character to recognize the player's presence and look at the player as they played reacting to their movements lots of different characters were prototyped before the team decided on lucky being a fox while working on the original vr prototype the team had a placeholder capsule character that run around the game world this capsule was later changed to a humanoid so developers got a better sense of the character's movement at one point playful even experimented with a three-eyed alien with overalls as the main character they ultimately decided to base the character on an animal and explored several mammal-based designs including a raccoon a squirrel and a lemur this was because the game was vr and the team wanted the character to seem like a stuffed animal as if a teddy bear had come to life even after deciding that lucky would be a fox the character had several major redesigns before his final iteration disney characters were a large inspiration for lucky's design as they have a timeless quality to them director dan hurd elaborated telling did you know gaming we wanted lucky to have a timeless design and appeal and so we looked at characters that had that particular feel to them mickey and mario were standout references for us for those reasons when playful got the chance to make super lucky's tale on the xbox one the team saw it as an opportunity to bring the franchise to a new audience they furthered this ambition when they set up a meeting with nintendo heard told us we approached nintendo with an early playable version of super lucky's tale running on the switch and they thought it was a great idea from there the team thought about what product we were passionate about launching on the switch and the completely reimagined new super lucky's tale was born microsoft who originally published the game on xbox one and pc were supportive of playful's choice 2 recognizing that a switch release might bring new players into the market and heighten franchise awareness while making the game playful look to titles like super mario 64 mario galaxy crash bandicoot clinoa rocket knight sonic ratchet and clank and even obscure games like jumping flash for inspiration the developers were also heavily inspired by games developed by rare character interactions and dialogue in particular were based on interactions with characters in rare games like banjo-kazooie lucky himself also takes some cues from other characters for example lucky's kick attack was inspired by the kick attack and battle toads lucky's movements were also inspired by real-life foxes the team wanted to emphasize the character's tale so a swipe attack was added lucky's burrowing came about thanks to a video of a fox bounding up and down in the snow as well as another video where a fox jumps on a trampoline these examples were very smooth and flowy and lined up with the direction playful wanted for the character like all video games several ideas for lucky's tale didn't make the final game including some abilities dan hurd told us there was a feature i would have liked to include called fox sense that would help lucky find additional hidden treasures and secret paths i'm hoping to revisit that idea someday i also think there's tons of potential in the burrow and slide that we're excited to continue to explore several characters were cut or drastically changed as well the developers even made a music video memorializing a character called cucumber man who was just barely cut from the game there's also some spiky fish the team called fugu that can only be seen in the intro of the original release of super lucky's tale regarding characters that were altered the wriggle enemy originally had a creepier design with a more human face the yeti characters that live in restful retreat were once holiday-obsessed displaced snow yetis rather than the peaceful wrestlers they are in the final game the game had several unused ideas for kitty litter boss concepts and the game's main antagonist jinx was once a strange hairless cat in a robotic exoskeleton the team also had unused ideas for an entire robot civilization of which chip one of their guardians is a part of the developers at playful lived up to their namesake by including a fair amount of easter eggs and references in the various versions of super lucky's tale the xbox one and pc versions have several achievements that reference other pieces of media the achievement gotta go fast is a nod to sonic the hedgehog the simi roland references the song by chameleon air and the fox and the pound is a pun on disney's the fox and the hound several easter eggs are spread throughout the game's foxington area including one easter egg that has a special significance for playful the arcade machine in the tree house has the initials jpr under the high score this was in honor of a make-a-wish recipient named jimmy who visited playful studios the machine and initials are there to commemorate that visit and the fun playful had helping jimmy fulfill his wish another easter egg can be found in the treehouse in foxington where a tiny leafy sits on a shelf this is from one of playful's other titles the sandbox survival game creativeverse there's also a tiny water well in this area which represents an epic clash director dan hurd and art director matt burke had over the original lucky's tale heard decided to take the well out of lucky's tale because it didn't follow the team's goal that every prop in a level must have an interactive element to it since then burke and the rest of the art team have delighted in putting the well wherever they can get away with you

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Published: Sun Dec 06 2020