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Continuity mistake: When going into a Pokémon Center with five Pokémon and one egg, when healing the Pokémon, six Poké Balls will show up on the machine. How can there be six if one's an egg?

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Continuity mistake: When the player builds the town hall, the keep, and the castle, the background always appears as a flat land in the summer, even if it is not.

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Continuity mistake: In the Archives video unlocked from the tasks in The Entity category, the narrator walks to book shelf and slides his hand down across to find a book is missing. Two books over to the left is a bright red book, a green book, and a pinkish red book. When the angle cuts to a lower distance view, suddenly these different colored books are gone. (00:00:32)

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Continuity mistake: When you start a new game after completing the storyline the first time, Nick begins the game wearing the outfit he last had on in your old game. During the cut scene with the plane crash, he'll be wearing his original mechanic's outfit, and after the cut scene, he goes back to the previous outfit.

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Continuity mistake: In the first level on the boat, there is a red crate in the center of the boat. If you get on top, you can see inside. You'll just see a room... With nothing. Open the crate and see bodies. They weren't there before.

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Continuity mistake: Among the items necessary for Guybrush's escape in the first chapter is the fake pirate hook worn by Wally, which the latter discards after realizing he could never be a vicious pirate. But after Guybrush blows up LeChuck's ship and puts the cursed ring on Elaine's finger, Wally suddenly pops up still wearing the hook on his hand.

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Continuity mistake: The Big Score: Once Franklin has drilled down the wall between the underground construction site and the bank's vaults, Franklin will have to blow down the cages where the gold is contained. After blowing down the cages, there will be a hole in the door for the others to take the gold out of the vaults and the NOOSE team will appear to take everyone out. If Franklin is killed by the NOOSE team, he will have to drill down the wall and blow the cages all over again. When Franklin goes to blow down the cages, the cage doors are now in the position they were in when they were blown off during the previous attempt, even though Franklin hasn't actually gotten to this part yet.

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the game in the cutscene where the black hole is created, the Comet Observatory is being destroyed by the black hole but 5 seconds later when Luma pops out of Mario/Luigi's hat, the Observatory is completely intact.

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Continuity mistake: Opening Cut Scene: When the civilians are gathering around a crater to see what the meteor was that just hit, one of them is a guy in a red hat who is wearing a vest or coat with long sleeves of a dark color. When the Trauma Demon emerges and turns towards them to roar, the red hat guy is seen starting to turn to run away in a panic. Only now he's wearing a blue hoodie with white sleeves.

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Continuity mistake: The game has a regular day cycle shifting from night to day and back over a length of time. If you go into some buildings like Quarantine Zones, for example, the Stuffed Turtle mission, the windows on the inside of the building will always show daylight shining through. Even if you go into the Quarantine Zone mission while it's night outside.

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Continuity mistake: If the player returns to the Central Park after the story events, Daniel's patrol car can be still seen from inside the park stopped at the gates even though it shouldn't be there any more.

Dangar

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Continuity mistake: The carving boss during the cutshot, where the dragon lands on the ice carver, is always depicted as a male, even if they are female.

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More A World of Keflings continuity mistakes

Continuity mistake: Remember to tag Jester's location - when you reach the cutscene where you see a frozen boat, Jester appears in the cutscene. Use cheats to go around the crack in the wall that reaches the frozen boat,and you'll see Jester not there.

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Continuity mistake: Occasionally, when the pitching coach comes out to talk to a pitcher, the coach's skin tone changes from caucasian to black, or vice versa.

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Continuity mistake: Vito is imprisoned in May of '45. He is in prison 17 days when he receives news of his mother's death. The letter is postmarked Jan 25th.

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Continuity mistake: In this game, or in "Lego Star Wars," after Obi-Wan amputates Anakin, he doesn't get burned by the lava, even by the time Palpatine shows up. When at the medical chamber right before his helmet is put on, he's suddenly burned, and even pale (despite the helmet having not even been put on yet).

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Continuity mistake: During the intro clip, one shot shows Tony inside his suit with blonde hair. Later on during the intro clip for the "Sand Central Station" level, he is shown inside his suit with brown hair.

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