Katana Zero: Easter Eggs & Secrets

[@planterbox]

The lines “Twenty-eight years in that godforsaken jungle.” and “It’s only been a week, but it feels like a year.” imply that Zero and the other soldiers only fought for just over 6 months.

[@siom4758]

Marine Corps Tours are normally 6 months

[@kashiisdead]

@@siom4758 And also the veterans zero talked to at the bar said "6 MORE months and we would have won"

[@aadityayanamandra8846]

@@kashiisdead plus, zero is 15 during the war, so it couldn't have been 28 years. Seems like the 6 months are canon.

[@j.d.p219]

Hey, maybe zero and all the other gammas are really old but the chronos in their blood is preserving them like how Leon was being preserved in the chamber.

[@roggos3668]

J.D.P That makes sense! I mean that homeless veteran looked pretty old

[@roliz]

*Zero is just a ronin from the edo period lmao*

[@hiru88888]

Leon uses his age to produce chronos that why he ages so fast when gotten out of the chamber

[@thelonecourier3439]

With how much chronos that was pumping through their blood since they were kid I wouldn’t be surprised that this slow down their aging

[@turtletoad7725]

perhaps aging itself is slowed, but the number is still the number. zero being 22 years old does not mean he biologically ought to be 22, it means he has been alive for 22 years. the 28 years he mentioned could only have come from his distorted sense of time.

[@bigthe_]

During the fight with V in studio 51, you can see comedy during the glitching. This could be in clue to how Zero sees V as a joke and that he can't be compared

[@That1blackguy133]

Thank God I'm not the only who noticed

[@mubrek236]

Did you know:In Mansion misson if you snipe V through the skylight with The Sword of Masters he will say ''Wtf was that blue shit''

[@umarrblx2]

yes ik

[@mewhenyourmom1964]

Glad I wasn't the only one who knew this

[@eyupilkutlu7316]

Bro hell yeah finally someone that see that thing i am glad i am not the only person 😢 is there a video did someone caught that moment? Cause i can,t handle this should be popular...

[@alper_tr3852]

Now I gotta try it

[@eyupilkutlu7316]

@@alper_tr3852 good luck by the way send it to your youtube channel if you do it please. And then respond this comment back

[@tomstone4123]

Can't wait untill new DLC, this is a game that gives me such an amount of joy to play caused by numeral things, best game i've played in the last 10 years for sure

[@hibsterrz]

Do we know the status on the DLC? Just as you I'm itching to get an update, if there is any known.

[@bradysmith8734]

Same

[@9inchnails]

​@@hibsterrz they posted some stuff on twitter about it, like a new rocket launcher enemy

[@9inchnails]

@@bradysmith8734 check askiisofts twitter they posted a new enemy there

[@zachabsher8546]

Rip

[@ti2218]

I've never seen a video where the creator actually encouraged people to dislike the video unironically. That's great. And only 11 people did it.

[@starshineline]

Honestly i liked the video but was already aware of all these things so.... D:

[@tiagocunha4821]

Can you give some detail on this?

[@ti2218]

@@tiagocunha4821 what do you mean by that?

[@transfemengimain]

Tino Why did he ask people to dislike it?

[@therussiannukekid1784]

Mitten squad is also another channel that encourages people to dislike his videos if people don't learn anything new, however I can't think of any other example apart from all of those challenges videos, ie: can this video get the same amount of dislikes to likes, or can we get 100k dislikes.

[@b1k3r_98]

I know that is late, but I think that behemoth and leviathan are zero and fifteen. We see a red light from behemoth when it's near leviathan at first time we find them, AND at motorcycle mission, when we first encounter fifteen, a red light comes from zero and fills entire screen like behemoth.

[@Spacebugg]

I think they were friends in the war

[@eggomyweggo6576]

Yeah for some reason the reunion of behemoth and leviathan are linked to zero and fifteens reunion. Idk what the toys represent though so it’s just kinda confusing to me

[@cormoranoimperatore8413]

Yeah I noticed that too

[@hoitem6500]

Maybe the girl got Behemoth from Fifteen because he also find it in the war and decided to give it away.

