2201 best r/gamingdetails images on Pholder | In Death Stranding, if you keep blocking the final boss, he will get angry and bite Sam's right ear in half. It will remain this way for the rest of the game.

In Death Stranding, if you keep blocking the final boss, he will get angry and bite Sam's right ear in half. It will remain this way for the rest of the game.

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Throughout first mission of Battlefield 1, multiple german troops can be found non hostile and wandering aimlessly

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In Jeopardy for the SNES, one of the characters has The Beatles' 'Help' artwork on his sweater

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In Moving Out, by Team 17, the vans plate says WORMS, a reference to one of the company's first successes

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In an airport level of Tony hawks pro Skater 3, there is a very small text easy to miss as you are Just hoping and skating around at this security pass. The title of machine is NOBOMB-2000.

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The detail inside the mouth of this grizzly bear from RDR2

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In Arkham Knight, if you look at Poison Ivy's plant in detective mode, you can actually see her inside the plant.

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In Alpha Protocol, the Yacht in Moscow was originally named “Victory” but missing two letter, it is now “Trouble”.

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In Last of us part 2, Ellie has a Ps3. Next gen systems never released in her world.

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[Ratchet & Clank] As the game progresses, Chairman Drek adds more titles to his name

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On the Call of Duty Ghosts DLC map Showtime the Neversoft Logo can be seen burning in the distance outside the map, which just then merged with Infinity Ward

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[Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing] In the first release of the game the developers accidentally used fan art of Sonia The Hedgehog (one of Sonic's siblings from Sonic Underground) by DeviantArt user ArtByRiana instead of official art of Amy. This was quickly patched out of the 360, PS3 and PC releases.

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In TF2's Meet the Medic, you can see the rib that the Heavy broke didn't actually grow back. (Sorry if this doesn't fit the sub)

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In Pac-Man World 2, the antagonist Spooky wears an emblem depicting a dead Pac-Man on his chest.

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In Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, there is a box in Nate's attic with the note SEND TO MARISA. This is a reference to Marisa Chase from the PS Vita spin-off game Uncharted: Golden Abyss. Francisco Vazquez de Coronado is an important historical figure in Golden Abyss.

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The Basincreek Building in Fallout: New Vegas is an inside joke referencing events that happened at Obsidian Entertainment's former offices, such as a car crashing into the building, the bathroom flooding several times, having an ant infestation & a rat dying in a wall causing the offices to smell.

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The shading on the Keese wings in Breath of the Wild represent what element the Keese are

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[Crossout] The angled 'Camber' wheels have more wear on the inside of the tread than the outside.

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In the Mariokart 8 Deluxe menu screens, Mario’s tyres have ‘M’s printed on the tread.

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In Life is Strange, a big twist is foreshadowed in the first 10 minutes of the game

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In Animal Crossing New Leaf male characters will run in a more feminine manner while wearing skirts and dresses.

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In Far Cry 5 it's possible to see the hair on the players arm.

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[Battlefield 1] In war story Friends in High Places, a soldier can be seen trying to put out fire on an airship using a fire extinguisher which was modeled after real life WW1 extinguisher called The Minimax. This scene only last for seconds and it's the only instance to see this item.

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Portal 2's Implosion Viewing Request

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In Arma 3, characters practice trigger discipline when their weapons are lowered.

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Mortal Kombat 11: changes the C in “continue to a K when updating the game

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Just realized the bottom of Spider-Punks’ sneakers has the original spidey logo

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In ARMA 3, if wearing thermal goggles, you can see gun barrels gradually heat up, and then cool back down again, as you fire them. (I was using black-is-hot thermals, so it looks unusual)

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In LEGO Harry Potter, if you play as Tom Riddle, the boggarts in the game turn into Harry Potter.

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In Hello Neighbour, glasses can be found in the storeroom below stairs in our house (a Harry Potter reference).

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(Resident evil 2 1998) You find a note saying injured police officers were placed in the confiscation room. When you eventually get there you see they have all died and become zombies.

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In the TV stage of Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter, if you are fighting with or against Spider-man you can clearly see J. Jonah Jameson mad because Parker is nowhere to be seen, but if you don't play with or against Spider-man there will be a curious photographer on his place

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In Civ 5 the timer changes to the Mayan calendar when you've researched theology.

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In Yakuza 0, security guards you hire to oversee a district in the real estate sub-quest, may help you out with fights in them.

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Skyrim easter egg in Starfield

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In racing game Project Gotham Racing 2, the game's soundtrack is played using your in-car stereo, tuned to real-world stations in each region, complete with local broadcasters - Australia has Triple M, a rock station that I happen to own a CD of.

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In days gone when you pause the game during a flashback the day counter is set to 0 because the apocalypse hasn't happened yet

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[Dead Rising 3] there is a funeral being held in the cemetery's funeral home for Otis Washington, a security guard and main npc from the first Dead Rising.

