In-Game References

Exactly.

I've decided Penumbra's most powerful spell is Black Hole Sun.

Interesting. What exactly is the reference as far as that goes?

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden.

Oh wow, I totally should have known that. I can't believe I didn't catch that. Rock Band showed me this song! Very nice!

That was the FIRST thing I thought of when I read that name. Get with it, yo

The thing is, it's a totally suitable name for a dark magic spell.

Agreed. I can imagine some crazy cool animations for that spell as well.

I've always dug that song.

Penumbra gives Lot a magical flower that he keeps in a bell jar.

I'm sorry, I'm really new but I thought I should say this:

If we (you?) add too many references into the game, it will seem like a parody. So unless we want a parody, we should keep it at famous quotes and poems (like the ones mentioned above) and skimp on the memes.

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chuck981995
Charles Prior

Agreed. Which is why they have to make sense contextually, especially if the player doesn't know the source of the reference.

I have an idea that we don't need to include the quotes directly into the game. We could write them into the instruction manual as short profiles for the characters. Since Penumbra and Antares are important enough to have some kind of information given on them in the manual we could put their Hitler and Churchill quotes in possibly under a picture.

Speaking of parody, I think a good spin on Hitler's quote would sound like "What luck for men that rulers do not think."