Trivia / Project × Zone

• Acting for Two: Between the several role reprises across different franchises for a crossover game, this was inevitable. There are some gags based around these casting decisions in the game itself as well.
  • Mariko Suzuki once again plays double duty as KOS-MOS and T-elos in both games.
  • Nobuyuki Hiyama voices Demitri Maximoff, Haken Browning, Batsu Ichimonji, and Stehoney in the first game, with him adding Pyron in the sequel.
  • Norio Wakamoto plays Cardinal Garigliano, M. Bison, and Metal Face in 2.
  • Tomokazu Sugita voices both Axel Stone and Chrom in 2.
• All-Star Cast: Given the large cast, many well-known veteran voice actors provide voice work for characters in both games.
• Bad Export for You: Apparently, even instrumental versions of certain songs have to be licensed separately from the game. As such, the American version has a number of Cut Songs, including World's Love, Over The Clouds, If You Wish For..., Ring a Bell, Mexican Flyer, HIGH-RISE TO HELL (from Dynamite Deka/Die Hard Arcade), ROCKS, and the vocal version of the game's main theme, Wing Wanderer. The sequel, however, has no cut content.
• Development Gag: A Servbot is upset at Tron's rocket project to save her Mega Man being delayed, possibly referencing Legends 3 (which would have at least partially involved building said rocket) getting cancelled.
  • The subtitle of the second game "Brave New World" becomes this over one of the themes, the theme song of Namco X Capcom... also is called "Brave New World"
• Dueling Games: Brave New World did this with Fire Emblem Fates in North America, as both are strategy RPGS on the 3DS releasing in the same week. Funny considering that:
  • A: Their previous titles, Fire Emblem: Awakening and the first Project X Zone were released within months of each other. As detailed on the YMMV page, one Western reviewer made unfavorable comparisons between the two games, to the detriment of the latter^note  to the point where people called the review unfair because of this
  • B: Chrom and Lucina are present in both games.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.":
  • The Valkyria Chronicles III protagonists fall into this trope. Selvaria Bles does not, having debuted in the first game.
  • Although only the fifth Sakura Wars game was released in America, we did get The Anime of the Game, several OVAs, The Movie, and part of a manga adaptation. As such, the only Sakura Wars characters to fall under this trope are Ciseaux and Aya-me.^note  Specifically her kouma self, she appeared as her original human self in the anime.
  • For the second game, Ciel Alencon and Nana Kazuki of God Eater 2 count as that game was released worldwide after Project X Zone 2.
• Milestone Celebration: Project X Zone 2 serves as the 10th anniversary of Namco × Capcom. Fittingly enough, 2 has Reiji and Xiaomu as the main heroes again, Saya as one of the primary antagonists, as well as introducing other members of Shinra and Ouma. In fact, the game's subtitle, Brave New World, shares the same name as Namco X Capcom's main theme.
• No Dub for You: While the games were able to be officially released and translated to the west, neither game was given an English voice dub. Understandably due to the various franchises that were dubbed under different studios.
• No Export for You:
  • There's a humorous reference to one case in the sequel (and likely only in the localization) from the Tales of Vesperia pair. Whose PS3 rerelease would only be localized in 2018.
    Yuri: Let's call for our own friends too. Repede, and Rita, and Judy.
    Flynn: And let's not forget Captain Schwann and... what's-her-name. Was there a pirate girl?
  • The Brave New World's Original Game Sound Edition, a soundtrack that has the original songs intact from the various games, was not released outside of Japan due to copyright.
• Promoted Fanboy: According to the Tokyo Game Show, Tomokazu Sugita used to play Namco × Capcom and even references how broken Guy and Shou were in that game with the Smoke Bomb technique and was happy that two of the characters he voiced, Chrom and Axel Stone, got in.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Xiaoyu is using her Blood Vengeance voice than the original one. To be fair though, Sakamoto does Xiaoyu's voice for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as well.
  • Ai Orikasa voices Tarosuke in the second game instead of Fujiko Takimoto in Namco × Capcom.
• What Could Have Been:
  • When asked by a fan (and later by Tetsu Inada, who does voice Arthur in this game) why Ratsel Feinschmecker isn't in the game, according to Takanobu Terada, Gilliam Yeager was supposed to be included in the game.
  • According to this sheet, Sakuya Tachibana was probably supposed to be in this game.
  • According to some tweets by Hideki Kamiya, Bayonetta was proposed, but Kamiya vetoed the idea because he wanted to be the one to make the game where Dante and Bayonetta appear together. That said, he has since come to regret making that decision and is open to Bayonetta appearing in a prospective third game.
  • Concept art for Mii had her with shorter hair.
  • Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey were originally a pair unit in the second game, but the team had trouble coming up with enough moves for Maya, so they became a solo unit instead.

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