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Stray has scratched and purred its way into everyone&rsquo🍒;s hearts with its compelling story, lovable feline protagonist, and beautiful world. There is so much you can explore in the forgotten, robot-populated spaces of the wa𓆉lled city.
The side missions and main quest can keep you busy and engaged enough for the game’s relatively short runtime, so it’s easy to miss some cool references littered throughout the worn streets and flickering lights of Stray. Here ar🔯e some wonderful references yo𓆉u might not have picked up on.
15 Persona 5
You can find a colorful assortment of residents in Midtown, just trying to make their way through each day under a repressive police force. Visit a small eatery near the residential area and you’ll find Sojiro, who used to own a bar he calls “the 🌌coziest place” around the place.
He is dressed very similarly and 🌳even bears the same name as Persona 5’s resident cozy😼 cafe owner, Sojiro Sakura. Cafe Leblanc even holds a cosmetic ramen bowl on its shelves, though it doesn’t hold literal sticks of RAM like in Stray.
14 Skyrim
There are a couple of great Skyrim references in Stray that you’ll only spot if you speak to the NPCs. The first is said by Jenkins in Antville, who says the exa🎃ct lines spoken by Belethor of Whiterun and other merchants - "some may call this junk. Me, I call them treasures."
The second reference happens when you talk to Sojiro, a character whose dialogue manages to put Skyrim and Persona in the same realm. He explains that his shop closed down because he &ldquo♔;took a screwdriver in the knee”, much 🧔like the guards of Skyrim.
13 Dungeons & Dragons ♎💯
Go to the residential area of Midtown, and you’ll fin🧸d Lyn and Pinu talking about their character sheets and how long it tꦏook to prepare the “session.”
They later complain about having to go out of the building during a search because their vintage cards are still inside, and any D&D fan will immediately recognize what they’re talking about. After all, it takes a lot of work to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:create an epic campaign.
12 Back To The Future ⛦
Two robots you have multiple interactions with are Seamus and Doc, 𝔍whose reunion depends solely on the wits and agility of B12 and our furry orange hero. Aside from the fact that their outfits and “h𝔉airstyles” match Marty and Doc’s appearances, there are a few more tie-ins that all but confirm the Back To The Future reference.
Our Marty look-alike is named Seamus, which is the same name 💟of the McFly patriarch who first brought the family to the United States. Our equally eccentric bot Doc is responsible for t💮he creation of the Defluxor which, of course, needs exactly 1.21 Gigowatts to work, just like the movie Doc’s Flux Capacitor.
11 Half-Life
The crowbar has become an iconic symbol for Valve and Half-Life. Anytime you see a stray (pun intended) crowbar, you’re pretty much assured that you just experienced a Half-𝓰Life reference.
There are two spots in the world you can find this. One is a lone crowbar in the subway, and another is found in Doc's safehouse right outside the Slums. There’s even a valve next to the latter, so it’s right on the nose.
10 Mr. Robot
In the slums, you can work with Elliot, who is a programmer that is rather antisocial, good at hacking, and perpetually cold. It’s a pretty clear tribute to Mr. Robot’s Elliot, who po𝓀pularly dons a hoodie and suffers from social an𝕴xiety.
Make sure you 🦄knock properly and give robot Elliot a warm poncho to make him feel bet✨ter (and more inclined to help you).
9 🍷 Nier Automata
Stray actually references Nier Automata a couple of times in the game. The more obvious homage is the Antvillage, which looks a lot like Pascal’s Village. Much like Pascal’s village, all inhabitants are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:friendly machines that have created their 🍎living quarters around a large tree.
A more missable reference is in a conversation with Vladee, in which he mentions a similar concept to one brought about by the resistance sup♓ply trader in Nier Automata.
8 🌠 🔴 Ship Of Theseus
This reference is a bit more debatable on whether it’s 🦩meant to be a direct allusion to Nier Automata, or simply points to the popular Ship of Theseus thought experiment. Since both games do deal with sentient🔯 robots that grapple with existential feelings, this may well be its own reference to Ship of Theseus.
Speak to Vladee in Midt👍own and he’ll consider the implications of replacing his parts on retaining who he is. The wording, though, is quite similar to the trader from Nier Automata.
7 Grav🎀ity Falls
When you enter the abandoned library in the slums, you’ll find 🐎a book that looks just l🉐ike one of the mysterious journals from Gravity Falls.
Instead of ꦕa♛ six-fingered hand, though, you see a paw adorn the cover. Makes you wonder what secrets this journal holds within.
6 Nujabes
Morusque plays a lot of great tunes as long as you provide new sheet music. One song, Cool Down, sounds very much like Counting Stars by Nujabes. Nujabes’ tr♒ack samples George Benson’s Affirmation, so it could also be a reference to that.
However, the overall vibe and setting of the game make it more likely a loving refe♔rence to the iconic Japanese DJ and producer, who is ൲widely considered one of the pioneers of lo-fi hip hop.
