YMMV / The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa

• Fanfic Fuel:
  • What Ringo and the crew did prior to their senior years.
  • Ringo's fate at the end of the game. Did he survive or was he wounded in the fight while fighting Nakazawa's gang by himself?
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Japanese gamers really liked the game when it was released there and was ranked the 7th best-selling game.
• Genius Bonus: The books available at the bookstore are all references to Classic Literature, and primarily Russian Literature. Their real-world authors are indicated by their initials. The titles are mononym stand-ins for their real-world counterparts, and in some cases, the synopses given by Guy are composites of different plots written by that certain author. For example, "Brothers" by F.D. is a combination of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment.
• Moral Event Horizon: Nakazawa crosses it when he orders an ambush on Goro that puts Goro into a coma.
• Values Resonance: Many critics/players mention that they can relate to Ringo and his crew, being uncertain at one point on what they wanted to do in terms of what to do after graduating from school/what kind of jobs to get.

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