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Discussion About "THAT" iconic JRPG rock formation
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I think that's from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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What games are those aside from Xenoblade and Kirby?
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big Nightmare Before Christmas fans over in Japan, I guess
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land is my favourite JRPG.
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eternal sonata and tales of something
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The third one is Tales of Arise
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Maybe someone just saw Arches National Park once and thought, "you know this would be cooler if it was like a proper mountain height and halved".
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dueling peaks inspiration is in japanIt's interesting visual design and world building to have a mountain be 'curved' or 'broken'.
BotW does it twice with Dueling and Hebra peaks.
twilight princess springs are based on a turist spot close to mount fujii, said to be a sacred place
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Wait until you hear about Fódlan...dueling peaks inspiration is in japan
twilight princess springs are based on a turist spot close to mount fujii, said to be a sacred place
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Mt. Thor in Canada is probably the closest thing we have to a mountain quite like that, although the angle is only 105°, so striking, but not a huge overhang.
There is a notable overhang in Japan, the nokogiriyama overhang. It's relatively well visited as these things go.
Japan is both mountainous and coastal, overhanging cliffs on and around mountains aren't super rare, I'm not surprised we see exaggerated depictions of them in art. And as @Neves points out below, these could also be taking inspiration from The Great Wave.
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It's probably not the inspiration for all the other ones (I second the Nightmare Before Christmas guesses, since it's really popular in Japan), but I definitely think the Kirby example pulls from this. It's supposed to look like a sea of sandThe Kirby one looking like waves makes me think of this iconic image. I doubt it's the inspiration for these, but who knows.
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worth noting that Disney infamously shunted the film to their Touchstone Pictures label (normally used for PG-13 and R-rated films prior to the Marvel/Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox purchases.) when it was initially released.big Nightmare Before Christmas fans over in Japan, I guess
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the Japanese branch never got that memo, and thanks to Tetsuya Nomura being a big enough fan of it to push for it's inclusion in Kingdom Hearts. it's been retroactively promoted as a Disney movie worldwide.
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