When the game was in development but before the models were made, they just had the player represented by collission data. Someone remarked it looked like a giant slab of tofu.

So me, a Canadian, found it extremely weird that this would be a bonus mode since i had never heard of Tofu before. It's one of the few "Japanese" things to really slip into the game. Most people probably didn't even know the game was made in Japan.

>>734128131
tummy

Yeah but he was eaten by HUNK after he evacuated.

>>734128246
Everyone knows what tofu is

>>734128246
Tofu is about as "unknown" in North America as teriyaki, karaoke, and Toyota.

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>>734131553
The time is 1998 and I'm in grade 8. I don't have internet access. I live in a tiny Ontarion city of 125,000. I am reading GamePro guide which details the RE2 secrets including the Tofu mini game and how to unlock Hunk. This is the first time I have heard of tofu. I am sure I could buy it in a store but my parents never did.

Given my background how would I know wtf Tofu is? I ate pizza and hamburgers.

>>734131716
>americans in charge of learning world culture

>>734132131
Yes, no shit. I'm 13. I want to play Resident Evil and make home made pizza.

>>734128131
Yes and he's chilling around the dilapidated RPD to fuck with people.

>>734128246
>Canada is 90% chinese
>China is a region of Japan
>Japan loves tofu
>Despite this, canuck doesn't know tofu

>>734132968
My town was over 90% white growing up. I see random niggers out my window now though. Class after class of white people with 1-2 asians or the periodic indian.

>>734132260
nigga that's like 4th grade here
what'd you learn of preparing food at school by then? How to order a big mac

>>734132968
kek

>>734133167
>what'd you learn of preparing food at school by then?

...nothing? Why would they teach me any of that? I was doing math and english and regular shit.

>>734133167
Different Anon.

You're under the assumption that schools in the North-Western Hemisphere taught children how to be self-sufficient. They didn't, not really.

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>>734133295
you were supposed to ask me oh yeah where are you from or something to that effect and then I say japan

>>734128131
he shows up in re9 in the main story so yes

>>734133432
It's alright Anon. There's always next time.

>>734128131
making his appearance/easter egg so easily findable in Requiem was really strange. i didn't even know what the trigger is/if there was one at first. apparently it's to do with the Barry cabinet key thing? i feel like plenty of regular players will just stumble upon that. i feel like having a giant Japanese speaking block of tofu waltzing around outside the RPD is an easter egg you should make a smidge more convoluted to stumble upon

>>734128246
What the fuck are you talking about, you retarded faggot? Tofu was so well known back in the 90s, that it was referenced in sitcoms as a shitty diet food and as an awful vegetarian alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.

>>734134404
I never had Tofu and I was a sheltered lad. Why would I? I stayed at home playing video games.