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- Klonoa: Door to Phantomile has Balue's Tower, the Extra stage unlocked after finishing the game. A shining example of Suspicious Video-Game Generosity, you're often given anywhere from eight to ten extra lives at the beginning of nearly every room, and while the main game does expect you to get a proper handle of the grabbing/throwing mechanics to stay airborne, Balue's Tower expects you to do so many, many, many times consecutively, more often than not over One-Hit Kill fire, amidst orher precarious stunts. Your reward for finishing it is a unique cutscene that is quite funny, but might not be considered worth the trouble to a weary player. Despite its difficulty, the game incentivizes you to replay this stage via an on-screen clock that keeps track of your fastest clear time, and properly chaining grabs & throws over certain death can easily tread into Difficult, but Awesome territory.
for Reference Overdosed:
- Baseball Stars Professional has a greatly amusing amount of disregard for copyright, as evidenced by the members of the Fabulous Superstars: Rocky, Rambo, Batman, Bond, Tarzan, Ripley, Shane, Dragon, Indy, Madmax, Spock, Freddy, Vader, Jason, Axel, and Godzilla.
for Divorced Installment:
- Flying Dragon/Hiryuu no Ken games go here later
- also write on Rushing Beat
- Tomeko The Last Hope 2's English localization changes the warp points from hexagrams to pentagrams and the save points from crosses to crystal balls.
- Ryu's sole win quote in the international versions of Street Fighter II is the famous line "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance." In reality, "Sheng Long" is just part of the Chinese reading of Ryu and Ken's Shoryuken, 昇龍拳 (Shēng Lóng Quán), meaning "Rising Dragon Fist" - this was eventually corrected in the SNES port. However, players around the world speculated for years about who or what "Sheng Long" actually was, the most common beliefnote being that he was a Secret Character that could be fought and/or unlocked through fulfilling certain (usually inhumanly difficult) conditions. Had it not been for this simple mistranslation, actual future characters such as Akuma and Gouken would likely have never been conceived.
- The SNES shoot-em-up Bio Metal originally featured a decent (if not generic) techno soundtrack. However, when Activision picked up the publishing rights for the international releases, they replaced the entirety of the game's soundtrack with six tracks by the Dutch dance techno duo Two Unlimited. Additionally, the two main characters, David Onizuka and Cynthia Matthews, were renamed to the two members of the duo, Kid Ray and Anita. Rumors theorize that the two characters were originally intended to be changed to the members of 2 Unlimited themselves, but due to complications involving the rights to use their likenesses, they simply made their skin darker instead on top of the aforementioned name changes.
for That One Achievement:
- Special 8-Crown of Super Mario 3D Land, a Brutal Bonus Level that follows in the likes of The Perfect Run from Galaxy 2. Though it's already hard on its own, unlocking it in the first place puts a long road ahead of you: in order to do so, you need 100% Completion on every other level in the game, meaning you must collect every single Star Medal, complete every level as both Mario and Luigi, and finish every level with hitting the top of the flagpole. Very similar requirements are necessary to unlock World Crown in Super Mario 3D World, sans having to beat every level with every character since there are now five instead of just two (but you will have to do that to get every Stamp).
