EXA PICO Wiki:DidYouKnow
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GAME FACTS
<option>*…the Universe of EXA_PICO currently has a total of four constructed languages and two proto-languages?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia was the last Gust Ltd. game to make use of the visual style that started with Atelier Judie?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia originally was a tabletop RPG thought up and played by Akira Tsuchiya with his university classmates?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia was initially proposed as a JRPG console game to Gust by Akira Tsuchiya in 2000 and which was entirely different from the final game?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia was the best sold game in the trilogy?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia had the second-best opening week sales in the trilogy?</option> <option>*…Noriko Mitose was the only singer who Akira Tsuchiya recruited for the Ar tonelico series by talking to her after attending one of her live concerts?</option> <option>*…Noriko Mitose made a version of EXEC_HARMONIOUS/. representing Mir's original version of the song that has never been released on albums and that has been sung only in her live concerts from 2018 to 2022?</option> <option>*…Akiko Shikata made a Japanese version of EXEC_CHRONICLE=KEY/. that has never been sung outside her Harmonia concert from 2009?</option> <option>*…Akiko Shikata has always been enthusiastic about the Hymmnos language and helping develop the setting for the Ar tonelico series?</option> <option>*…Akira Tsuchiya wrote a column on the Ar Portal regarding the feelings behind the Aurica Install scene in response to it being "seen as a perverted scene" in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia?</option> <option>*…the Ar tonelico series is the first game in which the Gust Sound Team made use of streamed music rather than synthesized music?</option> <option>*…the bonus track LORE from the Chanting the Moon~Tsukikanade~ Ar tonelico Hymmnos Concert Side Red album has an unused, lower-quality version found among Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia's music files?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica uses the same graphical style and engine as Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al Revis?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica is the only JRPG game set in the Universe of EXA_PICO in which the protagonist can't jump?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica and Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star use an iteration of the Shop Synthesis system from Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica has an unused animation file from Fullmetal Alchemist: Omoide no Sonata among its files?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel is the only game in the series to employ the Hymmnos language in its title?</option> <option>*…the "Qoga" word (Hymmnos for "end, demise" and pronounced /kɰoːga/) is most likely a New Testament of Pastalie word that shouldn't be used in Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel's setting of Sol Cluster?</option> <option>*…Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel had the best opening week sales in the Ar tonelico series and second overall best lifetime sales?</option> <option>*…Ciel nosurge: Ushinawareta Hoshi e Sasagu Uta and Augmented Reality Girls Trinary are the only games related to the Universe of EXA_PICO to have never received a localization?</option> <option>*…that the Ar tonelico series was one of the cited inspirations for the music of the NieR games?</option>
CHARACTER FACTS
<option>*…Akiko Shikata stated during the prerelease festival to Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia that she wanted to punch Lyner?</option> <option>*…Misha Arsellec Lune's child form was the last character added to Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia?</option> <option>*…Shurelia and Spica Neal were the only characters from the tabletop RPG version of Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia to have survived from the game's earliest days up to its final release?</option> <option>*…Claire Branch was once considered as a party member candidate in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia?</option> <option>*…Cocona Bartel is the only Reyvateil adept at physical combat that serves as a playable party member?</option> <option>*…the "Cocona, Cocona!" cheering heard in the Japanese voice track for Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel was recorded from fans attending the event in which the trailer showcasing Cocona Bartel's appearance in the game was unveiled?</option> <option>*…Shurelia and Shelanoir's Forest existing at the same time in Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star creates an inconsistency in the established chronology for the series?</option>
MAGIC/SKILL/ITEM FACTS
<option>*…the Ar tonelico? bomb can be survived by a strong enough party in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia?</option> <option>*…the IPDF item is completely useless in Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica due to its code pointing to no routines?</option> <option>*…many of the items from Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia had their names changed when they reappeared in Cross Edge?</option>
EQUIPMENT/LOCATIONS/MISCELLANEOUS FACTS
<option>*…the Prism Garden was originally a shrine in the middle of the sea that received its name from the fact it refracted light and made itself invisible or visible depending on the angle it was viewed from?</option> <option>*…Grathnode Crystals are treated as the only weapons the Reyvateils can equip in Cross Edge?</option> <option>*…the glyphs used in the Hymmnos language are based on soundwave shapes drawn over a circular plane?</option> <option>*…the Dive System is based on psychoanalysis and Jungian ideas?</option> <option>*…the Tower of Ar tonelico is powered by a music box?</option> <option>*…the Tower of Ar tonelico was originally an enormous tree instead of a mechanical tower?</option> <option>*…the names of the Dualithnode Crystals are all in Carmena Foreluna, and that they served as the major first piece of information regarding the meanings of the individual letters and some of their combinations?</option>