Acting for Two: Many cases in the Japanese dub (e.g. Aya Endo voices Brunhilda/Mym and Myriam), with characters who share a voice actor also conversing within the same scene.
Alan Smithee: When the game first launched, some of the actors credited in the English dub went by pseudonyms to avoid getting in trouble with ACTRA. After Nintendo made an agreement with ACTRA, all new characters have the actors go by their real names, although the previous pseudonyms remain. However, if the actor plays a new version of their character, the credits for previous incarnations of their character usually replace the pseudonym with their actual name.
Approval of God: Deven Mack, Volk's English voice actor, was quite approving of a With Lyrics theme based on the first member of Agito in this video.
Colbert Bump: A majority of the game's soundtrack is composed by the Japanese singer DAOKO. By the game's first week alone, more Westerners are now aware of her and her songs, thanks to the main background theme of this game serving as their entry point.
Content Leak: With the game being built around the Unity engine, some dataminers are able to leak contents in the updates earlier than the game's scheduled official annoucements.
Leviathan and Lily were revealed to be the game's initial batch of updated gacha content.
Most intriguingly, full body art for "the Masked Girl" (really both Zena and also "Empress Zethia" possessed by the Other) was found in mid-October 2018; when this character appears in the actual story, their sprite is cut off past the waist. Even more interesting is that one of the portraits is arranged just like a character portrait for a character details screen, with a plinth for them to stand on and everything. Where it gets bizarre is that the plinth'd portrait is of Empress Zethia, who one would imagine wouldn't be playable at all. Needless to say, that form of Zethia never became a playable character and that specific, full portrait was never officially used in the game or in promotional material, and even the playable versions of Zena used updated splash art distinct from her debut art.
Days before the 2.0 update went live, the Manacaster had been accidentally revealed before the Dragalia Digest made it official.
While Tsukuyomi's name was given in Yoshitsune's Adventure story, her picture had been found within the game since the game's launch. It wasn't until "Celestial Showdown" when she finally makes a proper appearance.
The Knights of Alberia event was accidentally revealed early through the YouTube description for the Chapter 21 preview video, days before the event's official reveal.
Creator-Driven Successor: This game is the successor to Cygames' now defunct game Knights Of Glory, a precursor to this game with a similar premise. It even imports some of the old dragon and class designs from that game into Dragalia Lost.
Dueling Works: A reason why Epic Seven had a Fandom Rivalry with Dragalia Lost. The games' release dates in the English market are close to each other (late September 2018 for DL and early November 2018 for E7). Gacha gamers who didn't have much time to try both only chose one. But since the genres of the games aren't similar (3D Real-Time Action for DL and 2D Turn-Based Combat for E7), gameplay comparisons don't get overblown.
Fake Nationality: Most of the characters in the game are voiced by Canadian voice actors, however there's a few aversions, that being Cleo (voiced by British born Siobhan Williams), Yue (voiced by Australian Ely Jackson) and characters originated from the Fire Emblem and Persona series (who's voices were recorded in Los Angeles, California).
There's a cute mascot character representing the game - Notte to the three games' Fou, Vyrn, and Feh respectively.
Dragalia was also, more specifically, very similar gameplay-wise to Shironeko Project/Colopl Rune Story; Shironeko didn't last long in its Rune Story incarnation in English, but it's a long runner in Japan, and in general Dragalia didn't manage to capture much of the Japanese mobile action RPG crowd away from Shironeko. Its failure in this arena is one of the things that ultimately doomed the game as a going concern.
Invisible Advertising: Despite being generally a beloved game, Nintendo did very little marketing or promoting for the game, causing it to lose a lot of revenue as time went on. Part of why it is speculated that the game was shut down was because of this issue.
When Version 2.0 hit in September 2020 for the 2nd Anniversary, a lot of backstory lore for the Weaponsnote Including Void, Dragon, and Agito Weapons had disappeared not just from the game, but from the wiki as well. The only way to read that old lore now is to look up sites that collected it before Version 2.0.
Needless to say, after termination of service, the only way to play the game is via hacks and server emulation, and outside of that, only wikis and the like preserve the lore and content.
Pecorine was added to the game a few weeks before her game of origin even got a release date outside of Japan. Her anime also has yet to get an English dub, with just subs from Crunchyroll at the moment. Despite all this, Pecorine is available with an English voice actress as well.
