Trivia / Protect Me Knight

• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The first game was hit with this after Microsoft purged the Xbox LIVE Indie Games section of Xbox LIVE on October 2017 and the game no longer being available for purchase since, and there appears to be no plans on releasing the game elsewhere.
  • With the Nintendo 3DS eShop's closure in 2023, the second game and its associated DLC would end up suffering a similar fate to the first game, becoming unavailable for purchase.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: Limited Run Games has released a Collector's Edition for Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness that includes a physical copy of the game with all of the DLCs on the cartridge, a Gotta Protecticon art and interview book, CD soundtracks, 8-bit styled enamel pin sets of Ancient's company logo, the Amazon, and Princess Lola, and a set of Magicadia trading cards featuring cover art parodies of classic video games such as Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and The Legend of Zelda, all packaged in a NES cartridge-styled box. There was also physical re-release of Gotta Protectors: Amazon's Running Diet also by Limited Run Games localized under the name Amazon's Training Road that can be played on a real NES.
• Milestone Celebration: In celebration of the sequel's third anniversary, Ancient released Gotta Protectors: Amazon's Running Diet (みんなでまもって騎士 アマゾンのダイエット大作戦), an endless runner game staring the Amazon, on the sequel's official website as a free downloadable game which can be played on either Famicom/NES emulators or real hardware via a flashcart.
• No Export for You: Although the first game used to be available overseas until the Xbox LIVE Indie Games section's purge, the sequel hasn't been released in Europe, and the original soundtracks and 3DS Home Themes of the sequel haven't seen a release outside of Japan. There's also the M.S.S Project collaboration expansion DLC exclusively in Japan for Gotta Protectors that feature skins for the Fighter, Mage, Amazon, and Ninja along with new a host of new features and mini-games.
• Schedule Slip: According to a Nintendo Life interview with Yuzo Koshiro in 2019, the English localization of Cart of Darkness was planned for the following spring, but the game wouldn't see an official English release until two years later. The COVID-19 Pandemic likely had something to do with it. The developers would end up compensating for this by releasing all four DLC packs at once for the western release, with them even being bundled with the Limited Run physical edition.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: According to a Siliconera interview conducted on February 2021, the translation for Cart of Darkness had already been complete, but wouldn't see an official release until April of the following year.

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