Trivia / Code Vein

• Acting for Two:
  • Kira Buckland voices both Rin Murasame and the female protagonist (voice #3) in the English dub. Same thing goes to Yakumo and a male protagonist using voice #2, who are both voiced by Robbie Daymond.
  • Brina Palencia in the English Dub and Lynn in the Japanese Dub lends their voice to both Io (and her many, many other clones) and Cruz Silva a.k.a the Queen.
• Author's Saving Throw: The development team behind Code Vein has been receptive to feedback:
  • The 1.04 update introduced many QOL changes, such as halving or outright removing the cost of accessories to free up more room for character creation, the option to turn off AI chatter, the ability to switch partners at Mistles from the very first playthrough, an alert system for status ailments, the option to lower New Game Plus difficulty, and making the Home Base's punching bag provide ichor to streamline character build testing.
  • Code Vein's director, Hiroshi Yoshimura, confirmed that the team is currently working on a compendium that will cover the game's backstory and lore to fill the blanks left by its usage of Story Breadcrumbs.
• Development Hell: Announced in April of 2017, it was intended for a September 28th 2018 release before they announced in July 2018 that it was delayed to iron out bugs, not helping was that Bandai Namco decided to prioritize releasing God Eater 3 first. The game didn't get any news updates for almost a year before the radio silence was broken on May 2019 with the announcement of a closed beta, and the game finally released on September 27th 2019, almost exactly a year after its initial release date. Unfortunetly, the troubles didn't seem to stop there, though, as the first wave of season pass content was delayed from November to sometime in the first quarter of 2020.
• Dueling Works: With The Surge 2, as both games play around with the Soulsborne formula and released within the same month.
• Dummied Out:
  • An unused cutscene that would have taken place at the start of the game portrays the Protagonist's first brush with the Queen during Operation Queenslayer. Much of it is viewed through their eyes in first-person perspective.
  • Also in the data, the name of the game was originally going to be God Eater Zero, which makes the reveal of the Aragami in the game's setting even more blatant. The name was likely changed to keep the surprise of The Reveal fresh.
• Follow the Leader: Like Lords of the Fallen, The Surge, and Nioh before, Code Vein follows the Dark Souls formula: you create your character using an in-depth customization menu, then wander around killing horribly deformed undead monstrosities. You have a limited amount of healing items, which you can replenish by activating and resting at Mistles, which also causes all enemies to respawn. When you die, you lose all your currency and are sent back to the previous Mistle you used, but can regain it by returning to where you died, and the combat is centered around parrying and dodging attacks with precise timing.
• Playing Against Type: Max Mittelman made a name for himself voicing fairly upbeat guys like Ryuji and Gray. Dour, kind-hearted, haunted Louis is, in many ways, as far as one can get from them (and Mittelman even lowers his tone a bit to match).
• Pre-Order Bonus:
  • A Bath Towel costume is given to those who pre-ordered the console editions of the game, though as of writing it is exclusive to Japanese releases, though there have been reports of certain players who have access to it while playing on non-JP copies. As of Patch 1.12, the Bath Towel became available to owners of the Deluxe Edition, alongside the Venous Claw blood veil and various region-locked sticker sets.
  • Players who pre-ordered the game are given access to three exclusive God Eater-themed weapons. If players did not pre-order, they can still acquire the weapons via the Pre-Order DLC Bundle on the Playstation Network Store.
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to the third behind the scenes video, the animation is originally suppose to be photo-realistic before the anime style is used. Mia and her design was not originally going to be in the game.
  • The beta and test builds had the Queens Knight as the first boss players encountered in the game. However, in the full release of the game, it doesn't appear until much later, with the first boss being a Lost Oliver Collins.
  • The game was originally meant to have a different opening and was meant to first take place during Operation Queenslayer. In the final game, Operation Queenslayer was changed to a memory section in a later part of the game while the meeting with Io was made into the starting segment.