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Really obvious things in retro games that you didn't figure out until way later, making you feel really stupid when you did.

I used to see the last letter in DethI (final boss of Link's Awakening) as a lowercase L, not a capital i, so I was pronouncing it as "dethel" for years. I then realized what the last letter was supposed to be and then felt incredibly dumb for not realizing it was supposed to be "Death Eye."

>> No.1399753

>>1399751
Is this for real?

>> No.1399757
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>> No.1399773
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Press A to ride lift.

My neighborhood friend figured that out two years later and called me up. We'd spent days at the entrance of this level before giving up.

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>>1399751
Dr. Wily and Light's logo can be seen in Magnet Man's stage. No idea how I never noticed it.

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>>1399751

Are you fucking serious? That makes WAY more sense

>> No.1399884

>>1399773
My brother and I got stuck on the boat because we didn't know you could climb the masts.

>> No.1399927
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>>1399751
Mind blown.

I actually had to google it just to be sure...

And yes. The name "DethI" can be traced back to the official player's handbook. If you look closely, you can tell it's supposed to be an uppercase "i" because of how it's kerned.

>> No.1399932

I've been saying "Deethl" all these years (mainly because that sounds a bit more dignified than "deathel").

>> No.1399941
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1399941

DethI isn't really the boss's name, anyway, it's just the name of that specific form.

The final boss of Link's Awakening is primal fear. No name, no past or future, no meaning to its existence, it just "is."

>> No.1399969

>>1399941

It's also called Nightmare.
Which is also what it is.

>> No.1399979

>>1399941
>>1399969

I think it's cool it knows about Link's nightmares too, with the Agahnim and Ganon forms

>> No.1400054

>>1399932
>>1399927
>>1399865
>>1399751
Glad I'm not the only one who said "Dethel" all the time

>> No.1400072
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>>1399751
It's the same with the iifa tree in FFIX.

It's iifa tree, not lifa tree, because it was "lifa tree" with an l like "lick-my-cock" then it would be Lifa tree, NOT Iifa tree.

It's a fucking capital i in this image and people still call it Lifa.

Goddamn.

>> No.1400091

>>1400072
I still call it the Lifa tree because it sounds better than Iifa.

>> No.1400094

>>1400072
Lifa makes way more sense though, because Lifa -> Life, etc.

>> No.1400139

>>1399751
>>1400072
It can be pretty hard to tell the difference between I and l (and sometimes 1 if the font makes it look too similar). In OP's post, those two letters look completely identical to me. The only way I can tell the difference between L and i in that post is by copying the text, pasting it elsewhere and changing the font. So I don't really blame people who mix up big i and little L in circumstances like this, if they only see how the word is written but don't get to hear how it's pronounced. Especially since using upper-case in the word's last letter like that seems rather odd and unexpected.

On the actual topic, this: >>1399757
There aren't even that many buttons to try, but I still couldn't figure out what to do.

>> No.1400147

>>1400072
yeah that was a mistake it's supposed to be Lifa

>> No.1400207
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1400207

I didn't realize till 2008 that King K. Rool's name was a pun on cruel. In my defense, I never saw the show, and always thought it was pronounced "Kay Rool".

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1400218

Heat Man is a cigarette lighter

I thought he was just some sort of a strange man in a box.

>> No.1400225

>>1399979

Not to mention Moldorm

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>>1400218

I didn't realize that until the EXE version.

>> No.1400236

>>1400207
>always thought it was pronounced "Kay Rool".

I... It's not

>> No.1400238

Phoenix Down is a type of feather.

Miles "Tails" Prower.

Hi-Potion is not more elevated than a normal potion, it's just more polite.

The sunken "ship" in Super Mario World is actually one of Bowser's aiships.

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>>1400238
>Hi-Potion is not more elevated than a normal potion, it's just more polite.

>> No.1400246

>>1400236
Yes, I believe that's what his post is about.

