The Twilight Realms

Pointless trivia about the Persona games. Mostly Persona 3, since that's what I've been playing recently, but I'll touch on the other games too. The first game was initially translated as the heavily Americanised "Revelations: Persona" series. Most of the names were changed and all the Japanese cultural references were removed or replaced with American ones. Fortunately, Atlus realised the error of their ways and kept the subsequent games' translations as faithful to the original as possible, in many cases even leaving in the Japanese honouriffics untranslated in the dialogue. Future remakes of Megami Ibunroku Persona had more faithful translations, though the line "Mark danced crazy!" (Mark was called Masao in the Japanese version) was kept due to its popularity (similar to Square Enix keeping the line "You spoony bard!" in better-translated remakes of Final Fantasy IV). The changing of names actually made a certain plot point make no ...

More pointless trivia about the Mario games. I've probably said most of this stuff before, but no one reads this blog anyway so I'm sure no one will notice. Shigeru Miyamoto seems to go back and forth on whether or not Mario and Luigi have a last name. Currently, the answer is yes, and it's "Mario", which means their names ARE actually Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. Which means the movie was right all along. The Super Mushrooms in the Mario games are modelled after a real life toadstool called amanita muscaria, also known as fly agaric. These toadstools have hallucinogenic properties when consumed, causing people to feel like they're growing in size. The same concept was also used in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which is where Miyamoto got the inspiration from. While it's often believed and shown in parodies that Mario breaks blocks by hitting them with his head, this isn't actually the case. If you watch closely, when Mario jumps...