Mega Man Legends/Trivia


 * Author Existence Failure: A very unusual case. Fans feared for years that Keiji Inafune, who had been lobbying his superiors at Capcom for years to let him do a third game, would either leave Capcom or retire before he could pull it off. The trope was seemingly averted when, ten years after Legends 2, Inafune finally announced that development for the sequel was underway. A month later, Inafune left Capcom. Development of Legends 3 then ceased soon after, after Capcom cancelled the project for vague, barely-defined reasons, making this trope ultimately played straight (in a non-lethal way).
 * Cross-Dressing Voices: The first game had Mega Man voiced by male VA Corey Sevier, but the second game the voice was given to Susan Roman, who voiced in the first game.
 * In many reviews of the second game, this voice change was a constantly-brought-up complaint - not because the voice acting was bad, but because at the time no one knows why it was changed. The original VA was only 14 when the first game came out. Apparently his voice changed too much between the first and second games for him to be viable and/or they wanted a VA who would be able to do his voice consistently.
 * Development Hell: An odd case where it wasn't, actually, in development, but it still fits: Keiji Inafune expressed a desire to make Legends 3 for quite some time, and fans certainly wanted it, but the relatively low sales of the first two games meant Capcom wasn't willing to invest in it. Until they did and then they didn't and it was sent back to development hell, or worse.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Pikachu is Bon, Sailor Jupiter is Mayor Amelia in the first game, and Megs himself in the second.