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As Appendix said, I don't think that the game has hidden lore within the game, except for the basic "You're the good guys, they're the bad guys. Kick their butts". Similarities in desing may be explained by budget limits, as making sprites based on other existing sprites makes it much easier and much faster.
But leave that aside, I want to expand the lore of the game!
I really like this theory. It makes sense. You can also see how Jack is untrained with firing energy blast, as seen in his sprites. You also get to feel that through gameplay: It takes for him a lot of time to cast and fire the blasts, and in order to rapidly fire again, instead of just pressing A again - Like Davis and Dennis do - you need to press the whole combination again (D>A); As Justing, he gave up the range and the rapidfire for short range shots and consistent-yet-a-bit-slower cast speed of his energy blasts.
I won't related to the kick/punch point, as you summed it up well enough.
Other theories/speculations:
* Why didn't the creators list certain move sets for some characters? I'm talking about Knight's D>A, Bat's DVA from grabbing and LouisEX's J from grabbing. Those moves are listed in their data files, but not in the move set. Maybe those are leftovers and they forgot to remove them out of the game?
* Why did Jan and Monk appeared the least as enemies in Stage Mode? (Jan appear in 4-4 and 5-1, and Monk appeared only on 5-1)
* In my forum, users speculated that Knights are actually Makrs wearing armors, As you see Mark for the last time at the 2nd phase of Stage 5-2.
* Same users speculated that Davis and Julian have a connection, perhaps they're even the same person!
- Both have a slight resemblance in appearance, especially in the hair: both have a brown and spiky hair, with Julian's just being longer. Also, both have ears.
- Both share a light resemblance in some of their movements. I'll start with their upper-cuts:
For some reason, Davis' Dragon-Punch glows while Julian's Upper-Cut doesn't. I suspect that the Dragon Punch is pure and holy, so when Davis bacame cottupted, the soul of the dragon (or something like that I don't know...) left him. So he still knows how to do the trick, but without the soul of the dragon (or something like that I don't know...).
- As for the Energy Blast, Julian's blasts look more like Davis' than Dennis'. Julians blasts are whay more powerful and much faster. That means of course that Julian gained much more power by sacrificing his good side and the soul of the dragon (or something like that I don't know...).
- They also share a similar basic movement: Both Dash attacks deal 80 damage (please conform this) and both move the same when they runattack, but Julian glows and charges his run attack. That might bt the substitue to the soul of the dragon (or something like that I don't know...).
Edit: Julian does look more like Firzen than Davis, bu I still like to think about the Corrupted Hero thing. P:
May I post your theory in my forum? I promise to give you credit and post a link to this post!
But leave that aside, I want to expand the lore of the game!
I really like this theory. It makes sense. You can also see how Jack is untrained with firing energy blast, as seen in his sprites. You also get to feel that through gameplay: It takes for him a lot of time to cast and fire the blasts, and in order to rapidly fire again, instead of just pressing A again - Like Davis and Dennis do - you need to press the whole combination again (D>A); As Justing, he gave up the range and the rapidfire for short range shots and consistent-yet-a-bit-slower cast speed of his energy blasts.
I won't related to the kick/punch point, as you summed it up well enough.
Other theories/speculations:
* Why didn't the creators list certain move sets for some characters? I'm talking about Knight's D>A, Bat's DVA from grabbing and LouisEX's J from grabbing. Those moves are listed in their data files, but not in the move set. Maybe those are leftovers and they forgot to remove them out of the game?
* Why did Jan and Monk appeared the least as enemies in Stage Mode? (Jan appear in 4-4 and 5-1, and Monk appeared only on 5-1)
* In my forum, users speculated that Knights are actually Makrs wearing armors, As you see Mark for the last time at the 2nd phase of Stage 5-2.
* Same users speculated that Davis and Julian have a connection, perhaps they're even the same person!
- Both have a slight resemblance in appearance, especially in the hair: both have a brown and spiky hair, with Julian's just being longer. Also, both have ears.
- Both share a light resemblance in some of their movements. I'll start with their upper-cuts:
For some reason, Davis' Dragon-Punch glows while Julian's Upper-Cut doesn't. I suspect that the Dragon Punch is pure and holy, so when Davis bacame cottupted, the soul of the dragon (or something like that I don't know...) left him. So he still knows how to do the trick, but without the soul of the dragon (or something like that I don't know...).
- As for the Energy Blast, Julian's blasts look more like Davis' than Dennis'. Julians blasts are whay more powerful and much faster. That means of course that Julian gained much more power by sacrificing his good side and the soul of the dragon (or something like that I don't know...).
- They also share a similar basic movement: Both Dash attacks deal 80 damage (please conform this) and both move the same when they runattack, but Julian glows and charges his run attack. That might bt the substitue to the soul of the dragon (or something like that I don't know...).
Edit: Julian does look more like Firzen than Davis, bu I still like to think about the Corrupted Hero thing. P:
May I post your theory in my forum? I promise to give you credit and post a link to this post!
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