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An Easter egg is a secret message placed in a game by a developer. Typically Easter eggs speak to the audience directly, make an inside joke, or contain vanity messages such as hidden credits. Oni contains a few in-jokes and a lot of references to other Bungie games, as is common for Bungie. | An Easter egg is a secret message placed in a game by a developer. Typically Easter eggs speak to the audience directly, make an inside joke, or contain vanity messages such as hidden credits. [[Oni]] contains a few in-jokes and a lot of references to other Bungie games, as is common for Bungie. | ||
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===Halo=== | ===Halo=== | ||
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This one is actually a back-reference to Oni from a later game. Oni doesn't refer to Halo (unless you count the [[Oni matrix]] naming Cortana), but [[wp:Halo (franchise)|Halo]] features an entity called ONI. It stands for [https://www.halopedia.org/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence Office of Naval Intelligence]. A military intelligence service called the Office of Naval Intelligence [[wp:Office of Naval Intelligence|actually exists]]: it's the United States' oldest continuously operating intelligence service (est. 1882). It seems likely that Halo develops on that longevity and tries to imagine what influence today's ONI would have in the 2550s. | This one is actually a back-reference to Oni from a later game. Oni doesn't refer to Halo (unless you count the [[Oni matrix]] naming Cortana), but [[wp:Halo (franchise)|Halo]] features an entity called ONI. It stands for [https://www.halopedia.org/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence Office of Naval Intelligence]. A military intelligence service called the Office of Naval Intelligence [[wp:Office of Naval Intelligence|actually exists]]: it's the United States' oldest continuously operating intelligence service (est. 1882). It seems likely that Halo develops on that longevity and tries to imagine what influence today's ONI would have in the 2550s. | ||
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After Master Chief's exploits in Halo:CE where he singlehandedly turns the tide of battle and destroys an entire Halo installation, he becomes known to the Covenant as "the demon". It's difficult to find any discussion of whether this was a deliberate reference to the word "oni" but it seems like a very unlikely coincidence. Few people have noticed this possible reference, and Bungie devs do not seem to have discussed it in any interviews. | After Master Chief's exploits in Halo:CE where he singlehandedly turns the tide of battle and destroys an entire Halo installation, he becomes known to the Covenant as "the demon". It's difficult to find any discussion of whether this was a deliberate reference to the word "oni" but it seems like a very unlikely coincidence. Few people have noticed this possible reference, and Bungie devs do not seem to have discussed it in any interviews. | ||
===Marathon (2025)=== | |||
[[Image:Marathon (2025) - ONI.jpg|256px|thumb|right]] | |||
Another back-reference to Oni from a later game. In Bungie's new Marathon, you control a runner who can take contracts from various corporations. One of these corporations, CyberAcme (CyAc for short), uses an AI agent called ONI. "She" is responsible for overseeing a runner's "grounding exercise" when their consciousness is installed into a newly manufactured body, according to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbEnWLRo1s this short film] (see 2:43, 4:00, 8:03). | |||
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