[@MalcontentFlower]

I thought this was a reference to Worm?

[@dizzyyy_]

what i like to believe about the church scene is that it was fifteen talking. fifteen asks headhunter to help him (in what, i have no idea) in the beginning of chinatown. and at the end of the church scene the dialogue states "i need to ask you a favor". and when fifteen shows up on the highway, stating he is the dragon, the font is the same. (this may seem a little far-fetched, but it was a similarity i noticed.)

[@cormoranoimperatore8413]

That font is used only twice in the main game and it’s different from the rest of the dialogues so I don’t think it’s far-fetched

[@eggbread512]

I personally think it's zero (or a part of him) talking directly to the player. The game does an amazing job of fusing zero's perspective to the player's, to the point where I think the most accurate depiction of zero *is* the player themselves, as everything zero experiences and thinks is the same as the player. The game also directly acknowledges the player sometimes, like how during the psychotherapy fight, the psychiatrist turns his attention away from zero and directly at the player, speaking to them through zero's thoughts. I personally think that the line "I know what comes next, I need to ask you a favour" is asking the player to choose the golden mask of life, as the things we see next are zero suffering from withdrawal, and his murder of the psychiatrist aswell as his indirect murder of the girl. Zero looking at his hands in horror of what he's done expresses his fear of what he's done or could do, as this vision is more of a premonition induced by chronos' precognition

[@RoseColoredIris]

In the last flashback you see that Zero takes leviathan. In all the other flashbacks it is shown that Zero is the child that witnesses the Null kill the scientist but we find out that he is actually the Null, not the child. In one of the flashbacks two children are present, him and a silhouette that looks like the little girl he interacts with throughout the game. As shown in this video during one of the cutscences, the landlord of his apartment says that there are no children that live in the complex, alluding that she is just a figment of his imagination due to the withdraws of Chronos. My theory is that the little girl was actually the one in his flashback that witnessed him killing the scientist and that she grew up to be Snow. I think this will be revealed in the DLC, or possibly a sequel, by Snow showing Zero behemoth and the lights on leviathan and behemoth both glowing.

[@moistnugget141]

did you know that in the last sequence where you ask the psychiatrist choosing anything but "I like killing" will result in a glitch that changes the dialogue you chose to "I like killing"? Well at least it did that for me

[@germangentilemomlik1933]

Yeah IT always does

[@quintontaylor8082]

I guess “quite hills “ speaks for itself as an Easter egg. But I never noticed “tragedy” in the hallway. Instead I noticed that the lights spelling “ Murdower hotel”. The ow flicker off and it spelles murder hotel.

[@mr.moonthegoon4178]

I wanna know what makes V so good at fighting null if he seemingly doesn't do Chrono himself

[@Wlmkbe]

Hey everyone, just so you know in slaughterhouse, every room with a TV can be completely bypassed, even without cutting the red cords. If you look on the ceiling, there are proximity cameras that detect any movement. If you make some well-timed rolls (and luring the guy out of the first room so his body doesn't trigger the cam), you can go through all the rooms without the screens turning on! This is especially useful in speed runs!

[@ZenixTheDragon23]

You missed a small easter/reference that was right in front of you, i think. During the robot's dialogue, It says: "Im here to destroy all Humans and Chew Bubblegum, and Im all out of Humans." This was a reference to Duke Nukem's Line "Im here to chew gum and kick some ass, and Im all out of gum."

[@TheInhumanOne]

I definitely don’t recall the bubblegum reference, but if it’s accurate that is great!

[@ZenixTheDragon23]

@@TheInhumanOne Oh hey! You replied! I just wanted to say I found you channel and I began playing Dead Cells and Live Streaming it for fun, and just very recently after I watched this I began to play Katana Zero. Keep it up! Cant wait to watch more on the Dead Cells Lore!

[@TheInhumanOne]

That is awesome! I really appreciate comments like these! I hope to check out your channel one day and catch you live!

[@ZenixTheDragon23]

@@TheInhumanOne Just in case you wanna come catch me live, Ill be on www.twitch.tv/zenixthedragon23 Hope to catch more on your Lores from different games soon! Might I suggest Sundered as your next line up of Lores?

