TTYD's Obscure Dialogue, Mistakes & More 

Yoshi's Stampede attack uses full grown Yoshis. I didn't know they were also NPCs tho

Me either lmao. That's amazing.

Super cursed

Never went back on the Excess Express as a kid?

@@carnage0685 i'm sure i did, evidently not enough though. it was my favorite area in the game!

@baiseduezcke2295I’d give it to Riverside Station; it’s just got that liminal feeling that you only get to be there for its purpose then leave for anywhere else. Its only competition is the Moon surface which is a cool set, and the alternate League rooms, which have a memorable scene with the toilet.

@baiseduezcke2295 Unless you for some reason want to do all the troubles.

Wouldn’t it be visiting pianta parlor before you need to do so for plot reasons?

thats exactly what i was thinking. i actually had to rewind cause i thought i missed something

Phew

It actually made me nervous for a second when I decided to “attack him in desperation”

I don't think they're actually supposed to be the same character, though I do think the Chestnut King was named in reference. I left a comment explaining my reasoning elsewhere on this video.

You're right! I totally forgot about that one. I believe it prevents all status effects, both positive and negative ones, so it's a really cool status that can be both beneficial and a hindrance. It's a shame it's so rare, and got such a confusing description.

I imagine the reason for this would be that different variations of present tense aren't always distinguished in japanese. Without context, the translator probably couldn't tell if the present perfect tense verb "hasn't" or the present tense "can't" would be more accurate. In a lot of contexts it would be fine, you could often infer that something which "hasn't" happened in battle either "can't" or "won't" happen going forward, but unfortunately the implications here are entirely different

This status can also be inflicted intentionally from the Space Food item, but confusingly only 50% of the time

@@Namingway248 You can't infer that, since hasn't happened has no influence on if it can or won't. An enemy with 2 attacks can just pick attack 1 endlessly, but because it hasn't picked attack 2 doesn't mean it can't. It could even have an attack 3 with an incredibly low chance of happening. This often blindsides people in boss fights when a rare attack happens especially several times in a row.

@@Buglin_Burger7878 Let me ask you this, if you performed a specific attack, and a text box told you "enemy hasn't been hurt!" how would this affect your strategy? Most people would presume that, unless some change occurred, that attack would not work. This is a normal inference to make based off the text you've been given. The implication of present perfect tense is that an action in the past is continuing into the present. The present is often (but not exclusively) indicative of the future, which is why its natural to presume (correctly or not) that in many contexts things that haven't happened won't. The biggest problem here is "stauts condition" is something we inherently see as malleable. Because we know it normally can change at any time in the future, the present state of things doesn't actually give us information, and we therefore have no inherent desire to presume our status "can't" change based on the fact it "hasn't".

Bro I know right? I didn't know that till a year or two ago and I've been playing this game since I was like 5.

Went down to the comments to see this stated by someone else. I did a backflip learning something in the game I never ever knew about. Looking forward to doing this in the remake too!

yea i only knew this was cause of a random ttyd short

I found that by accident on my first playthrough cause I was lost lmao

Paper Bowser gets all of the best lines. "You believed in your prophecy, and we believed in mopping the floor with you."

That's right! It's a female red Toad in the dining car who talks about that. "I heard that a long time ago, a guy ate a Poison Mushroom in the food on this train... ...But I heard he passed on with a smile on his face. I guess I understand that..."

@@DisableYT Ah good, I didn't gaslight myself then LMAO.

Wanted to check the comments to see if anyone had mentioned this, and yeah, it is. Timestamp for where this is relevant if anyone wants it is 24:33

It's a functional brute force approach, but there's no reason not to have a pointer system so that redundant dialogue could simply be made by pointing to the same individual string.

If you want to see an example of that done better, check out the Trails in the Sky / Trails of Cold Steel games.

interestingly you can actually see artifacts of the duplicated dialogue in the remake. after an intermission, even if you've already seen someone's dialogue, you suddenly go back to not being able to skip it because the game treats it as a new line.

Bro really told bobbery his explosions were as beautiful as the setting sun and I truly believe there is no heterosexual explanation for this

completely agree, whenever I replay this game I often remember so many specific textbox lines because I learned a word or phrase for the first time from it. Bowser shouting "AIRHEAD!!" or one of the badges using the word "succumb" or what a contact lense is or "PLUG-UGLY!" or Gorgonzola being a type of cheese or the word millennium or a key being a tropical island of some kind or--...

no, that was fanmade

Skawos video mentioned. But yeah read descriptions of videos.

I will scream.

The illusion of choice.

Nah, they should make him pull from a different dialogue tree entirely.

​@@DimentiosLoyalestIf you refuse, he'll start using Flavio's dialogue.

@@General12thboom bassa boom

Same way he learned that Goombella would be coming to each chapter area. He has a radar for women or something...

Vivian is a total babe so I could see him talking to her if she passed by

@@bobbob1876 womandar

I thought the point was that crickets were Hooktail’s weakness because it was a silly weakness, so frogs being the actual weakness is not a problem with me as far as localization goes.

I think the cricket thing is such a well-remembered aspect of Hooktail and the Castle, that I don't really see them reverting the "frog>cricket" change either. Your preference seems like the most likely scenario to me, at least in the English versions.

I would love to cover other games, but no promises. Right now, I have no idea how easy it will be to access the dialogue files of other games, or if any of them will be half as interesting as TTYD ended up being.

Thank you! A friend made it for me. Here's a little video they made using the Raichu: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YN1HJG8woGo.htmlsi=4uGdzqWALC73jeuZ

you do a pretty decent Southern accent for someone what doesn’t live here

As someone who feels sharp head-pain and flies into a rage whenever they hear crickets - or even worse *cicadas* - I feel extremely sympathetic towards Hooktail, myself.

You're right! It's unused! Thanks for letting me know! I moved it to the unused section.

Thanks! I plan to.

I'm not sure what you were doing, but my best guess is maybe you used an RGB hex? The color function expects RGBA.

as a bonus too the remake doesn’t fix the wavy and shaky text and just leaves it as shaky

I think the whole joke with Luigi's story is that he hypes up the Goomba King as the Chesnut King. Otherwise, Mario would know that Luigi's journey was just him fighting the tutorial boss.

Thank you so much!

Dude, that's awesome! I loved the noise effect in PM64. Interesting to see they considered using it again.

Its also frogs in the remaster

Yeah, I noticed that the text still doesn't shake and wave at the same time as well. Maybe they were more concerned about being faithful to the way the text was, than to the original intentions behind it.