I don't see how else you would pronounce it, unless it's pronounced completely different than it's spelled.

>> No.1400258

>>1400246
The cartoon pronounced it "Kuh Rool". I have no idea which is correct.

>> No.1400265

>>1400258
Just pretend it's like Cthulhu and pronounce it any seven different ways you like while still being no less correct than anyone else.

>> No.1400270

>>1400258
I wouldn't be looking at the cartoon of all things for accuracy in the DKC games.

>> No.1400272

In OoT, I had no idea that the Beamos (the eye statues that shot lasers) had mouths on the bottom. When I saw a pic recently I just had no idea it was there. It's because I never thought to look at the bottom of the enemy, the eye is always what captures attention.

Also, maybe this isn't so obvious, but after you get the 3 stones there's a dying guard in the back alley. Finally there is that hidden room in Ganon's Castle with the Business Scrubs and fairies.

>> No.1400317

>>1400207
I always said it as "Kay Rool". I knew they were aiming for a 'cruel' pun, but figured if they meant for it to pronounced that way they would have just spelled it Krool. I have no idea how the show said it.

>> No.1400327

The thing is, while it's an obvious pun at "cruel", it might also be seen as a pun on King K being the "rooler" (since he is, y'know, the king).

>> No.1400352

All wrong. It's If you say it out loud it's "Kinkay Rule". Now you know why he needs bananas.

>> No.1400382

When I was smaller, I always thought the subtitle of the second DKC game was Diddy Kong's Quest. Even much later when I realized its actually Diddy's Kong Quest, I didn't get the pun in the name. Guess it was because english isn't my first language, but boy was I surprised when i realized it's supposed to be spelled Diddy's Conquest?

>> No.1400385

>>1400382
He is on a quest to save Donkey Kong.

I don't know how this can confuse people so much.

>> No.1400397

>>1400382
I thought that until I owned the game. I have no idea how I missed it.

>> No.1400514

>>1400272
you can also walk up the chains on the drawbridge in Hyrule Town and find invisible red rupees.

>> No.1400585

>>1400147
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Iifa_Tree
It isn't a mistake. It's supposed to be Iifa

>> No.1400737
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>i'm back to my oid self again

young me was stupid

>> No.1400750

>>1400238
>miles prower
>miles per hour

>> No.1400763

>>1400737
Wasn't that one of the may typos they fixed in the second revision on SMB3? And how the hell did they confuse a lowercase L with an i? They're not even next to each other in hex, L would be three values higher. Bimmy made more sense since L and M were right next to each other in hex.

>> No.1400770

>>1400147
>it's supposed to be Lifa
>イーファの樹
>i-fa

>> No.1400778

>>1400763
It's not a typo; there's just an exclamation mark on the line above the lowercase L.

>> No.1400774

>>1400763
Pretty sure that's just the exclamation mark making it look like an i.

>> No.1400779

>>1400774
>>1400778

Oh, you're right. I completely ignored it, though I did acknowledge it's presence.

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>>1400072
I never understood how people can be so BLIND

>> No.1401728

>>1400147
>blind people trying to turn their mistake into other peoples' mistake

>> No.1401806

>>1399757
You just push down and up on this part right?
I remember as a kid I had to get someone to play co op with me and we just messed around until one of us got the damn thing to move.

>> No.1401832

>>1399757
I've seen this a bunch of times here, but I can't relate. For some reason, I've never had a problem in this part ot the game, and didn't know anyone who had, before /vr/.

>> No.1401837

>>1401656
Because before you even see that writing, the tree is mentioned by name FREQUENTLY in sans font. And it wasn't completely established that lifa was a title or name for it, it sounded like an adjective, which WOULDN'T be uppercased.

This also Happens with the name Iori in games and shows frequently.
Honestly all fonts should just make uppercase Is with little tail things whether they're sans or not.

>> No.1402413
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Here's an interesting interpretation of Death Eye, with some obvious inspiration from Bongo Bongo.