[@Kevin_Reems]

Duke Nukem in turn was quoting the line from the movie They Live.

[@danielcullen6796]

It's been a while, but I remember is the section where you bust through the glass roof and V ambushes you, ( I think it was in the studio) if you use the master sword and hit him with a beam, he'll block it and flee immediately, saying something like, " , What was that beam?". Just something I noticed.

[@hYBRYDcOBRA]

I learned that this game exists lol

[@187Suryoyo]

Go Play it mate

[@destroyerkitty9434]

You are blessed then

[@King_KAZ]

I played when they first came out on switch

[@Nick-sd6fj]

Play it

[@GrandSauce]

I remember back then when this game missed its own released date

[@juliomirelez1608]

I always saw behemoth and leviathan as Zero and Fifth-teen since the same animation plays when you find the toy in your house and fifteen appears for the first time. The screen glows red once you approach each other. It seemed on purpose. Possibly a Reference to your relationship during the war.

[@reese8050]

The little girl in the end ;-; I don’t want her to die, I got really emotional when she was gone and it ended without letting me know if she was alright or not

[@Nonzero14]

@@reese8050 bruh it is revealed in the end that she was a figment of zeros imagination

[@costaculo3043]

@@Nonzero14 but there is also a cutscene where the mask dudes kidnapped her after

[@Nonzero14]

@@costaculo3043 I don't recall that. Link?

[@costaculo3043]

@@Nonzero14 cant find it anywhere but i litterally saw the cutscene today after finishing the game

[@wormskrughs9016]

​@@Nonzero14you can see it after credits, but i do agree it's just some metaphors or shit like that

[@DiegoDiaz-kk3xh]

How to know when a community is starved for content. Exhibit A: videos like this. Exhibit B: be a part of said community. P.S. love the video, keep it up buddy.

[@lorenzosteele2531]

you forgot about the queit hill reference

[@TheInhumanOne]

Hello! I definitely didn’t forget about it, it was one of my favorite references actually, but it was impossible to miss. So not much of a tip or trick lol.

[@lorenzosteele2531]

@@TheInhumanOne oh ok thanks good vid.

[@Flame0093]

I just killed that thing on instinct

[@ooskivurt1276]

@@Flame0093 same then I got an achievement and I was like "oh"

[@siaratan9982]

1:50 you don’t even need to cut the wire, if you can spam roll fast enough you can go past all 3 of those tv rooms with no problem.

[@nulla5136]

If the war ended 7 years ago, and for Zero if felt like 28, then time passes 4x slower.

[@catmandeal7779]

this game is my drug everything i see about this game is amazing the story lore and plot twists make me feel so happy i cant even type how much i get happy bcuz of this game

[@SpoonsCourage]

Pretty sure apartment 643 is where they meetup before Zero begins his mission in the hotel because on exit the receptionist says farewell to Zero by ending her sentence saying “...big boy ;)” As for the chapel scene, the 28 years that’s being mention might be the Chronos running out of the speaker’s system. The speaker then proceeds to mention “It’s only been a week but it feels like a year.” These are just my thoughts on the matters, if anyone else has another idea then feel free to share.

[@ordinaryshiba]

The veterans in the bar says "The war ended 7 years ago", the church scene says "29 years in that godforsaken jungle", so the war lasted 29 years and ended 7 years ago, or in other words, it started 29+7 or 36 years ago. I don't see any conflict here.

[@SpoonsCourage]

@@ordinaryshiba the war ended seven years prior, that can be confirmed by the veterans, but the "28 years" is followed by the mention that their perception of time isn't consistent (the week feeling like a year bit). at least this was what i understood. i can understand the 36 years but wouldn't zero be much older then?

[@ordinaryshiba]

@@SpoonsCourage Zero was born right around the time that the null project starts (because he is the 0th gamma null subject). Because there wouldn't a null project if there isn't a war, the project probably starts in the middle of the war. Note: If this interpretation is true, then that would mean the speaker in the church scene isn't zero.

