The Twilight Realms

 Pointless trivia/misconception debunking about the The Legend of Zelda series. Link is very commonly thought of as being mute or otherwise unable to speak, to the point that it's very common to depict him communicating in sign language in fan works. In fact, just like many "silent" video game protagonists, the games either heavily imply or outright show multiple times that Link can and does speak. We as the player never hear what he says, but other NPCs still react as if he explicitly said something (for example, asking him his name, then reacting as if he said it).  Zelda II: The Adventure of Link has many moments of "narration" dialogue written in first person, implying that Link himself is saying them, in  The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker he has actual voiced dialogue for the first time in the series ("Come on!"), several NPCs in several different games comment on his voice, and in  The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess  the Hero's Sha...

 Thought I'd do another "debunking misconceptions" pointless trivia, this time about Five Nights at Freddy's . This'll mostly be focused on gameplay, since a lot of the lore is quite nebulous anyway. The first game in particular generated a lot of false rumours and misconceptions, due to a combination of the game not being very forthcoming with information, Phone Guy's hints being rather vague and unhelpful, and people's own experiences with playing or watching the game colouring their perception of it. First of all, Foxy. A lot of people think that Foxy will run for the office if you look at him too much, due to Phone Guy mentioning that Foxy hates being watched. However, this is not true. In fact, looking at any camera - not just Foxy's - will completely prevent Foxy from moving for a few seconds. What Phone Guy meant was that looking at Foxy intimidates him, not that it aggravates him. It's often believed that Bonnie has the unique ability to t...

This is a list I'm making of all confirmed transgender characters in video games. For clarity's sake, when I say "transgender" I mean specifically a character who has transitioned from one gender to the opposite (e.g. someone who was assigned male at birth but now presents and identifies as female), so for simplicity's sake I'm not including non-binary or otherwise genderfluid/genderqueer characters in this list, even though they would also fall under the umbrella term of "trans". Also, by "confirmed" I mean that the character is explicitly shown or stated to be trans either in the game itself, or in an official source like a character bio or a statement by the creator of the character. Also, spoilers ahead. You have been warned. Vivian Game:  Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Evidence: In-game dialogue has others describe her as male, while she refers to herself as female. This aspect of her character was removed in the English localisat...

 Oh look it's another Sonic pointless trivia Back in the '90s, there were plans to release the combined Sonic 3 & Knuckles as a single cartridge, internally referred to as Sonic 3C (normal Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was Sonic 3A , and Sonic & Knuckles was Sonic 3B ). Judging from articles in magazines at the time, it was going to be called Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Limited Edition or Sonic the Hedgehog 3+ . It was meant to be the only version released in Japan, but due to the delay, Japanese gamers just reverse-imported the American version of the games, and the combined version ended up never seeing the light of day. Knuckles originally had a harsher, more reptilian/dinosaur-like appearance, which his long tail is a holdover from. Another early design had him as another hedgehog, whom Tails would have been fond of due to his resemblance to Sonic. Yet another early design had him as a mole who wore goggles in bright sunlight and used a shovel as a weapon. Originally, Knuckle...

 Maybe I should come up with a name for these pointless trivia posts that are focused on debunking common misconceptions or myths. Ah well. This time it's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure . Despite all the music references in the series, the "JoJo" nickname for the main characters did not come from the song "Get Back" by the Beatles. Araki used to have meetings and work on his manga at a restaurant called Jonathan's, and he named his main character Jonathan Joestar in honour of the restaurant. The JoJo name came from that. In relation to the above, it's commonly stated that Stands are named after classic rock bands or songs. It's more accurate to say they're named after bands or songs in general - there isn't really any apparent preference for one genre or time period over any other, and there are some Stands named after more (comparatively) modern or non-rock acts, such as Limp Bizkit and Born This Way. Also, it's important to keep in mind t...

 Time for another pointless trivia about Final Fantasy VII , where I focus on translation issues and oddities that caused misunderstandings about the game and certain plot points, as well as just anything else interesting. There's a point in the Temple of the Ancients where Cloud and Aerith have a very weird exchange, where Aerith reads out the words "Black Materia" one letter at a time, Cloud says "Black Materia!" and Aerith replies "Hey! ...Black Materia." The reason for this surreal dialogue is that it's an attempt by the localisers at translating a kind of joke that only really works in Japanese. Written Japanese doesn't use spaces, so it can sometimes be ambiguous as to where one word ends and the next begins. What happened was that Aerith read the phrase correctly, but inserted the space in the wrong place, so instead of "Kuro Materia" (Black Materia), she came up with "Kuroma Teria" (black-magic terrier). Cloud then c...