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@Moot @Crocabit (pouring diesel into my game controller) where we droppin boys

@KommaChameleon @Felthry @ShugoWah @Moot @Crocabit (listen i kinda actually want this bc i have a copy of VOOT for DC)

@Felthry @poss_bot @Galuade @ShugoWah @Moot @Crocabit Virtual On is a one-on-one mecha fighting game from the 90s featuring a behind-the-back camera and a dual stick control scheme. It's played split screen or on separate displays.

VOOT is "Virtual On Ontario Tangram", the Dreamcast version of the game.

@Felthry WHOOPS I kinda typed it wrong, it's "Oratorio Tangram". It's a pretty thesaurus name but

Oratorio = a large-scale opera
Tangram = a puzzle about rearranging shapes

So it's basically a fancy way of saying "Virtual On: Grand Remix". Tangram is also the name of one of the game's villains.

@KommaChameleon though I guess plenty of games have really strange names. Radiant Historia, Infinite Undiscovery, Exist Archive

@Felthry @poss_bot If this is gonna become another list thread I'm game

Devil Survivor -- this one I like because it almost parses but is something no English speaking person would ever say

@poss_bot @ShugoWah @KommaChameleon which would probably make sense if it had an article in there and I think it actually does but the logo makes it very unclear whether it's The Legend of Dragoon or Legend of the Dragoon

@ShugoWah @Galuade @poss_bot @KommaChameleon also, a number of Square games: Final Fantasy itself, and Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, ~~Chrono Break~~, maybe Vagrant Story

@KommaChameleon @Galuade @poss_bot @ShugoWah oh also Eternal Sonata, as well as quite a lot of the Tales games (what is Phantasia supposed to mean? what about Berseria or Vesperia? Abyss is maybe the only one that really makes sense)

@Felthry @Galuade @poss_bot @ShugoWah Eternal Sonata = pianist Frédéric Chopin is on his deathbed but his music will live on forever

Most tales games are words with some syllables shifted so they sound like place names. Best guesses:
Phantasia = Fantasy place
Vesperia = Vesper (evening) place ?
Berseria = Berserk place (because your protagonist is extremely bloodthirsty)

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@KommaChameleon @Galuade @poss_bot @ShugoWah Never played Berseria so I don't know. I do think Tales of Xillia probably counts though, considering that Xillia just came from "XIII looks like Xill and then let's add the -ia ending that every other tales game has" because it was the thirteenth game

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