[@SpoonsCourage]

@@ordinaryshiba zero couldn’t have been born around then since he was in the war. the null project wasn’t a result of the war but it resulted in the end of war. And I don’t believe it’s zero speaking during the church scene, that’s why I called them “the speaker” instead since I can’t confirm nor deny either interpretation. But the way it’s phrased and directed, as well as the words themselves makes me believe it’s not zero. my guess is someone close enough to zero that it’d be seen as important.

[@ordinaryshiba]

@@SpoonsCourage The null project can both be the the result of the war and lead to the end of the war at the same time, just like the atom bomb is a result of ww2 and also ended ww2.

[@xivix6710]

Thanks man for showing so much love for Katana Zero, I want more content and theories but this game and you are one of few who got me covered. Wish you all the best

[@Mr.mister.J]

Just started this game. I can't wait to finish it. Replay it. Up the difficulty and be defeated over and over until I'm gud.

[@TheInhumanOne]

Do it!

[@eiras_1999]

Maybe Comedy and Tragedy are in fact Behemoth and Leviathan? What about the little girl, no idea what she is.

[@richardomilos8686]

The girl is meant to represent zero's concience.

[@TheInhumanOne]

Or maybe his innocence?

[@richardomilos8686]

@@TheInhumanOne Tragedy refers to her as his concience when they appear in your room but innocence could work too.

[@385theshah]

no its ZERO and the Dragon

[@quikfix259]

I thought that the newspaper guy at the hotel kinda looked like Mr. Kissyface.

[@wander7812]

in my theory the girl does not exists, it's just his imagination, or maybe she is a enemy or a spy that come into his life, and they by accident become friends this can be confirmed to me by the scenes on the finale also, i see those peoples (3:17) in another mission, the one that you must turn off the energy of the whole place, you can see one of them hidden in a closed room

[@RandomPerson-th1pu]

I originally thought that too when the cop and neighbor said there was no girl. But the final scene with comedy and tragedy make me think shes real.

[@andreasballe7470]

@@RandomPerson-th1pu Comedy and Tragedy were very clearly his two neighbors that somehow came back as his imagination, maybe his guilt or something.

[@turtletoad7725]

zero is a very very unreliable narrator. I think that the girl, as well as comedy and tragedy, are all fragments of his mind or represent something in his internal conflict. the chinatown cutscene with comedy and tragedy could just represent him trying to make the decision between life and death. some of their dialogue reflects this. the girl could represent some part of him that tries to remain innocent or sane. you could argue that she does many things that could only be done by a real person, but let's remember; it's not uncommon that time simply skips and acts weird, zero sometimes doesn't even know what's going on because of it. the girl could be his mind's attempt at explaining and rationalizing those skips and unexplained happenings. zero could simply be doing things like making breakfast and finding v's tape on his own, but remembering it differently.

[@cormoranoimperatore8413]

@@turtletoad7725 I agree with you especially because in the first dreams you can see what zero believes being him as a child playing catch with the silhouette of the lil’ girl

[@killerqueen6023]

Also at 0:42 it's written "murder hotel" when "ow" light are not working

[@jevmenyt3422]

Snow have a unique dialoge after leaving if you quickly change the dialoge option into *dont flintch* when she draws her sword. Or maybe this dialoge is trigered by beating V in time

[@aussiebullet]

I remember actually screen sniping the binary code, I was annoyed and laughing at it for that lol.

[@ceo7837]

You missed an Easter egg. If you put screen shake at 100% then keep moving the bar to the right, you can go over 100% and reach 1000% screen shake.

[@friccle_]

I think leon was being preserved in Chronos And he was in it for so long his body couldnt even function without it so thats why he aged rapidly

[@ryank2780]

In the Hotel where you meet the receptionist you can get her killed for not being discrete. Later in the game when you're supposed to meet her again at the Bunker entrance, if you got her killed she is replaced by a random man.

