Trivia / Fantasy Life

• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: There are two common mistakes in Internet articles. One is to use screencaps that are from an earlier version of the game. Another is to claim that it's possible to play as one or several of the jobs that have been cut from the final version of the game.
• Creator-Driven Successor:
  • Level-5 also developed Dragon Quest IX, and the two games share many similarities.
• Development Gag:
  • When you know which jobs have been cut, you realise why there are so many characters with no bearing to the main story or any of the lives with unique designs: they were meant to be the guilds for the jobs cut from the game. While it's a little hard to make a RPG with zero shopkeepers, you can meet a handful of farmers, a postal service, a pilot network, three fortune tellers, treasure hunters, scholars (Hughes and the heads of the two libraries), and find a small circus in Castele.
  • A conversation with Gladstone, who's a master of all lives, mentions that he can see the future and pilot aircraft in addition to the lives that the player can undertake. He also says that he's forbidden from teaching these two last trades for an undisclosed reason.
• Development Hell: It was originally meant to be released in 2009 on the DS. Its Japanese release ended up being on 3DS in 2012.
• Dueling Dubs: The American localization and UK localization changed several character, item, and class names between them, leading to confusion over which names to use on fan sites and the like.
• Dummied Out: The Paladin skill Cast-Iron Shield seems to be some variant of this: the game gives you a message stating you learned it when you reach the Adept rank but it's not listed anywhere in the ingame movelist for the job, there's no tutorial message that tells you what it does and the Japanese wiki for the game also seems to state that it doesn't exist.
• Invisible Advertising: As per norm with Level5. Many people didn't know the game even existed until hearing about it from their friends who had already played it. Barring Europe, where it got a few YouTube videos and mentions in a few Nintendo Directs, probably the most prominent advertising it got was in the Nintendo eShop, where it was a featured item for a few days after initial release.
• Refitted for Sequel: The farmer Life, which was initially cut from the first game, would end up be added to Fantasy Life i.
• What Could Have Been: The various Lives that were cut from the final product include postman, treasure hunter, scholar, beastmaster, street entertainer, fortune teller, shopkeeper, farmer, and pilot. The Master themes for these Lives are still in the game.

---