Tiny little nitpick... (animorphs question part)

[Mr_Scooter]

Everywhere I look says David's main morph was a lion, also, he morphed into a rattlesnake... not a cobra...

[tombo]

Anecdote: I actually saved, closed the game and googled the answer before the game told it to me. It's funny because then River says "you could have googled it".

[Fayorei]

Yeah, haha. As someone who did read the books as a kid I was like LION! LION? LION!!!!! And it kept telling me I was wrong. I laughed out loud at the whole River quote though.

[Whitewind617]

The animorphs trivia question is incorrect, which really bugs me. It seems to be the creators misremembering, as there's a reason someone might think his main morph was a cobra - He owned a pet cobra, a cobra the Marco acquired and morphed into on occasion, but David never once morphed into it. He later morphed an unrelated rattlesnake.

Lion is probably the first thing anyone who read the books would guess, but for some reason they got it wrong. Also there's another inaccuracy - How the hell is David Johnny's favorite character? That makes no sense.

[Turkleton]

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It actually makes a ton of sense that the answer is wrong because, remember, that scene in the bookstore/library takes place in John's memory and he never actually read the Animorphs books.

[Tacker]

When you talk to River, she reels off the list of primary animals for all the Animorphs. Even she says 'Cobra' for David, even though David used a Lion to fight and an Eagle to fly (as distinct from the animals the other animorphs chose.)

While not a game-breaker, it's a little disappointing. The writer should have taken River's advice and googled it.

[Sum Gai]

it would be nice if this question was correct. having read the animorph series multiple times, it bugs the crap out of me for a game to make the refference and still get things wrong.

[Chakka]

In case anyone ever finds this thread again and is confused
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As Andy_ said well nigh a yeah ago: the animal is wrong because John's memory is wrong. Even if River "says" the answer, John could easily have misheard, or not correctly remembered. The people in his memory are just that, memories. Ever wonder why all the people are fuzzy silhouettes without faces? Because John never remembered their faces correctly (Watt actually mentions this). He never actually read the Animorph books, and to have such a jarring error makes a ton more sense when you finally figure out why John never read the books, but only said he did.

[Seriva]

Автор сообщения: Chakka

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He never actually read the Animorph books, and to have such a jarring error makes a ton more sense when you finally figure out why John never read the books, but only said he did.

(More spoilers in my reply!)



It doesn't actually make sense. He got the main character's animals right(even though Rachel's name is spelled wrong :P), and you'd think he'd remember what animal David was because he had to answer the kid(putting it to memory, unlike the other characters).

[HardboiledShamus]

With the references to Street Fighter, The Hulk and Doctor Who to name a few, I'm surprised Watts didn't just belt out "COOOOOBRAAAAAAAAAAA!"

[Hellowin]

[SPOILERS]

Yeah, I agreed with 'it's make sense'. Just remember that it's inside John's 'memory'. Is he actually read Animorph? As we did in real life, sometimes we make a 'false' memory just to prove to ourself that it's really happened even thought we never did it.

[Elefeji]

cobra yazın türk arkadaşlarım

[Hailey]

Автор сообщения: Seriva

Автор сообщения: Chakka

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He never actually read the Animorph books, and to have such a jarring error makes a ton more sense when you finally figure out why John never read the books, but only said he did.

(More spoilers in my reply!)



It doesn't actually make sense. He got the main character's animals right(even though Rachel's name is spelled wrong :P), and you'd think he'd remember what animal David was because he had to answer the kid(putting it to memory, unlike the other characters).

Yes, but everyone is forgetting (SPOILERSSS) that after you put in "cobra" and the kid says "Oh yeah!! A cobra!!" If you continue to talk to Johnny he says, "Perhaps I should reread them after all... I can barely recall a thing from that series." This shows that he doesn't remember pretty much anything and the answer being 'wrong' is just Johnny's memories not relaying right

(Just realized the comment was from three years ago & im sorry for replying lol)

[fuat*maj7*]

Автор сообщения: x4cwick EBB

cobra yazın türk arkadaşlarım

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[darkchaos125]

In my opinion, I think another reason why John got it wrong/his fave character is David is simply because he happened to only remember one name that stood out to him the most. He has a tendency to overthink, or know what's best for people. It's possible he sees a connection with David in some way we may not understand.

Anyways he was gifted an Animorphs book when he was younger, and owned a handful of more books later on, but probably quickly grew out of them.

David being his fave chara
Cobra
These are either things the creator misremebered, or that John misremembered cuz his memory is probably just as hazy as Watts, or both.

[Incompetent Finn]

The excuse of "It's in his memories, so it makes sense that he got details wrong" doesn't fly for me.
The player is given a prompt directly asking them to enter the word, meaning from a gameplay perspective, at the very least something special should happen if the player enters "lion", or else you're actively punishing players who do get your IRL reference.
The fact that there is no custom response for "lion" proves to me that this was not an intentional mistake, and was instead a genuine goof on the developer's side.

Heck, in that same scene, you can walk onto the wall via the backpack-tile, so that more than shows that this scene did not get the attention-to-detail it deserved.

(...Yes, I am very salty about this error. Partly because I too was screaming "LION!" at my screen, but also because this is pretty simple to rectify; Either make it a question about one of the other Animorphs, or else at the bare minimum fact-check properly; the wiki states he doesn't ever transform into a cobra. I mean, you went through the effort of quoting Hitchhiker's Guide for the Origami book, so you clearly did do *some* research when writing this, so why was this scene excluded?)