[@saugatray1891]

i played like crazy and i know all of the things you mentioned but i am not gonna dislike the video... this is actually a great video and i liked it

[@nacarasherdrew1865]

0:25 I hate that part

[@blinksZ]

I feel like the behemoth and leviathan represent tragedy and comedy in a way

[@bagala2585]

I hope you continue your work

[@conboy147]

I'm quite certain that in the church part its dragon talking to zero

[@xserv8170]

1:07 I gave him my sword bro and that mission was hell without it

[@lyli7358]

1:16 I gave my sword to V the first time I played it lol.

[@frost9681]

I knew the cut the wire one because you have to do it in order to unlock a different secret, but I didn't really notice much of the other stuff

[@darklusare7582]

not even one fact after I'm already pressing like good vid

[@RPGillespie]

There are 2 arcade machines in one level with Duck Game and Shovel Knight

[@heavencanceller1863]

Just finished the game and I loved this video

[@actualzafra]

As much as I absolutely love your content, I intended to dislike it if I happen to know everything listed here. But you got me right at the beggining, with the Tragedy appearance at Murdower Hotel. Great job as always! Looking forward for the DLC

[@alexleonmridul]

OMG I LOVE THIS VID!

[@shalucard107]

I think behemoth and leviathan represents zero and 15 being separated but eventually reuniting again.

[@DoritoMan-Chips]

Leviathan, is the little girl we see, in the end game flash back, we see zero chuck the girl into the machine and her turning into leviathan, the reason why we see her now, is because of chronos, distorting time and space, fifteen gave her the tape, since he could see her since he was in chronos as well and Zero probably showed leviathan to Fifteen, so he recognized the girl by Zero’s description. Which is why also Zero has leviathan with him.

[@onlyjust7250]

I like this game, a lot

[@elijahpizarro4997]

An Easter egg without needing an Easter egg

[@commander8560]

I'm not 100% but since 28 IS a multiple of 7 (4 to be exact) and since I think whenever we use slow motion we move about 1-4th of real time they could be connected

[@TheInhumanOne]

Mathematical!

[@HinnerkHesse]

Very cool video, thank you, you are very sympathetic and your videos really feel authentic to me :)

[@hiroshi6421]

the Welcome to Quiet Hill is obviously a reference to Silent Hill... surprised you didn't mention it

[@Nomimesh]

You literally posted that video on my Birthday

[@GalantHoese563]

I forgot I just finished the game and was like " but what if there's spoilers?"

[@stormbldebb9344]

not that any one will see this but I think that there is a Bleach reference in the game as well.a;so I maybe wrong about the locations In the I think studio 51 in the hotel area on the third floor . after everyone is dead there is an encounter with a swordsman in black, However they dont attack you when you get close like most enemies so you just kinda hit him and move on, But I noticed thatthe sword that the swordsman is carrying is very similar to Ichigos final zanpakutou[sword]. its long handle and moderatly long bladeplus the outfit,but i dont understand the mask he wears although it could be to hide his identaty to just be a soft easter egg for only the keenest of eye

[@TheInhumanOne]

Interesting!

[@unknownfactor6489]

Leon just really likes to plan. Chronos doesnt shows hours ahead of time

[@Engiman]

4:22 JHAJAHDDAGAHA!! GREAT JOKE!!! THIS IS SO FUNNY!!! HAHAHAHAHAFSGAHAHA

[@deovolente4622]

Chronos is such an interesting drug, and the precognition ability leaves a lot of questions. One of my theories that hurts to think about, is what if it was possible to see the future after your own death? Think about it, we don't know the limits of Chronos yet. What if there was a Null that can essentially use precognition, within precognition? A future within a future.

[@blternative]

Zero can rewind after seeing his death and the scene doesn't stop once killed so technically he already can

[@Neoh53]

i am an absolut fan of this game, so i didn't learn anything new. But because i am an absolute fan, i cannot dislike a KZ vid either !

[@uj7739]

My biggest question is what drug did the psychiatrist take in the secret boss fight

[@GrandSauce]

This games reminds me of pause ahead one of their older games

[@screm1471]

i personally decoded the bianary and screamed when i got the result, devlolver is a bunch of trolls

[@idiotbutransrights]

I actually believe the leviathan and behemoth thing is linked between you and the "real" dragon, both you and the stuffed animals make the screen go bright red except your outlines, when ya first meet

[@daniloduletic140]

The wire made me cry

[@bibigreen6533]

Just beat it! This is such a quality game! I'm kinda shook.

