Trivia / Transformers: Devastation

• Creator-Driven Successor: This game is a Bayonetta title in all but name given that it has the same development team and inherits many of its mechanics such as slowing time by dodging, fast-paced combos, and secret levels.
• Development Gag: Shockwave's ability to clone himself is taken directly from the original production bible of the original TV series.
• Dummied Out: Ratbat would've joined the rest of Soundwave's Mini-Cassettes in his boss fights, but is absent save for an unused model in the data◊.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Fell into this when Activision's Transformers license expired in 2017.
• No Export for You: Despite being PlatinumGames' domestic market and part of Transformers's origin, this game is not officially localized to Japanese although it's available in many outlets.
• The Other Darrin: While many voice actors from the original cartoon reprised their roles for the game, several are replaced.
  • Quite a few of the other voice actors had passed on between the cartoon and the game, requiring new voice actors for the game. This includes Scott Whyte, Christopher Swindle, and Steve Blum replacing Chris Latta in the respective roles of Starscream, Wheeljack, and Defensor; Liam O'Brien replacing Roger Carmel as Motormaster; James Arnold Taylor replacing Carmel and Regis Cordic as Menasor; André Sogliuzzo replacing Don Messick and John Stephenson as Scavenger and Thundercracker respectively; and Jamieson Price and Dave Boat replacing Ed Gilbert in the respective roles of Superion and Blitzwing.
  • A number of voice actors who were still alive at the time the game was in development also didn't return. This includes Neil Ross being replaced by Blum and Price as Bonecrusher and Hook respectively, Arthur Burghardt being replaced by Boat as Devastator, and Corey Burton being replaced by Darryl Kurylo as Shockwave.
  • In one case, the voice actor is present, but replaced for a good chunk of his roles, anyway: as in Transformers: Prime, Frank Welker only reprises his roles as Megatron and Soundwave, being replaced as Skywarp and Rumble by Whyte, Mixmaster by Price, and Frenzy by Swindle.^note Welker also voiced Superion in "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2", before the late Ed Gilbert took over the role. This may have something to due with voice actor union rules requiring more payment if a voice actor performs for more than three characters.
• Pre-Order Bonus: Pre-ordering would net you exclusive weapons and skins for Optimus, Sideswipe, and Bumblebee; Nemesis Prime wielding the Dark Star Saber, Red Alert, who Sideswipe's toy was retooled into, and "Goldfire", aka Goldbug, the form Bumblebee was rebuilt late into the original series (and renamed for trademark purposes). These were later made available as paid DLC.
• Promoted Fanboy: Apparently, a number of Platinum employees are longtime Transformers fans.
• Role Reprise: As fitting a return to Generation 1, we have Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, Frank Welker as Megatron and Soundwave, Dan Gilvezan as Bumblebee, Gregg Berger as Grimlock and Long Haul, and Michael Bell as Sideswipe and Scrapper.

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