It rose from the ashes of Project Dream, an SNES RPG that Rare scrapped and reforged into the definitive collectathon: musical notes, jigsaw pieces, and Gruntilda's rhyming British-witch threats. Its biggest legend is Stop 'n' Swop, a secret item-trading system with the sequel that Nintendo forced the studio to disable, fueling fifteen years of theories, mysterious eggs, and keys frozen in ice.
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