/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7385965
Now here is where it goes really fun, check out this guy from TCRF

US version
>has the polished arm but missing blade
Jap version (came out later)
>has the earlier version arm but no missing blade

I'm fairly confident I know exactly wtf happened here.
The polished tiles were done on the first, basic footsoldier.
Then, someone copy pasted the polished styles to all the enemies that appear in level1, which includes this Katana guy; and didn't realize he was deleting a tiny part of the blade (which is hardly visible in the tiles list) in the process.

Then, for the Jap version, someone wanted to fix the missing blade, so he reverted to an earlier version of this guy, which in the process
also reverted the rest of his body to an earlier version.
I'm fairly confident that in the short time span after the US version was done but before the Jap version was done, the graphic artists weren't working on the game anymore and these extra "fixes" were done by a programmer, because there is another similar "graphical fix that isn't quite a fix". That, or there was poor organization for the graphic guy(s).