Trivia / Mystic Messenger

• Ascended Meme:
  • The fandom started making Fifty Shades of Grey comparisons soon after seeing Jumin's bad endings. Seven joins the fun in the update that introduced the spaceship: one of the thoughts it can pick up from him during Jumin's route is "Fifty Shades of Chairman-to-be..."
  • "Does Jumin Han Is Gay?" makes an appearance in the Christmas DLC (specifically, in a fake news report Seven trolls Yoosung with.)
• Breakthrough Hit: Cheritz made two games before this one (Dandelion and Nameless), but Mystic Messenger is easily their most well-known and profitable work.
• The Cast Showoff: Hosan Lee (V's voice actor) sings "Compass", which plays during the video at the end of V's route. He and Hyunjin Lee (the voice of Rika) also sing "Light and Daffodils", the opening theme of Another Story.
• Diagnosis of God: A Word of Saint Paul example; In the Free Talk for Secret 02, Kang Sujin, the voice actor for Unknown/Saeran Choi, interprets his character as having borderline personality disorder (which Kang Sujin himself has.)
• No Export for You: The game has yet to have an official translation in languages aside from Korean, English, Spanish, and traditional Chinese. And in regards to the last one, the server for the traditional Chinese translation was terminated a few years after launch. This made not only that version of the game no longer officially available, but the server was also terminated before the release of Ray's After Ending and the Jumin Bad Ending DLC, making this trope completely played straight for those parts of the game for that translation.
• Release Date Change: When V's route was announced, Cheritz planned to release it in August. In late August, they released a statement that they were not yet finished working and it would be delayed until September. The route came out on September 9th (Korean time), V's birthday.
• Troubled Production: The game was originally planned to be released in Winter 2015 but was delayed multiple times due to its script ending up being three times longer than Nameless, the company's previous game. Even after the game was finally released in Summer 2016, the company had to resolve a significant number of bugs and the game's server being burdened by a lot more players than anticipated for months afterward.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: When the Christmas DLC was first released, there were rumors that it was possible to get an ending with V; supposedly, it was obtained by going through Jumin's Christmas route and siding with V on the second day. No such ending actually exists, however.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Not in regards to the game, but the webtoon. Frequent piracy, editing of the art, and complaints about Hana Kang (the protagonist of the webtoon) resulted in the artist shutting down her Twitter and her ending the webtoon, resulting in an ending that many felt was rushed, which likely was also the reason some major plot points of the game (that being the plot regarding Mint Eye and Rika and Saeran's involvement with it, as well as the latter's history and relationship with 707) were not touched upon in the webtoon.

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