History Trivia / ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse

* IKnewIt:
** [[spoiler:Well before release, fans guessed that YHVH would return and sure enough]].
** Some players of the previous game suspected that [[spoiler: Nanashi would be the reincarnation of Akira in the present]].

* RelationshipVoiceActor: [[Creator/HiroShimono Nanashi]] and [[Creator/KenjiroTsuda Krishna]] are once again opposing each other, but this time not in a [[VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney courtroom]]. Also, [[Creator/MisakiKuno Toki]] is Watson's daughter.

** An [[http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Tb6NdME7S4 unused dialogue clip]] (that was even dubbed!) indicates Shesha was going to be obtainable by the player at some point.

* NamesTheSame:
** Asahi: Your childhood friend, or a beer brand?
** No one steals Press Turns like [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]!

** While ''SMTIV'' was released with a two-month export turnaround between Japan and North America, with Europe getting it much later, ''SMTIVA'' has the opposite problem, with North America getting it seven months after Japan, but PAL regions only needing to wait two months after North America.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: [[Creator/HiroShimono Nanashi]] and [[Creator/KenjiroTsuda Krishna]] are once again opposing each other, but this time not in a [[VisualNovel/DaiGyakutenSaibanNaruhodouRyuunosukeNoBouken courtroom]]. Also, [[Creator/MisakiKuno Toki]] is Watson's daughter.

** And averted once again for the regions forgotten since the previous game, like most of Central and South America, who couldn't even acquire the DLC due to region barriers, much less purchase the game digitally.

* IKnewIt: [[spoiler:Well before release, fans guessed that YHVH would return and sure enough]].

* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/KarenStrassman took over for Creator/LauraBailey as Nozomi and Sean Chiplock from Creator/LiamOBrien as Navarre.

** No one steals Press Turns like [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]!

* NoExportForYou: [[DefiedTrope Averted]] since publisher Deep Silver will bring this game to PAL territories.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: [[Creator/HiroShimono Nanashi]] and [[Creator/KenjiroTsuda Krishna]] are once again opposing each other, but this time not in a [[VideoGame/DaiGyakutenSaibanNaruhodouRyuunosukeNoBouken courtroom]]. Also, [[Creator/MisakiKuno Toki]] is Watson's daughter.

** ActorAllusion: Strassman is voicing yet another [[VideoGame/Persona3 blond gunwielder]] in an Atlus series.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The game started as an UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', until the production staff realized they had so much new content and so many new ideas they needed an entirely new game to fit them all.

* CastingGag: Double as an ActorAllusion for DC Douglas since he played Wesker, a villain who wants to have powers of a god. In the game, he plays the Norse god Odin. Despite being a real god, he's beaten by Nanashi and his allies.

** And averted once again for the regions forgotten since the previous game, like most of Central and South America, who couldn't even acquire the DLCs due to region barriers, much less purchase the game digitally.

* NoExportForYou: [[DefiedTrope Averted]] since publisher Deep Silver will bring this game to PAL territories

* While ''SMTIV'' was released with a two-month export turnaround between Japan and North America, with Europe getting it much later, ''SMTIVA'' has the opposite problem, with North America getting it seven months after Japan, but PAL regions only needing to wait two months after North America.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: DLC marks the international debut of [[spoiler:Aleph, protagonist of ''II'', as his game never got released outside of Japan]]. Barely averted with [[spoiler:the Hero and En no Ozuno, as ''I'' was released on Apple products internationally a few years prior to ''Apocalypse]].

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: DLC marks the first international debut of [[spoiler:Aleph, protagonist of ''II'', as his game never got released outside of Japan]]. Barely averted with [[spoiler:the Hero and En no Ozuno, as ''I'' was released on Apple products internationally a few years prior to ''Apocalypse]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The game started as an UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', until the production staff realized they had so much new content and so many new ideas they needed an entirely new game to fit them all.

** ActorAllusion: Strassman is voiced yet another [[VideoGame/Persona3 blond gunwielder]] in an Atlus series.

* TheOtherDarrin: Karen Strassman took over for Laura Bailey as Nozomi and Sean Chiplock from Liam 'O Brien as Navarre.

* NoExportForYou: No official word on a release for PAL territories yet.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Dagda, [[Creator/ShuichiIkeda HE IS A CHAR!]]
** [[Creator/KenjiroTsuda Krishna]] is [[{{Naruto}} Aoba Yamashiro]], [[Anime/YuGiOh Seto Kaiba]], and [[Anime/TigerAndBunny Fire Emblem]].
** [[Creator/AtsushiMiyauchi ODIN]] [[Movie/TheAvengers IS STRONGEST THERE IS!!!]]
** [[Creator/HiroShimono Nanashi]] is [[Anime/AttackOnTitan Conny Springer]], [[LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts Akihisa Yoshii]], [[Anime/RahXephon Ayato Kamina]], [[Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows Keima Katsuragi]], [[VideoGame/ResonanceOfFate Zephyr]], and [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld Emil Castsgnier]].
** [[Creator/MichikoKaiden Miroku]] is [[Anime/AttackOnTitan Rico Brzenska]].
** [[Creator/TakeshiMaeda Gaston]] is [[Anime/YuGiOhGX Zane]]. [[Creator/ToshikiMasuda Hallelujah]] is [[Anime/YuGiOhZexal Shark]].
** [[Creator/MieSonozaki Nozomi]] is [[SuddenlyVoiced now]] [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Crimson Viper]], [[{{Bayonetta}} Jeanne]], and the dub voices of [[Franchise/DisneyFairies Iridessa]], [[Movie/OpenSeason Giselle]], and [[VideoGame/SlyCooper Carmelita Fox]].
** [[Creator/MikiIto Danu]] is [[Anime/AhMyGoddess Lind]], [[Anime/DragonBallZ Android 18]], and the dub voice of [[{{DCAU}} Harley Quinn]].