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* From [[Final Fantasy II]]: Poor, poor Firion. He was an orphaned kid who became one of the key fighters for the rebels, helped overthrow [[The Emperor]], killed him when he came back to life after taking over the underworld, and in ''[[Dissidia]]'' is a hot-blooded, badass rebel who exhibits mastery of ''Final Fantasy II's'' ''entire'' battle system. [[But You Screw One Goat!|But he gets seduced by one Lamia Queen]], and no one--not even the staff who threw in two [[Mythology Gag|Mythology Gags]] in ''Dissidia'' for it--will let him forget it.
** In addition, thanks to ''[[Dissidia]]'' Firion will forever be associated with the so-called "wild rose" and his dream of filling the world with roses.
* From [[Final Fantasy IV]] Some people don't like Rosa much for the fact she's a [[
** Kain gets [[Brainwashed]] ''once'', with a period between the Tower of Zot and Sealed Cave where Golbez loses the signal and has to retune it. Somehow that apparently translates into [[Heel Face Revolving Door]] even though he only leaves and rejoins ''twice''.
** In the sequel ''[[The After Years]]'' Kain is evil again and Rosa spends most of the plot on the sidelines after fleeing from Baron before Kain kidnaps her. The other characters even wonder "Has Kain been brainwashed again?" {{spoiler|1=Actually no, it's his [[Evil Counterpart]]/[[Enemy Without]], the true Kain is known as the Hooded Man and is completely good}}. Rosa, unfortunately for her, has no such redeeming plot point. Could also be seen as [[Pandering to the Base]]--the other female character of the original game, not counting Porom, is Rydia, who is much more popular with the fans than Rosa. While Rosa spends most of the game out of action, Rydia is promoted to main female lead.
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* ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' was, unfortunately, hyped just a little too much on its release, leading to key figures in the gaming industry slamming it, to the effect that even now it seems to be remembered as little more than a poor Mario imitator. As anyone who grew up playing it at the time can attest, this is quite wrong - it was a beautifully designed, addictive platformer with one of the best soundtracks to grace any game of any time period. And its first sequel was even better in all regards.
** Unfortunately, game music composer Grant Kirkhope has run into this with the infamous "DK Rap," which served as the [[Theme Tune Rap]] for ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. However, Kirkhope has [http://grantkirkhope.com/donkeykong64.html stated that], contrary to [[Mis Blamed|popular belief]], the DK Rap was ''supposed'' to be cheesy and silly, and not a ''serious'' attempt at a rap song about cartoony talking apes.
** During the peak of [[Donkey Kong Country]]'s popularity, [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] famously complained that "players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good." What he actually meant was that he was angry at his Nintendo bosses for [[Executive Meddling|interfering with his development of]] [[
* Nintendo will ALWAYS be considered the gaming patron saint of [[Bowdlerization]]. Never mind they have gotten past the [[Never Say "Die"]] point long ago, and how in fact they're the more LENIENT company nowadays, with games released on multiple systems having less censorship on Nintendo systems (or at least the same, but not MORE). Sure, they still censor some stuff every now and then, but no more than the others. Ironically, the most censor-happy company right now is ''Sony''. The same Sony who [[Informed Ability|supposedly]] is [[Darker and Edgier]] than Nintendo.
** Of note: Several of the entries for the [[Cluster F-Bomb]] [[Video Games]] page are on the Wii, including [[No More Heroes]], [[MadWorld]], and [[House of the Dead]]: OVERKILL, which had a ''Guinness World Record'' for the number of F-bombs dropped during the game. One might think Nintendo is going out of its way to break their "Kid Friendly" image.
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