Giant Enemy Crab
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Giant Enemy Crab is an internet meme born in the video game forums and achieved notable popularity in the gaming press and also referenced by video games developers.
The origin was in the presentation of Genji: Days of the Blade at the Sony press conference at E3 2006 when the producer Bill Rich, showing Genji at the press conference, claimed that Genji 2's battles are based on "famous battles which took actually took place in Ancient Japan". The gameplay shown directly after saying this contained a "giant enemy crab" seemingly indicating that it has a more fantasy-based premise, rather than history-based. Popular memes from the portion include "You attack its weak point for massive damage!!" and "[...]Real-time[...]weapon change[...]". Memes also put Kaz Hirai saying "PS3 means real change..." directly before, "Genji is an action game based on famous battles which took actually took place in Ancient Japan."; the irony of this is that action games based on Japanese history are numerous [and due to the fact that, of course, there were no "Giant Enemy Crabs" in Ancient Japan]. In IGN's E3 2006 wrap-up, they listed a number of Genji 2 quotes.
[edit] References
Several games have references to this meme, including:
- The Xbox 360 game Viva Pinata makes fun of the "real-time weapon change" and the "massive damage!!" [1].
- The Nintendo DS game Contact also makes a reference [2].
- Final Fantasy V Advance (for the Gameboy Advance), and the strategy guide made for it, also make a reference [3].
- The demo version of MotorStorm features a "massive damage" reference [4]. The final version of the game featured a event called Giant Enemy Crab
- "Godhand" makes a reference in a level in stage 2 titled "Giant Enemy Crane", and contains a racing dog named "Massive Damage".
- On the level of Elite Beat Agents titled "Rags to Riches! Go East Wildcatter!", if the player fails the section where they dig to New York City, they will be arrested and the player sees a picture of himself in jail with the caption "You pay massive damages"
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