Line #6 Trivia/ZoneOfTheEnders


1	* ActingForTwo: In ''The 2nd Runner'', Jehuty's and Anubis' A.I., ADA and DELPHI, share the same voice actress. Cynthia Marcucci and Yoshino Miki are their English and Japanese voice actresses, respectively.
2	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: In the English version of the first game, 14-year-old Leo Stenbuck was voiced by the then 14-year-old Remy Le Boeuf. In a rare VA example of an actor aging with the character, two years passed both in-universe and out between the release of the first game and its sequel, ''The 2nd Runner'', that Le Boeuf, having gone through puberty and his voice deepened, was able to reprise his role as the now 16-year-old Leo. Interestingly enough, this is [[AvertedTrope averted]] ''[[AvertedTrope hard]]'' by both of his Japanese actors, Hiroki Shimowada and Creator/KenichiSuzumura, who was 24 and 28-years-old at the time of recording the role for their respective games.
3	* DevelopmentHell: The "Enders Project", the ''Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner'' sequel, has been put on hold and has yet to resume. With the departure of series director Hideo Kojima from Konami, it will likely never be finished.
4	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Unlike the [=PlayStation=] 2 games, ''The Fist of Mars'' was never ported to any other system since its original release. Secondhand copies are on the pricy side and rare to find, with prices going upwards of $70 to $300 ''used''.
5	* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Some music from ''Zone of the Enders''[='=] soundtracks was reused in ''VideoGame/MetalGearOnline''; most notably "Vivid Transparency", heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6_mGzAvm0 here]]. This has led to a surprisingly large number of people wondering where someone got the notion that a ''Metal Gear'' track is from this game about flying, sword-fighting robots. Some of the music also got reused in the ''VideoGame/{{Bemani}}'' games.
6	* TheMerch: Aside from the games and anime, there are wall scrolls, soundtracks, art books, and other products. Special mention goes to the Toys/{{Revoltech}} figurines of Jehuty, Anubis, and the Vic Viper, as well as Kotobukiya's line of model kits.
7	* NoExportForYou: Prior to HD Collection's version of ''Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner'', a [[UpdatedRerelease Special Edition]] of the game was released in Japan and Europe, but strangely never to North America. The Special Edition featured some graphical and frame-rate improvements over the original game, new difficulty levels[[labelnote:*]](the Japanese version has an Extreme difficulty and a Super Hard difficulty in-between [[HarderThanHard Very Hard]] and [[NintendoHard Extreme]] mode, whereas the European version only gets the Extreme mode)[[/labelnote]], new cutscenes and battle sequences, an expanded Extra Mission mode, and sub-weapon tutorials for the VR Training. This changed though as the HD Collection includes the European version of the Special Edition of ''The 2nd Runner'' for the North American release.
8	** And there's the two [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition premium editions]] for the Japanese version of ''Zone of the Enders HD Edition'', which has ''two'' books instead of one from the overseas release, and a Blu-ray re-release of the ''[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Zone of the Enders: 2167 IDOLO]]'' [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] with the most expense of two packages.
9	* NoPortForYou: Although the ''M∀RS'' remaster of ''The 2nd Runner'' is available on [=PlayStation=] 4 and Windows, it was never ported to Xbox One or Xbox Series likely due to the HD Collection being backwards compatible and available digitally on those systems, and said consoles lacking any VR capabilities, which is one of the major selling points of the ''M∀RS'' remaster.
10	* TheOriginalDarrin: Leo was originally voiced by Creator/KenichiSuzumura for the pilot version of the first ''Zone of the Enders'' game, but was replaced by Hiroki Shimowada. When Leo returned in ''The 2nd Runner'', the role was given back to Suzumura.
11	* PreviewPiggybacking: The first ''Zone of the Enders'' was widely known for its inclusion of a demo for the highly-anticipated ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', which was the biggest reason many ''Metal Gear Solid'' fans bought the game. History repeated itself in 2012 with the HD Collection of the series, this time bundling an early demo of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' before it became available digitally.
12	* PromotedFanboy: Yoji Shinkawa, the series's mecha designer, grew up playing ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' and always envisioned the Vic Viper's two protruding front segments as legs on a TransformingMecha. He leapt at the opportunity to see this vision come to life when he included the Vic Viper in ''The 2nd Runner'' as Leo's mech.
13	* SameContentDifferentRating: Both ''[=ZoE=]'' games on the Platform/PlayStation2 received M for Mature ratings in the US, despite having precisely one bloody scene each between the two of them, no profanity, and no sexual content. When the ''HD Collection'' came out in the US, the version without the ''Metal Gear Rising'' demo received a somewhat-more-sane Teen rating. Similarly, the [=PS4=] and PC re-release of the second game, having no connection to ''Metal Gear'', has a T rating.
14	* {{Vaporware}}: The Platform/PlayStationVita version of the ''Zone of the Enders HD'' collection has been [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVI4P6I3JQ announced]] at the Tokyo Game Show in 2011, and no word has been said regarding it since.
15	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Several design sketches show unused designs for some of the frames. For example, the Raptor was initially supposed to be dual-wielding katana-like weapons, instead of having them grafted on to their arms; as well as unused names for most frames, if the HD Edition's Special Art Book is to be believed, at least. For example:
16	** ''Jehuty'' went through several name changes, from ''New Eden'' to names such as ''Exodus'', ''The Whisper'', ''Vision Divine'', ''Lightning'' and ''[[OddNameOut Megadriver]]''.
17	** Similarly, ''Tempest'' had the names ''Faust'', ''I-Vanvo'', ''Epusutain'', ''Vadourv'', ''Devionario'', ''Manonresco'' and ''Volpone'' before settling on Tempest.

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