Trivia / VA-11 HALL-A

• Colbert Bump:
  • Thanks to its crossover with Girls' Frontline, a lot of GF fans from China, South Korea, Japan and the US have started interest in playing VA-11 HALL-A including a surge of fanart and cosplay.
  • The game would receive another surge of popularity after a song based off it was included in Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod Doki Doki Takeover!.
• Dear Negative Reader: As mentioned on their Twitter, Sukeban Games got sick of the animosity towards YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG being in VA-11 and the constant requests to remove the content mentioning it from VA-11 after its rather disastrous reception, to the point where they don't even want to post crossover fan art because they're worried the creators would be harassed.
• Not Screened for Critics: An odd example. The Vita version was hit with a review embargo, despite the porting company's Twitter offering press signups for months prior to the port's release and well before the release date was announced. It also came out a year and a half after the PC release, too. Even odder, there aren't really any issues with it that would warrant an embargo.
• Referenced by...:
  • ANNO: Mutationem: Both Jill and Dana appear at the bars in Magarita and Harbor Town, mentioning they visited The Sicilian Jar at one point.
  • Girls' Frontline saw the release of a VA-11 HALL-A crossover, which introduces Jill Stingray and some of the patrons she encounters in her bar.
  • Necrobarista: Shay mentions Maddy briefly got into wrestling after the Red Comet (Dana) visited the cafe one time.
  • One Step From Eden: Ragnarok's Tenuously Connected Flavor Text namedrops VA-11 HALL-A.
  • YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG: There's a bar that has a bartender resembling and also named Jill, who's clearly an expy of Jill Stingray.
• Release Date Change: The sequel, N1RV Ann-A, was initially slated for a 2020 release, but has been pushed back until further notice due to programming-related delays and creative differences.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: The dev team has an official alternate account on Twitter dedicated to retweeting NSFW fanart, and prior to Tumblr's porn ban, they had a similarly-devoted segment on their official blog there. The game's lead artist even drew a lewd pinup of Jill as a Milestone Celebration.
• Schedule Slip: The Vita release was due for a release in 2016, and eventually came out on November 14, 2017— a whole eleven and a half months after the latest part of its already vague release date. Perhaps notably, its release date was only a short period after the release date of the porting team's game that they developed themselves.
• Word of God:
  • According to Sukeban Games, Alma and her family are Latinos.
  • They also revealed that they would like Ami Koshimizu to voice Dana.
  • They generally go into this every December during the timespan the game takes place, to the point where it'd need its own page every time December rolls around.

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