[@Gontrand00]

If you are seeing this video and haven't played yet, do yourself a favor because it's a great game.

[@idiotbutransrights]

I found out that you will lose the katana, unwillingly

[@malcolmborton1570]

Those people in the blue thanks a Kronos super soldiers.

[@XenojinX]

Okay 2 things that I noticed and wondered: 1) is the drug name chronos a reference to chrono trigger because of the time travel? 2) is behemoth and leviathan a final fantasy reference? Thanks!

[@tirbattlesoast7471]

1) time travel 2) biblical

[@jay-tbl]

"Chrono" just means time like "chronological"

[@zero_two666]

Amazing

[@cameron3753]

1:40 not every tv has a wire, still have to do all the boss fights

[@nori1115]

Government lab, "wait for a month"

[@Baguetteling]

I really wanted to fight Aqua the most

[@RegalBlob]

haha I win butch, I already knew all of these. I knew having no life would pay off eventually!

[@Beepbep101]

Who made the artwork in the thumbnail?

[@elcatrinc1996]

I just want to say... i ship the receptionist and Zero

[@NHOLLOW01]

Nice

[@shafrancrocus3074]

okay. deal is deal. Have my like)

[@TheMrMRsmoke]

Thought this was based on mega man zero

[@zero-uq9rg]

Secret Dialogue If U Hit V With The Beam He Will Say What The Was That Blue Shit From The Roof Through The Glass

[@Yossaru_kn]

Hold on 1:48 there was a boss fight here i cut the wire when he was speaking i thought that was what i supposed to do

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

1:00 Being the most "talk my way out of it" version of Zero I could be, not only did V borrow the sword, I did lines *with* him. The guy was already a scumfuck but who turns down free drugs?

[@gasmaskghost4110]

u missed smth if u dont kill the robot it tells that not all meatbags are bad before it selfs destructs

[@ragestacker]

Just finished the game

[@TheInhumanOne]

How was it?

[@ccommissarr]

Nice vid dud

[@serkantekin4798]

I found something too. İf you go to the options and just max the screen shake to %100 you can actually make it %1000 by presing right again and every time you do it there is a massage above the bar. İts so funny but you realy cant play the game its shake like a earthquake. Just keep presing right when the bar is %100.

[@Outrageouscrow]

In the robot i have a existencial question. Is not a ester egg but the message is a ester egg that said is not a ester egg but the ester egg is not a ester egg but at the same time is a secret and ester egg

[@TheInhumanOne]

Exactly.

[@Pilot067]

Knew all of these exept the first 2 ones

[@Akkiinori]

I Just have one question:Who is the kid in Zero memories?

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Himself? I don't remember XD, but i did know time ago

[@minimanc]

I thought the guy sitting on the couch in the Murdower was Bruno Buccilati from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Bruh

[@hasithasamaraweera9201]

bloodstained ritual of the night

[@catchtherainbow3523]

i have a theory that the cromag war was extremely long and the government decided to go full on unethical like in the later years of the war

[@jupiter6560]

i miss my little friend :c

[@yorha2b794]

You forget pyrmaid head from silent hill easter egg And ninja turtles

[@anonmk2546]

There are 68 dislikes I am so tempted

[@TheInhumanOne]

Do it...

[@anonmk2546]

@@TheInhumanOne NOOO SOMEONE RUINED IT

[@TheInhumanOne]

AnonMK2 Nooooooooo!

[@DRWNGamer6915]

one more dislike and it is 96 =69 😂

[@TheInhumanOne]

DRWN Gamer somebody make this happen!

[@Rhythm010]

3:33 Got it first try. Be the anime character with an extremly long character name??? (Not the pikachu one) And not the cyber thing. Do the "Top parts" Then she will reply back with. "I would like to see you without your top on" Thing will happen and she sends that room number thing.

[@haruakatsuki6874]

There are explosive barrels at the chamber room what happens if you blow them

[@saykoya2260]

Nothing, I tried with the phoenix sword.