Sophie from Persona 5 Strikers became available as a free character on January 30, 2021, before the game she came from got a western release on February 19, 2021. Granted, this was part of the point and served as a promotional element, making her a bit more like Roy.
The One Year Anniversary event coincides with a Gala event which not only releases Gala Euden, but also gives out a whole mess of goodies upon the first login of the day. Each and every recruitable Adventurer has special "Happy Anniversary" lines, as well as a special Anniversary version of the Login screen featuring a Continuity Cavalcade of all the characters met in events over the year from Celliera all the way up to Siren. In a change from the usual event formula, the September Raid Event is heavily tied to the main story. One of the login bonuses given was also Dragon called Mini Mids, Midgardsormr's child form.
The 1.5 Anniversary event gave everyone a Mini Zodi Dragon, the release of Gala Alex, and Daily Free Tenfold Summons for six days. The Elemental Ruins, Dragon Trials, and Imperial Onslaught quests all received triple drops, Stamina and Getherwing replenishment was cut in half, and a new mechanic was introduced called the Dragondrive, which allows certain Adventurers to get a massive boost in Strength instead of shapeshifting into a Dragon. A new ability called the Chain Co-Ability was also introduced, and unlike regular Co-Abilities, the boosts stack with each other. The Event Compendium was also introduced, allowing players to dive into certain past Events whenever they want. Fafnir Medals were also introduced as a new loot that allows you to trade for high-end materials. Skill Sharing was put in as well, where Adventurers can use up to two Skills from another Adventurer, at the cost of Weapon and/or Helper Skills. Finally, it was announced that the "Fire Emblem: Lost Heroes" event was returning, along with a new Fire Emblem event, "Kindred Ties," and that Marth, Fjorm, Alphonse, and Veronica would be getting Mana Spirals.
The Second Year Anniversary brought along a new title screen showcasing every event character from the past year, MASSIVE changes to the Weapon and Wyrmprint systems, a new weapon in the form of the Manacaster, and a new Wyrmsigil system that allows you to choose anyone from that focus banner after 300 Summons. The login bonuses included the usual Summon Tickets and lots of loot, as well as a free Mini Hildy Dragon. The Avenue of Power and Avenue of Fortune quests also received triple loot drops while all the Elemental Ruins, Dragon Trials, and Imperial Onslaught quests, regardless of element, had double drops. A new Raid Event was also added, "Forgotten Times," which focuses on Zethia as she time travels to a thousand years ago and learns how Ilia and Morsayati came to be. Finally, a Daily Free Summon was added starting with the anniversary and ending on Halloween, meaning 33 days of free summons!
When the 2.5 Anniversary rolled around, the focus was on Gala Notte, finally allowing the game's mascot to be playable. The Encyclopedia was also finally released, under the name "Notte's Notes." We got another Mini Greatwyrm, this time Mini Mercs. As with the previous anniversaries, almost every quest receive double or triple drops. As for the Anniversary Raid Event, this one focuses on the time of King Alberius, showcasing his struggle against Elysium, with both Myriam (the inspiration for Brunhilda's human form) and the human form of Midgardsormr aiding him. Also announced was that the first two Fire Emblem crossover events were being added to the Compendium, a look at future Adventurers, a calendar of when the rest of the Legend Agito and Sinister Dominion battles drop, and the announcement of a new set of battles that drop material that allow Gala fighters to use Mana Spirals! Oh, and the countdown included 14 Summon Tickets and the anniversary itself will have a Daily Free Tenfold for nine days.
June 22, 2021 was the 1000th day that the game had been around. To celebrate, they have a ten-day login bonus where out of those days, players would get throughout those days 3000 (with an additional 1200 on the 22nd) Wyrmite, 1000 Gold Crystals, Fortifying/Amplifying Gemstones, Talonstones, Dyrenell Aureus, Void Leaves, and Crimson Cores. A trivia contest is being held on their Twitter with the chance to win prizes, and on July 5, it ends with a free 100-fold summon!
