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Originally Posted by Grid
...Not to mention that on Page 6, he's wearing the backpack in one frame, but it's vanished in the next frame...
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Definitely an art mistake, and yes, it supports the idea that Nick can make slight consistency errors.
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And, going strictly by official sources, Jazz would carry his gun on a strap around his body. Check the frame of the JJ1 comic in which he is injured and Chuck flies away. Jazz has a strap there leading toward his gun. We know that's not a backpack strap because it goes around his body, not a shoulder. Furthermore, if you've got a JJ1 sprite sheet handy, you can see the strap on Jazz's shivering frames and on his "bored" animation. We know that these aren't backpack straps here because they are much looser than those straps as depicted in any other source. Although admittedly the only animations that actually show the backpack/ backpack straps are when Jazz leans on a wall and when he tumbles (barring the 3d segments of the game)
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Yes, the gun has a strap! It is a blue object with yellow dots and a red strap, and it is almost never shown at the same time as the backpack. For one, the backpack is hardly ever shown. In the tumbling animation, the gun has disappeared and been replaced by the backpack. In the bored animation, he's clearly got his backpack out, it's way too small to be the gun. In shivering, it's just the backpack. Granted, the leaning frame looks wrong, and so is the episode picture for Gene Machine, but given that these seem to be the only two instances in the entire game showing both the gun and the backpack - most of the time he has either the gun or neither - it seems that it should be these images that are labeled the incorrect exceptions.
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And really, it couldn't be the backpack, due to the fact that we see both at once in the JJ2 manual cover and on most of Jazz's JJ2 sprites.
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Irrelevant. JJ2 made no attempt to be in accordance with the original character design. It may have become canon that the gun and the backpack are separate, but my post was only talking about the original intention of the game designers, which I am pretty sure was for the two to be the same.
EDIT, as this isn't really worth a full post: The Turtle Terror cover has a gun but no backpack.
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Last edited by Violet CLM; Mar 29, 2007 at 11:16 PM.
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