Happy belated birthday to the following Raincode characters. (I didn't get into Raincode until the end of March, and I simply forgot Yakou's wife's birthday recently π ) I actually started the game a day after Pucci's birthday.
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I found some rather interesting unused sprites in Raincode. MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING.
Looking in the files for Raincode I noticed that a few characters have sprites that are never seen in game but the same expression is shown in a cinematic like this Shinigami sprite.
I'm confident that Shinigami never shows this sprite in the whole game but I distinctly remember a cutscene where she flatted herself onto the ground in chapter 1.
So this gives credence to my theory that the developers made all the sprites and story events first but when it came to making dialogue and cutscenes, the devs decided that certain scene worked better as a cinematic with subtitles rather than an ingame text conversation and the sprites that would have been used in that scene did not show up.
I don't know why these sprites are still in the game files if they are never used but whatever. I took what I believe to be all the unused sprites from Raincode and paired them with the scene that they would have been in. I'm confident that I have pulled every unused sprite but if I did miss one someone can correct me on it.
Also, MASSIVE END GAME SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT. IF YOU HAVE NOT BEATEN THE GAME DO NOT CLICK.
Only 4 out of the 11 sprites Karen has are seen in game. It's likely that most if not all of the play was going to be purely shown through ingame dialogue but they made a bunch of illustrations for the story of the play and cutscenes with subtitles. What interests me the most is the second to last sprite as it looks like Karen when her lips touched the poisoned cup and she is about to to vomit blood.
These Priest sprites were likely used for when Yuma tried to talk to him in the abandoned village and the he tried to attack Yuma.
These Yakou sprites might have been intended for the scene where Yuma meets him in the Homunculus Testing Site.
This might be a stretch but I think this Kurumi sprite was to be used in this scene where Yuma shuts off the rain maker machine and Kurumi collapses due to being exposed to sunlight.
That's all the sprites that I believe are never seen in the game. It's pretty cool to leftover content like this and get a feel for how the development of this game went.