For the 3rd Anniversary in 2021, we get the debut of a new item called Omnicite, which allows one to automatically max an Adventurer's Mana Circles, including the Mana Spiral, all at once. Then we've got not one, but two Gala Summons, with Gala Zethia as well as Gala Bahamut! The Anniversary Event is also extra special, as it's a two-part Raid Event called "Faith Forsaken," which has not only a playable Harle as the free Adventurer, but also a new type of Raid where, instead of four players taking their entire teams, you fight it with 16 unique players! As far as bonuses go, the Countdown login bonuses were all Single Summon Tickets, while the actual Anniversary login bonuses include a new 5-Star Wyrmprint, Mini Jupi, and a bunch of Wyrmite and items filling the rest of the time. There would also be a retweet campaign on Twitter with the winner getting every Gala Adventurer and 5-Star Dragon! Finally, the game is giving a free daily Tenfold for 38 days, with Day 39 giving another 100 free summons, for a grand total of 480 free Summons! And that's without counting Wyrmite or Tickets!
In spite of the announcement of the game's incoming closure, the game still had a 3.5 Anniversary in 2022. Much like the previous anniversaries, this one provides free tenfold summons. Alongside that, we got back to back gala dragalia showcases with Nedrick as the final Gala adventure appearing in the first one alongside Primal Brunhilda and the second gala showcase featuring Bondforged alts for Euden and Zethia. It also provides the game's final new event, "Advent of the Origin" which features the return of Origa as well as Bahamut as the raid boss (the real Bahamut and not the playable one). May not be as big as the previous anniversaries, but it is providing for what would essentially be the last celebration.
Meaningful Release Date: The "Twinkling Twilight" Event takes place around the same week the Bon Festival would in Japan.
The game is only available officially in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Australia, Singapore, Canada (excluding Quebec), New Zealand, United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Nintendo plans to pull Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and Fire Emblem Heroes from Belgium on August 27, 2019 in response to fears regarding loot box laws possibly affecting gachas. As Dragalia Lost runs a gacha system, it will not see a release in Belgium.
The Other Darrin: Because of a union agreement between Nintendo and SAG-ACTRA, the game's voice cast went through some major changes. While some of them were merely using pseudonyms and are now going by their real names, others were replaced entirely.
Gala Euden is voiced by Victor Hunter instead of Vincent Tong. Regular Euden would later be voiced by Victor Hunter too.
While she's proven she has range and talent before, for Cygames fans there was still a surprise concerning Yōko Hikasa's debut in Dragalia. Previously, she played Anne and Selfira in Granblue Fantasy, the two of them being a Genki Girl princess student and a quiet, emotionally-vulnerable violinist, respectively. In Dragalia she plays Celliera, an incredibly hammy knight trainer with Drill Sergeant Nasty tendencies who loves Training from Hell; she's about as far as you can get from either of the other two (and sounds like it, to boot!)
On the English side, Brian Drummond is known for voicing gritty manly characters, so it's quite jarring to hear him as the high pitched cat dragon Ebisu.
Recycled Script: The August run of Valentine's Confections adds summer versions for the segments focusing on Ranzal and Luca as well as the segments focusing on Cleo and Elisanne. Aside from the characters being in their summer alts though, there is no difference in the story whatsoever.
According to Word of God, Sylvans would have had cat ears, but then changed to have bunny ears instead.
Weapons were originally going to get Strength Augments, but they never came out. This culminated in the second anniversary update removing Weapon Augments entirely due to the Weapon system getting a complete overhaul.
Some characters were teased at points late in the game's life, but due to the game ending service they would never see the light of day. Such characters included Atlas (the brother of Promethius, Epimethius, and Menoetius, whose appearance was teased on the game's Japanese Twitter), Dark Phoenix (sister of the standard and Corsaint Phoenixes, who was only mentioned by name), and the leaders of the Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Sheep, and Dog Clans (faces shown in "Celestial Showdown", with no names given).
As noted above, art was in the game nearly from launch for "Empress Zethia" having a player-character-style plinth, as if she was planned for playability at one point (despite how insane that seems on the face of it). Naturally, she was never made playable in that form, the plinth art was never used in the game and it's unclear what the plan was, if anything, for it and whether early plans for Zethia were different than what eventually shook out.
Additionally, while she did have a finished model in the game at launch, as well as having that same player-character-plinth, the original version of Zethia was never made playable either in spite of the possibility being there.
In late October of 2018, ufotable, who did the anime cutscenes for the game, was in the talks with both Cygames and Nintendo to make a full fledged ''Dragalia Lost'' anime. This never came to pass for reasons unknown.
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