In addition to the game, the DX Pack had a soundtrack and pocket watch (with the American boxart, for whatever reason). Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: The DX Pack and DX Pack Deluxe were released in Japan for about double the price of the game by itself.To paraphrase a forum poster from GameFAQs, if it weren't for the meddling, 'The developers could have made Xenogears but instead gave us Wild ARMs.'.Executive Meddling: The original story draft by writer Masato Kato (also responsible for the Chrono series, Xenogears and Baten Kaitos) was allegedly much darker in tone, but the higher-ups insisted that the game be marketed to a younger audience, resulting in the game's bizarre case of Mood Whiplash.The anime was created midway through the game's production cycle, and it's obvious they were working with old scripts: the locations and characters are all there, and even in mostly the same order, but characters' personalities - especially the girls - and the precise chain of events are quite different.

The game's opening also shows Rhi'a walking around with Naja, and the anime has them working together in the World Salvation Committee, with Rhi'a angry and indignant that Morte wants to end the world in the game, Rhi'a joins the World Annihilation Front out of curiosity and sees the end of the world as its unavoidable fate, whether at Morte's hands or not. In the game proper, however, Morte is more of a Genki Girl Mad Bomber who jumps up and down with happiness when she wins a fight. The anime version of her is also quite somber.

Early Draft Tie-In: The game's opening shows Morte looking serious and pensive, praying in a church of some sort before walking out solemnly.

Luckily, a large part of the fanbase agrees, which keeps him from being The Scrappy.

Creator's Favorite: Image Epoch devs have gone on record saying their favorite is Taupy, which explains why he appears in more cutscenes than any other character.

The anime was released before the game in both Japanese and US markets, despite being started later. Midway through production, they decided an anime would be a good way to promote the game, and so a second team split off to produce it. Anime First: The story was originally conceived as a video game.

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