Trivia / Dragon's Crown

• Acting for Two: The Wizard and Rannie are both are voiced by Yuri Lowenthal.
• Colbert Bump: The "controversy" resulting from the below-mentioned article unwittingly caused the game's popularity to go through the roof. No Such Thing as Bad Publicity, indeed. Despite the notoriety and infamy the game has garnered in some Western countries, it sold out in Japan almost immediately upon release. While the Japanese themselves have commented on the art style, much of it was mostly poking fun at how big of a stir it caused outside the country.
• Creator-Driven Successor: Though sharing no continuity, the game is meant to build off the ideas in Dungeons & Dragon: Tower of Doom, a game Dragon's Crown lead designer George Kamitani worked on in his youth.
• Dear Negative Reader: When Kotaku's Jason Schreier posted a scathing article denouncing the crazy proportions of the female characters, lead designer George Kamitani responded with this classy piece of artwork. This also overlaps with both Take That! and Values Dissonance, since the image is a parody of how Americans and some Western players like their characters in their games.
• Development Gag:
  • Sorceress's concept art design from back in 1998 was used, with some slight modification, for Lima Ray the Witch.
  • The original artwork for the Sorceress is of a little girl in a similar outfit. Since it took 10+ years for the game to be made, it's implied she grew up in the interim.
• Development Hell: The game was originally planned for the Dreamcast since 2001 and it was planned as a 3D game instead. Then it was announced for a Spring 2012 release, before original publisher Ignition backed out and new publisher Atlus announced it actually wouldn't be ready till late 2013. The game was finally released in the U.S. in August 2013.
• Referenced by...: In Goblin Slayer, recurring character Witch is modelled to resemble The Sorceress; similarly, side-character Amazon looks just like the same-named Character Class in this game. While most would assume High Elf Archer looks like The Elf, Goblin Slayer creator Kumo Kagyu states she's actually based on Sinon from Sword Art Online, specifically her appearance in "ALfheim Online".

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