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In Luigi’s Mansion 3, you can find a rug with the same iconic pattern as the one in The Shining.

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In Lucius if you shine a flashlight at Lucifer you can see his horns appear.

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In Darkstalkers 3 defeating Morrigan as Lilith will cause Lilith to fall as well. This is due to her being the manifestation of half of Morrigan's split soul.

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In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, characters recharge their abilities differently based on which in-game nation they are from, in reference to previous games in the series. (More explanation in comments)

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In 2006's Prey the main character Tommy quips about how dark it is referencing the controversy regarding Doom 3 that released 2 years prior about how dark the game was.

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TIL that when you kill an NPC in Whiterun, a burial urn will appear in the Hall of the Dead that has their name on it and holds what’s left of their possessions. Don’t know if this has been posted before, but it was the first time I ever saw it and I thought the detail was pretty cool.

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In Warioland 4, there are two gamecubes in the background of the the first boss room (on top of the TV on the left). One is facing forwards and the other is facing backwards.

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In Drake's journal from Uncharted 2, Sully's mustache is used as a unit of measurement.

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In black ops cold war in the cia headquarters you can find a sedgley glove gun used in WWII and by spies in the cold war (more info in comments)

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[Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction] At one point of the game, Qwark sends a Holo-vite to Ratchet under an alias - The name he uses is randomly chosen, and this message only appears once per playthrough.

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In Marvel’s Spider-Man, the webbed suit (Raimi Suit) does not have any web shooters on spidey’s wrist as in these movies the webs shot from spider-man were organic and not made by Peter Parker

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In Donkey Kong Country, the final boss, King K. Rool gets closer in his ship as you progress through the game

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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (2019), in a racetrack called Nina's Nightmare, there is a specific section filled with graveyards, one of the graveyards shown F. This is a nod to the Internet Meme Press F to pay Respect originated from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

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In The Division 2 there's a QR in a 'Pay by phone app' board that takes you to The Division 2 Youtube's trailer

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In the intro of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, DK and the gang are celebrating his birthday, referencing the real-life 20th anniversary of the Donkey Kong Country series (1994-2014)

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In ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights, as Lily purifies blighted individuals and absorbs their blight into herself, she physically deforms, signifying the toll it takes for her to harbour the blight and the agony it causes

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The playable character (in Journey to the Savsge Planet) poses just like Rasputin (Psychonaughts) in the visor section of the menu. Referencing the similarities in mind abilities and the visor tech.

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[SnowRunner] If you don't drive for a while, the driver will fall asleep inside the vehicle

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In Saints Row (2022) the beer taps have Zin and Steelport on them. Zin being the alien race in SR4 and Steelport being the city in SR3 and SR4

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In Company of Heroes on every Jeep 3A5UX5 can be found which is Leetspeak for EASUXS. This is likely a reference to when EA obtained the rights to the Jeep brand for Medal of Honor Airborne, which blocked Relic Entertainment from accurately modelling the Willys Jeep in CoH.

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Indoor campfires will cause smoke to build up inside your shelter in Valheim

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[Borderlands 3] The grenade I used had a shock mod, and spelled out “zap” in electricity.

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In RDR2 railroads are built over time as you play the game

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in Skyrim the tables are just bookshelves pushed down into the ground geometry

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In Team Sonic Racing (2019), An ad on the billboards spanning the maps advertises a Sonic the Hedgehog air freshener. Sonic's first video game appearance was a cameo in 1991's Rad Mobile as an air freshener.

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In System Shock 2, there's a movie theater with a vending machine that sells food for way too much money.

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In Hollow Knight, the Ancient Basin area has no music, so the theme that accompanies bench locations is played diegetically through in-game speakers on the tram. If destroyed, the music will no longer play.

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[Grand Theft Auto Online] If the president of an MC tries to start a sell mission while a club member is playing as an animal due to eating a Peyote Plant, a special message will pop up, informing the player that the sell cannot commence until no prospects are playing as animals.

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The guns on the Halo 2 Ghost become misaligned when it becomes damaged. Resulting in the projectiles firing at an askew angle.

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In Plants vs Zombies 2, if you wait long enough, the final boss starts getting bored and uses the bathroom.

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In Blade Runner (1997) in the arcade, you can see someone playing Command & Conquer Red Alert which was made by the same developer Westwood Studios

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In Control, the floor the janitor is mopping is still wet.

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[Bataman:Arkham Knight] In Detective Vision, you can see Oracle's spine broken

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In Rage 2 after talking to the Mayor for the first time, there's an NPC being given CPR. I noticed that they stopped to give breaths so I counted it out and CPR is being done at the right speed and ratio of compressions to breaths per current AHA standards (30:2, ~120 bpm)

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You can see the actual subpixels if you stand close enough to screens in Natural Selection 2 (game by Subnautica studio)

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In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Woodes Rogers has a scar on his cheek. In actuality, Rogers earned this during a battle with a Spanish Galleon, the Incarnacion, in which a musketball tore through his cheek and jaw. The Spanish Galleon was captured by Rogers.

