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Retro Warriors 559 - Falcom

Retro Warriors · April 6, 2026

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00:54:42 - 00:54:59

- And then they continued to kind of just toss up the formula and make it weird with the fourth game, which was "Dragon Slayer 4, The Drassle Family," which Drassle is what a lot of Japanese players were calling "Dragon Slayer." They would just take the first syllables of each and make it Drassle. ...

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... which is why they called it "Dragon Slayer Junior," which that's still just a stupid name for a game. - Right. It makes it sound like you're playing "Dragon Slayer's Kid." - Right, yeah. It's like the Game Boy port. - It's now showed up to save the day. Oh, it would be a good name for a Game Boy port. - Right. - Yeah. - And then they continued to kind of just toss up the formula and make it weird with the fourth game, which was "Dragon Slayer 4, The Drassle Family," which Drassle is what a lot of Japanese players were calling "Dragon Slayer." They would just take the first syllables of each and make it Drassle. - Yeah, it's a thing. - Yeah, it's a Japanese thing. - With game names a lot, presumably with other things. - Yeah, oh yeah. - I know that it happens with games a lot. - Definitely, yeah. I wonder if they call "Final Fantasy" Finfan. - Most of 'em I hear, and I'm like, ...

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