Trivia / Dark Souls II

• Ascended Glitch: using the Small White Soapstone while Hollowed and successfully helping the host would occasionally result in the player being revived as human. This was an unintentional bug, but the effect became so popular that FROM opted to make it a full feature in the v1.03 patch.
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • Mild-Mannered Pate is voiced by Peter Serafinowicz, more widely known as the original voice of Darth Maul and a fan of the series.
  • The Emerald Herald is voiced by Ruth Negga, who's much more well known for her work in live action TV and films such as Preacher and Loving.
• I Knew It!:
  • Some fans speculated that the Crown of the Old Iron King would feature the Smelter Demon in one way or another due to the DLC's title obviously having something to do with the Iron Keep, as well as the general impression that FROM Software might as well rub it in further in the players' faces. Within the DLC, a Smelter Demon does appear, although it's much stronger and has blue flames.
  • The fandom drew conclusions that the Last Giant and the Giant King were one-and-the-same. One of the changed item descriptions in the Scholar of the First Sin update was the Soul of the Last Giant, which confirmed it.
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • YouTubers EpicNameBro and A German Spy were hired to help write the official FuturePress player's guide. They've both been kept on for the Bloodborne guides and Dark Souls Remastered guide.
  • Actor Peter Serafinowicz was such a fan of the first Dark Souls that he asked to voice a character in Dark Souls II. He got the role of Mild-Mannered Pate and provided the exertion noises for the male version of the player character (time stamp 2:04 to 2:40).
• Troubled Production: Whoo boy... the interview with the director in the Dark Souls II Design Works reveals why the game seems so damn convoluted and different from the first Dark Souls. The original director, Tomohiro Shibuya, was kicked off the team halfway through development for some unsaid reason. Yui Tanimura, the new director, had to salvage what all he could and re-purpose it into what became the final product.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: The credits inexplicably give the Emerald Herald separate "adult" and "child" voice actors, even though we only ever see her as an adult. This has lead to all sorts of rumors about seeing her as a child (mostly involve the Ashen Mist Heart), but there are no such lines even in the unused audio files. There are lines found in text dumps that imply that they were spoken by a younger version of her, but those were never even translated to English. (Source: http://illusorywall.tumblr.com/post/100174538929/dark-souls-2-unused-dialog-from-japanese-text)
• The Wiki Rule: The Wikia Dark Souls Wiki, Fextralife Dark Souls 2 Wiki, and Wikidot Dark Souls 2 Wiki.

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