Bits and Pieces of Video Game Trivia: EXP Share 6

Image from Megami Tensei WIKI.

It’s that time again where I answer the monthly EXP Share from DanamesX. The prompt for this month is Share A Piece or Pieces of Trivia About One Of Your Favorite Games. For more information be sure to visit the prompt post. I will be talking about video game trivia from several games since this is allowed. Each game will be clearly labeled.

Final Fantasy VII

This piece of video game trivia is probably known by a lot of people already but this pertains to the first boss in Final Fantasy VII. Did you know that a line that Cloud says during the boss is the result of a mistranslation? During the fight the boss brings up its tail and Cloud says to attack while the tail is up. This is wrong though as doing that will result in getting hit with a counter attack.

“A misleading battle message has Cloud tell the player to attack Guard Scorpion while its tail is raised, but doing so will cause it to always use Tail Laser, which deals a large amount of damage to both Cloud and Barret. This is its only strong attack.”

Information from Final Fantasy WIKI

Persona 3

I have a couple pieces of video game trivia to share from this game. Did you know that Persona 3 was originally going to be a top down style game? That’s right Persona 3 was originally designed to be a top down style game instead of the 3D style that we have in the final product. There is a great video on YouTube that goes way more in depth and you can find it below. It’s 14 minutes so you might want to open it in YouTube or save the video or later.

Persona 3 as well as Persona 4 are the only games in the numbered series where you cannot talk to enemies. In Persona 1, 2, and 5 all have the ability to communicate with enemies to do things such as asking for money.

Persona 3 was also the only game in the series to have a playable female character with different social links than her male counter part. This character can only be picked in the PSP version Persona 3 Portable. She also has a different battle theme.

Continuing on the topic of Persona 3 Portable, did you know that this version of the game was missing several key features that the ps2 version had? P3P was missing the after story content called The Answer that Persona 3 FES had.

P3P was also missing fusion spells that were present in the original game. Fusion spells were usable when you had two or three specific Personas in your stock in the ps2 versions of the game. If you use cheats to get all the items in P3P one can find items with the names of fusion spells, they are also usable in combat. I am unsure as to why the spells did not make it into the final version of the game. If you would like to read my thoughts on Persona 3 you can do so through this post.

Persona 5

Now for some interesting video game trivia from Persona 5. If you have played Persona 5 you are very well acquainted with the characters. Did you know that the shogi player Hifumi Togo was originally supposed to be a member of the Phantom Thieves? They ended up not adding her due to the amount of characters already in the base game. Below is an amazing video that does a deep dive into the changes throughout development of Persona 5. It’s about a hour long so you might want to open it in YouTube or save the video or later.

Pokemon Black and White

This piece of video game trivia might be an obscure one. In certain locations in Pokemon Black and White there are trainers that change the direction they are looking. When you run with the running shoes they immediately run towards you. Did you know that just pressing the B button causes them to change direction?

Conclusion

One again thank you all for reading. One again if you would like to have more information on the prompt or EXP shares in general, visit DanamesX’s blog talesfromthebacklog.blog. If you have any video game trivia to share feel free to comment below. As usual you can keep up with me on Twitter @realgamerwithg1.