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In Batman: Arkham Knight, there are enemies who, if stay too long in detective mode, will be able to track down your exact location. The nice little detail that they added was how they react if you stand right behind them (their reaction on the subtitles of the image below)

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In The Champion's Ballad DLC of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the four champions strike the same poses as their key character artworks in their flashback cutscenes.

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[Yakuza: Like a Dragon] If you defeat the secret final boss and fight your way up to him a second time, you find him eating lunch and surrounded by garbage, as he wasn't expecting you to come back.

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In Black Ops:Cold War, you can see a jar of jelly beans in front of Ronald Reagan. He use to give them out during meetings and had a jar on his desk.

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Cuphead’s intro says that he ended up on “the wrong side of the tracks”, seemingly as a figure of speech. The last boss before heading back to the Devil’s casino is a train, and hell is literally on the other side of the train tracks.

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In Heavy Rain (2010), one small line foreshadows the major twist at the end of the game (Explanation in comments).

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In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) an NPC mentions how his brother should have cut a finger or two off to avoid being drafted into the military just like he himself did. If you look on his left hand, two of his fingers have actually been removed

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Not only does the phone in 'Lego DC Supervillains' show the accurate real-world time, but(on consoles) the battery displayed shows how much charge your controller has left. This was an extremely helpful feature.

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In Smash Ultimate (2018), Lucas’s Snake is also affected by the Inkling’s ink, despite not being out at all times.

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Foreshadowing in Psychonauts 2. MASSIVE SPOILERS.

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In Control there's a file referencing Alan Wake by name

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Credit to u/anevar for noticing it. It's a nice detail they added into the video

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In RDR2 there are actual bullets inside the chamber.

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In Payday 2, the first weapon given to the player is the AMCAR, which, irl, is a fully automatic CAR-15. This is a nod to the 1995 movie Heat, which largely inspired Payday, as it's the EXACT SAME MODEL CAR-15 (a Colt Model 733) famously used by Chris and McCauley in the iconic shootout scene.

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Very small detail, but in RDR2 raindrops reflect fire

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[Call of Duty 2] Some of the German soldiers in the Stalingrad missions bear the decal of the Spanish Blue Division on their helmet, which would imply that they are actually Spanish.

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In Neon White (2022), if you earn the highest award on a mission on your first attempt, White will say ...and on my first try, too!

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On the map Villa, in Rainbow Six Siege, there is an easter egg in which an assassin is a top a tower. This references another Ubisoft series, Assassin's Creed.

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In Psychonauts 2, in Cassie O'Pia's mind, you retrieve 3 pieces of evidence for her. One of these is typeset of the Chinese character feng which means bee. She's a bee-keeper in real life, and her mind is filled with images of bees.

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In the Battlefield 1 They Shall Not Pass DLC trailer (which is about the French in WW1), when the German soldier gets shot and falls into the poppy field as the camera rotates, the sky, clouds and poppies make up the French flag

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In Smash Ultimate when you use Dragoon as Banjo & Kazooie, Kazooie waves at the camera as you fly by

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In GTA V, you actually leave naked footprints when you're not wearing any shoes

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Alien Isolation: These configurations of pipes seen from a distance resemble a xenomorph in profile

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In Resident Evil 5 the GPS minimap stops working during a mission that takes place in a underground mine

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This is why the turrets in Portal are so weak. From /r/gaming

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In Assassin’s Creed Origins, nests will contain shiny objects collected by the birds

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Frostpunk: if you build two neighboring workshops (and with no street between) a bridge will be put connecting them.

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In Mass Effect 3, the amount of missing posters located in the D2 Holding Bay area increases as you progress through the game :(

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When you beat the story of Injustice 2, you get the achievement “Who’s Next?” The tag line of Mortal Kombat 11, the game after this one, is “You’re Next!”

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In Dishonored, there is a letter adressed to Percival Cox in the flooded district. This is a reference to a character from the tv show Scrubs, called Percival Perry Cox.

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Just noticed after replaying LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Darth Vader can force choke any female character (including Leia) all but except for Padme.

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In Civilization VI, geographic features are named according to which civilization discovered them first. Here you can see that this island settled by the Maori has names such as Taranaki Maunga for a volcano and Kawatiri River for a river; Maori names for real features in New Zealand.

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Fire extinguishers in Outlast 2

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In Destiny 2's Deep Stone Crypt raid, the pods used to get to the satellite during the Atraks-1, Fallen Exo encounter have a module that adheres to the European Conformity electronics manufacturing standard.

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In Omori(2020), when fighting a late game boss, damage they inflict effects the fight's screen (explanation in comments with spoilers)

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[Red Dead Redemption 2] we already know about Arthur's pupils dilating, but they also reflect what they see

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