Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs are unexpected objects, messages, or events hidden away in video games. Easter eggs can be references to other media, messages left by developers, and/or even jokes. Sometimes finding an easter egg in a video game can give the player rewards, but there are none given for finding them in the Lost Kingdoms series.

The Lost Kingdoms series has easter eggs in three forms: one is developer messages, another is objects referencing other Fromsoftware games, such as The Adventures of Cookie & Cream and the Japan only Thousand Land, and the last is of references of the developers who worked on the series.

Developer Messages

There are several messages left by the developers in the Lost Kingdoms games.  Only one exists in Lost Kingdoms, while the rest are from Lost Kingdoms II.

Unfortunately, while a lot of the text from these messages is illegible, some of it was identified and translated by すないぬ and hyphenm from the Lost Kingdoms Fastwalking Discord.

In Lost Kingdoms

In Lost Kingdoms, one texture has a message left by a developer. This message is on all the pieces of paper on the walls of the Fairy House.

Fairy House

Note (Identified and Translated by すないぬ)

In Lost Kingdoms II

In Lost Kingdoms II, even more messages can be found. These messages can be found in Kadishu, the Kadishu Card Shop, Jarvi's House, and the Grenfoel Card Shop.

Kadishu

In Kadishu, two textures contain writing. One texture contains three messages which are found on notes pinned to the card displays in front of the Kadishu Card Shop. It is currently unknown where the fourth texture is located.

Note Above the Charadrius Card

Note Above the Cyclops Card

Note with a Photo

Unknown Note

Kadishu Card Shop

In the Kadishu Card Shop, three textures of messages can be found on notes on a container with a dragon's skull inside of it.

Note with a Drawing (Identified and Translated by すないぬ)

Stained Note

Plain Note

Jarvi's House

Two textures of messages can be found on the notes on the wall.

Note without Stamps (Identified and Translated by hyphenm)

Note with Purple Stamps (Identified by すないぬ)

Grenfoel Card Shop

Only one texture has text on it in this location. This texture is flipped horizontally for the ad on the right of the desk.

Cookie Card Ad

References to Other Games

In Lost Kingdoms

It is currently unknown if there are any references to other games hidden in Lost Kingdoms.

In Lost Kingdoms II

Cookie and Cream

In Lost Kingdoms II, there are several references to Cookie, a character from the Cookie and Cream series. In these easter eggs, Cookie appears as an Earth attribute card. While this card is not one that can be collected, there is an obtainable Cookie Music card in the Japanese release known as RUNE II.

The total amount of Cookie easter eggs in Lost Kingdoms II is five. Four of these are in card form, while the fifth is in the form of an ad for the card itself. The first two cards can be found in Kadishu, in front of the local Card Shop in the card displays. As these card displays share the same texture, both of these cards can be found on the top row between the Charadrius and Kitty Trap cards. The last two of the cards and the two ads for them can be found in the Card Shop in Grenfoel Cathedral. Both of the shelves here hold a Cookie card as they are mirror images of each other. Each of these cards face in the direction of Tara and are on the fourth row of their respective shelves. The ads for the Cookie card can be found on either side of the counter. These ads are also mirrored.

Evergrace

Evergrace is an RPG for the Playstation 2 developed by Fromsoftware in 2000. Atsushi Taniguchi, the producer of both Lost Kingdoms and Lost Kingdoms II, worked on enemy models for the game. In Lost Kingdoms II, some of the enemies from Evergrace appear in the form of cards. These cards are the Beaker, a reference to both the Chanticleer and Fowlus, the Devata, a reference to the Ritualist, and the Jade Giant, a reference to the boss Drawide.

Thousand Land

Thousand Land is a Japan exclusive strategy game released by Fromsoftware for the XBOX in 2003. A plush of an APO, a creature from Thousand Land, is on the east wall of Jarvi's House.

References to Developers

Names of developers can be seen on certain objects and parts of levels. Most are seen in the Fairy House from Lost Kingdoms and Jarvi's House from Lost Kingdoms II. The Red Fairy books with green covers that are found in these locations have the name "Makoto" on their spines, and it also appears in the lower left corner of the Red Fairy painting in Jarvi's House. The name "Kaori" is seen on on both the spine and on the front of the purple books (which are titled as "Kaori's Card") in Jarvi's House.

The Red Fairy books are a reference to Makoto Sato, while the purple book is a reference to Kaori Sakai. Both of these developers worked on the 2D graphics design of Lost Kingdoms II, and Makoto Sato was the main 2D graphic designer of both games in the Lost Kingdoms series.

Another reference to a developer in Lost Kingdoms II can be found on panels hanging from parts of the Temple of Sharacia. These panels have the name "Sakai" written on them, also referencing Kaori Sakai.

Trivia

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